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The halo of light above the squares grew brighter. San Giorgio Maggiore appeared suddenly off the quarter. Miss Barton signed to the gondolier to wait. They were outside the city wash; the notes of the band in San Marco came at intervals; the water slipped noiselessly around the channels, and fire-fly lights from the gondolas twinkled on the Grand Canal. San Giorgio was asleep.
And what do you mean by scaring my pupils half out of their wits?" Her eyes twinkled. Nimbleheels saw this and knew that she was only pretending to be severe. Before he could reply Johnny Chuck began to chuckle. The chuckle became a laugh, and presently Johnny was laughing so hard he had to hold his sides. Now, as you know, laughter is catching.
If they are a tiny bit stained, I will embroider flowers over the spots. We shall manage the work somehow, never fear; and think of the tea and refreshments, and sails in the punts! We shall simply coin money over them. Lilias is going to do the punting." "Naturally she is!" Kitty's eyes twinkled with humorous enjoyment. "Easy and profitable! Just the sort of work Lilias likes. Oh yes, I agree.
Now they both, half uncovered from the darkness, slept side by side, like a happy married pair; the heaven took into its pure arms the breast of the earth, which shone silvery in the moonlight. Now, opposite the moon, first one star and then another began to shine; now a thousand of them, and now a million twinkled.
They won't lose sight of me if they can help it, but I reckon I'm good for the best of 'em." The man's attempt to look sincere was almost ludicrous. His cunning eyes twinkled with cupidity. Horrocks kept his voice down. "Right. I shall be at Lablache's store in an hour's time. You must see me to-night." Then aloud, for the benefit of listening ears, "You be careful what you are doing.
To-morrow we will see what we can find out about Buster Bear." "Has Buster Bear a tail?" asked Old Mother Nature, and her eyes twinkled. "No," declared Whitefoot the Wood Mouse promptly. "Yes," contradicted Chatterer the Red Squirrel. "What do you say, Prickly Porky?" Old Mother Nature asked. "I don't think he has any; if he has, I've never seen it," said Prickly Porky.
If I took any interest in any dam-Yankee outside of my son-in-law Laughton yondah, I should say that my brother's death had been amply avenged. The man at her right took up the challenge, and the war spread. Her eyes twinkled over the flames she had lit. 'Don't these folk, she said a little later, 'remind you of Arabs picnicking under the Pyramids? 'I've never seen the Pyramids, I replied.
If you feel that I ought to be presented to the manageress in state, kindly announce me as George Augustus Fitzroy, Viscount Medenham, of Medenham Hall, Downshire, and 91 Cavendish Square, London." The hall-porter's eyes twinkled. "I didn't mean that, my lord, but there's a chauffeur, name of Dale " "Ah, what of him?"
She went along quite smoothly and gracefully, while her feet twinkled past each other so fast that you could not see which was foremost; till every one asked the other who the strange woman was; and all agreed, for want of anything better to say, that she must be in league with Tom. But when she came to the plantation, they lost sight of her; and they could do no less.
I says, as innocent: 'I s'pose, if I lost this, there'd be a fellow out on the next train with blood in his eye and a six-gun in both hands, demanding explanations' and she flashed them dimples on me and twinkled them big, gray eyes of hers, and says: 'It's up to you to carry it safe, then, or words to that effect. I took notice she didn't deny but what he would."
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