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"You could not make a wiser answer if you were a philosopher. But you talk of taking care of butterflies: how do you do that? Do you impale them on pins stuck into a glass case?" "Impale them! How can you talk so cruelly? You deserve to be pinched by the fairies."
Goodness, what needles and pins!" She stamped about on the polished floor, with two small feet in silk stockings and high-heeled, gold-buckled slippers, a novel tucked under her arm, and one hand clasping her cousin's. "Well," he said, "if any creature could be less like a parson's wife than you, madam, I'd like to see it."
"You see, he sits there in solemn silence looking so tremendously wise that most men feel foolish if they speak, while as for doing anything the idea appears preposterous, in the face of his immovableness." "I can't bear him!" cried Gwen. "I should like to stick pins in him." "I wish some one would," answered The Pilot. "It would make him seem more human if he could be made to jump."
The heart of the dead animal, stuck all over with pins, was burnt in the fire; the windows, doors, and every other aperture of the house being first carefully stopped. After the heart, thus prepared with suitable incantations, is consumed in the fire, the first person who comes to the door or passes by it is the offending magician. Mother Carke completed these lonely rites at dead of night.
"Now go home, and take the costumes off your children," said the Costumer, "and leave me in peace to eat cherries!" Then the people hastened back to the city and found, to their great delight, that the costumes would come off. The pins staid out, the buttons staid unbuttoned, and the strings staid untied.
'The brush has got entangled in it! the Queen said with a sigh. 'And I lost the comb yesterday. Alice carefully released the brush, and did her best to get the hair into order. 'Come, you look rather better now! she said, after altering most of the pins. 'But really you should have a lady's maid! 'I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure! the Queen said.
"I hate to see a man ruin his own chances in this way, that's all," he was saying. "I've set the pins for you to take the rebuilding of the whole main line, but you succeed admirably in undoing my plans. By declining this opportunity you relegate yourself to obscurity just as you've made a hit in the cañon that is a fortune in itself."
He stifled the horror when he saw her delight in presenting the gift, and afterwards was careful to remember to carry a handkerchief occasionally when on an errand to the shop. Latterly Candace was occupied in preparing pins for Jasper's cabinet, out of old needles that had lost their eyes.
When, on coming home from a ball, he tears out the pins, tangles the strings, and laughs like a madman, trying to see whether you are ticklish, let him. Do not cry "Murder!" if his moustache pricks you, but think that it is all because at heart he loves you well. He worships your virtues; is it surprising hence that he should cherish their outward coverings?
Here and there the steam plough had thrown its furrows, on either side of the railroad, high above the window line. The fences were muffled in long ridges of snow, their stakes showing like pins in a cushion of white velvet. Some of the small trees on the edge of the big timber stood overdrifted to their boughs.
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