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The Parson was staring through the spy-glass at Beachy Head. A mile and a half away, it lay in misty splendour, not unlike a lion sleeping. At the foot of it a few tiny black figures moved among the rocks. "I make out about a score of em," he said. "The boat's beached, and a man over it. I can catch the glint on his gun-barrel. We can't get at em except along the shore, hang it!
He was not only clever and good to look upon, but he possessed that indefinable charm of personality which is quite independent of physical beauty or mental ability. He had steady, grayish-blue eyes, dark chestnut hair with a glint of gold in its waves when the sunlight struck it, and a chin that gave the world assurance of a chin.
It was none too soon, for directly after there was a glint of steel over the edge of one of the undulations of the moor, and seen at the distance they were, with the western sun shining full upon them, it seemed as if a long array of armed men was rising from the earth, as first their helmets, then their shoulders, breastplates, and soon after the horses' heads appeared, and then more and more, till a line of well-mounted troops appeared advancing at a walk, while behind them, gradually coming into view in the same way, a second line could be seen.
"One moment, sir!" he said. West stopped at once, a cold glint of humour in his eyes. Without a sign of perturbation he faced round, meeting the American's hostile scrutiny calmly, judicially. "I wish to say," said Rudd, "on behalf of myself, and I think I may take it on behalf of these other gentlemen also, that your action was a most dastardly piece of impertinence, to give it its tamest name.
At the point where the road narrows Kosmaroff suddenly reined in his horse, and leaning forward, peered into the darkness. There are no lamps at the farther end of the Czerniakowska. "What is it?" asked Martin. "I thought I saw a glint under the wall," answered Kosmaroff. "There there it is again. Steel. There is some one there. It is the gleam of those distant lights on a bayonet."
Flinging his legs over each side of the ladder, Coyote Pete slid to the ground like a boy sliding down a cellar door. "I could catch the glint of sunlight on their rifles," he explained. "The beggars were trying to approach unseen, though, I guess, for they were sneaking round a neck of woods so as to take advantage of that arroyo that runs almost up to the mine. Better get busy with that borer."
"I have been a blind and wicked woman, and I have almost wrecked two lives." Two! What of mine? "You see," she struggled on, against the glint in Aunt Selina's eyes. "I I did not realize how much I cared, until it was too late. I did so many things that were cruel and wrong oh, Jim, Jim!" She turned and buried her head on his shoulder and cried; real tears.
The dragonflies would alight right on me, and some wore bright blue markings and some blood red. There was a blue beetle, a beautiful green fly, and how the blue wasps did flip, flirt and glint in the light. So did the blackbirds and the redwings. That embankment was left especially to shade the water, and to feed the birds.
From their high place they could see the hills spread out below them, fold after fold as of a great cloak, deeply green, seemingly infinite in expanse, broken only by the blue glint of the Agnes lakes, like two great twin sapphires hidden in the forest. But they couldn't make out a single roof top of Snowy Gulch. The forest had already claimed it utterly.
But though fully sensible of my unworthiness I shall do my best to deserve the very high honour that has been done me. And I hope we may count upon your approval and support." Again his bow included Lady Bassett. There was a mocking glint in the glance he threw her. She came forward as though in answer to a challenge, her face unwontedly flushed.
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