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Everything about him was conspicuously correct in the English fashion. But the man was not English. One could not say from what race he came. Among the races of Southern Europe he could hardly have been distinguished. There was a chameleon quality strongly dominant in the creature. The woman looked up quickly, as in a strong aversion. "What shall you do?" she said. The man glanced about the room.
As soon as we were left alone, the gipsy produced, out of her chest, a pack of cards, bearing signs of constant usage, a magnet, a dried chameleon, and a few other indispensable adjuncts of her art. Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
Apparently sluggish in its general habits, the chameleon rests motionless on a branch, from which its varied hues render it scarcely distinguishable in colour; and there patiently awaits the approach of the insects on which it feeds. Instantly on their appearance its wonderful tongue comes into play.
"I'm not afraid for Jerry," I growled. "No chameleon will change his color. What else did she say?" "She was very much pleased at Jerry's compliment. "'Someone has taught you to be very polite, she said with a smile. "'Polite? asked Jerry. 'Merely because I was hoping you weren't flabby? "'Well, I'm not flabby, she smiled indulgently. 'I hate flabby people.
I will tell you what I am: I am a son of Fortune, an adventurer; I live by my wits so do poets and lawyers, and all the charlatans of the world; I am a charlatan a chameleon. 'Each man in his time plays many parts: I play any part in which Money, the Arch-Manager, promises me a livelihood. Are you satisfied?"
De Malfort had lain for a fortnight at Lady Castlemaine's house, alternately petted and neglected by his fair hostess, as the fit took her, since she showed herself ever of the chameleon breed, and hovered betwixt angel and devil.
Quickly acquiring any kind of knowledge he saw around him, and having a plastic adaptability more common in woman than in man, he changed colour like a chameleon as the society he found himself in assumed a higher and more artificial tone. He had not many original ideas, and yet there was scarcely an idea to which, under proper training, he could not have added a respectable co-ordinate.
The chameleon in the hotel court. He is fat and indolent and contemplative; but is business-like and capable when a fly comes about reaches out a tongue like a teaspoon and takes him in. He gums his tongue first. He is always pious, in his looks. And pious and thankful both, when Providence or one of us sends him a fly.
When advised of some new illustration of the divine's uncertainty of attitude, the Bibliotaph merely said, 'He's more of a chameleon than he is a clergyman. That Bostonian would be deficient in wit who failed to enjoy this remark. Speaking of the characteristics of American cities, the Bibliotaph said, 'It never occurs to the Hub that anything of importance can possibly happen at the periphery.
Shelley had dined with him and his wife at Tite Street. Shelley was in every way a gentleman. He had never gone with Charlie Parker to the Savoy Hotel. A juryman wanted to know at this point whether the witness was aware of the nature of the article, "The Priest and the Acolyte," in The Chameleon. "I knew nothing of it; it came as a terrible shock to me."
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