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Updated: June 19, 2025
Now do you really suppose that all marriages come about in the way that yours did on your side, I mean? Clem was far too dull-witted to be capable of quick retort. She merely replied: 'I don't know what you're talking about. 'Of course not. But let me assure you that people sometimes think of other things besides making profit when they get married.
The girl too ignorant to reckon figures, too dull-witted to learn by observation, takes refuge in sewing in one of its many forms as the one thing possible to all grades of intelligence; often the need of work for older women arises from the death or evil habits of the natural head of the family, and fortunes have sunk to so low an ebb that at times the only clothing left is on the back of the worker in the last stages of demoralization.
"Do you hear, you dull-witted brute?" cried Ivan Dmitritch, and he banged on the door with his fist. "Open the door, or I will break it open! Torturer!" "Open the door," cried Andrey Yefimitch, trembling all over; "I insist!" "Talk away!" Nikita answered through the door, "talk away. . . ." "Anyhow, go and call Yevgeny Fyodoritch! Say that I beg him to come for a minute!"
"It takes a city rabbit to find a way out of difficulty," he reflected, as he lay snugly in the hollow trunk of the tree. "These country animals are dull-witted. I do hope my cousins of the woods are not so stupid. Perhaps they are, and that's why people say rabbits are cunning but very stupid." This sort of reasoning was the very thing that got him in trouble, and nearly caused his death.
Armies were maneuvered and victories won upon the maps in the office of the Secretary of War. Generals were selected by some inscrutable process which decreed that dull-witted, pompous incapables should bungle campaigns and waste lives. It was wisely agreed that of all the strategic points along this far-flung and thinly held frontier, Detroit should receive the earliest attention.
It will be readily understood that in such unfavourable circumstances my manner, my behaviour with people, was more than ever marked by unnaturalness and constraint. Even Madame Ozhogin that creature dull-witted from her birth up began to shun me, and at times did not know in what way to approach me. Bizmyonkov, always polite and ready to do services, avoided me.
It was as though she had poisoned his moral nature by the influence of a clever and wicked woman over a sensual and dull-witted man. Blunt gradually sank lower and lower.
"If you will bear with me for a minute or two, until the sugar's melted, I'll tell you all about it." It was a successful combination. Bakkus sang his ballads and an occasional humorous song of the moment to Andrew's accompaniment on mandolin or one-stringed violin, and Andrew conjured and juggled comically, using Bakkus as his dull-witted foil.
"Strong wine and beautiful women," I said. "Did you. I am rather dull of hearing." "You're a dull-witted fellow altogether to my thinking." "It is most true, sir. I am so dull that I cannot see the wit in your conversation." "I can cuff almost as vigorously as Sayers," said the man a little angrily, when his companion on the other side of Martin laughed.
It was patent, even to the dull-witted Swede, that there had been foul play somewhere, and the schooner's log, lying open on the table, seemed to offer the first means at hand for a solution of the mystery. Eagerly Neils turned to the last entry.
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