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I had seen the seamy side of human nature often too often. I had seen the rapine of camps, the iniquities of a great city; but this action of Jacques Haret's shone hideous alongside all I had ever known. Gaston Cheverny continued, his wrath and disgust speaking in his face and voice. "I wondered why Jacques Haret should remain in Brabant. I allowed him to stay at my house may God forgive me!

Of late years she had seen life from the seamy side and had observed so much of the falseness and cruelty of men that she had apparently lost all faith in them, and no doubt thought me an adventurer, one who might possibly dine and order expensive wines, leaving her to face an angry landlord.

The reefs are now being worked in the most economical manner. When proper appliances for mining are used, and when we get the stock-jobbers off our backs, I believe a career of prosperity will open of which few people dream. From another point of view, to those who love the country and make their home there, there cannot but be a seamy side to the picture.

That is merely the conventional misuse of a conventional word. The art of Yvette Guilbert is certainly the art of realism. She brings before you the real life-drama of the streets, of the pot-house; she shows you the seamy side of life behind the scenes; she calls things by their right names.

She is to write a series of articles dealing with the seamy side of Grey Town life and her methods of reforming the riff-raff. Yes; it was she who brought Tim to me. 'Here you are! she cried. 'Tis the wickedest boy in Grey Town. Make him something useful, and you will be doing a public service to me and to the town and district. I engaged him as printer's devil on that recommendation."

He wore a rather seamy black uniform and a soft felt hat with cocks' feathers drooping over it, and a sword and a ridiculously amiable expression for a man. I don't think he was five feet high, but his moustache and his feathers and his sword were out of all proportion.

Bristow had perforce seen a good deal of the seamy side of politics, and of the extent of the unscrupulousness with which powerful influence was brought to bear to shield offenders.

One capital consequence, however, and one which specially concerns us, was that we get this unrivalled picture of the seamy side of foreign travel a side rarely presented with anything like Smollett's skill to the student of the grand siecle of the Grand Tour.

"I've always been glad that I was not ugly," she said, "but now," smiling through wet lashes "you make me proud of it, though I can't see how the thought of it can " She paused and Enoch went on eagerly: "It's a seamy, rough world, Diana, all higgledy-piggledy. The beautiful souls are misplaced in ugly carcasses and the ugly souls in beautiful.

"It seems like the natural thing to say I'm glad to see you back," he said slowly, "but there's a reason why I can't say it at all." "Then don't dream of saying it." Georgiana leaned her head listlessly against the seamy old tree trunk behind her. "It's not that I wanted you to go; you know I was altogether too selfish for that," he went on.