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"'It is, says Moller, his voice jerkin' like a kitten taken with the fits. "'Well, says Doc, like his life was hangin' on what Moller would say, 'did you, or did you not, write Shakespeare's plays? "'I did not, Moller jerked out; 'Shakespeare did. "You could hear Doc sigh all over the room, it was sich a relief to his mind. Doc was awful pleased.
"I myself, not being built to eat, have no personal experience in such matters. But I remember that our great poet once said: 'To eat is sweet When hunger's seat Demands a treat Of savory meat." "Take this into consideration, friends of the Jury, and you will readily decide that the kitten is wrongfully accused and should be set at liberty."
They would move to a cottage in the suburbs, where they would have chickens and roses and a kitten, and her mother would find neighborly people again. Five days after, late on a bright, cool afternoon, when all the flats about them were thinking of dinner, her mother died. §
Caroline had a kitten given her, by her uncle, when she had grown up to be quite a large girl. It was a beautiful creature. I think they called it a Maltese kitten. Nothing of the kind had been seen in the place where Caroline lived, before Tommy, as she called her new pet, was brought there.
And Susie sat up and wrinkled her nose, just like water when it bubbles in the tea kettle, for that was the way she smelled, and she wanted to see if she could smell danger. "How can I go home when I don't know the way?" asked the white kitten. "Which way did you come in here?"
Montague laughed, and so did Alice, at the fierce look the boy put on. "Corrie," said the former, "I'm sure that you would not kill a pirate in cold blood, any more than you would kill a kitten would you?" "I'm not sure o' that," said Corrie, half laughing, but still looking fierce.
They could spend many thousands of rupees over the wedding of a kitten. On a certain grand occasion it is alleged that in order to turn night into day they lighted numberless lamps and showered silver threads from the sky to imitate sunlight. Those were the days before the flood. The flood came.
And poor Dora would watch the performance with mixed joy and envy and exclamations like: "What do you think of that snip of a thing! Did you ever?" Lucy's school-reader achievements stirred a novel feeling of rivalry in Dora's breast. When the little girl could spell half a dozen English words she hated herself for her inferiority to her "The idea of that kitten getting ahead of me!
By a fortunate physical provision, most very substantial creatures are also reposeful; and middle-class boarding-houses in the lesser parts of London are not built for a man as big as a bull and excitable as a kitten. Duke.
The truth was that she did none of the things he had half expected of her. She was sitting before a log fire, surrounded by a group of Harrisons and Powells, who had been prevailed upon to spend the night, and when he entered she gave him a sleepy little nod from the corner of a rosewood sofa. As she lay back in the firelight she was like a drowsy kitten that had just awakened from a nap.
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