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The fat, seedy man at his side sniffed, and shook his frowzy head slowly and disparagingly. "What is it, Snipy?" asked the other. "Got the blues again?" "No, I ain't" said the seedy one, sniffing again. "But I don't like your talk. You and me have been friends, off and on, for fifteen year; and I never yet knew or heard of you giving anybody up to the law not no one.
You have a neighbour, perhaps, a few miles off, whose conveyance, through the wear of many years, has become remarkably seedy; and every time you meet it you think that there you see your own, as it will some day be.
The police were left in charge of the place, and we deferred a complete exploration till the next day. Hewitt's tale was simple enough. He had endued himself in somewhat seedy clothes, and had visited 37 Raven Street, Blackfriars, which he found to be merely a tenement house.
They had tried the experiment in their forlorn rooms under a machine shop, in an out-of-the-way place, furnished as a miniature chapel, and a very seedy one at that, and the result was that about six months ago the Association was in a fair way to die, and make no sign.
Not going to be rubbed out, but beastly seedy all the same." "When was he taken ill? Who's attending him? Anybody taking care of him? What o'clock is it now? Tell him I'll be there in five minutes." Simon delivered himself of these sentences in a breath, and then glanced from Nina to Dick Stanmore. "I dare say you wouldn't mind," said he.
We put the lot into the canoe it might come good. There was a boy's old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too. And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck. We would a took the bottle, but it was broke. There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.
Twice a seedy man with a gnawed yellow mustache had come in to ask Eliphalet's whereabouts. On the second occasion this individual became importunate. "You don't know nothin' about him, you say?" he demanded. "No," said the Colonel. The man took a shuffle forward. "My name's Ford," he said. "I 'low I kin 'lighten you a little." "Good day, sir," said the Colonel.
'What is it, old man? asked the secretary, seating himself and flinging one of his legs over the other. 'You look rather seedy, do you know. Why the deuce don't you and your wife look us up now and then? 'I've had a hard pull to finish my novel. 'Finished, is it? I'm glad to hear that. When'll it be out? I'll send scores of people to Mudie's after it.
We were seated in the office of a rather seedy hotel when its proprietor approached, saying: "'Scuse me, gents, are you from that boat down there?" I answered in the affirmative. "Going to Havana?" This, too, I admitted. "Well, there's a feller by the desk who missed the steamer, and he hoped er " "We'd take him over," Tommy supplied the halting words. "Where is he?"
Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet that he should enjoy some punch-drinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning.
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