Oh, what fun it is! How I WISH
I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might
join -- though of course I should LIKE to be a Queen, best.'
She glanced rather shyly at the real Queen as she said this, but
her companion only smiled pleasantly, and said, `That's easily
managed. You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's
too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to began with:
when you get to the Eighth Square you'll be a Queen -- ' Just at this
moment, somehow or other, they began to run.
Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards,
how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were
running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she
could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying
`Faster! Faster!' but Alice felt she COULD NOT go faster, thought she
had not breath left to say so.
The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the
other things round them never changed their places at all: however
fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. `I wonder if all
the things move along with us?' thought poor puzzled Alice.
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