Lines Flashcards
First line
Where are you going? Look up speak nicely and dont twiddle your fingers
I seem to have lost my way
What do you mean your way? All the ways around here belong to me. But why did you come out here? Curtsy while your thinking it saves time.
I only wanted to see the gardens your majesty
Ive seen gardens compared with which this would be a wilderness
I was trying to reach the top of the hill.
I could show you hills in comparison with which you’d call that a valley
A hill can’t be a valley you know, that would be nonsense.
I’ve heard nonsense compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary.
What a curious country! All those straight little brooks.
And the ground between divided into squares. Yes! It’s marked out like a great chessboard. A great huge game of chess being played - all over the world - if this is the world. I wouldn’t mind being a pawn if could join in the game - but of course I’d really like to be a queen.
That’s easily managed. You’ll be the White Queen’s Pawn.Start in the second square. When you get to the eighth square you’ll be a queen.Faster! Faster!
Are we nearly there?
We passed “there” ten minutes ago.Faster! Faster! Take a little rest
I do believe we’ve been under this tree this whole time!
Why not?
In our country , if you run very fast for a long time, you generally get to somewhere else.
That’s a slow sort of country. Hereabouts it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast.
I’d rather not try. I’m happy to to stay here- I’m hot and thirsty.
I know what you need! Biscuits!
It’s a water biscuit. Can’t stop, your Majesty, the bishops are starving, I have to take them this sack of ginger beer.
Hows your biscuit?
Very refreshing thank you.
Thirst quenched, I hope? On your way! We’ll meet in the eighth square. Then we shall be queens together, and it’s all feasting and fun!
Please would you tell me - is the game over now?
Speak when you’re spoken to! Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.
I didn’t mean-
You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child’s more important than a joke, I hope.
I was so frightened I couldn’t remember my own name
She’s feverish after so much thinking. Pat her on the head and see how pleased she is.
