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The village beaus scornfully called him "cityfied," and secretly longed to be like him. A shrewder criticism than that to which he was exposed would, however, have found the fault with Cordis's manners that, under a show of superior ease and affability, he was disposed to take liberties with his new acquaintances, and exploit their simplicity for his own entertainment.
At first it had seemed to Bat's searching mind as if the effects of that desperate trip through the forests, and the subsequent battle down at the mill, had left its mark upon him, had somehow wrought one of those curious, weakening changes in the spirit of the man which seemed so unaccountable. Later, however, he dismissed the idea for a shrewder and better understanding.
At that time, Witold was tired of the war, because he could not capture Wilno, and our king was tired of his own brothers and their dissipation. The king having noticed that Witold was shrewder and more intelligent than his own brothers, sent the bishop to him, to persuade him to leave the Knights of the Cross, and return to his allegiance, for which he promised to make him ruler over Litwa.
Bates was blunt of speech, though a philosopher withal. "Elkin is my only serious rival, then?" laughed Grant, passing off as a joke a thrust which was shrewder than the gardener knew. "'E 'as plenty of brass, but I reckon nowt on 'im," was the contemptuous answer. "Well, he is not a likely person to kill a woman he had never before seen. Miss Martin will marry whom she chooses, no doubt.
"Your mother lives too," interrupted the count, sorrowfully, "though I do not know whether you will ever see her again." "I do not understand," stammered La Luciola. "Listen, my child, and be strong. Have you recognized the wretch who calls himself Count San Pietro?" "Recognized? No; he is a wretch who merits the contempt of every one." "I thought Eugenie Danglars was shrewder than that.
Warricombe's delight expressed itself in every permissible way: on each occasion she exclaimed, 'How clever he is! Sidwell cast frequent glances at her brother, in whom a shrewder eye could have divined conflict of feelings disgust at the glorification of Chilvers and involuntary pleasure in the successive defeats of his own conqueror in Philosophy.
He was reminded in the least degree of Stephanie; but this girl's chin was firmer and more delicately, though more aggressively, rounded. Her eyes, too, were shrewder and less evasive, though subtle enough. "So I meet you again," he observed, with a somewhat aloof air, as she came out on the porch and sank listlessly into a wicker chair. "The last time I met you you were hard at work in New York."
Eli Hart has now 53,000 barrels of flour in his store; let us go and offer him eight dollars a barrel for it, and if he will not take it " It was not difficult to know how he meant to close the sentence; but just then, a friend shrewder than he, seeing the legal consequences to themselves of an open proposition to resort to violence, touched him on the shoulder, when in a lower tone of voice he concluded: "we shall depart in peace."
But had she been a shrewder person, she might have felt misgivings about this man's character, even if she had acquitted him of such petty theft as running away with congested tallow candles. For no reasonable theory could be framed of a mate in abeyance, who would emerge from anywhere down opposite.
He agreed with Mademoiselle de Vesc, but found himself in a difficulty. In spite of his gratitude and reverence for Commines, in spite even of his profound belief in his shrewder, sounder judgment, he revolted from this callous opportunism which abandoned a dead master for a new service without the apparent compunction of a moment.
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