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Having been over-complimented on their own humour, they have determined that the Englishman is slow-witted, with no sense of fun an opinion in itself so lacking in appreciation of its own absurdity as to be self-confounding. The statement of these facts involves no impugnment of American urbanity, American wit, American chivalry, or American enterprise.
"'It is a state of things which is somewhat difficult to imagine in general matters of life, in spite of the fair-seemingness of your words, said the Mandarin thoughtfully; 'nor can this rather obtuse and slow-witted person fully grasp the practical application of the system on the edge of the moment. In what manner would it operate in the case of ordinary persons, for example?
"Th' punk jumped Gort an' tried t' kill 'im!" one of the guards yelled, but was shouted down by the engineers, the checkers and the cook before the other slow-witted guards came to their senses enough to corroborate their fellow's mendacious claim. The senior engineer explained fully and concisely what had actually happened.
She truly was slow-witted and slow-spoken, but Isham, her step-father, was cook to the Gresham brothers, the beaux of the neighborhood, who kept bachelor's hall. His mother had been their Mammy hence his inherited privilege of knowing rather more about his young masters than they knew themselves. Little pitchers have big ears.
All this while, Medina and Castro were free to go about sowing tares, making damaging suggestions, and collecting such corroborative evidence as could be gleaned from ill-disposed colleagues and garrulous or slow-witted students. Evidently the matter was regarded as urgent: for, on December 17, the Inquisitionary Commissary opened his preliminary inquiry at Salamanca.
"Decidedly," said he, "your lordship is past master in the art of wooing; no university in the world would refuse you a degree." The marquis frowned. He was a great bluff man, with wheat-colored hair, and was somewhat slow-witted.
A large portion of the journey was being made in the very teeth of the tempest. A tap on the door brought her round with a start. It was only Mrs. Butters, the housekeeper, or, to be precise, the head and shoulders of that estimable but slow-witted female, heavily swathed in a couple of grey shawls. "What on earth is the matter?" exclaimed Marjorie. "Why aren't you in bed?"
For I cannot help seeing things now and then, slow-witted as I have a right to be; and perhaps because it comes so rarely, the sight dwells with me like a picture. The bar of rock, with the water-cleft breaking steeply through it, stood bold and bare, and dark in shadow, grey with red gullies down it.
In particular the plight of one poor boy, older than the rest, called Smike, a drudge whom starvation and ill-treatment had rendered dull and slow-witted, aroused all Nicholas's pity. It was Smike who was the cause of Nicholas leaving Yorkshire. Nicholas could endure the coarse and brutal language of Squeers, the displeasure of Mrs.
"Casual impressions are not worth anything," she replied nonchalantly. "As a nation, you might sometimes give us the impression of being phlegmatic and slow-witted. Both ideas may have some basis of fact, yet not be absolutely true. We are not all abnormally quick in America. Look at our messenger boys, for example." "We! Phlegmatic and slow-witted!" exclaimed Veritas. "You surprise me!
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