Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
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A reason to turn the page
She’s only ten inches high and frets she might shrink away like a blown-out candle—what would she become then?
Discovery 8 of 15And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.