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"I will sit down if you'll let me," said I, feeling that I wouldn't appear quite so gigantic if I was sitting. "Please do. The chairs all belong to you." "I'm sorry you put it in that way. They are yours as long as you choose to to occupy a furnished apartment here." "I have been very selfish, and cattish, and inconsiderate, Mr. Smart. You see, I'm a spoilt child.
But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection, which leads a wife to purr about her husband, as she would about any man who fed and caressed her.
"Ah, Devereux, you poison my enjoyment by the mere word 'plebeian'! Oh, what a beastly thing is a common person! a shape of the trodden clay without any alloy; a compound of dirty clothes, bacon breaths, villanous smells, beggarly cowardice, and cattish ferocity. Pah, Devereux! rub civet on the very thought!"
Bill engineered the whole thing, and he thinks still that it was an awfully good joke. His ideas of humor must have originated in the Stone Age. "I made him tell me all about it, he thinking I would be amused. Then I turned him right out of our parlor and told him not to call again. I hear that he thinks I am a regular cat! "But who wouldn't be cattish with a fellow who has no more sense?
"Well, salad, or sauces, or desserts, or cafe au lait in the morning, or candy, or tea," said Cyrilla. "Or it might be cigarettes, or all those things and thin stockings and low shoes mightn't it?" Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish. Said Mildred with a faint sneer, "That sounds like Mr. Keith's crankiness." "It is," replied Cyrilla.
But, what boy ever recollected with pleasure the years he spent in close confinement, at an academy near London? unless indeed he should by chance remember the poor scare-crow of an usher whom he tormented; or, the tartman, from whom he caught a cake, to devour it with the cattish appetite of selfishness.
Ah, that is better! How lovely she looks to-night! What an exquisite pose of head! And what are those two damned foreigners saying to her, I wonder. Underbred brute, the American, Herryman Hoggenwater! What a name! She is laughing she evidently finds him amusing. Abominably cattish of the widow not to ask me. I wonder if she has seen me yet. I want to make her bow to me. Ah!"
"And all their cattish gestures plainly spoke They thought the affair they'd come upon no joke." Some days went on, and nothing more was said by the children about the adventures which had so puzzled poor Hugh.
Jaquetta used to call her a panther of the wilderness, but to my mind there was none of the purring cattish tenderness of the panther.
But many maidens remained whom memory delights to catalogue, tall, brilliant Lizzie Allardyce, the lovely and cattish Marian Winwood, to whom Felix Kennaston wrote those wonderful love-letters which she published when he married Kathleen Saumarez, the rich Baugh heiresses from Georgia, the Pride twins, and Mattie Ferneyhaugh, whom even rival beauties loved, they say, and other damsels by the score, all in due time to be wooed and won, and then to pass out of the old town's life.
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