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But be careful an' don't waste it," she added, for fear she was overdoing the thing. Uncle Wellington was overjoyed at this change of front on the part of Mrs. Braboy; if she would make it permanent he did not see why they might not live together very comfortably. The day passed pleasantly down on the breakwater. The weather was agreeable, and the fish bit freely.
Rumour said there had once been a wife and a friend; now there remained only work and the whisky bottle; and he was overdoing both. To him Thea devoted herself and her fiddle with particular zest.
On the whole, he left the citizens of the great town free to act as they would; but he had, more than once, to exert a decided opposition to their overdoing the thing; for though the Emperor might be able to endure a vast amount of pleasure, what the Alexandrians originally proposed to provide for him to see and hear would have exhausted the most indefatigable human energy.
Yet at once, and so endearingly, with the air of an elder sister, Mrs. Austen resumed the maternal functions. "Dearest child, you have been overdoing it!" Kate patted the girl. "Margaret! I nearly fainted too. I was looking at you. You went over like that!" "Sorry," said Margaret evenly. Her hands had gone to the back of her head. She dropped them and added: "If you will excuse me."
The invitations were accepted with pleasure, and the edict was attended to with a murmur of approval in which, however, there was one dissenting voice: a little bearded bushman "thought the Katherine was overdoing it a bit," and suggested as an amendment that "drunks could make themselves scarce when she's about."
"You're overdoing it," said Mavis, as she mixed some brandy and milk. "I 'ate the muck," declared Miss Nippett, when Mavis besought her to drink it. "But if you don't do what you're told, you'll never get well." "Reely!" "Of course not. Take this at once," Mavis commanded. "Here, I say, who are you talking to?
To the others he spoke sharply: "Go back to the exact positions in living room and dining room and solarium, that you occupied when Mrs. Marshall ran from the room." "I think you're overdoing it, Bonnie," Captain Strawn protested. "But sure I'll see that they mind you."
Slash the wound or stab it with a clean knife-blade and force it to bleed copiously. If there is no break in the skin or membrane of your mouth or lips and no cavity in any of your teeth, suck the wound to draw out the poison. Give a stimulant in small doses at frequent intervals to stimulate the heart and lungs and strengthen the nerves, but avoid overdoing this, for the result will be harmful.
She had never talked with him in such a tone of entire friendliness; all at once they seemed to have become intimate. Yet there was another change less pleasing to the young man; Irene talked as though either she had become older, or he younger. She counselled him with serious kindness, urged him to make rational rules about study and recreation. "You're overdoing it, you know.
Yet, perchance, there may be danger of my overdoing the priestly character, as well as of overestimating the privileges granted the clergy on board." He shrugged his shoulders, nettled somewhat by my words and manner. "I have indeed reason for gravely distrusting your naturalness in the wearing of a robe dedicated to religion," he made answer.
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