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Updated: May 27, 2025
"It is unquestionable that in intervals of cribbage and a friendly rubber, my dear Madam," says the Major, "and also over what used to be called in my young times in the salad days of Jemmy Jackman the social glass, I have exchanged many a reminiscence with your Lodgers." My remark was I confess I made it with the deepest and artfullest of intentions "I wish our dear boy had heard them!"
"Can't get much out of him, except, 'O leave him alone, he wants nothing, perhaps he'll be better presently, it may pass off in time, don't be unduly anxious, and so on. Now, you look out, Rat! When Toad's quiet and submissive, and playing at being the hero of a Sunday-school prize, then he's at his artfullest. There's sure to be something up. I know him. Well, now, I must be off."
"And which of 'em, now, do you consider the cleverest of the lot them as you say you've lived amongst, now? You mentioned three lots of 'em, you know Indians, Burmese, Chinese. Which would you consider the artfullest of them three if it came to a bit of real underhand work, now?" "For the sort of thing you're thinking of, my friend," answered Mirandolet, "you can't beat a Chinaman.
Though she never said a word to me, or any one, I knew how it was, through all her coldness And to be sure, when you was in Lon'on so much with us, all the town said, as all the country did afore, that to be sure it was to be a match But then that sad affair, with that artfullest of women, that took you off from all that was good, and away, the Lord knows where, to foreign parts!
'Tom always said, gentlemen, that that waiting-maid was the artfullest minx he had ever seen; and he left it in writing in this country when he went to colonize abroad, that he was certain in his own mind she and the Salamander had blown up the philosopher's stone on purpose, and to cut him out of his property.
He caught Bart by the shoulder, and pointed to a tremendous slope, a quarter of a mile away, where, in the clear pure air, the lad could see a flock of about twenty sheep evidently watching them. "They're the shyest, artfullest things as ever was," whispered Joses. "Down softly, and let's back away; we must circumvent them, and get behind 'em for a shot."
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