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that makes people hot-tempered,’ she went on,
very much pleased at having found out a new
kind of rule, “and vimegar 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
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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 thimking
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.
“Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Every
thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's
side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like her keeping so close