The fireside sphinx . nconcern-edly to sleep, until disturbed by the rude antics ofthe young Commodus. It was then that the hosts son bethought himof his own favourite animal, which had offendedsomehow, and had been forbidden the banquet. —* I mean to shut you in the oven a while, little soft,white thing! he had said, catching sight, as hepassed an open doorway, of the great fire in thekitchen, itself festally adorned, where the feast waspreparing ; and had so finally forgotten it. And itwas with a really natural laugh, for once, that, onopening the oven, he caught sight of the animalsgrotesqu
The fireside sphinx . nconcern-edly to sleep, until disturbed by the rude antics ofthe young Commodus. It was then that the hosts son bethought himof his own favourite animal, which had offendedsomehow, and had been forbidden the banquet. —* I mean to shut you in the oven a while, little soft,white thing! he had said, catching sight, as hepassed an open doorway, of the great fire in thekitchen, itself festally adorned, where the feast waspreparing ; and had so finally forgotten it. And itwas with a really natural laugh, for once, that, onopening the oven, he caught sight of the animalsgrotesque appearance, as it lay there, half-burnt,just within the red-hot iron door. That light, cruel, natural laugh echoes throughthe centuries, and follows the cat along her pathwayof pain. Mr. Pater, fretted to pity by his own tale,eliminated from later editions of Marius theheart-rending episode he could so ill endure. Wouldthat it were as easy to banish from Pussys historythe gloomy records of sorcery and be Dark ylqes
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