. Earthwork out of Tuscany : being impressions and translations of Maurice Hewlett. il \. Cats 13^ look up you see the blue sky cut square, and the hottiles of a huge dome staring up into it. Round thecloister walk are discreet brown doors, and by theside of each door a brass plate tells you the nameand titles of the Canon who lives behind it. It ison the principle of Deans Yard at Westminster ;only here there are more Canons—and more cats. The Canons live under the cloister; the catslive on the green garth, and sometimes die did not see much of the Canons; but thecats seemed to me ver
. Earthwork out of Tuscany : being impressions and translations of Maurice Hewlett. il \. Cats 13^ look up you see the blue sky cut square, and the hottiles of a huge dome staring up into it. Round thecloister walk are discreet brown doors, and by theside of each door a brass plate tells you the nameand titles of the Canon who lives behind it. It ison the principle of Deans Yard at Westminster ;only here there are more Canons—and more cats. The Canons live under the cloister; the catslive on the green garth, and sometimes die did not see much of the Canons; but thecats seemed to me very sad—depressed, nostalgiceven, might describe them, if there had not beensomething more languid, something faded andspiritless about their habit. It was not that theyquarrelled. I heard none of those long-drawnwails, gloomy yet mellow soliloquies, with whichour cats usher in the crescent moon or hymn herwhen she swims at the full: there lacked eventhat comely resignation we may see on any sunnywindow-ledge at home;—the rounded back andneatly ordered tail, the immaculate fore-pa
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