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"My dear mother takes everything so serious " "Come, come," interrupted Mrs. Chapman, her face coloring, "does my dress become me? Am I presentable?" "You are elegance itself, my dear mother, and would be presentable anywhere," returned Mattie, with a merry twinkle of the eye. "That's what I wanted to know," said Mrs. Chapman with a bow, and a slight motion backward.
From the sea came the red glare of the Wolf and the cold pure beam of the Bishop; in the north Charles' Wain gave the first twinkle of its lights; while from the roads came the creak of the terrestrial waggons beginning to lumber slowly home.
Her naturalness had perforce given him assurance that peace must surround one in whom it shone so steadily, and smiling at the thought of Zotti's repast and her twinkle of subdued humour, he walked away comforted; which, for a lover in the season of peril means exalted, as in a sudden conflagration of the dry stock of his intelligence.
The zenith, a dark purple, began to show a silver twinkle here and there of stars. A whirring, roaring sound grew audible to eastward. It strengthened quickly. And all at once, far above the river, a long, swift train, its windows already lighted, sped with a smooth, rapid flight.
"If I were not a poor man " Sydney began impulsively, and then stopped short. But a good-humored curl of Sir John's mouth, an inquiring twinkle in his eye, told him that he must proceed. So, in five minutes, his proposal was made, and a good deal earlier than he had expected it to be. It must be confessed that Sir John had led him on.
"I am sending my servant," I answered. "He is very trustworthy, and will guard her with his own life." "Do you intend your sister to walk to Rochelle?" she asked, the humorous twinkle coming back to her eyes. "I am going to procure a carriage." "You will do nothing of the kind!" she declared emphatically.
Just then there was a knock at the door, and two fellows entered. One was a tall, thin, cadaverous-looking boy a little my senior, and the other his exact contrast, a thick-set, burly youth, with a merry twinkle in his eye and a chronic grin on his lips. "Late again, Field-Marshal," said Doubleday, clapping the cadaverous one on the back with a blow that nearly doubled him up. "Is this your chum?
When she is talking with an intimate friend, however, her hand goes quickly to her friend's face to see, as she says, "the twist of the mouth." In this way she is able to get the meaning of those half sentences which we complete unconsciously from the tone of the voice or the twinkle of the eye. Her memory of people is remarkable.
Abner had grown excited as he spoke, and the peculiar twinkle in his eye had given place to a wrathy glare as he uttered the last words, but this passed, and it was with his former sardonic grin that he added: "But Iry didn' save his hide by tryin tew lay it orf ontew Squire an I guess he won't try no more sellin aout right away, not ef Goramity tole him tew." "Yer gab's runnin away with yer.
"BONES?" faltered Birt. "Bones," reiterated the professor solemnly. DID his spectacles twinkle? Birt stood silent, vaguely wondering what his mother would think of "bones." Presently the professor, seeing that the boy was not likely to ask amusing questions, explained.
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