excusait

Updated: June 14, 2025

When once the careful preliminary foundation of the story has been laid, the crisis comes quick and pointed often in a single line. Thus we are given a minute description of the friendship of the cat and the sparrow; all sorts of details are insisted on; we are told how, when the sparrow teased the cat En sage et discrète personne, Maître chat excusait ces jeux.

Lytton Strachey - Landmarks in French Literature