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"Gregorius," the President of the Society of Ancient Souls was saying, "when I found that our names were the same I knew that our destinies were interwoven." "Yes," murmured Mr. Lambkin. "It's so kind of you, so kind. But I'm afraid I'm overstaying my welcome. I must " "No. I must say what is in my heart, Gregorius. You live on the Past, I live in the Past.
Oddly enough, in later years, on 30th August 1792, having just succeeded in getting himself reinstated as captain after his absence, overstaying leave, he applied to pass into the Artillerie de la Marine.
"What good is a letter when the fellow who sent it is already home?" Doc Carson asked. "What use is a leave of absence that expired two or three years ago?" Connie Bennett added. "If that fellow's away yet, he's overstaying his leave, that's sure," said Roy. "What good is a Sunday dinner that somebody ate a couple of years ago?" Doc queried.
I am bound to give them one day's grace, for they might not know where to find me at once, and to-night I could not get near them, without overstaying my time to be in-doors. But if I hear nothing to-morrow, and see nothing, I must go round, so as not to be seen, and learn something about her the very next morning."
In the morning he rode down to Chepoix with some dispatches and in the afternoon to St. Justen-Chaussee. He was kept busy all day. When he returned to Cantigny, a little before dark, he was told to remain at headquarters, and for a while he feared that he was going to be court-martialled for overstaying his leave.
How was it for instance that we never were a crowd, never either too many or too few, always the right people WITH the right people- -there must really have been no wrong people at all always coming and going, never sticking fast nor overstaying, yet never popping in or out with an indecorous familiarity?
It was almost midnight, on January 2, 1863, and the impromptu party at the Ratcliffe home was breaking up. The guest of honor, General J. E. B. Stuart, felt that he was overstaying his welcome not at the Ratcliffe home, where everybody was soundly Confederate, but in Fairfax County, then occupied by the Union Army.
De Windt had never thought Ivan effeminate a milk-sop; but, had he been made to believe the truth, it is probable that one or the other of these epithets would then have expressed his opinion of his friend. The first charge made by Brodsky against his Lieutenant was that of overstaying his leave already for the length of seven days, and still no prospect of return.
"Well," remarked Henry, rousing from the fit of abstraction in which he had been pursuing the subject of their previous discussion, "it was to be expected we should get a little mixed as to chronology over such talk as this." "With our watches set fifty years ahead, there 'll be no danger of overstaying our time next Wednesday, anyhow," added Frank.
"It's time you were at home, Sylvia we're overstaying our holiday. I'll make sailing arrangements to-morrow." So, by the end of May, they were back in the little brick cottage again, and the two capable servants were there, too, for there must be no danger, now, of Sylvia's getting over-tired.
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