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We have in the volume before us the melancholy spectacle of an aged female of quality setting her cap at everybody. When an old woman makes up her mind to be young, she invariably overdoes it.
And yet things didn't go as they should have gone. The music is sparkling for the minor characters, and for Zerbinetta Strauss has planned an aria, the coloratura of which was to have made Mozart's famous aria for the Queen of Night seem like thirty cents. The fact is the composer burlesques the old-fashioned scene and air with trills and other vocal pyrotechnics, but overdoes the thing.
And her livin' with a sister-in-law that has a disposition like a green parrot! "So I can't find much fault with her when she sort of overdoes the fond mother act. Seems to me they might let him off now and then, even if he does miss a few bugle calls, or forgets some of the rules and regulations.
If one overdoes morning exercise, he is likely to feel somewhat depleted and fatigued, throughout the remainder of the forenoon, and his ability to do a high grade of mental work is decreased rather than increased.
Suddenly he raised his head; his beady eyes glittered; he hurried greedily toward the crumbs, squawking hoarsely, clucking wildly, like a crude fellow who aspires to be a gallant and overdoes the part. "Shoo!" cried Tommy through the porthole. Pete raised his head high and cackled in amazed indignation that anybody should say such a thing to him.
Is she plain?" asked the young man, as if searching his consciousness. "Yes, it's the older one who does the reading, apparently. But I don't believe that even she overdoes it. They like to talk better. They reminded me of Southern people in that." The young man smiled, as if amused by some of his impressions of the Lapham family. "The living, as the country people call it, is tremendously good.
In these cases you will find that Eve has little or no interest in pleasing Adam; or that she overdoes the matter of trying to please, and frequently dissolves in tears and precipitates countless reproaches upon luckless Adam. Then there are Adams who are careless from petty spite with shame I say it.
It differs from other thought only in being a little outré, a little in excess; it overdoes the thing only because it has so much energy in it. It is what Charles Lamb said a pun was, "a sole digest of wisdom." All great thoughts are at first witty, and afterward come to be common and flat.
Nothing to be done here at present but amuse the poor soul. Mem. Watch him jealously. Jessup. The prisoner whose Jessup. Like Rock, professes term, owing to his excellent extravagant penitence, indifference conduct, is reduced from twelve to personal liberty, and love of months to nine months, so that Scripture. He overdoes it greatly. he goes out next week.
Of course we all know that your father was peculiarly fitted to undertake your training, and in this way your mother could more easily indulge her love of society; but as it is, no wonder she is as jealous of your success in her realm as your father was in his; no wonder she overdoes things to make up for lost time. How do you like it, Ruth?"
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