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Louis Napoleon reached the culmination of his fame and of real or supposed greatness I mean his external power and grandeur, for I see no evidence of real greatness except such as may be won by astuteness, tact, cunning, and dissimulation when he returned to Paris as the conqueror of the Austrian armies.
It was a moment demanding both boldness and astuteness of action, and, gambler-like, Togo resolved to risk everything upon a single throw.
But for once his Oriental astuteness overreached, as has been seen. And to add to his discomfiture, he never again saw the copy of the Kwanlun, representing the virtue of the favourite wife. "I am an honest man," he said. "The tombs of my ancestors are not neglected. When I say I could not get it I speak the truth. But I believe I can get it later." "How?" asked Cunningham.
The temptation to reveal his own astuteness, and at the same time enhance the personal flavor which the dialogue had acquired, was not to be resisted. "May I venture to ask if she is the lady with whom you exchanged a few words this forenoon at the door of the church?" The young man turned his glance from the road toward his questioner by way of tribute to such acumen.
As a matter of tactics, this visit of his might very well be fatal! Inspector Jacks was a man who had succeeded in his profession chiefly on account of an average amount of natural astuteness, and also because he was one of those favored persons whose nervous system was a whole and perfect thing.
"Maybe I have, son," remarked the trapper, smiling more broadly at this evidence of astuteness on the part of the boy. "Is it the silver fox?" demanded Max. "Well, I thought I had just a glimpse of the little darling yesterday when out with the boys," observed Trapper Jim. "But you didn't mention it before now I didn't hear any of them say a word about it," Max went on. "That's right.
It's only when one of them gets in the gear-box . . . ." The rector laughed. And thus they stood, facing each other. "Langmaid," Holder asked, "don't you ever get tired and disgusted with the Juggernaut car?" The big lawyer continued to smile, but a sheepish, almost boyish expression came over his face. He had not credited the clergyman with so much astuteness.
He gained his points by frank, straightforward lucidity of statement, and marvellous astuteness, combined with an imperturbable command of his temper. The trained diplomatists of Europe, with their casuistry and lies, found in him their match.
The truth is, their astuteness in reading character, which is as essentially an attribute of the artistic temperament in black and white as in words and phrases, had shown them already that their old acquaintance had grown from boy to man since last they had met. They knew this even before they learned of its manifestation.
Having delivered herself thus forcibly, she tossed aside the end of her cigarette and rose from the doorsill. "Thou wert always a fool, Concho," she added, regarding him compassionately with a smile and patting him on the cheek. Then turning, she disappeared in the house, leaving Concho to marvel at her astuteness, a thing he had never suspected.
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