← and she heard it muttering to itself ‘The Duchess! 🔊
← ‘It’s a Cheshire cat,’ said the Duchess, ‘and that’s why. 🔊
← ‘You don’t know much,’ said the Duchess; ‘and that’s a fact.’ 🔊
← ‘Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!’ the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. 🔊
← ‘Very,’ said Alice: ‘--where’s the Duchess?’ 🔊
← Alice could think of nothing else to say but ‘It belongs to the Duchess: you’d better ask her about it.’ 🔊
← She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. 🔊
← ‘I quite agree with you,’ said the Duchess; ‘and the moral of that is--“Be what you would seem to be”-- 🔊
← ‘That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,’ the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone. 🔊