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"Did he did he tell you anything?" asked Grace. "Anything to make you think that?" "No," he answered, adding with a sincerity that brought a light of unutterable gladness to Grace's eyes: "But I've met lots of fellows in my business, and have learned to size them up pretty well. And if there was ever a brainy, plucky, true-blue fellow in this world, his name is Will Ford!"
As the window from which he had descended came into range he stared, loose-jawed. Then be chuckled, as thoroughbred adventurers generally chuckle when they find themselves at the bottom of the sack, the mouth of which has simultaneously and automatically closed. Wasn't he the brainy old top? Wasn't he Sherlock Holmes plus? Old fool, how the devil was he going to get back through that window?
That is, if you don't mind, Mr. Zigler. "'Go right ahead, I says. 'I've come out of all the mess I've any use for; but she'll do to spread the light among the Royal British Artillery. "I tell you, Sir, there's not much of anything the matter with the Royal British Artillery. They're brainy men languishing under an effete system which, when you take good holt of it, is England just all England.
It flew open from the force of the impact. And the diamond ring that cost L95, the necklet for L200, and my flaming star at another L100, all three lay safe and snug in the jeweller's own cotton-wool! "Duplicate boxes!" I cried. "Duplicate boxes, my brainy Bunny. One was already packed and weighted, and in my pocket.
Just because YOU're a millionairess, yourself, you needn't think everybody else longs for untold wealth. After I get pretty well along in years, I think I shall marry a college professor, or a great scientist. I do love brainy men." "Well, there are no brainy men in our set." "Oh, Mona, what a libel! Our boys, somehow I never can think of them as men, are quite brainy enough for their age.
He said he'd abolish half the Foreign Office, and take all the old hereditary families clean out of it, because, he said, they was expressly trained to fool around with continental diplomats, and to despise the Colonies. His own family wasn't more than six hundred years old. He was a very brainy man, and a good citizen. We talked politics and inventions together when my lung let up on me.
We'll see if the Blackwoods will lend us a cart. Put the harmonium inside, hang up a lantern to see by, and there you are, with a movable concert platform ready to take round where we like." The others looked at Neale with admiration. It was such a very brainy idea, they wondered they had never thought of it for themselves.
We had thought it a brainy scheme at the time. "Well, it's bally awkward, you know, Jeeves. She looks on me as an intruder. By Jove! I suppose she thinks I'm someone who hangs about here, touching Mr. Todd for free meals and borrowing his shirts." "Yes, sir." "It's pretty rotten, you know." "Most disturbing, sir." "And there's another thing: What are we to do about Mr. Todd?
A few days later Trevannion reported progress to his wife anent the new assistant, whom for some strange reason he had grown positively to like. "Wonderfully brainy chap, Garstin. He has helped me no end with Section D you know, where we have had all the trouble. With luck we shall have it finished in a week or two. At the same time" with conviction "he will never make a practical engineer.
"How glad I am," he thought, "that I didn't go to Syracuse! What a shame it is there are other dances than waltzes." But after Peter had had two waltzes, he overheard his aged friend of fifteen years say something to a girl that raised him many degrees in his mind. "That's a very brainy fellow," said Peter admiringly. "That never occurred to me!"
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