compellings

Updated: June 7, 2025

Certainly, the Major Gontard had a bold way with him. But that it had its attractions, not to say its compellings, Madame Jolicoeur could not honestly deny. On the part of the Notary whose disposition, fostered by his profession, was toward subtlety rather than toward boldness Madame Jolicoeur's declaration of cat rights was received with no such belligerent blare of trumpets and beat of drums.

- Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales