![]() ![]() ![]() Wilde turned over on his back, his limbs contracting and curling up like the legs of a dying spider. Howling and foaming they rolled over and over on the floor, scratching and clawing, until the cat screamed and fled under the cabinet, and Mr. Before I could move she flattened her belly to the ground, crouched, trembled, and sprang into his face. Wilde squatting motionless on his high chair, his eyes fairly blazing with excitement, while the cat, which had risen from her place before the stove, came creeping across the floor right at him. ![]() I remember once, glancing up from the manuscript I was studying by the light of some tallow dips, and seeing Mr. I never could understand why he kept the creature, nor what pleasure he found in shutting himself up in his room with this surly, vicious beast. “I do not deny that he was eccentric the mania he had for keeping that cat and teasing her until she flew at his face like a demon, was certainly eccentric. ![]()
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