On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred.

So the Spaniards touched them on a tender point that time.

Their unfeline conduct in eating up all the Tetouan cats aroused a hatred toward them in the breasts of the Moors, to which even the driving them out of Spain was tame and passionless.

Moors and Spaniards are foes forever now.

France had a minister here once who embittered the nation against him in the most innocent way.