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" 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 perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.

When I'm a Duchess," she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though,) "I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without—Maybe it's always pepper