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Besides , his manners , when roast duck was on the table , afforded a bad example to the children . He was a shining light among all the eats of our neighbourhood . One might have set one 's watch by his movements . After dinner he invariably took half an hour 's constitutional in the square ; at ten o'clock each night , precisely , he returned to the area door , and at eleven o'clock he was asleep in my easy chair . He made no friends among the other cats . He took no pleasure in fighting , and I doubt his ever having loved , even in youth ; his was too cold and self-contained a nature , female society he regarded with utter indifference . So he lived with us a blameless existence during the whole winter .