Which evidence supports the idea that Michael O'Neill is very clever?
"The name is that of Michael O'Neill, popularly called Prince
Michael, partly because he claimed descent from ancient Fenian
princes, and partly because he was credited with a plan to make
himself prince president of Ireland, as the last Napoleon did of
France." (paragraph 1)
"In the latter he seldom went beyond the
sensational-pasting up
B seditious placards, tearing down official placards, making
flamboyant speeches, or unfurling forbidden flags." (paragraph
"On a cloudless summer morning he had come down a country
road white with dust, and, pausing outside a farmhouse, had told
the farmer's daughter, with elegant indifference, that the local
police were in pursuit of him " (paragraph 1)
"She did not analyze the audacious trick by which the man had
turned to his advantage the subtle effects of the expected and the
D) obvious; she was still under the cloud of more individual
complexities, and she noticed most of all that the vanishing
scarecrow did not even turn to look at the farm." (paragraph 3)