Chapter

 1  1,2|          expert financier, and a shrewd manufacturer, the possessor
 2  3,3|   consoled. Ninette Simplon is a shrewd girl - a girl whom I have
 3  3,4|        Fortunately, she was very shrewd. She soon discovered that
 4  8,2| Mademoiselle Marguerite, she was shrewd enough to divine that they
 5  8,4|        it - but the lady was too shrewd for that. She took good
 6 10,1|        it their profession to be shrewd, like he did himself. Just
 7 10,6|    viscount and the baroness are shrewd. When you have flowers to
 8 11,3|          knew that his agent was shrewd, but he had not done justice
 9 11,5|       swindled you outrageously, shrewd as you are - cheating you
10 13,2|      mind; for he is exceedingly shrewd. Courage and good luck!" ~ ~
11 13,4|         admirably assumed, but a shrewd observer would not have
12 13,6|      sign. "I see that you are a shrewd man, Monsieur Maumejan,"
13 15,6|          very generous, but I am shrewd enough, never you fear." ~"
14 16,2|        them - they were both too shrewd for that; and yet, a compact
15 18,4|      persisted in turning to the shrewd youth who had solemnly sworn