Barks and Purrs by Colette
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page 39 of 98 (39%)
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She did well! You have depraved tastes--the tastes of men.
TOBY-DOG, (_offended_) Say--no one ever sees me eating bad fish! And never, _never_ will I understand how you can go into such fits over a dead frog, or that herb. KIKI-THE-DEMURE Valerian. TOBY-DOG That's it, I guess ... An herb--is medicine, isn't it? KIKI-THE-DEMURE Medicine, indeed! Valerian ... but no _you_, can't understand ... I've seen Her laugh and go on, as I do over the valerian, after having emptied a glass of fetid wine that jumped dangerously too. As for the dead frog--so dead that it seems a bit of dry russia leather in the form of a frog--it's a sachet, impregnated with rare musk, with which I wish to scent my fur. TOBY-DOG Oh, you talk very well--but She always scolds and says that you smell bad after it, and He says the same thing. KIKI-THE-DEMURE |
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