All 3 Uses of
parley
in
Middlemarch
- …Dr. Lydgate meant to let the people die in the Hospital, if not to poison them, for the sake of cutting them up without saying by your leave or with your leave; for it was a known "fac" that he had wanted to cut up Mrs. Goby, as respectable a woman as any in Parley Street, who had money in trust before her marriage—a poor tale for a doctor, who if he was good for anything should know what was the matter with you before you died, and not want to pry into your inside after you were gone.†
Chpt 5
- For Lydgate having attended Mrs. Goby, who died apparently of a heart-disease not very clearly expressed in the symptoms, too daringly asked leave of her relatives to open the body, and thus gave an offence quickly spreading beyond Parley Street, where that lady had long resided on an income such as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory.†
Chpt 5 *
- Will suspected that the man had been drinking and was considering how to shake him off when Raffles said— "I've been abroad myself, Mr. Ladislaw—I've seen the world—used to parley-vous a little.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(parley) a negotiation or discussion -- especially between enemies