"It is not that I know what is clever, but he has got a scholarship already, and papa says he will get a fellowship, and nobody is better at games.

He is cleverer than Mr.
Middleton, and everybody but you call Mr.Middleton clever." "So he may be in a dark-lantern sort of way.

But he _is_ a stick.

If he had to say, 'Perdition catch my soul, but I do love her,' he would say it in just the same tone as, 'Here endeth the second lesson.'" "Oh, Gwendolen!" said Anna, shocked at these promiscuous allusions.
"And it is very unkind of you to speak so of him, for he admires you very much.

I heard Warham say one day to mamma, 'Middleton is regularly spooney upon Gwendolen.' She was very angry with him; but I know what it means.