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It was, perhaps, on this occasion that Mr. Thompson stayed later than usual. As he turned his face toward the city, lights were beginning to twinkle ahead, and a fierce wind, made visible by fog, drove him forward, or, lying in wait, charged him angrily from the corners of deserted suburban streets.
"Then go out and cheer them, sir," said the officer, frowning severely, but with a twinkle of mirth in his eye. "There, Pen Gray, you know your duty. It is an important one, and I have given it to you in the full belief that you will well serve your country and your King."
Ryan thought it over for a minute, then his eyes began to twinkle and he pointed to his storehouse and said that if it would cement the Protestant church together I might take the pile." Elsie laughed, while the bishop relapsed into deep body-shaking mirth. "Splendid! Fine chap that Ryan. He's from Maynooth and I'm from Lurgan and who says the Irish don't hang together? So it's all settled?"
The jovial mule was a roly poly, happy-go-lucky little piece of horse-flesh, taking everything easily, from cudgeling to caressing; strolling along with a roguish twinkle of the eye, and, if the thing were possible, would have had his hands in his pockets, and whistled as he went.
Outwardly, Opdyke's manner was respect itself; but there was an odd little twinkle in his eyes, as he gazed down on the top of Catie's flower-strewn hat, now tipped coquettishly askew as the girl turned her head sidewise and upward to speak to her tall companion. Catie was pretty, of course; but was she quite well right?
"Well, if you called her that to her face, I expect there'd be squalls, but I cal'late she couldn't prove a alibi in court." Now it may have been Mr. Hazeltine's fancy, but he could have sworn that there was just the suspicion of a twinkle in Miss Preston's eye as she asked, innocently enough: "Is she a young lady, Captain Eri?" "Well, she hopes she is," was the deliberate answer. "Why?"
I went through all my pockets, and then I asked Carroll if he'd got it. "'No, he replied.... 'Think you left it behind at that place last night? "'Yes; did you? Rangon popped in with a twinkle. "I went through all my pockets again. No cigarette case.... "Of course, it was possible that I'd left it behind, and I was annoyed again.
Betty watched how their legs with the stripes on them seemed to twinkle as they moved all together, marching in companies. Back and forth, back and forth, they went, and the orders came to the children short and abrupt, as the men went through their maneuvers. They saw the sentinel pacing up and down, and wondered why he did it instead of marching with the other men.
She never asked no questions, but I see her eyes twinkle when I spoke of Master Martin and Miss Phemie; and then she turned sharp to the horse-dealer and said: "`John, these is fine horses; you buy these cheap-like, and we can sell 'em again to-morrow. "Then he cursed and swore, and said the hosses was old scraws, and he'd be damned afore he'd buy such hounds'-meat.
He said it rather twinkling, and she retorted: 'What sort of a night has it been below, Father Boyle? Her twinkle was livelier than his, compassionate in archness. 'Purgatory past is good for contemplation, my dear. 'Tis past, and there's the comfort! You did well to be out of that herring-barrel, Mr. Colesworth. I hadn't the courage, or I would have burst from it to take a ducking with felicity.
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