The one merit of the delineationthat it is a portrait of a delicate Christian gentlemanis sadly marred by the vulgar smartness of Arthur's repartees with the scampish New-Yorker.

Then, in the Quickness of Repartees, which in Discoursive Scenes fall very often: it has so particular a grace, and is so aptly suited to them, that the Sudden Smartness of the Answer, and the Sweetness of the Rhyme set off the beauty of each other.

Presently he was joined by a gentleman twice his age, if not older, whose conservative smartness was such that one wondered if he hadn't strayed out of bounds through inadvertence.

" Two of the best stories are The Bride, by Theodore Hook, and the Shooting Star, an Irish tale, by Lord Nugent; and a Dialogue for the year 2310, by the author of Granby, has considerable smartness.

Order followed order like the rattle of quick-fire, and was obeyed with something more than the Wolverine's customary smartness.

The shop-walker or salesman is accustomed to move in relatively confined spaces, and so acquires a short, brisk step, and his dress tends to rather exuberant smartness; the station official patrols long platforms, often at a rapid pace, and so tends to take long strides, while his dress is dignified and neat rather than florid.

Intellectual smartness and abstract rational deductions entice you.

Such a turning of sentiment into satire as the following is rather jarring, and is a good specimen of that "laborious smartness," as Mr. R.H. Hutton justly calls it, which is found in all of George Eliot's books: Young love-makingthat gossamer web!

Not that he boasts, or takes any undue share of the conversation; he is evidently too well bred for that; but every sentence shows an acquaintance with facts of which Eton has told Scoutbush nothing, the barrack-room less, and after which he still craves, the good little fellow, in a very honest way, and would soon have learnt, had he had a chance; for of native Irish smartness he had no lack.

Overwhelming smartness is one of the attributes of the mysterious 'They.'

Her face had a piquant smartness of expression, which might have been refined into a sharp edge, but for her natural hearty good-humor.

His ears were pricked forward with a brisk, sensitive smartness.

Willis was marked by a superficial smartness his comrades sometimes found amusing and sometimes annoying.

"What has happened to you, Nancy?" says Roger, presently, becoming aware of my silence, rising and following me; "what are you doingcatching flies?" "No," reply I, with an acrid smartness, "not I!

A fine-looking Syrian officer in khaki, with the usual cloth flap behind his helmet that forms a compromise between western smartness and eastern comfort, strode into the room and bore down on us.

His ears were pricked forward with a brisk, sensitive smartness.