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Do you know, Thrums is the only place I was ever in where it struck me that the men are cleverer than the women." She told us why. "Well, to-night affords a case in point. Mr. McQumpha was quite brilliant, was he not, in comparison with his daughter? Really she seemed so put out at being at the manse that she could not raise her eyes.
"As I said before, it seems to me so plain and easy to be in love, and give one's self all to that. But you are so much cleverer than I, Marcella, you know so much more. That makes the difference. I can't be like you. Perhaps I don't want to be!" and she laughed. "But I can admire you and love you, and think about you. There, now, tell me what you are going to wear?" "White satin, and Mr.
Talleyrand shrugged his rounded shoulders. 'Intellect in a woman is not always an advantage, Sire. A clever woman compromises her husband. A stupid woman only compromises herself. 'The cleverest woman, said Napoleon, 'is the woman who is clever enough to conceal her cleverness. The women in France have always been a danger, for they are cleverer than the men.
Father did it . . . and Lucian does it: dear Lulu! We both love him, but it's difficult to be proud of him. Yet he has good qualities, good abilities. He's far cleverer than I am, and so are you," Laura's tone was diffident, "but oh, you are wrong in thinking so much of mere happiness.
"Aha, Miss Mollie, I am cleverer than you are with all your Oxford and Cambridge examinations!" Grannie exclaimed triumphantly, "for I can tell you where the Yarra is it is the river upon which Melbourne is built, and Melbourne is the capital of Victoria, and Victoria is a colony in Australia." "Australia!" Mollie exclaimed, a little startled. "How funny I mean how interesting!"
"He has dodged his creditors three times; he has robbed them; I never stole a farthing; I am a cleverer fellow than he is " "Contenson, mein freund," said the Baron, "you haf vat you call pleed me of one tousand-franc note." "My girl owed God and the devil " "Vat, you haf a girl, a mistress!" cried Nucingen, looking at Contenson with admiration not unmixed with envy.
From that time forth, one had only to allude to this incident before Varvara, and she would go off into peals of laughter at once, and look at Pasinkov, as though anything cleverer than his behaviour on that occasion it was impossible to conceive. Pasinkov was very fond of music.
But the flood of angry self-pity could not be stayed. 'Oh, I daresay you don't mean it, but you have yes, you have a way of getting everybody's attention. Of course you're awfully clever much cleverer than I am or Pamela. But still it it isn't pleasant. I know Pamela felt it dreadfully being cut out with people she likes people she cares about and who who might care for her like Arthur Chicksands.
Only yesterday George Cannon had been a strange, formidable man, indefinitely older and infinitely cleverer than she. And now they were man and wife! Now she was his! Now she profoundly knew him, and he was no longer formidable, in spite of his force. She had a recondite dominion over him. She guessed herself to be his superior in certain qualities.
"I do," said Joe, "I stand for human beings and sometimes," he chuckled, "I stand for a whole lot!" Marrin laughed, so did Sally. "Clever!" cried Marrin. "Damned clever! You're cleverer than I thought hide your scheme up, don't you? Well! well! Let me see your plant!" Joe showed him about, and Marrin kept patting him on the back: "Delightful! Fine! You're my style, Mr.
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