Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd
have said "Leave off at seven" -- but it's too late now.'
`I never ask advice about growing,' Alice said Indignantly.
`Too proud?' the other inquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. `I mean,' she
said, `that one can't help growing older.'
`ONE can't, perhaps,' said Humpty Dumpty, `but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'
`What a beautiful belt you've got on!' Alice suddenly remarked.
(They had had quite enough of the subject of age, she thought: and if
they really were to take turns in choosing subjects, it was her turn
now.) `At least,' she corrected herself on second thoughts, `a
beautiful cravat, I should have said -- no, a belt, I mean -- I beg
your pardon!' she added in dismay, for Humpty Dumpty looked
thoroughly offended, and she began to wish she hadn't chosen that
subject. `If I only knew,' the thought to herself, 'which was neck
and which was waist!'
Evidently Humpty Dumpty was very angry, though he said nothing for
a minute or two. When he DID speak again, it was in a deep growl.
`It is a -- MOST -- PROVOKING -- thing,' he said at last, `when a
person doesn't know a cravat from a belt!'
`I know it's very ignorant of me,' Alice said, in so humble a tone
that Humpty Dumpty relented.
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