For a minute or two Alice stood silent, watching him. Suddenly she
brightened up. `Look, look!' she cried, pointing eagerly. "There's
the White Queen running across the country! She came flying out of
the wood over yonder -- How fast those Queens CAN run!'
`There's some enemy after, her no doubt,' the King said, without
even looking round. `That wood's full of them.'
`But aren't you going to run and help her?' Alice asked, very much
surprised at his taking it so quietly.
`No use, no use!' said the King. `She runs so fearfully quick.
You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a
memorandum about her, if you like -- She's a dear good creature,' he
repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. `Do you
spell "creature" with a double "e"?'
At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his
pockets. `I had the best of it this time?' he said to the King, just
glancing at him as he passed.
`A little -- a little,' the King replied, rather nervously. `You
shouldn't have run him through with your horn, you know.'
`It didn't hurt him,' the Unicorn said carelessly, and he was going
on, when his eye happened to fall upon Alice: he turned round rather
instantly, and stood for some time looking at her with an air of the
deepest disgust.
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