Lord Frederick Leighton Return of Persephone

Lord Frederick Leighton Return of PersephoneLord Frederick Leighton Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of AndromedaLord Frederick Leighton Perseus and Andromeda
with perfectly symmetrical close-leafed crowns, more like children's drawings than like real trees. The streetlights made the scene look artificial, like a stage set. Will was stupefied with exhaustion, and he might have gone on to the north, or he might have laid his head on the grass under one of those trees and slept; but as he stood trying to clear his head, he saw a cat.
She was a tabby, in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will. Then she leaped backward, back arched and fur on like Moxie. She padded out of a garden on the Oxford side of the road, where Will was standing. Will put down his tote bag and held out his hand, and the cat came up to rub her head against his knuckles, just as Moxie did. Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for that tears scalded his eyes.Eventually the cat turned away. This was night, and there was a territory to patrol, there were mice to hunt. She padded across the road and toward the bushes just beyond the hornbeam trees, and there she stopped.Will, still watching, saw the cat behave curiously.She reached out a paw to pat something