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You are seedy-looking, and rather dull, and not a bit amusing. But I loves you, and I'll never, never tell." "Run away, Pen," said Miss Tredgold, coming into the room at that moment. "You are tiring Pauline. You should not have talked so loud; your sister is not very strong yet." Mr.
In two hours' time we are at Stalden, a village perched upon a rocky promontory, at the junction of the valleys of the Saas and the Visp, with a church and white tower conspicuous from afar. We climb up to the terrace in front of it, on our way into the town. 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.
Parker, that the seedy-looking man made his appearance. He walked in from the street, and stood before Master Maloney. "Hey, kid," he said. Pugsy looked up with some hauteur. He resented being addressed as "kid" by perfect strangers. Pugsy by this time had taken a thorough dislike to him. To be called "kid" was bad. The subtle insult of "Tommy" was still worse.
To his landlady, worthy Mrs. Seacon, Tom Peters's profession was a little vague, but everybody knew that Roxdal was the manager of the City and Suburban Bank, and it puzzled her to think why a bank manager should live with such a seedy-looking person, who smoked clay pipes and sipped whiskey and water all the evening when he was at home.
I moved on to another spot, and sitting down by a thin seedy-looking Irish girl I heard her talk to her husband about having their baby's life insured according to a wonderful plan an agent had described to her. As she spoke she was frowning anxiously and she saw no harbor.
The boy was engaged for further service and cautioned not to tell, but to watch every day for Sir Donald's appearance on the street. This spying is kept up for over a week, the stranger mysteriously disappearing each day at the same place. Turning an angle in a narrow lane, this seedy-looking old chap vanishes as by magic, there being no opening anywhere for his sudden exit.
But the fact that finally induced me to grant him a share in the translation of Tannhauser was his suggestion that young Roche should also participate in the work. In order to receive my furniture on its arrival from Zurich I had to go to the Custom House, where I was referred to a pale, seedy-looking young man, who appeared full of life, however, with whom I had to settle my business.
I was seedy-looking my beard had grown and I was still in blue shirt and overalls. I approached the chaplain told him my story and gained admission to his night school; and for three weeks moved in and out among the socially damned of that horrible stockade.
Soon after their return, one of the morning papers had an announcement that the banking house of Campbell & Co. The same day Emanuel dropped into the house of Jenvie, Hamlin & Stetson. He was seedy-looking, and seemed a good deal run down both in purse and spirits. "What do you think of the 'Wedge of Gold' announcement?" asked Jenvie. "What is it?" asked Emanuel. He was shown the paper.
"Ha! ha!" laughed Clayley; "let us come, boys," he added, turning to a very thirsty-looking group, "let's all take a `smile'. Here, Captain Haller! allow me to introduce you;" and the next moment I was introduced to a crowd of very seedy-looking gentlemen, and the moment after we were clinking glasses, and chatting as familiarly as if we had been friends of forty years' standing.
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