gravely

Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I think, you ought to tell me who _you_ are, first.”

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely:

“I am not sure that they did not pull me into a hundred little bearlings,” said Baloo, gravely shaking one leg after the other.