Meanings of own astuteness in English

He laughed at the conceit and at his own astuteness; but Giovanni scarcely heeded him or his words.

He rubbed his hands together, and showed his long yellow fangs in his enjoyment of his own astuteness.

Came here to find it, he said nonchalantly, with an air that expressed pride at his own astuteness.

Dawson began once more to descant upon his own astuteness, but I was too sick at heart to listen.

Well pleased with his own astuteness, he then retired to rest, and soon sleep lay heavy on his eyelids.

A sudden conviction of his solution of the matter and of his own astuteness came over David Hautville's primitive masculine intelligence.

Say, you lady owner there"-helaughed at his own astuteness in not being taken in-"youknow the monikers, don't you?

The people received him with a long furious roar, a cry of triumphant execration, as if their own astuteness at length had entrapped him.

"You are lying," he said with boyish pleasure in his own astuteness.

"Lost indeed," responded the quack, scarcely able to conceal his pride in his own astuteness.

"Except when you are singing, and then you like to have me listening because I understand," said Gilian, smiling with pleasure at his own astuteness.