'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.
'Belki de İngilizce anlamıyordur' diye düşündü Alice; 'Bence Fatih William ile birlikte gelen bir Fransız faresi.' (Tüm tarih bilgisiyle Alice'in her şeyin ne kadar zaman önce olup bittiğine dair çok berrak bir fikri yoktu.)Bu nedenle tekrar başladı: "Ou est ma chatte?" Fransızca ders kitabındaki ilk cümleydi.
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life. Ruth Pitter
I daresay it will be difficult to begin to keep silence after such confidence as ours, but I must be resolute, and tomorrow I shall keep dark over tonight's doings, and shall refuse to speak of anything that has happened.
I daresay that if I had put £100 down in front of him, that man would not have given me such complete information as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a wager.
