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I did not clench my fists, but I presume my purpose showed suddenly in my face, for he moved quickly backwards with a queer, nervous jerk of the head that was the precise counterpart of the parrot-like twist his mother had given at the luncheon table. It was an odd movement, at once timid and vicious, and in an instant I saw the spirit of Frank Jervaise revealed to me.
"No house is large enough for two families," repeated the Colonel, with an unconscious, parrot-like accent. "Why, Dad! We've always stood together surely you won't desert me now?" The old man's eyes softened with mist. He could not trust himself to meet the clear, questioning gaze of his son. "I can't understand," Allison went on, doubtfully. "Is it possible could she-did-Isabel ?"
"There are all sorts of tombs and chapels to see," continued Jim, "with more than an average crop of historical legends concerning them; and the vergers have all the characteristics of that class: once upset them in their parrot-like description, and they flounder about in most comical manner. The last time I was here they showed me the tomb of St.
He, in return, bowed very gravely and without a smile. The table in front of her was cleared now. People were beginning to consider their next coup. The voice of the croupier, with his parrot-like cry, travelled down the board. "Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs." The woman made no effort to stake.
But the parrot-like prayer that she hastily mumbled was of no possible value to any one. She had continued the habit from childhood, and it was mainly habit. The other motive was something like the feeling of a careless Catholic, who crosses himself, though he cannot explain what good it does him. A moment later she might have been taken as a model of sleeping innocence.
She saw her speak in a whisper to her maid, and the woman immediately arose and came to her. "Miss Blair wishes me to ask if you will be so kind as to go and speak to her; she has something which she wishes to say to you," she said, in the same parrot-like fashion. Maria arose at once, and crossed the aisle and seated herself in the chair which the maid vacated.
Unlike some idiot savants, in which category he is not to be included, who repeat parrot-like what they have once heard, baby Oscar seems to digest what he hears, and requires at least more than one repetition of what he is trying to remember, after which he possesses the information imparted and is able to yield it at once when questioned.
A thoroughly happy song, overflowing with life, it gives even its most familiar phrases an air of gracious condescension, as when some great violinist stoops to the "Carnival of Venice." The Red Thrush does not, however, consent to any parrot-like mimicry, though every note of wood or field Oriole, Bobolink, Crow, Jay, Robin, Whippoorwill appears to pass in veiled procession through the song.
I must be German, I must feel German, I must think German: on that would my safety in the immediate future depend. I laid aside my reading in the end with a feeling of utter amazement. In every one of these publications, in peace-time so widely dissimilar in conviction and trend, I found the same mentality, the same outlook, the same parrot-like cries.
She hated both of them; she wanted in that brief time which remained for having anything only her boy, her soft, warm little Roger who had eyes like Rudolph's. "I I it's too late, Rudolph," she stammered, parrot-like. "If you had only taken better care of me, Rudolph! If No, it's too late, I tell you! You will be kind to Roger. I am only weak and frivolous and heartlesss.
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