But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
Some of the stone used to be made into grindstones and scythestones, and aged carpenters and farmmen tell how kindly it was to their tools and scythe blades; it left the edges smooth as silk, which synthetic stone (carborundum) never quite does.
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Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place: Nadar made a famous caricature of him sitting plump and happy in his study with a crowd of cats occupying every inch of available space.
In his nouvelle Chinoiserie, he manages to exoticize the overly familiar, disregarded patterns of everyday shmattas.
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