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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Bad what, Miss?" he asked, perplexed. "I, miss?" "For coming here as your lodger?" Mr Farthing stared at her in round-eyed amazement. "I understood from Mrs Farthing that you object to her taking lodgers," explained Mavis. Mr Farthing's jaw dropped; he seemed dumbfounded. "That you're complaining about Mrs Farthing overworking herself every minute you're at home," continued Mavis.
But on the present occasion his greeting was grave and eager. "Wilbur sick? I feared as much. I warned Pauline two months ago that he was overworking, and only last week I told him that he would break down if he did not go away for a fortnight's rest." "I wish you had spoken to me." Selma noted with satisfaction that there was no raillery in his manner now. He bent his gaze on her searchingly.
When Mary wrote to say that she had asked Ralph Denham to stay with them, she added, out of deference to Elizabeth's character, that he was very nice, though rather queer, and had been overworking himself in London.
"It's just that," said the Rector. "When I was a boy, I was far from strong, and being rather bookish, I was constantly overworking my head. What weird fancies and fads I had then, to be sure! I was haunted by a lot of nervous plagues which it's best not to explain to people who have never been tormented with them.
The doctors considered that the exclamation arose from a study of Goethe's beautiful essay, and indicated that the patient had been overworking. I expressed the opinion that it seemed more plausible to me that the exclamation "Nature!" was to be taken in that sexual meaning known also to the less educated in our country.
"Aren't you a little pale, my dear? Not overworking? Mr. Harney tells me you and Mamie are giving the library a thorough overhauling." He was always careful to remember his parishioners' Christian names, and at the right moment he bent his benignant spectacles on the Targatt girl. Then he turned to Charity. "Don't take things hard, my dear; don't take things hard. Come down and see Mrs.
And so here we are on each other's hands!" "But the child? "It happened to us. For four years now things have just happened to us. All the time I have been overworking, first at explosives and now at this fuel business. She too is full of her work. "Nothing stops that though everything seems to interfere with it. And in a distraught, preoccupied way we are abominably fond of each other.
But you must judge for yourself whether the post is such as you would care to accept. The fact is that, as I told you just now, I have been overworking myself; and a specialist whom I have come down here to consult tells me that I must take a long holiday in the open air.
Thus this old body behaves just beautifully and wags along like the tail follows the dog when I forget all about it. The grunter lets the tail wag the dog. I have never known a case of genuine "overwork." I have never known of anyone killing himself by working. But I have known of multitudes killing themselves by taking vacations. The people who think they are overworking are merely overworrying.
"If you like," said Kenrick, who was, I am sorry to say, not a little jealous of the friendship which had sprung up between Power and Walter. "And would you mind Daubeny joining us?" "Not at all; and he's clearly overworking himself. It'll do him good. Let me see you, Power, Flip, Dubbs, and me; that'll be enough, won't it?" "Well, I should like to ask Eden."
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