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A Passion in the Desert by Honore De Balzac; Translated by Ernest Dowson -- Can animals really experience passion or empathy? One soldier found out the hard way. **** "The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring speculator "working with his hyena,"--to speak in the style of the programme.
"By what means," she continued, "can he have tamed these animals to such a point as to be certain of their affection for----"
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