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"Always blundering!" he upbraided himself. "Trying to be so all-shot smart, I overplayed my hand." He got Dr. Garnet on the wire. "Doctor," he said, in a tone that implored, "I'm obliged to see Webster today." "Sorry, Mr. Hastings," came the instant refusal; "but it can't be done."
"Boys, we've overplayed. We don't want THESE people McNamara's our meat. Old bald-face up yonder has to do what he's told, and I'm ag'in' this twenty-to-one midnight work. I'm goin' home." There were some whisperings, then the original spokesman called for Judge Stillman. The old man tottered to the window, a palsied, terror-stricken object. The girl was glad he could not be seen from below.
When she pushed a box up to the table and sat down upon it, and rested her elbows on the oilcloth and looked straight at him with her chin nested in her two palms, he drew a long breath, hunched his shoulders with some mental surrender, and grinned wryly. "So be it," he yielded, throwing his hat upon the bunk. "I kinda overplayed my hand, anyway. I most humbly ask your pardon!"
It's all a matter of the chemistry of substitution. Dr. G.L. Knapp. Part 1 For once the machine had overplayed its hand. Caught unexpectedly by Jeff's return, no effective counter attack was possible. Dunn's story in the World swept the city and the state like wildfire. It was a crouched dramatic narrative and its effect was telling. From it only one inference could be drawn.
But the sympathetic spirit who was directing this geographic burlesque overplayed, and followed the soft curve of audible wistfulness with an actual bluebird which looped across the open space in front.
You knew damned well I wasn't the kind of man that would jump the country. You knew you'd find me right here, attending to my business like I've always done. "But you've overplayed your hand. This time I'm going to get you and Foxy and the breed along with you. It was a damned, rotten trick, running Y6es over Seabeck's brand.
Maybe it was a nervy thing, shuntin' the Count off like that, and Marjorie seems sort of disappointed and dazed to find he ain't comin' with us, but by the twinkle in Miss Vee's eyes I guessed I hadn't overplayed my part.
The sequel shows that the English at Albany overplayed their part. The reward of their protection was to be suzerainty, and at this price protection proved unacceptable to the Iroquois, whose safety lay in the equipoise of power between the rival whites.
It is my belief that many of these people who have been crying aloud for "confidence" are beginning today to realize that that hand has been overplayed, and that they are now willing to talk cooperation instead. It is my belief that the mass of the American people do have confidence in themselves have confidence in their ability, with the aid of government, to solve their own problems.
All the way back to his horse he was trying to "place" the voice and the name. Some one within riding distance, it must be some one visiting in the country. He sure didn't know of any ranch girl named Venus. After awhile he felt he could afford to grin over the incident. "Never knowed the difference," he boasted as he rode away. "Nine men outa ten woulda overplayed their hand, right there."
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