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"How very pretty!" said Alice, after he had finished. "I enjoyed it very much."

"Good-bye," said the White Knight. "You go through that arched gateway and the whole world is before you. I have said the same thing before in Bacteriological Sermons."

"You mean Baccalaureate, don't you?" asked Alice.

"It makes no difference what I mean," the White Knight said. "But the germs of truth must be there."

"Good-bye," said Alice. "Do you know you are quite the nicest person I have met in Cambridge."

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