The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, `Of course, of course; just what I was going to
remark myself.'
"Bonaparte has said so," remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic smile.
"'Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche!'* They say he was very fine when he said that," he remarked, repeating the words in Italian: "'Dio mi l'ha dato.
'And some eggs are very pretty, you know' she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.
Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to HER; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree--so she stood and softly repeated to herself: -- 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
However, this conversation is going on a little too fast: let's go back to the last remark but one.'
"Do you know," he remarked, "I think I am beginning to like your uncle.
"You don't play like a man who has been living abroad for a great many years," she remarked. " Tell me about some of the places you have visited?"
"That is what I call diplomacy, Sir Edward," he remarked. "I always tell our people that they are too bullheaded.
"Seems to me," he remarked, "that I have struck a fortunate evening for my visit."
Coulson," Sir Edward remarked, "I might also suggest that the ordinary mail service between our countries has reached a marvellous degree of perfection."
It is difficult to imagine conditions of life more similar than deep limestone caverns under a nearly similar climate; so that on the common view of the blind animals having been separately created for the American and European caverns, close similarity in their organisation and affinities might have been expected; but, as Schiodte and others have remarked, this is not the case, and the cave-insects of the two continents are not more closely allied than might have been anticipated from the general resemblance of the other inhabitants of North America and Europe.
Homologous parts, as has been remarked by some authors, tend to cohere; this is often seen in monstrous plants; and nothing is more common than the union of homologous parts in normal structures, as the union of the petals of the corolla into a tube.
"I am afraid," he remarked, "that you are disappointed in this place."
"I never fancied that you were a budding philanthropist," Aynesworth remarked, lighting a fresh cigarette.
