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Now these sedentary fireside tabby-cats of Norway have been trained, they say, by the snow-shoes into lithe and audacious creatures, for whom no night is too dark or height too giddy, and who are not only saying good-bye to the traditional feminine pallor and delicacy of constitution, but actually taking the lead in every educational and social reform.
I'll find the money somehow. I won't have you baited by all the old tabby-cats in the neighbourhood." Ann stood up, her head thrown back proudly on its slim young throat. "No," she said with decision. "No, Robin. I'm not going to run away from village gossip. I'm going to face it out." Robin sprang up. "Well done, little sister!" he exclaimed, a ring of wholehearted admiration in his voice.
"Looking at the fire, Drina, and listening to the purring of three fat tabby-cats." "Oh! Mother and Eileen have gone somewhere. I haven't anything to do for an hour. Can't you come around?" "Why, yes, if you want me." "Yes, I do. Of course I can't have Boots, and I prefer you next. The children are fox-hunting, and it bores me. Will you come?" "Yes. When?" "Now.
To have leisure to worry over perplexities was something; to worry in such luxury as this seemed something so very near to happiness that as he refolded the last bill for household expenses he smiled faintly to himself. Boots's three tabby-cats were disposed comfortably before the blaze, fore paws folded under, purring and blinking lazily at the grate.
But it is not only the souls of the departed who are supposed to be hovering unseen on the day "when autumn to winter resigns the pale year." Witches then speed on their errands of mischief, some sweeping through the air on besoms, others galloping along the roads on tabby-cats, which for that evening are turned into coal-black steeds.
"Just a chorus! They were a lot of tabby-cats afraid to wet their precious feet. If it hadn't been for Tom, Miss Gray would have been drowned before the eyes of that mean director and those other imitation men. Ugh! I de-test a coward!" This was said later, however. Until they drew Tom and his fainting burden ashore, neither Ruth nor Helen had time for criticism.
"You have never painted anything better." "Thank you," Fenton responded, brightly. "I am awfully glad you like it. I fancy," he added, with a laugh, "that the tabby-cats will be shocked." His companion made no reply, and the approach of Rangely afforded Arthur a chance to change the conversation. "I say, Fred," he demanded, "have you congratulated Thayer Kent yet?"
"You'll forget it all when we're settled down at where was it? Torquay or somewhere in our villa, like two old tabby-cats sitting in the sun? No time to think it all over then? No, only all the hours of every day!" He paused and then added in a low hard voice, "I'm damned if I'll do it. I may have to die, but I'll die standing."
Now these sedentary fireside tabby-cats of Norway have been trained, they say, by the snow-shoes into lithe and audacious creatures, for whom no night is too dark or height too giddy, and who are not only saying good-bye to the traditional feminine pallor and delicacy of constitution, but actually taking the lead in every educational and social reform.
It was no time for shilly shally, for the balance of this and that, or for a man with blood and muscle to pat his nose and ponder. If I left my Lorna so; if I let those black-soul'd villains work their pleasure on my love; if the heart that clave to mine could find no vigour in it then let maidens cease from men, and rest their faith in tabby-cats.
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