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But it was a blasphemy: THAT have I now learned. Wise fools speak better. The least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a whisk, an eye-glance LITTLE maketh up the BEST happiness. Hush! What hath befallen me: Hark! Hath time flown away? Do I not fall? Have I not fallen hark! into the well of eternity? What happeneth to me? Hush!
"Did you give her her present?" asked Kate when the gate closed and the grey figure and the little running ones were merged in the grey of the tender dusk. "No," said Hugh, "I'll have to find a better chance; I evidently put my foot in it, didn't I?" He pondered over the keen eye-glance that had met his once or twice.
So that I have never yet seen the case in which this true artistical excellence, visible by the eye-glance, was not the index of some true expressional worth in the work.
The niece, on opening the 'scrutoire, saw, with that rapidity of eye-glance for the one thing needed in any great emergency, which ever attended her through life, that now was the moment for an attempt which, if neglected, might never return. There lay the total keys, in one massive trousseau, of that fortress impregnable even to armies from without.
Here can I converse with men by thousands, whose souls are free not politically alone, but free from vulgar error and fanatic superstition; here, in short, have I witnessed, not the perfectedness for that belongs to a far future time but the most advanced stage of civilisation yet reached upon the globe. A dark shadow crosses my eye-glance, and my heart is stung with sudden pain.
These were also pressed into my service; and just as the first early riser of the little village was drawing his curtain to take a half-closed eye-glance upon the breaking morning, I rattled forth upon my journey at a pace which, could I only have secured its continuance, must soon have terminated my weary way.
The niece, on opening the 'scrutoire, saw, with that rapidity of eye-glance for the one thing needed in any great emergency, which ever attended her through life, that now was the moment for an attempt which, if neglected, might never return. There lay the total keys, in one massive trousseau, of that fortress impregnable even to armies from without.
I have said "picturesque." This word does not satisfy me, nor can I think of one that will delineate my idea. I must make use of a phrase, "picturesquely beautiful," to express my admiration of the scenery of those shores. I have no hesitation in pronouncing it the finest in the world. I am not gazing upon it with a mere cold eye-glance.
In a rapid eye-glance he took in the situation. Raised on the top of a curling wave, the fragments of the broken bulwarks and stanchions had got entangled with the wreck of the fore- topgallant mast, some twenty yards or so to leeward of the ship; and, clinging to the mass, Frank could see the boy holding on with a grip of desperation and terror, drenched with his ducking and the surf that washed over him, and with his mouth wide open as if yelling for assistance although never a sound reached those on board for the roar of a giant could not have been heard against the wind.
No one, unaided by the teaching of science, could have conceived that the streak of light, so readily compressed within the narrow limits of an eye-glance, stretched out 170 millions of miles in length. The comet comes from regions of unknown remoteness, and rushes, with continually increasing speed, towards our own source of warmth and light the genial sun.
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