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Outside the house again, his mother punched Iskender in the back and spat at him, calling him fool and marplot, cursing all his ancestry. "Hast thou no sense, no perspicacity? When all went well, what need to show thy picture? Why bring a picture that had angels in it? I saw them shudder and go yellow at the sight of those white, holy ones.
Austin and the sailors, and the Major and Robert, most all overjoyed at this fresh hope, applauded him heartily; while even Glenarvan, whose eyes were gradually getting open, was almost prepared to give in. "I only want to know one thing more, my dear Paganel," he said, "and then I must bow to your perspicacity." "What is it?"
To the eye they were not the height of a man above the level water; they glistened in the brilliant sun like a sheaf of black pikes. This was Saint Conan's Landing, and it occurred to me that if the holy man came in rough weather from the Irish coast he required, in truth, all the perspicacity of a saint to get his boat in without having it impaled on these devil's needles.
Crane glanced at the card on which the other had scribbled a couple of names, and started perceptibly. "You have me," said he; "you must be a man of remarkable perspicacity." The detective smiled and pocketed his card. The names he thus concealed were John Zabel, James Zabel. "You have not said which of the two it was," Knapp quietly suggested.
Here, too, are some chefs d'oeuvre of the unknown great; and here, unfinished designs by men, celebrated in their day, whose very names the perspicacity of the academies has left to silence and to me. What think you," said he, turning abruptly as he spoke "what think you of this Madonna della Pieta?" "It is Guido's own!"
A note of deep feeling came into her voice. "It's the business of every one who cares for Ann to protect her from her own rash unselfishness. Just to please yourself, you asked her to come here, without a thought as to how it would affect her reputation how people might talk. And you used those bills of Tony's as a lever." "Really, your perspicacity does you credit," he returned ironically.
She was as pretty and trim and clever as the rest of them. An artist, if he sees all that really exists, sometimes also sees things which have no existence at all. Of these were the qualities with which I invested her the moral and mental correspondencies to her blonde skin and supple figure. She justified my perspicacity one day by leaving me for a loathsome little Jew.
But here the son’s perception outstripped the father’s power of explanation. He wished “to know the reason of everything;” and when his father’s statements did not appear to him to give the reason, he was far from satisfied. “For he had always an admirable perspicacity in discerning what was false; and it may be said that in everything and always truth was the sole object of his mind.
Monsieur Grenouville consented to marry her, on condition of her giving us all up, and we agreed " "For a handsome consideration?" said Josepha, with her usual perspicacity. "Yes, madame, ten thousand francs, and an allowance to my father, who is past work." "I begged your daughter to make old Thoul happy, and she has thrown me over. That is not fair.
Clear, sane, calm, logical, strong—such is Dr. Sarolea’s book, with its “rare perspicacity” and “remarkable sense of political realities,” in the words of King Albert’s appreciation of the work. Dr.
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