Chapter 2
Alice cries a pool and swims ashore with the Mouse
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1 Alice shoots up to the hall's ceiling, the glass table reaching only to her knees
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2 Alice has shot up to the ceiling of the long hall.
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3 From high under the roof, Alice looks down at her own small black shoes far below
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4 Telescope-tall Alice stands under the hall ceiling, counting parcels for her feet
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5 Over nine feet tall, Alice presses her head against the ceiling of the long hall
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6 Nine-foot Alice lies on the stone floor, one eye pressed to the tiny garden door
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7 Alice has grown over nine feet tall.
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8 Giant Alice sits hunched under the roof, shaking a stern finger at herself in tears
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9 Alice is now more than nine feet tall.
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10 Alice, grown giant and tear-stained, sits in her pool of tears in the long hall.
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11 Tear-soaked giant Alice leans down to the tiny White Rabbit and timidly speaks
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12 The White Rabbit's fine gloves and large fan lie on the wet stone at the edge of the pool of tears.
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13 Giant Alice sits in her pool of tears, waving the Rabbit's fan and wondering who she is
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14 Giant Alice stops fanning midway through saying London is the capital of Paris
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15 Alice sits in her tears, hands folded, reciting How doth the little crocodile
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16 Nine-foot Alice sits in her pool of tears in the lamplit hall, sobbing
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17 Alice stops mid-sentence, seeing one of the White Rabbit's white kid gloves on her hand
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18 Two-foot Alice checks her height against the glass table, the Rabbit's glove on her head
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19 Alice is now only two feet tall.
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20 Alice has just escaped shrinking away to nothing.
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21 Tiny Alice, a few inches tall, reaches the little door at last and finds it shut again.
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22 Alice has shrunk to only a few inches tall.
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23 Alice slips and falls into the pool of tears she cried when she was nine feet high.
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24 Alice is up to her chin in the pool of tears and paddles toward a distant strip of stone shore.
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25 Tiny Alice swims across her pool of tears toward a large dark splashing shape
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26 Alice has shrunk to a few inches tall.
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27 Alice tries her first French sentence on the Mouse, and it asks where her cat is.
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28 The soaked little Mouse rises from the pool of tears and squeaks a protest at Alice
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29 Alice floats on her back in the pool of tears and chatters dreamily about her cat Dinah.
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30 The Mouse's long wet tail quivers at the surface of the pool of tears.
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31 Frightened by Alice's talk of a terrier, the Mouse swims off across the pool of tears
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32 Alice calls softly, and the offended Mouse swims slowly back to her
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33 Alice leads the Mouse and dripping birds and animals across the pool to shore
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34 Everyone has swum ashore, and the pool of tears is empty.
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