Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Characteristics (Continued)

CHAPTER XXV ESCAPADES — HUNGER STRIKES — SMUGGLED IN AN ACTRESS’S HAMPER — I VISIT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Gradually all the conspirators who had been tried with me were released. We compared notes; described our matrons, our doctors, our special wardresses, but I kept to myself the story of the taxi breakdown. I thought…

Chapter XIII Room for Contemporaries The corridors were lined with trunks and alive with girls flying in and out of their rooms. Here was one lifting a tray of crisp white ruffles. There another unfolding herself cautiously from a prolonged investigation of the deepest recesses rose with a pile of books tottering on one arm….

Chapter 13 The little waitress at Mitchell’s dining-rooms was so much absorbed in thought during the day following the contest, that humorous customers, noting this, told her she was in love. To Miss Mitchell’s requests for an opinion as to the number of g’s in Reggie, she replied absently, and showed so little interest in…