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Fleda forgot the glittering wet grass that had set her own eyes a-sparkling but a minute ago; she walked along, cogitating, swinging her bonnet by the strings in thoughtful vibration, till, by the help of sunlight and sweet air, and the loved scenes, her spirits again made head and swept over the sudden hindrance they had met.
As she stopped in front of the figure he turned his head slowly and gazed at her with an expression as far away and bewildered as a lost baby's. In the half-light of the coming day he looked supernatural a strange spirit from under the earth or above the earth, but not of the earth. This was borne in upon Patsy's consciousness, and it set her Celtic blood tingling and her eyes a-sparkling.
"I am a-looking as hard as ever I can look," says Jo with starting eyes, "and that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd." "What about those rings you told me of?" asks Bucket. "A-sparkling all over here," says Jo, rubbing the fingers of his left hand on the knuckles of his right without taking his eyes from the figure. The figure removes the right-hand glove and shows the hand.
As though by consent our three friends during this period fell into silence, and none spoke until the sun looked out over the ice, and the frost-covered snow each frost flake a miniature prism was set a-sparkling and a-glinting as though the snow was thick sown with diamonds. "Glorious!
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