Often, Before Returning Home, I Would Take

My Sister And My Brother, Of Whom I Have Not Spoken Before, Were Considerably Older Than I; It Seemed Almost As If We Belonged To Different Generations.

Cats Are Possessed Of A Shy, Retiring Nature, Cajoling, Haughty, And Capricious, Difficult To Fathom. They Reveal Themselves Only To Certain Favored Individuals, And Are Repelled By The Faintest Suggestion Of Insult Or Even By The Most Trifling Deception.

I Recall Feeling An Almost Delicious Terror When One Day I Found Myself Alone In The Midst Of Tall June Grasses That Grew High As My Head. But Here The Secret Working Of Self Consciousness Is Almost Too Entangled With The Things Of The Past For Me To Explain It.

Egypt, The Egypt Of Antiquity, At A Later Time, Exercised A Mysterious Fascination Over Me. I Recognized A Picture Of It Immediately, Without Hesitation And Astonishment, In An Illustrated Magazine.

My Emotions Lose Their Force When I Endeavor To Interpret Them, And My Words Seem Very Inept.