Barks and Purrs by Colette
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TOBY-DOG
I mean I haven't seen anything that's easy to describe. Some green things which pass right close to us--so close and so fast that they give one a slap in the eye. A flat field turning 'round and 'round and over there, a little pointed steeple--it's running as fast as the carriage. Another field all red with blossoming clover has just given me another slap in the eye--a red slap. The earth is sinking in--or else we're going up, I'm not sure which. I see way off, _far_ away, some green lawns dotted with white daisies--perhaps they're cows. KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_with sarcasm_) Or wafers, for sealing letters--or anything you like. TOBY-DOG Aren't you the least little bit amused? KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_with a sinister laugh_) Ha! Ask of the damned ... TOBY-DOG Of whom? KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_more and more melodramatic, but without conviction_) ... of the damned in his vat of boiling oil, if anything amuses him! Mine is not physical torment. I suffer imprisonment, humiliation, |
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