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"No," mused the old man. "I've no doubt of that myself, but then it didn't happen to me in person, and I've a notion he'd rather hear one I've experienced than two I've heard tell of." "Of course I would, Uncle Jabez," said Mr. Birchard kindly, but with an amused twinkle in his eyes. "You take your own time: it's only just struck nine, and there's no hurry at all."
Sparling prudently kept himself out of sight until the show had progressed further. Later in the evening he chanced to pass Teddy out in the paddock. "Well, my lad, how is January working tonight?" he asked, with a twinkle in his eyes. "Never better, sir, thank you." "I presume he obeys your commands perfectly, eh?" "Does everything I tell him to, Mr. Sparling. I can do anything with that donkey.
On entering the ward the next morning the nurse told me with a smiling face, "B. is ever so much better. I think that he will pull through all right." "Then the Eusol injection has done good, I suppose?" "His wife and mother came last night and sat up with him" and I saw a twinkle in the corner of her eye. Eusol injections are now considered inert.
On the right old Ali Baba wore a twinkle in a wicked eye; the rest of his face was as emotionless as the face of the desert; but when an old man is amused not even the crow's-feet can do less than advertise the fact. "A woman's tongue is like a camel bell," said Grim. "It clatters unceasingly, and none can silence without choking it. But art thou a woman?" "Pardon, O Lion of Petra!"
"In all your places, Master Colin, it was always so, wasn't it?" said Martha, with a twinkle of fun in her eyes. "You're very impettnent, Martha," said Rosy, looking up suddenly, and speaking for the first time since she had come into the room. "Nonsense, Rosy," said Colin. "I don't mind. Martha was only joking." Rosy relapsed into silence, to Martha's relief.
In the little bar-room, lighted by a vilely smelling kerosene lamp, the clerk, hitherto a shadow and a voice, came to light as a middle-aged man with a sullen face slightly belied by a sly twinkle in his eyes. "This beats all the winters I ever did see. It don't do nawthin' but blow, blow. Want to go to bed, I s'pose. Well, come along."
"But I thought perhaps if I went about on tiptoe and whispered, and" hopefully "I could keep my eyes half-shut, couldn't I?" Violet shook her head decisively. "That twinkle would ooze out of the smallest chink, and besides, even if you managed to look a saint, that wouldn't influence Toddlekins. You don't know her yet. Once she says a thing she sticks to it like glue.
"Well, you can't tell," he said, with a twinkle in his eye; "one trip, I lay fifty-two days on a bar," and then, after a short pause, "but that don't happen very often; we sometimes lay a week, though; there is no telling; the bars change all the time." Sometimes the low trees and brushwood on the banks parted, and a young squaw would peer out at us.
If he arrives after me, I allow him the first turn to be served; if he is before me, I await my turn with a patience which betokens respect. Yet he never seems to notice it. Once or twice, certainly, I fancied I caught a smile at the corners of his mouth, and a sly twinkle in the corners of his eyes; but these old scholars smile so austerely. He must have guessed that I wish to meet him.
Perhaps, sir, we are not thinking of the same cause," she said with a mischievous twinkle in her eye. "I particularly allude to what you yourself communicated to me. I perceive Miss Alice is very unhappy, and I also am apprehensive that I may in some way be the cause of this." "I will tell you, sir, any special attention on your part to Alice will enrage her brother.
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