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I took your means of earning a living from you once, you told me, and I don't wish to do it again. I will not interfere as long as you hurt nobody." The princess stared at her and burst into an hysteric laugh: "I believe, in my soul, you mean just what you say! You are the shrewdest or stupidest woman I ever saw! Do you sympathize with me?
On a certain piece of road where we went more slowly I mentioned abruptly my clerkship under Major Harper and watched for the effect, but there was none. Did he know the Major? Oh, yes, and we fell to piling item upon item in praise of the quartermaster's virtues and good looks. Presently, with shrewdest intent, I said the Major was fine enough to be the hero of a novel!
I dare not be more explicit, for Ethelwynn has urged me to conceal our identity, in order that we may not be remarked as a couple whose wooing was so strangely tragic and romantic. Ambler Jevons still carries on his tea-blending business in the City, the most confirmed of bachelors, and the shrewdest of all criminal investigators.
Even his shrewdest enemy could not have suspected Medcroft of a patience which would permit him to sit quiet in London while the attacks were going on. He found some small solace in the reflection that he could make the end justify the means. On their return to the Bristol, Brock and Miss Fowler found the fair Edith in a pitiful state of collapse.
Both the man and his makeup were thoroughly typical of this part of the country, except in one particular Pa Briskow possessed the brightest, the shrewdest pair of blue eyes that Calvin Gray had ever seen, and they were surrounded by a network of prepossessing wrinkles. He came directly in to greet his visitor, then said: "I never expected you'd come 'way out here an' bring your plunder with you.
"I do not understand how you gentlemen whom one knows by name so well as patrons of sport and society, can spare the time for affairs of such importance." Monsieur de Founcelles nodded. "We have very valuable aid," he said. "There is below us the 'Double-Four' the eight gentlemen now present, an executive council composed of five of the shrewdest men in France. They take their orders from us.
The shrewdest pilot can delay a boat if he has not a fine genius for steering. Steering is a very high art. One must not keep a rudder dragging across a boat's stem if he wants to get up the river fast. There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals.
The most stupid of her priests, equally with the shrewdest of her 'patriots, are quite alive to the expediency of teaching as facts, the fraudulent fables of the 'dark ages. To keep the people ignorant, or what is worse, to teach them only what is false, is the great end of their training; and if a British ministry propose anything better than the merest mockery of education, they call it 'dangerous to faith and morals.
Orton Beg had begun to suspect, but there is often an element of surprise in the confirmation of our shrewdest suspicions, and now she sat upright, leant forward, and looked at her niece aghast. "What?" she demanded. "I shall decline to live with him," Evadne repeated with emphasis. Mrs.
I have had the shrewdest lawyers in the world at work upon the charter, and there is not the slightest doubt that these vessels are, or rather were, the entire property of Messrs. Shepherd and Hargreaves. To-day they belong to me. I have bought them and paid £200,000 deposit. I can show you the receipt and all the papers." Mr. Heseltine-Wrigge said only one word, but that word was profane.
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