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When she was sufficiently recovered to go round the house, and see what was left, she found, to her great satisfaction, that all her money was spared, and she determined, in future, to make a very different use of it. The melancholy decease of Glumdalkin threw several distinguished families in Catland into mourning; but I never heard that any body particularly lamented her.
Friskarina was so astonished at this sudden resolve, that it was a minute or two before she could answer; at length, she quietly asked when Glumdalkin intended to quit the palace.
Not that she was asleep, though; and her bad humor was not much mended by hearing the princess, who was lying on her sofa, call Friskarina to her, in her most endearing accents: 'Her dear, good, darling little Friskarina. 'It's most uncommonly odd that she never calls for me, thought Glumdalkin.
Friskarina gulphed down a rather sharp speech that was just at the end of her tongue, and went on with the recital of her adventures: 'I have certainly seen the poor cat; and the cottage, too, in which she lives O Glumdalkin! such a place it is, you never saw anything like it; there was not a bit of fire on the hearth, and in one corner there lay a woman on a heap of straw, with an old rug over her.
Glumdalkin sat silent for some minutes, seemingly plunged in the most dismal meditations. 'Well, she said, at length, in a rather mollified tone, 'I have no doubt you would all miss me dreadfully; you, especially, Friskarina, as you are so young and giddy, and so little able to take care of yourself; we will see, I don't wish to do anything unkind by you
'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.
On the present occasion, as she lay on her sofa after dinner, she thought it would be very good entertainment to hear what Glumdalkin and Friskarina might be talking about.
Poor thing! when I asked her how it was she was so thin, the tears came into her eyes, and she said, she had so very little to eat. I asked her if her mistress never gave her any cream? and would you believe it? she actually asked me what cream was. 'Why, you simple child, said Glumdalkin, 'do you suppose cottage cats ever taste such a thing?
So poor little Friskarina hung her head down, and felt quite ashamed; the tears came into her eyes. 'Poor Bear! she said, 'I might have helped you very often, if I had only thought about you. I'm afraid I have been very selfish! And then she began to think, that perhaps it was rather unkind in her not to go and look after poor old Glumdalkin, who was, no doubt, in no very happy mood.
'Well, I do admire that! exclaimed Glumdalkin; 'you are wonderfully considerate, all at once; now, I think, Miss Friskarina, you have been getting into mischief, and that's the reason you sit so quiet there. I should like to know where you were all this morning, when the pages were running all over the house after you, because the princess wanted you, and nobody could find you?
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