"I'm sure that they know me!..." And she enumerated the clever traits of these monsters to whom she attributed great intelligence.

They were the ones that, like astute builders, had dappled the stones piled up on the bottom, forming bulwarks in whose shelter they had disguised themselves in order to pounce upon their victims.

In the sea, when wishing to surprise a meaty, toothsome oyster, they waited in hiding until the two valves should open to feed upon the water and the light, and had often introduced a pebble between the shells and then inserted their tentacles in the crevice.
Their love of liberty was another thing which aroused Freya's enthusiasm.

If they should have to endure more than a year of enclosure in the Aquarium, they would become sick with sadness and would gnaw their claws until they killed themselves.
"Ah, the charming and vigorous bandits!" she continued in hysterical enthusiasm.

"I adore them.