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There had been more of the same sort of praise and Leslie had looked with simple amazement at the tall, awkward youth, who had arrived in Denver with the rest of his young guests. "That fellow smart? Clever? Brainy? Well, he doesn't look it. If ever I saw a regular clodhopper, he's the chap.
To begin, then, with the "boss" of the party, Cyrus Garst, the writer would say that he is a student of Harvard University, and a brainy, energetic, robust son of America.
It isn't the intelligent softy, however brainy he may be; it's the man who can do all the ordinary things superlatively well." She smiled at him with her now curiously tranquil yellow-brown eyes, and he thought he saw in them approval. "I think few men would prepare as you do," she said. "And how many women would prepare as you do?" he returned. "I couldn't do anything else.
They thought they'd rather have a brainy nobleman like your brother than a good old rotter like you. You're " "Oh, hold your tongue, Banstead," cried Austin, rising and putting his hand on Dick's shoulder. "Really, my dear old Dick, you're the right person to stand. They only thought a lawyer could help them but I'm far too busy of course I decline. I'm deeply pained, Dick, at having hurt you.
To be afraid to speak what is in your mind for fear you will make yourself unpopular, to be too cautious to mention the fact that you are having a new latch put on your front gate for fear that you might be over-communicative, to be backward in taking sides for fear of committing yourself to a losing cause, may be politic to your own feeble intelligence, but in the estimation of brainy folks it is a species of feline idiocy worse than fits.
They presume to judge all things, great and small, by their "half-inch vision" take the measure of cathedrals and interpret to the world the meaning of brainy men! Unfortunately, the "critic fly" is confined to no one nation is what might be called, in vigorous Texanese, an all-pervading dam-nuisance.
Then them that find anything have to give half to the fellow that did the grub-staking. And he looks into the claim, and if there's anything in it, why, he buys the fool out. In mines, like everywhere else, ma'am, it ain't work, it's brains that makes the money. No miner ever made a mining fortune not one. It's the brainy, foxy fellows that stay back in the camps.
Yes; she had been seen at the opera; she had been seen driving in the Mall. A damnable strange case, the whole thing. Grewsome! And, save Blake, they would wash the taste of it all from their mouths with liquor. Devilishly good fellow, Schuyler. Brainy, too. He would have been one of the big men of the country, if it hadn't been for this. A chance to save him?
In this way the world may harness the gray matter of its best men, and it will be no uncommon thing to see a dozen brainy men tied up in a row in the back office of an intellectual syndicate, dropping pregnant thoughts into little electric coffee mills for a couple of hours a day, after which they can put on their coats, draw their pay, and go home.
Quite the little lump of fun, and all that sort of thing. Jimmy Pinkerton was with me at the time. Jimmy's a fellow who writes plays a deuced brainy sort of fellow and between us we set to work to question the poor pop-eyed chappie, until finally we got at what the matter was. As we might have guessed, it was a girl.
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