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Directly he 's at liberty, he will come back." "Oh ?" faltered Anthony, a trifle disconcerted. "Oh? Do do you think so?" "Yes," she said. "There 's not a doubt of it. But I am acquainted with a discipline, which, if I have your sanction to apply it, will unnerve Monsieur Patapouf, so far as this particular tree is concerned, until the end of time.
Then, with sudden actuality, "Apropos of interim sports," she demanded, "what are you going to do about that cat of yours?" A movement of her head indicated Patapouf.
That seems very ingenious," commented Anthony. "'T is an old wives' remedy," said Susanna. "You don't happen to have such a thing as a piece of string in your pocket? It does n't matter. But you have a penknife? Thank you. Now please catch your cat." Anthony called Patapouf, exerting those blandishments one must exert who would coax a hesitating cat.
"He is certainly very handsome," she agreed. "And Patapouf? I like his name. I will not think too ill of him if he will promise never again to try to catch a a fringuello. I don't remember the English for fringuello?" Her glance and her inflection conveyed a request to be reminded. But Anthony shook his head. "And I shall at once proceed to forget it. Fringuello is so much prettier."
Patapouf, by a series of étapes and délours, approached, and was secured. Susanna, meanwhile, having laid her rosary and prayer-book on the grass, unbuttoned her blue flannel jacket, and removed from round her waist, where it was doing duty as a belt, a broad band of cherry-coloured ribbon.
Then he raised his stick menacingly, and, in tones of stern command, addressed the cat. "Patapouf! I am ashamed of you. Come down come down from there come down directly." And he emphasised each staccato summons by a sharp rap of his stick against the highest point of the tree that he could reach. The cat turned his head, to look and the spell was broken. His attitude relaxed.
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