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her inveterate enemy. She quivered with rage: was he once more going to thwart her plans? Had he guessed her secret? Was he coming, at the last moment, to save the Children's lives?
She leant over to Tyltyl and whispered to him, in her most honeyed voice:
"I am sorry to say it:
"There, that will teach you to be more obedient!" he said. The poor Dog howled at receiving is our worthy friend the Dog. It is a thousand pities, because his presence will make us fail in our object. He is on the worst of terms with everybody, even the Trees. Do tell him to go back!" "Go away, you ugly thing!" said Tyltyl, shaking his fist at the Dog. Dear old faithful TylĂ´, who had come because he suspected the Cat's plans, was much hurt by these hard words. He was ready to cry, was still out of breath from running and could think of nothing to say. "Go away, I tell you!" said Tyltyl again. "We don't want you here and there's an end of it…You're a nuisance, there!…." The Dog was an obedient animal and, at any other time, he would have gone; but his affection told him what a still. "Do you allow this disobedience?" said the Cat to Tyltyl, in a whisper. "Hit him with your stick." Tyltyl beat the Dog, as the Cat suggested
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