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and look up at me with unspeakable happiness 

 in his handsome face. I often thought that he 

 felt the dumb limitation which denied him the 

 power of language. But since he was denied 

 speech, he scorned the inarticulate mouthings 

 of the lower animals. The vulgar mewing and 

 yowling of the cat species was beneath him ; he 

 sometimes uttered a sort of articulate and well- 

 bred ejaculation, when he wished to call atten- 

 tion to something that he considered remarkable, 

 or to some want of his, but he never went whin- 

 ing about. He would sit for hours at a closed 

 window, when he desired to enter, without a 

 murmur, and when it was opened he never ad- 

 mitted that he had been impatient by "bolting" 

 in. Though speech he had not, and the unpleas- 

 ant kind of utterance given to his race he would 

 not use, he had a mighty power of purr to ex- 

 press his measureless content with congenial 

 society. There was in him a musical organ with 



