The captain's face showed the uneasiness of a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned.

In schools sleep-talking is very common; anxious pupils, in their sleep, will frequently repeat a lesson they can not remember when awake.

To Betty, shaken by her encounter with Mr. Scobell, they sounded artificial, as if he were forcing himself to repeat a lesson.

She looked gravely at him, and said, as if repeating a lesson:

But the girl's voice went on steadily as if repeating a lesson:-

Take exercise, said Margaret in the tone of a child repeating a lesson.

But, if the count was repeating a lesson, he had learned it well.

She said the words after him, mechanically, like a child repeating a lesson.

She began to speak, repeating a lesson evidently learned by heart.

She muttered the tale like a child repeating a lesson.

Kitty said good-by mechanically-likea dull child repeating a lesson.

Like a school-boy repeating a lesson by rote, Alma spoke.

She spoke with an effort, and as if she were repeating a lesson learned beforehand.

He recited his peroration quickly and perfunctorily, like one repeating a lesson, learned from the praefect.

'He is base-born,' Edward says, as someone repeating a lesson by rote.

He seemed to be repeating a lesson.