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"I had a very good time, indeed," said he; "we had green peas to eat, and the Peacock showed me all his new feathers. I asked him about the theft of the coat and what the prince was going to do; but he did not know much about it; he said that for his part he thought people made a very ridiculous fuss about a seedy old coat. But just then we were joined by the Rabbit.
A seedy- looking priest is pacing up and down, taking the fresh breeze, his broad-brimmed, shabby hat held down upon the wall by a big stone. His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. He politely returns our salutation, and we walk on.
The reader is requested kindly to glance through the following batch of letters, which, oddly enough, are all dated September 9th, 18 : Number 1. William Grover, M.A., Grandcourt School, to Mark Railsford, M.A., Lucerne. "Grandcourt, September 9th. "Dear Railsford, I suppose this will catch you at Lucerne, on your way back to England. I was sorry to hear you had been seedy before you left London.
The seedy personage was the eternal Triplet, come to make hay with his five-foot rule while the sun shone. Colander had opened the door to him, and he had shot into the hall. The major-domo obstructed the farther entrance of such a coat. "I tell you my master is not at home," remonstrated the major-domo. "How can you say so," cried Mrs. Vane, in surprise, "when you know he is in the garden?"
They were all ardor, as colonists should be; and what pleased Dick most, she never mentioned Falcon; yet he learned from the maid that worthy had been there twice, looking very seedy. The day drew near. Dick was in high spirits. "We shall soon make our fortune out there," he said; "and I'll get you a good husband." She shuddered, but said nothing.
Cut some cauliflowers into branches, take off the green part of radishes, cut celery into lengths of about three inches, put in young French beans whole, and the shoots of elder, which will look like bamboo. Choose apples and cucumbers of a sort the least seedy, quarter them, or cut them in slices.
What he points out is a long-haired, gray-whiskered old guy, with a faded overcoat slung over his shoulders like a cape, and an old slouch hat pulled down over his eyes. He's standin' there as still and quiet as if his feet was stuck to the floor. "Kind of a seedy old party, eh?" says I. "Why not?" says J. Bayard. "He's an ex-jailbird." "You don't say!" says I. "What brand?" "Absconder," says he.
At his side sat another man, fat, melancholy, and seedy, who seemed to be his friend. They had the appearance of men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat seamy on both sides. "Ain't seen you in about four years, Ham," said the seedy man. "Which way you been travelling?" "Texas," said the red-faced man. "It was too cold in Alaska for me. And I found it warm in Texas.
I haven't been in my present position very long." "I suppose you did see him though?" I persevered. "How was he looking after his accident seedy at all?" "He was very thin, if you mean that," laughed my informant. "He limped about with a crutch, too, and as he had bumped his forehead in the same fall which sprained his ankle, he wore a green shade that covered his temples and his eyes."
He seemed over-sentimental for a man whose salary was six dollars a week or rather he might have seemed so to an older person than I. But I drank in his words hungrily, and with a faith that might have moved mountains if it had been applied judiciously. What was it to me that he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin?
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