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Craig, "but I'm not again' the peace to make a holiday for a bit. We can break it when we like, an' I'm in no fear o' Bony, for all they talk so much o' his cliverness. That's what I says to Mills this morning. Lor' bless you, he sees no more through Bony!...why, I put him up to more in three minutes than he gets from's paper all the year round.
"Surely yes," returned the Corporal drily; "what so delightful like as to feel one's cliverness and 'bility all set an end bristling up like a porkypine; nothing makes a man tread so light, feel so proud, breathe so briskly, as the knowledge that he's all his wits about him, that he's a match for any one, that the Divil himself could not take him in.
"Surely yes," returned the Corporal drily; "what so delightful like as to feel one's cliverness and 'bility all set an end bristling up like a porkypine; nothing makes a man tread so light, feel so proud, breathe so briskly, as the knowledge that he's all his wits about him, that he's a match for any one, that the Divil himself could not take him in.
'I'm feeart he'll not stay wi you. He's cleverer than I ever was, and I was the cleverest of us all. The words had in them a whole epic of human fate. Under the prick of them Reuben found a tongue, not now for his wife, but for himself. 'It's not cliverness as ull help yo now, Sandy, wi your Maaker! and yo feeace t' feeace wi 'un! he cried. 'It's nowt but satisfacshun by t' blood o' Jesus!
Says I, 'Am I a gardener as knows his business, or arn't I, Mills? Answer me that. 'To be sure y' are, Craig, says he he's not a bad fellow, Mills isn't, for a butler, but weak i' the head. 'Well, says I, 'you talk o' Bony's cliverness; would it be any use my being a first-rate gardener if I'd got nought but a quagmire to work on? 'No, says he.
First came the account of Sandy's early struggles, as Sandy himself had described them on that visit which he had paid to the farm in the first days of his prosperity; then a picture of his ultimate success in business, as it had appeared to the dull elder brother dazzled by the younger's 'cliverness.
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