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She and her brother had been put under Magdalen's protection, as Miss Mohun was too much wanted at Cliffe House to look after them; but Sir Adrian, a big boy of twelve, wanted to go his own way, and only handed her over with "Hallo, Miss Prescott! you'll look after this pussy-cat of ours while Aunt Jane is dosing Aunt Ada with salts and sal volatile. She I'll introduce you!
I've engaged a nice, tame pussy-cat person to take charge of my morals and chaperon me generally. Not like you, Marraine an Early Victorian autocrat with a twentieth-century tongue." "If you mean Mrs. Grey, she doesn't give me the least impression of being a 'nice, tame pussy-cat," retorted Lady Arabella. "You'll find that out, my dear." Magda regarded her thoughtfully. "Do you think so?"
"Honestly, do you believe it would be really wicked to lure that old human pussy-cat down cellar and sort of lose him through the furnace-door?" "Don't talk nonsense, Hawkins," I laughed. "It isn't nonsense. It's the way I feel. But I'll get square on that spiteful tongue of his some day and when I do!
Sharp watch she kept when a village she neared, For boys and their mischief our Pussy-cat feared! Often she crept through the grasses so deep To pass by a dog that was lying asleep. Once, as she walked through a sweet-clover field, Something beside her affrightedly squealed, And swift from her path there darted away A tiny field-mouse, with a coat of soft gray.
My Mammy, she sewed 'em fer ME, I reckon d'in' sew 'em fer no cat!" "Oh, PLEASE, come on, Herman!" Penrod begged pathetically. "You don't want to see the poor cat drown, do you?" "Mighty mean cat!" Herman said. "Bet' let 'at ole pussy-cat 'lone whur it is." "Why, it'll only take a minute," Sam urged.
"And a little girl like you, with such bright red hair, oughtn't to wear purple!" she admonished with real concern. "Now whites and blues and little soft pussy-cat grays " Mumblingly through her finger-muzzled mouth the Little Girl burst into explanations again. "Oh, but when I wear gray," she persisted, "the Parpa never sees me!
Well, just as I expected, something happened to my pussy-cat named Peter. He didn't fall into the pot of red paint, but he either ran away, or else some one took him. So now I have no pussy-cat. But I'll tell you a story about Uncle Wiggily just the same.
But Scipio le Moyne would say to me now and then, "If I was Trampas, I'd pull my freight." And once he added, "Pull it kind of casual, yu' know, like I wasn't noticing myself do it." "Yes," our friend Shorty murmured pregnantly, with his eye upon the quiet Virginian, "he's sure studying his revenge." "Studying your pussy-cat," said Scipio. "He knows what he'll do. The time 'ain't arrived."
Flora is quite smitten with him, he talks so politely to her." "And Blanche!" said Ethel. "The little affected pussy-cat made a set at him, bridled and talked in her mincing voice, with all her airs, and made him take a great deal of notice of her." Nurse here came to prepare for the surgeon's visit. It was over, and Margaret awaited the judgment.
He used to tell her that she had "eyes like buttons," "feet like a pussy-cat," and hands that were "just five cents' worth," they were so little. The child admired her father and would often stand by his chair in the library or the sitting-room, or his desk in his private office, or by his seat at the table, asking him questions.
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