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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I tell thee, Varney," said the Earl, "that all it was in my power to bestow upon her was not merely deserved, but a thousand times overpaid, by her own virtue and beauty; for never did greatness descend upon a creature so formed by nature to grace and adorn it."
The mercenary views of the traders were ever leading them to cheat and deceive these poor untutored unprotected beings, who in return, deemed retaliation no crime; nor in balancing the amount of guilt would it be easy to settle which of the parties were most deeply implicated; the one who gave trifles, or worse beads or brandy, for articles of real value; or the other, who secretly pilfered some useless toys or iron implements, for which in fact they had greatly overpaid.
But his resolution was taken. He thanked his majesty, not with the common-place thanks of courtiers, but with his whole heart and soul he thanked his majesty for this gracious condescension this testimony of approbation these proofs of sensibility to his attachment, which paid overpaid him, in a moment, for the labours of a life.
Somers says. "'I don't think that is so wonderful, I said. 'And as for being overpaid, I get that much right now from the ice cream company, and in addition I get to eat all the ice cream I want." "So it really wasn't an honorable offer," tsked Ozma. "Did they raise their offer?" "No," replied the shadow with a sad expression. "They wouldn't increase their price. And I wouldn't reduce mine.
He lined the four of them up and, while the whole room looked on with amused interest, he told them what was what. After that they stayed till 12. Another time a piece-rate girl allowed herself to be overpaid two dollars and said nothing about it. Hap called her into the office. “Didn't you get too much in your envelope this week?” “I dunno. I 'ain't figured up yet.”
You have all the gifts for your noble profession, and, as you know, your own devotion to it will give you all that can be learned. I'm very glad my stage direction was useful and pleasant to you, and any benefit you have derived from it is overpaid by your style of acting. You cannot have a 'groove'; you are too much of an artist.
"I have nothing to forgive you, sir," replied Reilly; "whatever you did proceeded from your excessive affection for your daughter; I am more than overpaid for any thing I may have suffered myself; had it been ages of misery, this one moment would cancel the memory of it for ever."
"I am already overpaid," he asserted. "For a man there is nothing so great, no influence so nearly omnipotent, as the love of a good woman. It is the lever that moves the world what little it does move up the hill to the high planes." "A lever?" she mused; "yes, perhaps. But levers are only links in the chain binding cause to effect." His smile was lovingly tolerant.
"P'r'aps I shouldn't be the only one in the establishment that is overpaid," observed Dick. "Do you mean me, you young rascal?" demanded the book-keeper, now very angry. "Don't call names. It isn't polite." "I demand an answer. Do you mean to say that I am overpaid?" "Well," said Dick, deliberately, "if you're paid anything for bein' polite, I should think you was overpaid considerable."
From time to time the shipping clerk who was an Irishman tried to joke with one of them, tapping sharply upon his desk with a pencil as though to compel attention. "They are no good," he said to himself, when in response to his sallies they only smiled vaguely. "Although they get but a dollar and a half a day they are overpaid!"
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