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They were the first of things physical about her that attracted me to her years ago in the Roman pension they and the mass of silken flax that is her hair, and her violet eyes. "Did you learn that particular way of talking in Paris?" I asked. She had the effrontery to say she was imitating me and that it was a very good imitation indeed. We talked about the book.
And now this revolutionary usurper is in full authority, his acts imitating his master, Armijo, like him in secret league with the savages, even consorting with the red pirates of the plains, taking part in their murderous marauds, and sharing their plunder. Despite his rapid military promotion and the ill-gotten wealth he has acquired, Colonel Gil Uraga is anything but a happy man.
Not long ago a young musician, who has already given an opera to the world, sang an entire one-act operetta of his composition, changing his voice for the different parts, imitating choruses by clever effects on the piano.
But wouldn't you like some luncheon?" "Of all things. Well, this is fun!" said she, as taking my arm, I led her from the drawing-room. "They don't know where I'm gone, not one of them; and I've a great mind not to tell them, if you wouldn't blab." "Would it be quite proper?" "Proper!" cried she, imitating my voice. "I like that! as if I was going to run away with you!
She again boxed their ears soundly, but the next time she paid no heed to them, and at each fresh arrival of visitors the two urchins always followed in the wake, kneeling down in a corner and imitating slavishly everything they saw their mother do. When the afternoon came the crowds of inquisitive people began to diminish, and soon there were no more visitors.
He turned himself this way and that before the great mirror, admiring his finery; then walked away, imitating the prince's high-bred carriage, and still observing results in the glass.
"I can walk as far as the pool with you, at all events," said I. "Wonderful! And will you?" "Do I ever await asking to follow you anywhere?" said I sentimentally. But she only laughed at me and led the way across the dreary strip of clearing, moving with a swift confidence in her knowledge of the place, which imitating, I ran foul of a charred stump, and she heard what I said.
"Mebbe it's more." His upper lip was blue, shaven, prehensile. "What did you ask him for, when you know?" said Janet, mirthfully, when they had gone on, and Ditmar was imitating him. Ditmar's reply was to wink at her. Presently they saw another figure on the road. "Let's see what he'll say," Ditmar proposed.
Still you'd have that French maid of hers for a nurse and go out with her and Fido for his walk and ride in the yellow motor and have all kinds of frilled dresses and feathered hats " He was imitating Aunt Josephine's voice in a very funny manner that made Keineth laugh.
* Wimpsen, who commanded there, and whose conduct at the time was enthusiastically admired, was driven, most probably by the ingratitude and ill treatment of the Convention, to head a party of the Foederalists. These legislators perpetually boast of imitating and surpassing the Romans, and it is certain, that their ingratitude has made more than one Coriolanus.
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