`Where do you come from?' said the Red Queen. `And where are you
going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the
time.'
Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as
she could, that she had lost her way.
`I don't know what you mean by YOUR way,' said the Queen: `all the
ways about here belong to ME -- but why did you come out here at
all?' she added in a kinder tone. `Curtsey while you`re thinking
what to say, it saves time.'
Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the
Queen to disbelieve it. `I'll try it when I go home,' she thought to
herself. `the next time I'm a little late for dinner.'
`It's time for you to answer now,' the Queen said, looking at her
watch: `open your mouth a LITTLE wider when you speak, and always say
"your Majesty."'
`I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty--'
`That's right,' said the Queen, patting her on the head, which
Alice didn't like at all, `though, when you say "garden," -- I'VE
seen gardens, compare with which this would be a wilderness.'
Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: `-- and I
thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill -- '
`When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, `_I_ could show you
hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.
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