I'll take his words literally; I will kill the cat," he thinks, and so he does. He hangs the cat.

我要杀了那只猫;,如他所愿，“,它就这样杀了那只猫。

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It would be thought they were not behaving very well, but they would have been as I say, perfectly within every right you can imagine to do that.

旁人也许会认为他们不该这样,但是就如我所述,这是他们的权利

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