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CHAPTER IX
QUEEN ALICE
"Well, this is grand!" said Alice.
"I never expected I should be
a Queen so soon—and I'll tell you
what it is, your Majesty," she went
on, in a severe tone (she was always
rather fond of scolding herself), "it'll
never do for you to be lolling about on
the grass like that! Queens have to
be dignified, you know!"
So she got up and walked about—rather stiffly just at first, as she was afraid that the crown might come off; but she comforted herself with the thought that there was nobody to see her, "and if I really am a Queen," she said, as she sat down again, "I shall be able to manage it quite well in time."
