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If we gave you ten million marks and sent you back you could do nothing. Stir up a village row, perhaps, and shoot a policeman. South Africa is counted out in this war. Botha is a cleverish man and has beaten you calves'-heads of rebels. Can you deny it? Peter couldn't. He was terribly honest in some things, and these were for certain his opinions. 'No, he said, 'that is true, Baas.
Darrell, I think, could gratify that wish." "What! you know Mr. Darrell, that most excellent generous man. All we have we owe to him." The gentleman abruptly turned aside, wisely; for his expression of face at that praise might have startled Mrs. Haughton. "Yes, I knew him once. He has had many a fee out of my family. Goodish lawyer; cleverish man; and rich as a Jew.
One felicitous ballad of forty lines might have enthroned Crichton as really admirable, whilst the pretensions actually put forward on his behalf simply install him as a cleverish or dexterous ape.
'There was at that time at Trinity a cleverish, excitable, worthy fellow whose mind was a marvellous mixture of inconsistent opinions which he expounded with a kind of oratory as grotesque as his views. Tradition supplies me with one of his flowers of speech.
After a struggle of many years, after a long series of the usual alternatives of small successes and small failures, after a few cleverish speeches and a good many cleverish pamphlets, with a considerable reputation, indeed, for pasquinades, most of which he never wrote, and articles in reviews to which it was whispered he had contributed, Rigby, who had already intrigued himself into a subordinate office, met with Lord Monmouth.
I suppose dear old Bloggs was a bachelor?" "He was," said I, resigning the contest in despair. The doctor lived in a fair-sized stick-and-wattle house. He was a dapper little man, with a cleverish, weakling cast of face, and was all on the jump with the turn things had taken.
Eh, but your friend Dan'l Coffin has an eye for the shape of a boat, though no hand at pencilling, nor what you might call the cabinet-making part of the job. There's a young carpenter lives up the court here a cleverish fellow. I got him to help me over the niceties, you understand; but on my lines, lad. Climb up and cast your eye over the well I've put in her.
'I saw her once at Copsley; good-looking. Cleverish? 'She has ability. Entering his Club, Sir Lukin was accosted in the reading-room by a cavalry officer, a Colonel Launay, an old Harrovian, who stood at the window and asked him whether it was not Tom Redworth in the cab.
Comfortable quarters; Apollo a cleverish, free-spoken fellow. 'I went, on the same afternoon, two miles of very bad road to visit the French priest, who is living here. More talk and of a very friendly nature. He has been eighteen months at San Cristoval, but knows not the language; at Woodlark Island, New Caledonia, &c. We talked in French and English.
He's a nice chap, and a cleverish chap, in the shrewd, unimaginative Potter way Jane's way, too only she's a shade cleverer but chiefly he's determined to get there somehow. That's Potter, again. And that's where Jane and Johnny amuse me.
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