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Do you still think it a happy release?" Val's shrewd eyes narrowed to grey pin-points between their dark lashes. "Fleur wouldn't have suited him a bit. She's not bred right." "Poor little Fleur!" sighed Holly. Ah! it was strange this marriage. The young man, Mont, had caught her on the rebound, of course, in the reckless mood of one whose ship has just gone down.
His little freckled face was wrinkled into a hundred shrewd puckers, and his eyes were two twinkling pin-points of sharpness. He seemed to thrust their glance into Alwin, as he advanced to meet his visitors; and the men who were helping him paused and looked at the thrall with expectant grins. Rolf said blandly, "Greeting, Thorgrim Svensson! We have come to see your horse-fight.
Because I don't." The policeman stopped short, and gazed ahead with a new anxiety. The mist was thinner here, and pin-points of light from a row of lamps showed in a straight line for a considerable distance.
When Janet grew to be woman muckle, Gavin kept the habit, and Janet hardly knew that it was not the use and wont of all fathers to sidle down to a contiguous Railway Arms, and return some hours later with uncertain step, and face pricked out with bright pin-points of red the sure mark of the confirmed drinker of whisky neat. They were long days in the cottage at the back of Barbrax Long Wood.
Ten miles of this, one would say; and under it lines of men in blue coats and red trousers and green uniforms hugging the earth, as unseen as a battalion of ants at work in the tall grass. Even if a charge swept across a field one would have been able to detect nothing except moving pin-points on a carpet.
"Anne," he said, at last, "promise me you will go out of your way to be kind to her. Don't let these other odious women put pin-points into her, because she is so innocent, and all unused to this society. She is just my queen and my darling. Will you remember that?"
But the eagle-eyed watcher watched until his eyes narrowed and became pin-points, and he ceased to be a man and became an optic. "Wait," he breathed, "wait until I screw into one other inch of sight." And they waited, looking no longer on that scarcely perceptible speck in the distance, but straining upon the eye of the watcher as though they would penetrate it and look through it.
The long day passed, the light waned, and the shadows fell; but still the great broad stream was flowing by. But the night brought a new and even stranger sight. Simon had marked bundles of faggots upon the backs of many of the led horses, and now he saw their use. All over the great plain, red pin-points gleamed through the darkness, which grew and brightened into flickering columns of flame.
It was true there were faint lights here and there as of torches that had burned badly, but they were pin-points, serving only to deepen the surrounding blackness. Once or twice she thought she saw figures moving slowly, but she was not sure. She heard nothing. Helen was in an unreal world. An atmosphere new, fiery and surcharged surrounded her, and in its heat little things melted away.
As it lay, we gazed at it in silence. Slowly, I saw a great, soft radiance come upon her face. The red pin-points cleared away from my own vision. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. Washington Irving. "But Madam; but Madam " I tried to begin.
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