“AND FROM THAT HOUR THEY WERE FAST FRIENDS”
LIVES OF
TWO CATS
From the French of Pierre Loti
TRANSLATION BY M. B. RICHARDS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. ALLEN
BOSTON 1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY M. B. RICHARDS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| “And from that hour they were fast friends” (page 50) | Frontispiece |
| “Rolling on the crimson rug” | 10 |
| “Advancing, ... her clear eyes fixed on mine” | 16 |
| “And still looked directly in my eyes” | 22 |
| “She passed deliciously dreamy days” | 48 |
| “There was a useless battle” | 70 |
| “In company of the everlasting tortoise” | 76 |
| “I was glad ... that she had not died elsewhere” | 90 |
LIVES OF
TWO CATS
Lives of Two Cats
(I)
I HAVE often seen, with a questioningrestlessness infinitely sad, the soul ofanimals meet mine from the depths of theireyes: the soul of a cat, the soul of a dog,the soul of a monkey, as pathetically, foran instant, as a human soul, revealing itselfsuddenly in a glance and seeking my ownsoul with tenderness, supplication, or terror;and I have felt perhaps more pity for thesesouls of animals than for those of my ownbrethren, because they are speechless, incapableof emerging from their semi-intelligence;above all, because they are morehumble and despised.
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