Alice in Wonderland
The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!
I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
“It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,” said the March Hare.
Off with her head!
Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think—
