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Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ The Catswold Portal
the poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells."
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat Seeing Double
You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat Coming Home
Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite?
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat Shining Bright
Life, the tomcat thought with uncommon sentiment, is not only challenging, wild sometimes, it can be tender, too. Warm and tender and good.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat Shining Bright
May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, Your joys and conquests as one, In this world and forever. Then all the cats gathered around closer, clowder cats and village cats leaping up on the boulder, purring
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat Shining Bright
May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time,
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Cat To The Dogs
I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Silver Woven In My Hair
And Anwin said, "It turned out just as an enchantment should.""But Anwin, it wasn't an enchantment really, it just-""Yes, child, it was the greatest enchantment of all." He winked at the prince. "Gillie understood all along what the enchantment was.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Silver Woven In My Hair
Gillie was grinning at the boy's indignant anger. He put a hand on the pages shoulder and looked coldly at Augusta. "Do you call my page a liar, old woman? And who are you to speak of this lady as your charge? My page is no liar, just as Thursey is not your charge. Not in any way. She is your landlord, for it is her inn you occupy. And it is to her you will answer for its keeping. She is beholden to no one, unless it would be the people of Gies in the same manner as I am-for she may be their princess soon. If she is willing," he added gently.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Silver Woven In My Hair
Gillie caught Delilah's hand before it struck, and held it firmly in his own. He stared at her for a long time, but said nothing. Then at last he spoke softly, "Don't you hurt her. Not ever. If you ever hurt her I will come back and witch you, old trollop, and you will wish you had never been born." His words were so soft, so measured, and so filled with meaning that a shiver went through the room.
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Silver Woven In My Hair
And just as Catskin went to the ball, and Cendrillon, and Aschenputtel, so must you. The ball that will be given soon in the palace; I've heard talk of it in the kitchens. The servants say one is held each year. Have you never gone?"She shook her head."Then you must go this year dressed in a fine gown as it is done in the stories."She sat staring at him. "Me, Gillie? I don't belong at the ball.""As much as Cinderella did.""But they are only stories; they're not things that can happen." She studied him for a long time. He did not seem to be making a joke."It's what you dream, Thursey. You should do what you dream of doing, else where is the good in dreaming?
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy _ Silver Woven In My Hair
You shall have," Gillie said, "the king's bread and goat milk.""The magical goat milk?""The same.""Will it make me beautiful?""It cannot. You are already that.
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