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The shape of his lips was symbolical of his habit of discourse; he was of few words. "Webster," he said, standing across the table from his employer and shooting out his words like a memorized speech, "been overplaying his hand financially. That's the rumour; nothing tangible yet. Gone into real estate and building projects; associated with a crowd that has the name of operating on a shoestring.
Dominey found himself watching her, as she deserted him a little later on to stand by Terniloff's side, with a little thrill of tangled emotions. He felt a touch on his arm. Stephanie, who was passing with another of the guns, paused to whisper in his ear: "There might be a greater danger one that has evaded even your cautious mind in overplaying your part!"
She must have caught my glance of surprise, for she said nervously, "You think we are overplaying our return call? Well, the truth is, we're afraid." "So then?" and I bowed. "So then I fished out all my jewelry." "We are honored." "Well, I didn't know what might happen. If one should be shipwrecked " I caught her frightened gaze out an open port, perfectly aware myself of the swift weather change.
The color was leaving the girl's cheeks, but she sat even straighter, prouder. As for me, for one instant I experienced a blessed relief. I had been right; it was all impossible. One didn't talk seriously of red-hot irons. "You must think you are King John," I laughed. "But you're overplaying. Don't worry, Miss Falconer; he won't touch you. There are things that men don't do."
Caryll, standing by one of the windows, a look of profound disgust overplaying the usually immobile face. "Perhaps the gentleman from France the gentleman who saved you," she sneered, "will propose to take the office." "With all my heart, ma'am," Mr. Caryll startled them and himself by answering.
He studied her, smilingly queerly and overplaying indifference: "Have a nice dinner last night?" Kedzie fixed him with a skewery glare: "What's your little game? Why did you turn up missing?" "I had another engagement. Didn't you get my note?" "Ah, behave, behave!" said Kedzie, then blushed at the plebeian phrase. She was beginning to have a quickly remorseful ear.
Now, then, the further adventures of Ling Foo of Woosung Road. He was an honest Chinaman. He would beat you down if he were buying, or he would overcharge you if he were selling. There was nothing dishonest in this; it was legitimate business. He was only shrewd, not crooked. But on this day he came into contact with a situation that tried his soul, and tricked him into overplaying his hand.
Scattergood had allowed himself to be eliminated from calculation in the state, leaving Siggins as sole, undisputed, victorious boss. It had been a clever scheme that Scattergood had outlined to Lafe so clever that Lafe hadn't seen the great good that lay in it for himself until days later. He shrugged his shoulders. It was just another case of a man unfamiliar with the game overplaying his hand.
I suppose if you were to go and look, and the reporters were to see you meditating among the tombs, we'd have a scare head to-morrow and a drop of ten points in the market." Bulger's shift to a slight levity was premeditated; he was taking guard against overplaying his part. "No, never mind," said Norcross, "it just recalls something." He paused the fraction of a second, and his eye grew dull.
Her first returning sense of her surroundings came with the sound of a voice, the same careless, pleasant voice which she had heard at Galeria asking Pete Leddy if he were not overplaying his part. "You were right," said the voice. "It was the whistle that made him so angry."
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