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Updated: May 16, 2025
At nine o'clock, when the fun had waxed furious and wine had set the slowest tongue wagging and every eye a-sparkle, other guests streamed in to join the orgy the most beautiful ladies of the Court, from the Duchesse de Gesores and Madame de Mouchy to the Regent's own daughter, the Duchesse de Berry, who, young as she was, had little to learn of the arts of dissipation.
And equally in the illogical way of men, did he persist in coaxing Florimel to tell him of her vampiric transactions, in spite of his underlying feeling that he would prefer to have his wife engaged in some other trade: and the merry little creature would humor him willingly enough, with her purple eyes a-sparkle, and with her vivid lips curling prettily back, so as to show her tiny white sharp teeth quite plainly.
I didn't wait for more, but scrambled out of the dugout as fast as I could. Up above I saw a one-man flier slanting down for me. It was a-sparkle, ready for another ray. I came down the ladder in a hurry, I tell you." The man was panting, white-faced. Someone cried: "It's all over; they'll smother us in now." Hilary swung around. It would take very little to start a panic.
A newly married couple had recently come to live in the corner house a couple who wore evening clothes every night, and dined in incredible splendour at half-past seven. It was thrilling to behold them seated at opposite sides of the gay little table, all a-sparkle with glass and silver, to watch course after course being handed round, the final dallying over dessert.
Her cheeks were flushed with colour, her eyes a-sparkle with excitement. "Unless you will let me help you! ... I'm very strong; I could support you easily, if you would take my arm and lean on me. I'd love to do it. Do let me? Won't you, Uncle Bernard?" The old man fell backward on the seat with an exclamation of keenest surprise.
I, on the contrary, knew that sleeplessness had left me haggard, and met his advances, I fear, with churlish taciturnity. In the smoking compartment, when we were under way, I sat gazing out of the car window at fleeting fields still a-sparkle with frost crystals on wood and stubble.
His eyes are opaque and glaucous, like two expectorations, and his stillness is greater than anything one may dream of. On the other the moon's beams are setting points and lines a-sparkle and silvering gold. It is he who is talking to me, quietly and without end. But although his low voice is that of a friend, his words are incoherent. He is mad I am abandoned by him!
Had they not the pretty white schoolhouse, and the parsonage? And they had something more in common. Theirs was the beauty which they saw from the bridge: the lovely view of the broad and mighty river flowing peacefully on between its tree-clad banks, and all a-sparkle in the summer light; the wide view across the valley clear over to the blue hills. All this was theirs!
And the last golden leaves twirling down from cottonwood and aspen and mountain maple; the lofty brown peaks fresh powdered with snow; the air dazzling, keen, heady like wine; frost a-sparkle of mornings on stone, fence-post, roof, with a rainbow coruscation of diamonds; clear, high moons; marvellous, moonlit nights. It was the middle of the month.
The alder pole was jerking, quivering in his hands; the leather line was taut. "A strike, so help me! A big one!" He sprang to his feet, and, unmindful of the swaying of the banca, began to play the fish. Beatrice, her eyes a-sparkle, turned to watch; the paddle lay forgotten in her hands. "Here he comes! Oh, damn!" shouted Stern. "If I only had a reel now "
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