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Aaron stood looking at Parish Thornton with eyes blankly dumfounded, and the other two faces mirrored his bewilderment, then the spokesman broke into bitterly derisive laughter, and his followers parroted his mirthless ridicule. "Hit mout suit me," he finally replied, "save only hit denotes thet ye're either p'intedly wishful ter throw yore life away or else plum bereft of reason."
He had parroted the phraseology of the haut ton, and its arrogant apathy, till the manner was so habitual to him that he was unconscious of his own impudence. Thus, in conversing on this occasion of the Earl who had deputed him, the only appellation he had for his patron was Idford. 'I told Idford what I thought on the subject.
She parroted those phrases, which made her father's flesh creep, and she laughed when she saw it creeping, for sympathy; her own had crept first. "Well," he said, at last, "he won't expect you and Maxwell to take the road too with it?" "Oh no, we shall only be with him in New York. He won't put the play on there first; they usually try a new play in the country."
"I'll roll a trail back there presently, ma'am." She looked helplessly round the landscape, in hope of seeing some rider coming to the store. But nobody was in sight. "You had no business to come. It might have killed you. I thought you had better sense," she reproached. "I wanted to see you," he parroted again. Like most young women, she knew how to ignore a good deal. "You'll have to lean on me.
He parrots those who have parroted others. He can translate the same word into ten different languages, but he knows nothing of the thing which it means in any one of them. He stuffs his head with authorities built on authorities, with quotations quoted from quotations, while he locks up his senses, his understanding, and his heart.
"Oh, no, sir," Duncan parroted glibly: "don't smoke, drink, swear, and on Sundays I go to church." The bland smile with which he faced Lockwood's keen scrutiny disarmed suspicion. "I'm glad to hear that," Blinky told him. "I'm at the head of the temp'rance movement here, and I hope you'll join us, and set an example to our fast young men." "I feel sure I could do that," said Duncan meekly.
"I'm going to be a Injun chief, too," parroted Frances. "Chief, nothing!" he sneered, "you all time trying to be a Injun chief. You 'bout the pompousest little girl they is. You can't be a chief nohow; you got to be a squash, Injun ladies 'r' name' squashes; me an' Billy's the chiefs. I'm name' old Setting Bull, hi'self."
Gumshoe Guy, but I wantta wise you that I'm hep to men. Doncha try to string me," she advised. Clay did not. It had occurred to him that she might give him information of value. There was something friendly and kindly about the humorous little mouth which parroted worldly wisdom so sagely and the jargon of criminals so readily. He told her the story of Kitty Mason.
Kossuth, in indignation, parroted, unknowingly, the lieutenant's earlier words. "That, sir, is simply not true." Joe said, soothing over the ruffled waters, "And the ... what did you call them ... techno-intellectuals?" "They are the second most useful members of society.
Genuinely diverted, the adventurer laughed a second time, tipping back in his chair, his huge frame shaking with ponderous enjoyment. "Don't do anything you'd be sorry for," he parroted, sarcastical, the young man's recent admonition to the captain. "No fear, Calendar.
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