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PART I - Introductory Romance From The Pen Of William Tinkling, Esq. (Aged eight.) |
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I said that ma had said afterwards (and so she had), that Great-uncle Chopper's gift was a shabby one; but she hadn't said a bad one. She had called it shabby, electrotyped, second-hand, and below his income. 'It must be the grown-up people who have changed all this,' said Alice. 'WE couldn't have changed it, if we had been so inclined, and we never should have been. Or perhaps Miss Grimmer IS a wicked fairy after all, and won't act up to it because the grown-up people have persuaded her not to. Either way, they would make us ridiculous if we told them what we expected.' 'Tyrants!' muttered the pirate-colonel. 'Nay, my Redforth,' said Alice, 'say not so. Call not names, my Redforth, or they will apply to pa.' 'Let 'em,' said the colonel. 'I do not care. Who's he?' Tinkling here undertook the perilous task of remonstrating with his lawless friend, who consented to withdraw the moody expressions above quoted. 'What remains for us to do?' Alice went on in her mild, wise way. 'We must educate, we must pretend in a new manner, we must wait.' The colonel clenched his teeth, - four out in front, and a piece of another, and he had been twice dragged to the door of a dentist-despot, but had escaped from his guards. 'How educate? How pretend in a new manner? How wait?' |
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