chorus means—for I must confess that I don't), "Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!"
"I shall dream about a thousand pounds to-night, I know I shall!" thought Alice.
All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.
"So young a child," said the gentleman sitting opposite to her (he was dressed in white paper), "ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!"
A Goat that was sitting next to the gentleman in white shut his eyes and said, in a loud voice, "She ought to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn't know her alphabet!"
