What is "overmore"

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Miss Overmore, however hungry, never disappeared: this marked her somehow as of higher rank, and the character was confirmed by a prettiness that Maisie supposed to be extraordinary.

Miss Overmore never, like Moddle, had on an apron, and when she ate she held her fork with her little finger curled out.

Miss Overmore on the occasion which was so suddenly to lead to a change in her life.

V The second parting from Miss Overmore had been bad enough, but this first parting from Mrs.

Miss Overmore, after another immense and talkative squeeze, a question of which the motive was a desire for information as to the continuity of a certain sentiment.

Miss Overmore hereupon immediately took her from him, and they had a merry little scrimmage over her of which Maisie caught the surprised perception in the white stare of an old lady who passed in a victoria.

She got used to the idea that her mother, for some reason, was in no hurry to reinstate her: that idea was forcibly expressed by her father whenever Miss Overmore, differing and decided, took him up on the question, which he was always putting forward, of the urgency of sending her to school.

The reason of it was that she had mysterious responsibilities that interfered--responsibilities, Miss Overmore intimated, to Mr.

Miss Overmore had often said to her in reference to any fear that her mother might resent her prolonged detention.

The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.

The terms on which, unless they were married, ladies and gentlemen might, as Miss Overmore expressed it, knock about together, were the terms on which she and Mr.

She turned these things over and remarked to Miss Overmore that if she should go to her mother perhaps the gentleman might become her tutor.

This contradiction indeed peeped out only to vanish, for at the very moment that, in the spirit of it, she threw herself afresh upon her young friend a hansom crested with neat luggage rattled up to the door and Miss Overmore bounded out.

This occurred indeed after Miss Overmore had so far raised her interdict as to make a move to the dining-room, where, in the absence of any suggestion of sitting down, it was scarcely more than natural that even poor Mrs.

Miss Overmore, who had always grandly repudiated it, replied after an instant, but quite as if Mrs.