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"And I'm proud of the Swami, proud of him. And the splendid simplicity of him! I was talking yesterday with the detective that ferreted him out. The plunder they found in my little room was perfectly primitive. He had practically no tools to make the cleverest counterfeits in years. A deft hand and a wonderful thumb had the Swami."
Littimer smiled at this sanguine expectation. "I sincerely hope you will," he said, drily. "But I doubt it very much indeed. You have one of the cleverest men in Europe to deal with. Good-night." But Chris was in no way cast down. She had carefully planned out her line of action, and the more she thought over it the more sure of success she felt.
What was the obvious conclusion which a person with my experience ought to have drawn from all this? I know well enough what it was, now. On my oath as an honest woman, I failed to see it at the time. The cleverest people commit occasional lapses into stupidity just as the stupid people light up with gleams of intelligence at certain times.
"Now Pizarro was the general of the soldiers, and of course the greatest man among them; and he had also become very rich by conquering the Peruvians, and plundering their towns, that is, taking away all the gold and silver he found: and Atabalipa supposed that, as he was the chief of the Spaniards, he must be the cleverest of them too; but one day he happened to find out by accident, that Pizarro could neither read nor write, and this discovery made him think so meanly of his conqueror, that from that moment he treated him with great contempt, saying that Pizarro, though a general, could not be a person of any consequence in his own country; since his common soldiers were better taught than himself."
He is the wiriest athlete I know extraordinary physical strength for his size and one of the cleverest rascals out as a politician. I am a neighbour of his in the country. His property joins mine. I knew his father a little, dried-up old chap of the old school very elegant manners and very obstinate worried to death by his wife oh, my goodness! such a woman!"
The river-turtles had long ago been killed by Bagheera, cleverest of hunters, and the fish had buried themselves deep in the dry mud. Only the Peace Rock lay across the shallows like a long snake, and the little tired ripples hissed as they dried on its hot side. It was here that Mowgli came nightly for the cool and the companionship.
Golden looked pleased, and said: "Isn't that nice! Why, you never told mother he was interested in you!" "Well, of course, we kind of work together " "I do hope he's a nice, respectful young man, not one of these city people that flirt and drink cocktails and heaven knows what all!" "Why, uh I'm sure you'll like him. Everybody says he's the cleverest fellow in the shop."
There was nothing remarkable in Gaston's and Delia's farewell. She thought he looked worn, and ought to have change, showing in every word that she trusted him, and was anxious that he should be, as she put it gaily, "comfy." She was composed. The cleverest men are blind in the matter of a woman's affections; and Gaston was only a mere man, after all.
"But I will be hanged if I see what it all means, now." "It may mean ruin to those who have anything to lose," explained Mr. Wade, calmly. "The whole thing has been cleverly planned one of the cleverest things of recent years, and the man who thought it out had the makings of a great financier in him. What he wanted to do was to get the malgamite industry into his own hands.
Now if she could just manage to be the most popular also, and, not the cleverest, of course that was too much to expect but well in the front rank, how agreeable it would be, to be sure!
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