Alice in Wonderland (45)

Alice in Wonderland (45)

(9) THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY

" You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing ! " said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's and they walked off together.

Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that parhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.

" When I am a Duchess, " she said to herself, I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without ーMaybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered. "

She went on, " very much pleased at having found out a new kind of  rule , " and vinegar that makes them sourーand camomile that makes them bitterーandーand barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that.

She had quite fogotten tha Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.

" You're thinking about someyhing, my dear, and that makes you foget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit. "

" Perhaps it hasn't one, " Alice ventured to remark.

" Tut, tut, child ! " said the Duchess.
" Everything's got a moral, if you can find it. "

" The games going to rather better now, " Alice said,  by way of keeping up the conversation a little.

" 'Tis so, " said the Duchess.
" And the moral of that isー" Oh, 'tis love,'tis love, that makes the world go round ! "

" How fond she she is of finding morals in things ! " Alice thought to herself.

" I dare say you're wonderling why I don't put my arm round your waist, " the Duchess said after a  pause. "The reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. "

" He might bite, " Alice cautiously replied.

" Very true, " said the Duchess.
" Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that isー" Birds of a feather flock together. "
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Birds of feather flock together　類は友を呼ぶ
Flamingo→bite(噛む), musturd →bite(辛いー刺激する、刺激性)

" Only mustard isn't a bird, " Alice remarked.

" Right, as usual, " said the Duchess.
" What a clear way you have of putting things ! "

" It's a mineral, I think, " said Alice.

" Of course it is, " said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said.

" Just about as much right, " said the Duchess, " as pigs have to fly. and then mー "

But here, Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away, even in the middle of her favorite word " moral ", and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.

Alice looked up , and there stood the Queen in fornt of them, with her arm folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.

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