Tabby cat in "The Secret Life of Pets"

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Aunt Chloe, pausing while she was greasing a griddle with a scrap of bacon on her fork, and regarding young Master George with pride.

Celia or to Chloe, which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now, as Musidora, as Saccharissa, as Lesbia, as Helena, as Adah and Zillah, have all sounded to young people in their time,--ashes of roses as they are to us now, and as our endearing Scotch diminutives will be to others by and by.

Beamish and Duchess Susan broke up, and beneath a soft fair sky the ladies, with their silvery chatter of gratitude for amusement, caught Chloe in their arms to kiss her, rendering it natural for their cavaliers to exclaim that Chloe was blest above mortals.

I saw him gazing around at the marble facings of the lower walls and the paintings above and felt a certain embarassment, even though the scenes portrayed were of nymphs and shepherds from the romance of Daphnis and Chloe, and innocent enough.

In the case of a woman, Chloe, one blink of the eyelids is an omission of watchfulness.

Both Chloe and Beau Beamish wrinkled their foreheads at the disorderly notes of triple horns, whose pealing made an acid in the air instead of sweetness.

No flattery for me at the expense of my sisters Nothing desirable will you have which is not coveted Primitive appetite for noise She might turn out good, if well guarded for a time The alternative is, a garter and the bedpost They miss their pleasure in pursuing it This mania of young people for pleasure, eternal pleasure Wits, which are ordinarily less productive than land End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Tale of Chloe by George Meredith THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH By George Meredith A REALISTIC TALE CHAPTER I The experience of great officials who have laid down their dignities before death, or have had the philosophic mind to review themselves while still wielding the deputy sceptre, teaches them that in the exercise of authority over men an eccentric behaviour in trifles has most exposed them to hostile criticism and gone farthest to jeopardize their popularity.

With the exception of Chloe, a tall, golden-haired girl, who wore a long white dress sprigged with flowers and who ate her sandwiches hungrily, it was a sombre gathering.

Leo thought his wife looked elated as if she had been drinking, Chloe, that her mother was making one of her brave efforts, Corin, that she showed signs of strain.

The thought uppermost in his mind was that he wanted Chloe here to keep an eye on Olivia.

Olivia, accustomed to gibes of this kind from her children took no notice but stared at Chloe, awaiting a further naivete.

Olivia who restrained herself remarkably so far, but Chloe had started and she was going to finish.

At least my animals love me, she thought, resentful that Chloe 33 should have damaged this day, distracted its attention from death.

I swear that I will breathe no word of what I know concerning Chloe Hornblower to any living soul, so long as the Hornblower family do us no harm.

Her whole plump countenance beams with satisfaction and contentment from under her well-starched checked turban, bearing on it, however, if we must confess it, a little of that tinge of self-consciousness which becomes the first cook of the neighborhood, as Aunt Chloe was universally held and acknowledged to be.