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Russell has ceased to be a teetotal lecturer, and has become a stump orator for the Unionist party, but the scent of the teetotal platform hangs round him still. He yells, bellows, and twists himself about, puts all his statements with ridiculous exaggeration altogether, so overdoes the part that it is only the wildest and emptiest Tory who is taken in by him.
"Well, not very much, I dare say; only I think Carrie overdoes her duty sometimes. I remember one evening your mother look so disappointed when Carrie said she was too tired to sing." "You mean the evening when the Scobells were there, and Carrie had been doing parish work all the day, and she came in looking so pale and fagged? I thought mother was hard on her that night.
Though a sour critic described him as 'the Flower of Bartholomew Fair and the Idol of the Rabble; a Fellow that overdoes everything, and spoils many a Part with his own Stuff, the Spectator has in another paper given honourable fame to his skill as a comedian.
'I know a fellow who's a diamond merchant, and it's not so easy to sell a lot of valuable stones as you seem to imagine, mother. And then Priscilla really overdoes it, you know why, if she goes on like this, she'll make diamonds as cheap as currants! 'I should have thought that was a reason for selling them as soon as possible; but I'm only a woman, and of course my opinion is worth nothing!
"She's the dearest woman in the world," said the Duke of St. Bungay. "I love her almost as I do my own daughter. And she is most zealous to serve him." "I fancy she overdoes it." "No doubt." "And that he suffers from perceiving it," said Lord Cantrip. "But a man hasn't a right to suppose that he shall have no annoyances. The best horse in the world has some fault.
'Short's very well, and seems kind, resumed the misanthrope, 'but he overdoes it. Now I don't. Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it. But the child was puzzled, and could not tell what to say. 'Take my advice, said Codlin: 'don't ask me why, but take it.
Perhaps you haven't thought so, but it's me that's your friend not him. I'm the real, open-hearted man. Short's very well, and seems kind, but he overdoes it. Now, I don't." The child was puzzled, and could not tell what to say. "Take my advice; as long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. Recollect the friend. Codlin's the friend, not Short.
"I know all about him," replied Rastignac; "do you suppose there are no other detectives in Paris? I know that since 1830, when he took Bibi-Lupin's place as chief of the detective police, he has given his life a most respectable bourgeois character; the only fault I find is that he overdoes it." "And yet " said the colonel. "He is rich," continued Rastignac, not heeding the interruption.
If you whistle for a dog, he comes with servile gestures, and almost overdoes his obedience; but, if a cat has got into a comfortable place, you may whistle for that cat until you are spent, and it will go on regarding you with a lordly blink of independence. No; decidedly the cat is not a slave.
I know very well that I am not the dearest, cutest, brightest, most beautiful and angelic being in the universe, and she isn't sincere when she insists that I am. She overdoes it, and is so dreadfully effusive that I want to run whenever she comes near me. I wish she wasn't going on the excursion to-morrow." "She doesn't worry me," said Gay.
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