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live with us. From the first moment, he 

 fell into the ways of the house and assumed 

 a recognized position in the family, I say 

 recognized, because after he became known 

 he was always inquired for by visitors, and 

 in the letters to the other members of the 

 family he always received a message. Al- 

 though the least obtrusive of beings, his in- 

 dividuality always made itself felt. 



His personal appearance had much to do 

 with this, for he was of royal mould, and 

 had an air of high breeding. He was large, 

 but he had nothing of the fat grossness of 

 the celebrated Angora family ; though pow- 

 erful, he was exquisitely proportioned, and 

 as graceful in every movement as a young 

 leopard. When he stood up to open a door 

 he opened all the doors with old-fashioned 

 latches he was portentously tall, and when 

 stretched on the rug before the fire he 

 seemed too long for this world, as indeed 

 he was. His coat was the finest and softest 

 I have ever seen, a shade of quiet Maltese ; 

 and from his throat downward, underneath, 



