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He was clever, and good-tempered; and, with all the temptations of an easy fortune within his reach, he had always shown himself firm in principles. There was one trait in his character, however, which had already more than once brought him into boyish scrapes, and which threatened, if not corrected, to be injurious to his career through life.
Perhaps it is only that I am jealous of them, and cannot think any one out of Fern Torr worthy to bring up my uncle's children. All I know of them is, that Mrs. Lyddell was heiress to a rich banker, she goes out a good deal in London, and the only time that I met her I thought her clever and agreeable.
It's not so bad either, once you get the hang of managing it it's a hold on them. It's a force, like any other force of nature that you can either rebel against, or turn to your account and make serviceable, if you'll only accept it and not try to quarrel with water for running downhill. As long as she herself isn't carried away by it, it's a weapon in the hand of a clever woman.
She became very clever in extracting, one by one, the oboli from the belt of some drunken sailor, and in amusing the drinkers with artless songs and obscene words, the meaning of which she did not know.
"I mean, how can you tell that it the old thing never would come back?" It was clever of her. He realised that he had to deal now with a more complete and complex creature than Anne had been. "How could it?" he asked. "If she came back " "Never. And if it did " "Ah, if it did " "It couldn't in this case my case your case " "Her case " she whispered. "Her case? She hasn't got one.
Sipiagin was telling his wife how he had met him, what Prince G. had said of him, and the gist of their talks on the journey. "A clever chap!" he repeated, "and well educated, too. It's true he's a revolutionist, but what does it matter? These people are ambitious, at any rate. As for Kolia, he is too young to be spoiled by any of this nonsense."
Turnbull," replied the detective, drawing out a pair of handcuffs. "You are mighty clever, Mr. Rochester. I've got to hand it to you for your mysterious disappearances in and out of this apartment, and for murdering Mr. Turnbull right in the police court in the presence of the judge, police officials, and spectators."
She had brought him four children Arthur, the one whose acquaintance Richard had made, a younger brother who promised foully, and two girls the elder common in feature and slow in wits, but with eyes and a heart; the younger clever and malicious.
He was my father's sister's son, and, like so many members of our family, he and one of his brothers and his sister had made the stage their profession. He had some favorable physical qualifications for it: a rather striking face, handsome figure, good voice, and plenty of fire and energy; he was tolerably clever and well-informed, but without either imagination or refinement.
He has been very kind to me, because he is clever, and of course I am stupid. But he has never been impatient with me. And I am not ungrateful, indeed, Shotover, I am not. It was only for a minute I was wicked enough to think of doing it. But Mr. Decies told me he asked me and and we were so happy at Whitney in the winter. And it seemed too hard to give it all up, as he said it was true.
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