English and French bilingual reading Alice in Wonderland

CHAPTER I.

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BURROW.

ALICE, sitting next to her sister on the grass, began to get bored of standing there doing nothing; once or twice she had cast her eyes on the book her sister was reading; But what! no images, no dialogues! "The beautiful advance," Alice thought, "that a book without pictures, without talks!".

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?"

She began to think, (as best she could, because the heat of the day put her to sleep and made her heavy,) wondering if the pleasure of making a crown of daisies was worth getting up and picking the flowers, when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes passed by her.

so she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing very surprising there, and Alice did not even find it very extraordinary to hear the Rabbit speak who said to himself: "Ah! I will arrive too late!" (Thinking about it afterwards, it seemed to her that she should have been surprised, but at the time it seemed quite natural to her.) However, when the Rabbit came to pull a watch from his pocket, looked at it, and then began to run more beautifully, Alice jumped on his feet, struck by this idea that she had never seen a rabbit with a gusset and a watch. Driven by curiosity, she set out in her footsteps through the field, and arrived just in time to see him disappear into a wide hole at the foot of a hedge.

There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

A moment later, Alice was chasing the Rabbit in the burrow, not thinking about how she would get out of it.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

For a long time the hole went straight like a tunnel, then suddenly it plunged perpendicularly so sharply that Alice felt herself falling like in a well of great depth, before she had even thought of holding back.

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.