They're pretty much like us in most ways.

They're jealous and resentful, and they can love or hate equally well--and forgive, too, for that matter; and suffer--how they can suffer, and so patiently, too.

Where is the human being that would put up with the tortures that animals endure and yet come out so patient ?" "Nowhere," said Miss Laura, in a low voice; "we couldn't do it." "And there doesn't seem to be an animal," Mrs.Wood went on, "no matter how ugly and repulsive it is, but what has some lovable qualities.

I have just been reading about some sewer rats, Louise Michel's rats----" "Who is she ?" asked Miss Laura.
"A celebrated Frenchwoman, my dear child, 'the priestess of pity and vengeance,' Mr.Stead calls her.

You are too young to know about her, but I remember reading of her in 1872, during the Commune troubles in France.