IX. The Mock Turtle's Story (1)
'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!'
said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's,
and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and
thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made
her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
'When I'm a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though),
'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very well without--
Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on,
very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that
makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar
and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that:
then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know--'
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled
when she heard her voice close to her ear. 'You're thinking about something,
my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what
the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'
'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
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