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And at length when the dishes, which had been punctually prepared for two o'clock, were placed on the table at twenty minutes past three, everything was overdone, dried up, and indigestible. It was the Iron King's own fault for not coming to the table when the meal was first prepared to order. But he would not admit that into consideration.
Depending then, upon the character of lameness manifested, as well as upon its degree of intensity, one needs to exercise the subject in various ways, but this should not be overdone. The first thing apparent in the lame subject in action, is the lame leg.
However, they quieted him down and got him home at last; and when he'd got home he was that dismal and depressed from the reaction that he sat in his armchair all day and did nothing but grumble and burst into tears, for, you see, he'd overdone it, and it was bound to tell upon him.
I had just slipped up on poor smiling and complacent Dowley so nice and easy and softly, that he never suspected anything was going to happen till the blow came crashing down and knocked him all to rags. A fine effect. In fact, as fine as any I ever produced, with so little time to work it up in. But I saw in a moment that I had overdone the thing a little.
I tried to see her as you do; to do her justice, and if it is overdone, or flattered, or idealized, it is because I've been working toward your notion " "Oh!" said Cornelia, and then, to the great amazement of herself as well as Ludlow, she began to laugh, and she laughed on, with her face in her handkerchief.
You saw how I took advantage of the lead they gave me, but I hope we haven't overdone the thing." "No," said Don Sebastian thoughtfully; "I imagine nobody suspects anything yet." "Perhaps you had better clear the ship soon, sir," said the engineer. "Steam's nearly up and it takes some coal "
Reuben Hamlin had been taken with the rest, though his stay in jail this time did not promise to be a long one, for he had overdone his feeble strength in that night walk through the snow to Lee, and since then had declined rapidly. He was so far gone that it would scarcely have been thought worth while to take him to jail if he could have remained at home.
Even at his best, however, Jean Jacques could not reach within three inches of her height. Yet he did not regard her as at all overdone because of that. He thought her hair very fine, as it waved away from her low forehead in a grace which reminded him of the pictures of the Empress Eugenie, and of the sister of that monsieur le duc who had come fishing to St. Saviour's a few years before.
Jacob Delafield, too. There also it was no less clear to her than to Sir Wilfrid that she had "overdone it." It was true, then, what Lady Henry said of her that she had an overmastering tendency to intrigue to a perpetual tampering with the plain fact?
He could not help admiring such strategy even while it disappointed him. 'You're devilish deep, after all, he said slowly: 'a little overdone that last bit, perhaps, but no matter I can read between the lines. And now, as I am due for this first dance, and they seem to be striking up down there, I'll ask you to excuse me.
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