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 ! the Marchioness ! oh my dear paws ! oh my fur and whiskers ! She 'll have me executed , as sure as ferrets are ferrets ! Where can I have dropped them , I wonder ? '' Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves , and she began hunting for them , but they were now nowhere to be seen -- everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool , and her walk along the river-bank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots , and the glass table and the little door had vanished . Soon the rabbit noticed Alice , as she stood looking curiously about her , and at once said in a quick angry tone , `` why , Mary Ann ! what are you doing out here ? Go home this moment , and look on my dressing-table for my gloves and nosegay , and fetch them here , as quick as you can run , do you hear ? '' and Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once , without saying a word , in the direction which the rabbit had pointed out . She soon found herself in front of a neat little house , on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name W. RABBIT , ESQ. .
She went in , and hurried upstairs , for fear she should meet the real Mary XXXXX and be turned out of the house before she had found the gloves : she knew that one pair had been lost in the hall , `` but of course , '' thought Alice , `` it has plenty more of them in its house .
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