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    Our Friend the Dog
    Our Friend the Dog
    Our Friend the Dog
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    Our Friend the Dog

    By Cecil Alden, Maurice Maeterlinck and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2003
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      Our Friend the Dog - Cecil Alden

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Friend the Dog, by Maurice Maeterlinck

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Our Friend the Dog

      Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

      Illustrator: Cecil Alden

      Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

      Release Date: April 20, 2006 [EBook #18214]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR FRIEND THE DOG ***

      Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Copyright, 1903, by

      The Century Co.

      Copyright, 1904, by

      Dodd, Mead & Company

      Published, October, 1913

      OUR FRIEND THE DOG

      I

      I have lost, within these last few days, a little bull-dog. He had just completed the sixth month of his brief existence. He had no history. His intelligent eyes opened to look out upon the world, to love mankind, then closed again on the cruel secrets of death.

      The friend who presented me with him had given him, perhaps by antiphrasis, the startling name of Pelléas. Why rechristen him? For how can a poor dog, loving, devoted, faithful, disgrace the name of a man or an imaginary hero?

      Pelléas had a great bulging, powerful forehead, like that of Socrates or Verlaine; and, under a little black nose, blunt as a churlish assent, a pair of large hanging and symmetrical chops, which made his head a sort of massive, obstinate, pensive and three-cornered menace. He was beautiful after the manner of a beautiful, natural monster that has complied strictly with the laws of its species. And what a smile of attentive obligingness, of incorruptible innocence, of affectionate submission, of boundless gratitude and total self-abandonment lit up, at the least caress, that adorable mask of ugliness! Whence exactly did that smile emanate? From the ingenuous and melting eyes? From the ears pricked up to catch the words of man? From the forehead that unwrinkled to appreciate and love, or from the stump of a tail that wriggled at the other end to testify to the intimate and impassioned joy

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