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'I'm always ill after Shakespeare, said Mrs Wititterly. 'I scarcely exist the next day; I find the reaction so very great after a tragedy, my lord, and Shakespeare is such a delicious creature. 'Ye es! replied Lord Verisopht. 'He was a clayver man.
The superlative degree is abhorrent to him unless he can misuse it for comic purposes; and, like the ridiculous dummy lord in "Nicholas Nickleby," he is quite capable of calling Shakespeare a "very clayver man." I have heard of the attitude taken by two flowers of our society in presence of Joachim. Think of it!
Shure them's two kidneys, an' that's fwhat Clayver tay will cure better'n all the docthers in the wurruld, an' ye hev to know just how. Ye see, kidney thruble is a koind o' fayver; it's hatin', so ye make yer Clayver tay in cold wather; if ye make it o' warrum wather it just makes ye wuss an' acts loike didly pizen.
'What a delight, what a comfort, what a happiness, this amiable creature must be to you, said Sir Mulberry, throwing into his voice an indication of the warmest feeling. 'She is indeed, sir, replied Mrs Nickleby; 'she is the sweetest-tempered, kindest-hearted creature and so clever! 'She looks clayver, said Lord Verisopht, with the air of a judge of cleverness.
"I thought Virginie not suffeeciently clayver for to effect zis!" said Mademoiselle. "Of custome, she shows not what do you say? invention." "Oh, she simply wears the costume, with her own peculiar little air of dignity. Maine designed it. Maine is costumer in chief. The Valiant Three, Maine, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, took all the unpractical girls in hand, and simply dressed them.
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