over-miserable

Updated: May 17, 2025

But do you not think that in this over-worked and over-miserable England of ours there are thousands and thousands of poor girls ever so much better than I, who would be only too delighted to exchange with me to put up with the paragraphs in the society papers for the sake of the riches and the father and to abandon to me without a sigh the thimble and the sewing machine, and the daily slavery in the factory or behind the counter?

Justin McCarthy - The Dictator