As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.


Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422.


As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.

As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.

As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.

As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.