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"Forgive me," said Godefroid. "You will soon get accustomed to us," said the old man. "Yes, and this is the process," said the sick woman, laughing; "when they've cried 'puss, puss, puss, often enough you'll learn the puss-in-the-corner of our conversations."
It was a boy, who was named Dirck, after the saint Theodoric, who had first, long ago, built a church in the village. Then Puss opened her mouth and lungs again and set up a regular cat-scream. This wakened all her other relatives in the village and every Tom and Kitty made answer, until there was a cat concert of meouws and caterwauls.
And though they startled two or three rabbits and a hare in the course of their walk she never attempted to go after them, only giving them a look and then looking back to him, laughing at him as it were for his warning cry of "Puss! come in, no nonsense now!" Just when they got home and were going into the porch they came face to face with an old woman. Mr.
Underwood scanned his daughter's face keenly as he spoke, but it was as impassive as his own. To Kate, Darrell's absences of late were now explained; he understood it all. She kissed her father silently. "You know, Puss, I am looking out for your best interests in all of this," said her father, a little troubled by her silence.
We shall have to dine at home now. Let us see," she added, seeing that the "dear puss" wore a piteous face; "must we get rid of him for good?" "Oh! poor man!" cried Mlle. Camusot, "deprive him of one of his dinners?" Somebody coughed significantly in the next room by way of warning that he could hear. "Very well, let him come in!" said Mme. Camusot, looking at Madeleine with another shrug.
In the corner of the yard there were hickory and black-walnut trees, and just over the fence the hill sloped past barns and cribs to a brook, a rare place to wade, though there were forbidden pools. Cousin Tabitha Quarles, called "Puss," his own age, was Little Sam's playmate, and a slave girl, Mary, who, being six years older, was supposed to keep them out of mischief.
And then she made a spring towards puss, who, nimbly eluding her, passed out by the way through which she had come in. By this time I had jerked open the oven door, when there came rushing out a cloud of smoke, which instantly filled the room. My puddings were burned to a crisp! As for the turkey, the cat had eaten off one side of the breast, and it was no longer fit for the table.
Puss allowed a contemptuous expression to take possession of his face, and even shrugged his broad shoulders, after a nasty fashion he had, that often angered the one he was arguing with more than words could have done. "Aw! rats!" he said, in a disagreeable, rasping voice. "Everybody knows that I'd won that same race only for trouble with my engine.
Tom remembers that he was a fool last night, and knows what he thinks and always has thought to-day; but pretty Seraphina thinks he adores her, so that no matter what she does he will never see a flaw, she is sure of that, poor little puss!
Phil's voice seemed to break the spell of silence, and a perfect hubbub of questions and exclamations began. It appeared that this happy thought of getting Cousin Helen to the "Celebration," was Clover's. She it was who had proposed it to Papa, and made all the arrangements. And, artful puss! she had set Bridget to sweep the hall, on purpose that Katy might not hear the noise of the arrival.
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