overjue

Updated: May 8, 2025

Six years I've hung me hat up in those same apartments in Bloomsbury; and, till last year, aisy enough I found me landlord over a quarter's rent or two overjue. But last midsummer year the house changed hands; and bedad it began to be 'pay or quit. This day it was 'quit. The new landlord came up the stairs at the head av the ejectin' army: I got up from breakfast to open the door to um.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Delectable Duchy