... your truffle of a nose works up and down and makes another wrinkle in your irregular mug.
She always says, "his square muzzle, his wrinkled truffle," so tenderly and so lovingly!
It's _your_ empty stomach that scolds and complains and wants to quarrel with me.
But no, it's your nose that's charming. You just said so.
My stomach too. There's none more fastidious, more whimsical, stronger and at the same time more delicate. It digests the bones of sole, but meat that's the least bit tainted literally turns it.
Literally's the word. You have _active_ indigestion.
Yes, the whole house is affected by it. From the very first qualms I'm in terrible distress; the earth gives way under me, my eyes dilate, I hurriedly swallow quantities of salty saliva; involuntary, ventriloquial cries escape me, my sides bulge out--
I say, if it's all the same to you, tell me the rest after dinner.
He's there, in his study, scratching paper.
He's always doing that. It's a game. Two-Paws play at the same thing for hours and hours. I've often tried to scratch paper gently, as He does, but the pleasure doesn't last long. I prefer newspapers torn into shreds that rustle and fly ... There is a little pot of dark-violet, muddy water on his table. I never sniff it without horror, since the day a rather foolish curiosity made me dip my paw into it. This very paw, so strong and aristocratic, (the tufts of useless hair you see between my toes proclaim the purity of my race) this very paw bore a bluish stain for eight days and the degrading odor of rusty steel clung to it a long time after ...
She's not back yet! Heaven grant She isn't lost, as I was one day in the streets of Paris!
I'm hungry! What are we going to eat this evening?
I saw a chicken. It made a silly noise and dropped red blood on the kitchen floor, soiling it far more than I ever did, or you either--yet no one whipped it. But Emily put it in the fire, to teach it a lesson. I licked up some of the blood ...
Chicken ... it makes my mouth water. She'll say: "Here Toby, bones!" and throw me the carcass.
How badly you speak! He says: "Little chicken bones, Kiki, little chicken bones!"
But no _really_ it's, "Here, Toby, bones!" that She says.
Ah?... Tell me, do birds taste anything like chicken?