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She was a very clever girl, and, like other very young people, her cleverness was apt to be aggressive; scorned compromises, and was not always sufficiently respectful towards the powers that be.
"I will tell you how to make an end of him," cried Barbesieur, patting him on the shoulder. "Poison him!" Strozzi gazed with astonishment at his brother-in-law, and forthwith conceived a profound respect for his cleverness. "Did you know that?" said he, with a silly smile. "Did you know that I meant to poison him?"
Imagine this man with an intellect keen, strong, ready, unscrupulous, dauntless, all cleverness and no genius. Imagine this man, and then do not be astonished when I tell you he is a Chillingly. The Chillingly race culminates in him, and becomes Chillinglyest. In fact, it seems to me that we live in a day precisely suited to the Chillingly idiosyncrasies.
He was a sensitive, affectionate man, with great natural cleverness, and much natural virtue wholly unleavened by either thought or discipline. He did the ordinary things from the ordinary motives; but he suffered when the ordinary things turned out ill, more than another man would have done.
So our body social is rotten with intellectual egotism. Yes, I mean just what you have prided yourself on, Culture, Education, Individuality, Cleverness, 'leading your own lives, Refinement, Experience, Development, call it what you will, it is the same, the inturning of the spirit to cherish self.
Jerome; while grandpapa, winking significantly, and looking radiant with delight at Lizzie's extraordinary promise of cleverness, set her up on her high cane-chair by the side of grandma, who lost no time in shielding the beauties of the new frock with a napkin. 'Well now, Mr. Tryan, said Mr.
Lady Augusta Goring was the most important conquest of the kind Milly had made. She was the only child of the Marquis of Ipswich, and one of those rather stupid people whose energy of mind and character is often mistaken by themselves and others for cleverness. Lady Augusta was handsome in a dull, massive way, and so conscientious that she had seldom time to smile.
All you have heard is nothing to what I could relate to you about these people and their ways, their work and their idleness, their ignorance and their cleverness, and other matters without end, which might serve to disenchant many who idolise these fictitious divinities. Scip. I see clearly, Berganza, that the field is large; but leave it now, and go on. Berg.
Nevertheless for his own part he thought his letter rather a good one, and congratulated himself in particular upon his cleverness in inventing the story of a previous attachment, behind which he intended to shelter himself if Christina should complain of any lack of fervour in his behaviour to her. I need not give Christina's answer, which of course was to accept.
He was introduced to her across the table by Mrs Mitchell, with empressement, as Mr Aylmer Ross. Edith felt happy tonight; her spirits were raised by what she felt to be an atmosphere tiede, as the French say; full of indulgence, sympathetic, relaxing, in which either cleverness or stupidity could float equally at its ease.
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