Identifier: firesidesphinx00repp (find matches)
Title: The fireside sphinx
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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elen ? She has the qualities ofher defects; and these things are as the wise godsordain. We cannot mould her to our liking; Mon-taigne has told us so. She will not strive for ourapproval, any more than she will toil for our con-venience. Libertas sine Labored She walks herchosen path by our side; but our ways are not herways, our influence does not remotely reach her.Let us abandon the office of critic, where there isno mutual standard for criticism. And so it was that Mme. la Duchesse de Bouillon— true lover of cats and their most tender friend — RENAISSANCE 8i begged La Fontaine to give her a copy of everyfable in which her favourite animal played its un-grateful part. These precious manuscripts, afterbeing lost for a century and more, were discoveredby M. Feuillet de Conches, stored away in a lumberroom with other interesting and valuable papers ofthe de Bouillon family, whose estate had passedinto alien hands, and whose long-prized treasureshad been thrust into dusty oblivion.
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