[Fraternity by John Galsworthy]@TWC D-Link bookFraternity CHAPTER VII 8/16
I think you should have a doctor!" The seamstress's answer, slow and matter-of-fact, was worse than her emotion. "No, m'm, he isn't mad." Crossing to the hearth-whose Persian-blue tiling had taken her so long to find--Cecilia stood beneath a reproduction of Botticelli's "Primavera," and looked doubtfully at Mrs.Hughs.The Persian kitten, sleepy and disturbed on the bosom of her blouse, gazed up into her face. 'Consider me,' it seemed to say; 'I am worth consideration; I am of a piece with you, and everything round you.
We are both elegant and rather slender; we both love warmth and kittens; we both dislike interference with our fur.
You took a long time to buy me, so as to get me perfect. You see that woman over there! I sat on her lap this morning while she was sewing your curtains.
She has no right in here; she's not what she seems; she can bite and scratch, I know; her lap is skinny; she drops water from her eyes.
She made me wet all down my back.
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