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There is one more lizard which I have seen next door to the crocodile tank at the Zoo: a very curious little animal, almost of the same colour as the stick along which it walks, so slowly and silently that you may stand and watch it for some time without being sure that it is moving at all; though its eyes, which can move in different directions at the same moment, and its long thin tongue, so clever at catching the insects on which it feeds, are constantly in motion; but for its eyes and tongue, the Chameleon looks as if it were as dead as the withered branch to which it clings.
Sometimes his utterance is snappish and quick to the last degree; sometimes it is remarkable for rotundity and mellowness. I can easily conceive that two people who had seen him on different days might dispute about him as the travellers in the fable disputed about the chameleon. In one thing, as far as I observed, he is always the same and that is the warmth of his domestic affections.
At this summons the Serpent arose to obey, and Hetty joined her sister. "'A stranger animal, cries one, 'Sure never liv'd beneath the sun; A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot, with triple claw disjoined; And what a length of tail behind!" James Merrick, "The Chameleon," 11.21-26.
'After all, she said, 'Captain Con may turn out to be a very good sort of member of Parliament in his way. Philip's eyebrows lifted, and he let fall a breath, eloquent of his thoughts. 'My brother says he is a serviceable director of the Company they are associated in. 'He finds himself among reasonable men, and he is a chameleon. 'Parliament may steady him.
"No, sir; you are neither the one nor the other like a tadpole with legs, neither frog nor pollywog. But you will be." "Which?" I asked, laughing. "My wisdom cannot draw that veil for you, sir," he said. "You may take your chameleon color from your friends the Varicks and remain gray, or from the Butlers and turn red, or from the Schuylers and turn blue and buff."
Having spent a short time with the chief, partaking of his palm-wine, and inviting him to return the visit on the following Tuesday, Captain Owen took his leave. In the course of the afternoon Chameleon came to our market, accompanied by nearly 150 of his followers, all well armed with spears, and walked up to Mr.
"These consultations of yours and acting in concert one tongue for three women- -are a sort of missish, unripe nonsense, that one sees only in bourgeoise girls eh? Give it up. Lady Charlotte hit on it at a glance." "And I, my chameleon brother, will return her the compliment, some day," Adela said to herself, as she hurried back to her sisters, bearing a message for Cornelia.
No very careful perusal was needed to convince her that the lady was unmoral, and that in characteristics she resembled the chameleon. But she read deeper. She perceived that Mrs. Kame was convinced that she, Honora, would adjust herself to the new conditions after a struggle; and that while she had a certain sympathy in the struggle, Mrs.
Our mind is but a chameleon and takes its hues from many skies. In the vestibule at the end I said: "It's early yet. Come and have supper somewhere with me, you had a wretched dinner." Anything to keep her with me for an hour longer! Any excuse to put off, to delay that frightful wrench that seems to tear out the inside of both body and soul which parting from her to-night would mean.
After ten days of Canada, Dean with his chameleon mind felt himself almost a Canadian. He was beginning to pity the limitations of the Londoner. He considered himself raised above that level. Winnipeg, the new "wheat pit" of North America, impressed him most strongly. He could feel the bursting strength of the young city a David amongst cities.
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