The Fabulous Mrs. V. by H.E. Bates

Author:H.E. Bates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

The Cat Who Sang

Wilfred Whitmore, who was exceptionally fond of music and taught Latin and Greek at a local school for boys, had overworked himself so much during the hot summer term that he began, about the middle of August, to suffer from odd hallucinations.

Once he believed himself, very briefly, to be Octavius Caesar and that he was eating large quantities of green figs and snails under the shade of an enormous cedar tree. Another time he was a Greek athlete, always in pursuit of other athletes or running away from them, along cruelly brilliant, stony distances.

Finally, after a too heavy lunch of sausages and mashed, fried onions and apple pie and cream, he fell asleep at his flat, in an old rocking chair, to wake suddenly under the powerful impression that his cat Susie was actually singing Schubert’s Die Forelle, The Trout, or at least that particular passage in it that starts

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