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He hung on reviews; he asked for it in bookshops, and expressed astonishment and contempt when they had not got it. And it was, after all, nothing to make a song about, Jane thought. It wasn't positively discreditable to its writer, like most novels, but it was a very normal book, by a very normal cleverish young man. Johnny wasn't sure that his publishers advertised it as much as was desirable.
Of a man less elevated in rank one would certainly have said, "Cleverish, but a prig;" but there really was something so respectable in a personage born to such fortunes, and having nothing to do but to bask in the sunshine, voluntarily taking such pains with himself and condescending to identify his own interests the interests of the Castleton property with the concerns of his lesser fellow-mortals that one felt the young marquis had in him the stuff to become a very considerable man.
By the way, now you speak of it, I met my old opponent in London the first year I went up to it." "You did! where?" "At a literary scamp's, a cleverish man called Burley." "Burley! I have seen some burlesque verses in Greek by a Mr. Burley." "No doubt the same person. He has disappeared, gone to the dogs, I dare say. Burlesque Greek is not a knowledge very much in power at present."
But still some dim and uneasy presentiment, or some struggling and painful effort of recollection, was in his mind, as he spoke to Vaudemont, and listened to the cold calm tone of his reply. "Who do you say that Frenchman is?" he whispered to his brother-in-law, as Vaudemont turned away. "Oh! a cleverish sort of adventurer a gentleman; he plays.
"Well," said Mr. Craig, willing to conciliate Mrs. Poyser and setting a high value on his own compliments, "I like a cleverish woman a woman o' sperrit a managing woman." "You're out there, Craig," said Bartle, dryly; "you're out there. You judge o' your garden-stuff on a better plan than that. You pick the things for what they can excel in for what they can excel in.
Of a man less elevated in rank one would certainly have said, "Cleverish, but a prig;" but there really was something so respectable in a personage born to such fortunes, and having nothing to do but to bask in the sunshine, voluntarily taking such pains with himself and condescending to identify his own interests the interests of the Castleton property with the concerns of his lesser fellow-mortals that one felt the young marquis had in him the stuff to become a very considerable man.
This gentleman was the head usher of a large school, who had his hours to himself after eight o'clock, and was pleased to vary the dull routine of enforced lessons by instructions to a pupil who took delightedly even to the Latin grammar. Leonard made rapid strides, and learned more in those six weeks than many a cleverish boy does in twice as many months.
'I saw her once at Copsley; good-looking. Cleverish? 'She has ability. Entering his Club, Sir Lukin was accosted in the reading-room by a cavalry officer, a Colonel Launay, an old Harrovian, who stood at the window and asked him whether it was not Tom Redworth in the cab.
I don't like you, and never did!" He looked sorry for a minute, but soon forgot it all in talking to Nellie, who after he had left us said "he was a cleverish kind of boy, though he couldn't begin with William Raymond."
But still some dim and uneasy presentiment, or some struggling and painful effort of recollection, was in his mind, as he spoke to Vaudemont, and listened to the cold calm tone of his reply. "Who do you say that Frenchman is?" he whispered to his brother-in-law, as Vaudemont turned away. "Oh! a cleverish sort of adventurer a gentleman; he plays.
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