Talking of people earning their bread, Alice;--I'm sure I earn mine.

Oh dear!--what fun it would be to be sitting somewhere in Asia, eating a chicken with one's fingers, and lighting a big fire outside one's tent to keep off the lions and tigers.

Fancy your being on one side of the fire and the lions and tigers on the other, grinning at you through the flames!" Then Lady Glencora strove to look like a lion, and grinned at herself in the glass.
"That sort of grin wouldn't frighten me," said Alice.
"I dare say not.

I have been reading about it in that woman's travels.

Oh, here they are, and I mustn't make any more faces.
Duchess, do come to the fire.