Barks and Purrs by Colette
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You're right! I've some trouble in expressing myself to-day.--Well, here
goes: it seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet _you_ do all the grumbling. KIKI-THE-DEMURE A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand. TOBY-DOG That's wrong. It's indiscreet. KIKI-THE-DEMURE Not at all. I have a right to everything. TOBY-DOG To everything? And I? KIKI-THE-DEMURE I don't imagine you lack anything, do you? TOBY-DOG Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will |
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