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"You're looking on the seamy side, Mable," she said with a smile, "and you're not quite just to the school. I believe your parents sent you here because Miss Stearne is known to be a very competent teacher and her school has an excellent reputation of long standing.
He had had a rough life, he had become inured to the seamy side of things there was a seamy side even in this clean, free, wide land; and he had no sentimentality; though something seemed to hurt and shame him now. "As soon as your day's work was done. Come home come home " The crowd was uproarious. The exhilaration had become a kind of delirium.
The artist shows what he is going to do the moment he puts pen to paper, or brush to canvas; he improves on his first attempts, that is all; and I found "The Seamy Side" so very common, that I cannot believe for a moment that its author or authors could write a line that would interest me. Mr.
She knew of life's seamy side as a theory; she could not grasp it as a fact. More words from Jacky were necessary words unequivocal, undenied. "So that " burst from her, and she went indoors. She stopped herself from saying more. "So what?" asked Colonel Fussell, who was getting ready to start in the hall.
Or they may be compared to people who, with a Persian carpet before them, persist in looking at its seamy side, and finding nothing but odds and ends, imperfect joints, unsatisfactory combinations of color; the real pattern entirely escaping them.
Poor child! from the very first she had rested her bright brown eyes upon the wrong side of life, the seamy side, and her own personal share of the rough patchwork, composed of dismal drabs and sodden browns and greens, had in it just one small patch of rich and brilliant colour, the theatre. Of the pure tints of sky and field and watery waste and fruit and flower, she knew nothing.
She had cared for him very much it was entirely possible that some day she might have come to return his evident affection for her. She knew nothing of the seamy side of his hard life. She had guessed nothing of the scoundrelly duplicity that had marked his first advances toward her.
"I can't say that I like the seamy side of politics," he remarked, absently, as he performed a delicate operation without breaking the skin. "My wife always maintains that I'm the most honest man alive, and I shouldn't wonder if that was the way I really was made.
"Money matters can always be arranged somehow or other; nothing is irretrievable except disasters in love." Victurnien's mind being set at rest by this swift comprehension of his position, he unrolled the bright-colored web of his life for the last two years and a half; but it was the seamy side of it which he displayed with something of genius, and still more of wit, to his Diane.
Both had a wide knowledge of human nature, especially on its seamy side, based on a profound experience of life. Monkey Brand had never been quite in the front rank of cross-country riders. At no time had he emerged from the position of head-lad, nor apparently had he wished to do so. It may be that he lacked ambition, or was aware of his limitations.
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