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"We must get the knife away from her," they said. At last they called a boy, a kind of simpleton, yet with a good deal of natural shrewdness. He was an orphan and very poor. "Go to the tepee of the mourning mother," they told the simpleton, "and in some way contrive to make her laugh and forget her grief. Then try to get the knife away from her."
The parson was a good man and a clever. But he was also gifted with much shrewdness in dealing with the various members of his flock. And his word was law to the sisters.
"Pray," said I, however, with a shrewdness which I think did me credit, "pray, Mr. Marie Oswald, do you expect the reward before the packet is opened?"
Adelaide had the weakness to hate Josephine, the shrewdness to fear Madeline, and the viciousness to despise her mother; she skilfully and diligently devoted herself to the thwarting of the family.
"No, thank you," said Ludlow. "Do let me ring for some coffee, then?" "No, I have just breakfasted that is, I have breakfasted " "Why, were you up early, too?" said Charmian, with what seemed to Ludlow a supernatural shrewdness. "It's perfectly telepathic! The Psychical Research ought to have it. It would be such fun if we could get together and compare our reasons for waking so early.
The towns were, however, comparatively little disturbed by these perpetual disorders. The mayors and corporations as a rule guided their cities through difficult times with politic shrewdness. Town life developed through flourishing trade and an increasing sense of municipal unity, and municipal importance.
Ephraim, sucking a stick of candy brought to him from Bolton, cast a strange glance at his mother a glance compounded of shrewdness and terror; but she did not see it. It snowed hard all night; in the morning the snow was quite deep, and there was no appearance of clearing. As soon as the breakfast dishes were put away, Deborah got out the crimson thibet.
On his recovery from his long sickness he found himself stripped of everything he had accumulated; but his shrewdness and indomitable will remained, and he soon began to rebuild his shattered fortune. During all these ups and downs, Pepeeta was his inseparable and devoted companion. The admiration which her childish beauty excited in his heart had deepened into affection and finally into love.
The young man, who for all his youth by no means lacked shrewdness, read her heart, and gave her his own on such wise that his love for her engrossed his mind to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Incomprehensibly dull as blacks frequently are they occasionally exhibit shrewdness which is all the more remarkable because of its unexpectedness. As the station hands were busy erecting buildings in newly opened up country, the blacks sent an envoy to engage their attention while others of the tribe cut off the iron bracing from the paddock gates wherewith to make tomahawks.
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