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She smiled at the grim pleasantry, knowing it to be such. "And in all probability get your other arm shot off! No, thanks, I prefer you as you are." He brightened at this amazingly, but a mischievous twinkle stole into his eye. "I am glad to hear that. Now that I am acquainted with your preferences, I'll see that I keep in this winged condition.
Granted a certain modicum of worldly conformity, they would not be at all indisposed to a conscience clause. He lounged out of the room, while Lady Charlotte shrugged her shoulders with a look at her nephew in which there was an irrepressible twinkle. Mr. Flaxman neither heard nor saw.
About eleven o'clock a wagonload more drove up to the door, and Bill Gray, the widow's oldest son, and his whole family from Sand Lake Coulee piled out amid a good-natured uproar, as characteristic as it was ludicrous. Everyone talked. at once, except Bill, who sat in the wagon with his wrists on his knees, a straw in his mouth, and an amused twinkle in his blue eyes.
And to cap it all, at the psychological moment, Yunsan pandered the Emperor to novelties of excess that had been long preparing. "You must grow your hair for the marriage knot," Yunsan warned me one day, with the ghost of a twinkle in his austere eyes, more nearly facetious and human than I had ever beheld him.
"I know. I see exactly what you mean, too. I think I felt the same way till I saw her last winter in Rome." The other turned eagerly. "Sure enough, you have seen her! Tell me about her." A shrewd twinkle came into John Pendleton's eyes. "Oh, but I thought you didn't want to know Pollyanna grown up." With a grimace the young fellow tossed this aside. "Is she pretty?"
"I protest," said Uncle Teddy, with a twinkle in his eye. "If there's a Mrs. Jason on board Jason himself won't have a word to say about the expedition. He'll be nothing but a figurehead. He'll be the original Argo-nought!" "You forget that the figurehead was the most important part of the ship in the eyes of the Greeks," said Aunt Clara sweetly. "If we don't hurry and get started," said Mr.
The obduracy of Hatteraick, during the latter part of this scene, was in some slight degree shaken. He was observed to twinkle with his eyelids to attempt to raise his bound hands for the purpose of pulling his hat over his brow to look angrily and impatiently to the road, as if anxious for the vehicle which was to remove him from the spot. At length Mr.
It seemed to him an aggravation of her offence that as often as he caught the look of her face there was a roguish twinkle in the eye on his side, and a deliberate cast in his direction. This open disregard of the sanctity of a pledged word, this barefaced indifference to the presence of him who stood to represent it, was positively indecent. This was what women were!
Lights were beginning to twinkle on the bund when they drove back to the hotel. "Where shall we go to-night!" asked Percival, as eager at the end of this eight hours' tête-
He looked at his caller and found that she was regarding him intently, a twinkle in her eye and an amused expression about her mouth. He started and awoke from his day-dream. "Eh?" he exclaimed. "Yes yes, I guess so." She shook her head. "You do?" she said. "Why, I thought your opinion was exactly the opposite." "Eh? Oh, yes, so 'tis, so 'tis." "Of course. And just what did you say about it?"
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