let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper ! '' `` Hold your tongue , Ma ! '' said the young Crab , a little snappishly , `` you 're enough to try the patience of an oyster ! '' `` I wish I had our Dinah here , I know I do ! '' said Alice aloud , addressing no one in particular , `` she 'd soon fetch it back ! '' `` And who is Dinah , if I might venture to ask the question ? '' said the Lory . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- Alice replied eagerly , for she was always ready to talk about her pet , `` Dinah 's our cat . And she 's such a capital one for catching mice , you ca n't think ! And oh ! I wish you could see her after the birds ! Why , she 'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it ! '' This answer caused a remarkable sensation among the party : some of the birds hurried off at once ; one old magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully , remarking `` I really must be getting home : the night air does not suit my throat , '' and a canary called out in a trembling voice to its children `` come away from her , my dears , she 's no fit company for you ! '' On various pretexts , they all moved off , and Alice was soon left alone . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- She sat for some while sorrowful and silent , but she was not long before she recovered her spirits , and began talking to herself again as usual : `` I do wish some of them had stayed a little longer ! and I was getting to be such friends with them -- really the Lory and I were almost like sisters ! and so was that dear little Eaglet ! And then the Duck and the Dodo ! How nicely the Duck sang to us as we came along through the water : and if the Dodo had n't known the way to that nice little cottage , I do n't know when we should have got dry again -- '' and there is no knowing how long she might have prattled on in this way , if she had not suddenly caught the sound of pattering feet . It was the white rabbit , trotting slowly back again , and looking anxiously about it as it went , as if it had lost something , and she heard it muttering to itself `` the Marchioness !
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Alice Dinah Dodo Eaglet Lory Marchioness dears left night pattering