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All the smart people all over the world belong to it so as to appear as though they held death in scorn. Then, once they get here, they feel obliged to be cheerful that they may not appear to be afraid. So they joke and laugh and talk flippantly, they are witty and they become so. At present it is certainly the most frequented and the most entertaining place in Paris.
Worthington's," answered Mary, and Jenny continued: "Why, Henry is studying there. Isn't it funny? But Billy will beat him, I know he will, he's so smart. How I wish he'd write to me! Wouldn't I feel grand to have a gentleman correspondent?" "Suppose you write to him," said Mary, laughingly. "Here's just room enough," pointing to a vacant spot upon the paper.
If he insists on his rights, we'll charge him all right but if we do there won't be no bail. There's no bail for what we're gonna charge him with." Boyle and Forman stared at the speaker. The lawyer finally asked: "What are you talking about, no bail. Only in murder cases can a prisoner be denied bail." "That's what I'm talkin' about, Mr. Forman. You're a smart lawyer all right.
He could not tell whether he was profoundly sad or deeply happy; but he was not ashamed of the tears that brought the smart to his eyes and the ache to his throat. He did not hear the timid rapping on his door, and it was not until the door itself opened that he looked up quickly and saw the little retired dressmaker standing on the threshold, carrying a cup of tea on a tiny Japanese tray.
"Another prominent feature is the love of 'smart' dealing: which gilds over many a swindle and gross breach of trust; many a defalcation, public and private; and enables many a knave to hold his head up with the best, who well deserves a halter: though it has not been without its retributive operation, for this smartness has done more in a few years to impair the public credit, and to cripple the public resources, than dull honesty, however rash, could have effected in a century.
Death has not left her alone, and this, with a roof above her head, and a warm hearth to sit by, makes her cheerful and contented. Does she remember the marriage of great-grandmamma? Ay, that she does, as well—as if it was only yesterday. You wouldn’t think it to look at her now, and perhaps she ought not to say so of herself, but she was as smart a young girl then as you’d wish to see.
But when he got to the place, the meat was all gone. The wolves had eaten it. "I was smart to hang up those tongues," he said, "or I would not have had anything to eat." But the tongues were all hollow. The mice had eaten the meat out, leaving only the skin. So Old Man starved again. A pis'kun had been built, and many buffalo had been run in and killed. The camp was full of meat.
The latter, who had been misled by the name into supposing his caller to be Stephen Warren, was much astonished when he saw the captain seated outside the railing. "Good afternoon," said Captain Elisha, rising and extending his hand: "How are you to-day, sir? Pretty smart?" The young man answered briefly that he was all right.
I was a member of the then famous 'Liverpool Hunt, and when I got to the Meet somebody said, 'Why, Williamson, how smart you are! 'Smart, said I, 'aye! a man should look smart on his wedding day! 'Wedding day, exclaimed some of the fellows, 'Who have you married? 'I haven't married anybody, I said, 'but the parson has married me to old Tate's daughter! 'Why, where's your wife? 'She's at home, to be sure, where all good wives ought to be getting ready her husband's dinner. I'll tell you what, Betty and I lived but a cat and dog life of it, but I was sorry to part with the old girl when she did go."
"Only long enough to make a cure of a pretty smart hurt, received in cutting out a lugger from the opposite coast," answered Wychecombe, with sufficient modesty, and yet with sufficient spirit. "Lugger! ha! what Atwood? You surely do not mean, young gentleman, la Voltigeuse?" "That was the name of the craft, sir we found her in the roads of Groix." "And then I've the pleasure of seeing Mr.