Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (№ 403846)

What were you, Alice, like in your adoptive father's eyes? How does he describe you? Loving first; loving and gentle - loving as a dog (sorry for the prosaic comparison, but I don't know of any other love that
would be as pure and beautiful), and gentle as a doe; and then courteous - courteous to all, whether tall, low, majestic or funny, to the King or the Caterpillar, as if she herself was a royal daughter, and the dress on her is pure gold; and still gullible, ready to accept all the most incredible with a conviction that is familiar only to dreamers; and finally, inquisitive - inquisitive to the extreme, with that taste for Life, which is available only to a happy childhood, when everything is new and good, and Sin and Sorrow are just words - empty words that mean nothing!