My household of pets

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Theophile Gautier. My household of pets

My household of pets

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. OLD TIMES

CHAPTER II. THE WHITE DYNASTY

CHAPTER III. THE BLACK DYNASTY

CHAPTER IV. OUR DOGS

CHAPTER V. CHAMELEONS, LIZARDS, AND MAGPIES

CHAPTER VI. HORSES

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Théophile Gautier

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Childebrand came in nicely as a rhyme to Rembrandt; for this fragment was a sort of confession of faith and romance to a friend, since dead, who at that time shared all our enthusiasms for Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, and Alfred de Musset.

We must say of our cats as said Ruy Gomez de Silva to the impatient Don Carlos, when giving him the names and titles of his ancestors, which began with “Don Silvius, three times elected Consul of Rome,” “I have skipped some of the best——,” and so pass on to Madame Theophile, a reddish cat, with a white breast, pink nose, and blue eyes, who was thus named because she lived with us in an almost conjugal intimacy, sleeping on the foot of our bed, or on the arm of our writing chair; following us in our walks in the garden, assisting at our meals, and not infrequently intercepting the morsels which we were conveying from our plate to our mouth.

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