The Mock Turtle weeps, an illustration by JVL in Lewis Carroll's
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Artists' Choice Editions, 2009.
The text:
They had not
gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
distance,
sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they
came nearer,
Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would
break. She
pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she asked the
Gryphon, and
the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same
words as
before, 'It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow,
you know. Come
on!'
So they went
up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large
eyes full of
tears, but said nothing.
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