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Updated: May 19, 2025
Boughs swayed and sang. A taxi-cab swirled round a corner like a cat, and purred to a standstill. There was a light of an open hall door. But all far away, it seemed, unthinkably far away. Aaron sat still and watched. He was frightened, it all seemed so sinister, this dark, bristling heart of London. Wind boomed and tore like waves ripping a shingle beach.
He did not reply; he was thinking of Shiela Cardross. And, frowning, he picked up the kitten, very gently, and flattered it until it purred. "It's about as big as a minute," said the girl, softly touching the tiny head. "There are minutes as big as elephants, too," he said, amused. "Nice pussy!" The kitten, concurring in these sentiments, purred with pleasure.
"She's hot, Aunt Boynton is, hot and restless, but Mrs. Mason thinks that's all." Ivory found his mother feverish, and her eyes were unnaturally bright; but she was clear in her mind and cheerful, too, sitting up in bed to breathe the better, while the Maltese cat snuggled under her arm and purred peacefully. "The cat is Rod's idea," she said smilingly but in a very weak voice.
There followed a pause during which the two men exchanged dismayed glances. "She doesn't seem to care what she says," O'Reilly murmured. "But- -I'll put a flea in Enriquez's ear." "Put it in writing, please." There was another wait. "Now read it to me. ... Good!" Miss Evans fairly purred over the telephone. "Send it to me by messenger right away; that's a dear.
'I know a dog that lives down the road, said the boy, 'his name is Major. How would that do? Or we might call him Sergeant. The kitten, observing that he was the subject of their conversation, purred loudly and winked as if to intimate that he did not care what rank was conferred upon him so long as the commisariat department was properly attended to.
And to have the same great creature leaning her head on his shoulder, and listening with a charming complacency, while he purred to her of love and calm delights, alternate with still greater triumphs; for he was to turn dramatic writer, for her sake, was to write plays, a woman the hero, and love was to inspire him, and passion supply the want of pencraft. All this was heavenly.
She came straight across the house, heading for me, and, as soon as she was alongside, caught up my hand and purred and crooned over it like a great cat. From this she slipped into a kind of song. "Who the devil's this?" cried I, for the thing startled me. "It's Fa'avao," says Randall; and I saw he had hitched along the floor into the farthest corner. "You ain't afraid of her?" I cried.
A shade of sadness passed over his face, and was gone again, as he smilingly answered, stroking the cat that purred and rubbed herself against his shoulder. "Just puss and me and the guitar," he said. "The happiest of families. Ah! Music's a great thing of a lonely evening."
Gloria, back in her favorite piazza-chair, surveyed the world with rested vision. Very soon she would take up her adopted worries about barren streets and rickety houses, but for the moment she would rock and smooth Abou Ben Adhem's beautiful back. "You've been lonesome, Old Handsome needn't tell me! I don't believe you purred a note while I was gone. And I never missed you, sir!"
And out of this arose the only sadness of the happy May days when the little party once more journeyed out to Babar's tomb towards evening to sit under the arghawân trees and watch the sunset. Of course Dearest-Lady was not there, but all the others were assembled, and Down, the cat, purred as loud as ever, while Tumbu, the dog, frolicked round even more like a golliwog than before.
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