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Your young people, on the other hand, are weary and overdone with your stupid lessons, your long sermons, and your tedious catechisms; why should they not refuse to devote their minds to what has made them sad, to the burdensome precepts which have been continually piled upon them, to the thought of the Author of their being, who has been represented as the enemy of their pleasures?
At luncheon she had talked a great deal of elevating influences and ideals, and had fluctuated between apologies for the overdone mutton and affected surprise that the bewildered maid-servant should have forgotten to serve the coffee and liqueurs as usual. Vibart was almost sorry that he had come.
The eyes of the fireside group were turned toward him; but not upon him. They rested on a girl of sixteen who had come down the hall, and was standing before the new-comer just beyond the door. The registry-book was just there on a desk in the hall. She stood with a freshly dipped pen in her hand, ignoring the gaze from the fireside with a faintly overdone calmness of face.
But he did think her disdainful lack of memory a little overdone. His cheeks were still red as he looked away from her and encountered the direct eyes of the girl who followed her. "Oh, how do you do, Mr. Hill?" said Lady Claire, as clear as a bell. "It's such a nice day, isn't it?" she added, a little breathlessly, as she went by.
Let me pass!" She moved her horse as though to proceed. There was no sign of fear in her. No haste. At that moment her dignity was superb. Every word she had spoken had been calculated, and the sting she had conveyed with her information had not been overdone. She looked for its effect, which came with a dramatic change in the man's whole demeanor.
The extenuation of sin on the plea that the "artistic temperament" demands this, or a "sensitive nature" needs that, is much overdone. Differences in temperament are superficial compared with the miles of underlying strata of plain human nature. "A man's a man for a' that," and must submit to the rules for human life. The man of "artistic temperament" does not know himself well enough.
"I perceive I have said that in mere convention! Honestly I don't think I am sorry. It does not matter, either way, sad to say!" As they had overdone the grasp of hands some time sooner, she touched his fingers but lightly when he went out now.
I, for my part, think more of the good than of the evil spirits, and you, my child, without doubt are one of the very best. "You must change the compress every quarter of an hour, and between whiles go out into the open air, and let the fresh breezes fan your bosom your cheeks look pale. At mid-day go to your own little room, and try to sleep. Nothing ought to be overdone, so you are to obey me."
Other difficulties presented themselves seriously to the working of the discovery of Daguerre, to portrait taking one of which was the necessity for a constant and nearly horizontal light, that the shaded portions of the portrait should not be too hard, and yet, at the same time, be sufficiently well developed without the "high light" of the picture becoming overdone, solarized or destroyed.
We had talked about breaking the spell; well, it would be effectually broken unless indeed it should merely take another form and overdo their encounters as it had overdone their escapes. This was something I couldn't sit still for thinking of; it kept me awake at midnight I was full of unrest. At last I felt there was only one way of laying the ghost.
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