SHORT STORIES BY GEORGE MEREDITH WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE CO LTD a WHITEHALL GARDENS 1902 COPYRIGHT 1898 BY GEORGE MEREDITH CONTENTS PAG8 THE TALE OF CHLOE 3 THE HOUSE ON TliE BEACH 69 FARINA 159 THE CASE OF GENERAL OPLE AND LADY CAMPER . . . 261 THE TALE OP CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH THE TALE OF CHLOE Fair Chloe, we toasted of old, As the Queen of our festival meeting Now Chloe is lifeless and cold You must go to the grave for her gre ting. Her beauty and talents were framed , To enkindle the proudest to win her Then let not the memry be blamed Of the purest that eer was a sinner Captain Chanters Collection. CHAPTER I A PROPER tenderness for the Peerage will continue to pass current the illustrious gentleman who was inflamed by Oupids darts to espouse the milkmaid, or dairymaid, under his ballad title of Duke of Dewlap nor was it the smallest of the services rendered him by Beau Beamish, that he clapped the name upon her rustic Grace, the young duchess,...