'
Again the Mino narrowed his eyes as if he were looking at the sun.
Then, suddenly affecting to have no connection at all with the two
people, he went trotting off, with assumed spontaneity and gaiety, his
tail erect, his white feet blithe.
'Now he will find the belle sauvage once more, and entertain her with
his superior wisdom,' laughed Birkin.
Ursula looked at the man who stood in the garden with his hair blowing
and his eyes smiling ironically, and she cried:
'Oh it makes me so cross, this assumption of male superiority! And it
is such a lie! One wouldn't mind if there were any justification for
it.'
'The wild cat,' said Birkin, 'doesn't mind. She perceives that it is
justified.'
'Does she!' cried Ursula. 'And tell it to the Horse Marines.'
'To them also.'
'It is just like Gerald Crich with his horse--a lust for bullying--a
real Wille zur Macht--so base, so petty.'
'I agree that the Wille zur Macht is a base and petty thing. But with
the Mino, it is the desire to bring this female cat into a pure stable
equilibrium, a transcendent and abiding RAPPORT with the single male.
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