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When they had set it down, and Menard straightened up, his eyes twinkled, for young Danton, in his finery, was nervously walking back and forth at the edge of the dock, looking fixedly into the canoe, apparently inspecting the bales. His shoulders were unused to the musket, and by a quick turn he had brought the muzzle under the rim of his hat, setting it on the side of his head. His face was red.
Put them against my temples, so! For every bit of the love I have given you you are permitted to repay me with coolness coolness and comfort in hell!" Suddenly he broke into exultant laughter, a sound more terrible than the wild wails from the deck. "See!" he said, and his eyes twinkled as he stretched out a gaunt arm toward a corner of the room.
His eyes twinkled meaningly as they glanced from Clifford's face to that of Innocent the young man's expression was absorbed and earnest, but the girl looked lost and far away in a dream of her own. "I shall not marry," said Robin, slowly "I shall use the money entirely for the good of the farm and the work-people "
Deep tranquillity reigned on the shores of Lake Winnipeg during the midnight hours, for the voices of the frogs served rather to accent than to disturb the calm. Stars twinkled at their reflections in the water, which extended like a black mirror to the horizon.
His black eyes twinkled, and he shook with laughter when I sat up, clasped my hands, and said: "Oh, dear? Were they the men who were standing around Charlie? Why I had not dreamed of them being surgeons!" "Did you not know by their shoulders traps?" "Shoulderstraps? Do surgeons have shoulderstraps? I thought only officers wore them!"
"The strength of your own individuality will carry you over many obstacles," finished Miss Kiametia, giving Miller's hand a friendly tap with the paper-cutter. "Read mine next," and Foster held out his right hand. "Haven't time; besides," the spinster's eyes twinkled, "I know your character like a book. What is it, Sylvester?" as her colored butler appeared, card tray in hand. "More visitors?
Pleasure I asked for the stars and lots of them came, And twinkled and danced for me; But the whirling lights soon wearied my gaze I squenched their flame in the sea. Fame I asked for the sun! but the fiery ball, Brought down from its home on high, Scorched and blistered my finger tips, As I swirled it back to the sky.
I took him from the Governor's men out of mere kindness of heart, because I liked him the first time I saw him, but the Ten are determined to get him into their hands, and I have no fancy to go with him and answer for the half-dozen crowns my mate and I broke in that frolic at Murano." Pasquale's small eyes twinkled at the thought of the discomfited archers.
"Yes, sir," chimed in the Indiarubber Man. "A pukka children's party, with wind-sails for them to slither down and a merry-go-round on the after-capstan?" The Captain drank his tea thoughtfully; his blue eyes twinkled. "Let us have a definition of children, Standish.
"The government was closing the Bell Reef station and they simply shifted the two men who were there over to our place." "Did you and O'Connel both decide to leave?" Bob's eyes twinkled. "O'Connel has just answered an advertisement as operator aboard a private yacht," said he, exchanging a glance with Mr. Crowninshield. Evidently there was some jest between them that amused them vastly.
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