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So she ran down the lawn towards the garden door, hoping to find it again open. Alas! the ill-natured gardener had shut it quite fast. However, Friskarina was not easily daunted; a cat of genius is never without resources.
Astonishment and indignation had, so far, kept Glumdalkin silent; but now, finding voice once more, she burst forth into a perfect torrent of wrath, declaring that not one bone would she leave no! that she wouldn't. She wouldn't be answerable for bringing a parcel of thieving cats about the house a pretty thing indeed! what did Friskarina think the princess would say?
I do not think you ever beheld such a charming dwelling for a cat; and Friskarina took possession of it, and commenced housekeeping directly, and the princess presented her with a superb silver cream-jug, towards her stock of furniture.
Friskarina shrugged her shoulders, and replied, in rather an under-tone, 'that she really did not see anything disgraceful in being sorry for the unfortunate to which Glumdalkin made no answer. She seemed to be seized with a violent fit of cleanliness, and began washing and biting her right paw with extraordinary vehemence.
'I can but try, replied Tibb, looking as if she began to have an indistinct idea that her new friend meant to do something for her. 'Then, continued Friskarina, 'if you will follow me, and keep quiet behind the trees in the garden, I will give you part of my dinner every day.
But she was not asleep; and, moreover, she was watching Glumdalkin, who had settled herself very comfortably on her cushion, while Friskarina, looking much graver than usual, was sitting with her shoulders drawn up to her ears, in quite an old cattish attitude, and her bright shining eyes fixed thoughtfully on the fire.
'You shall hear all, in good time, answered Friskarina; 'I was peeping about, outside our garden door, rather afraid to venture further, when I saw such a cat come out of one of these cottages, as you call them O Glumdalkin! it really would have made your heart ache to have seen her. I had no idea there were such cats in the world.
'Friskarina; said Glumdalkin, rising from her velvet cushion, with a great deal of majesty in her air, and curling her tail very solemnly round her toes 'Friskarina, let us have no more of this nonsense, if you please! I consider your behavior this morning, and your conversation at present, utterly beneath the dignity of a cat of condition.
Moreover, she did not look by any means in the best of humors; but she unbuttoned her eyes a very little atom as Friskarina came towards the fire, and in a very gruff voice, asked her where she had been so long? 'I'll tell you directly, replied Friskarina; 'but really I must get a little warm first, my jaws are quite stiff.
'But your mistress must be dreadfully cruel, exclaimed Friskarina, 'to take no more care of you than that! 'What can she do? replied Tibb, 'she has not got enough for herself and her daughter, so it is not likely she can give me anything.
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