![]() He was beautiful after the manner of a beautiful, natural monster that has complied strictly with the laws of its species. ![]() 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. Why rechristen him? For how can a poor dog, loving, devoted, faithful, disgrace the name of a man or an imaginary hero? The friend who presented me with him had given him, perhaps by antiphrasis, the startling name of Pelléas. His intelligent eyes opened to look out upon the world, to love mankind, then closed again on the cruel secrets of death. Publication date 1913 Topics Dogs Publisher New York. He had just completed the sixth month of his brief existence. Our friend the dog by Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 Alden, Cecil. I have lost, within these last few days, a little bull-dog. Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR FRIEND THE DOG *** ![]() With this eBook or online at Title: Our Friend the Dog ![]() Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Friend the Dog, by Maurice Maeterlinck ![]()
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