Here's Mr. Jarvis gets you to help him out in a little society affair, and you overdoes it so bad he can't square himself in a hundred years.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
Short's very well, and seems kind, but he overdoes it.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
But it takes his mind off the main chance; and he overdoes it.
"Misalliance"
George Bernard Shaw