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He nervously watched the water overflow the pan of dirt at its edges until, emptied of earth and gravel, the black sand alone covered the bottom. A slight premonition of disappointment followed; a rich indication would have shown itself before this! A few more workings, and the pan was quite empty except for a few pin-points of "color," almost exactly the quantity he found before.
There was nothing but a black mass of pulp, out of which glinted and gleamed a dozen pin-points of light. With a howl of rage the colonel turned the contents upon the stone floor of the vault and raked it over with the end of his walking-stick.
Some of the boys couldn't help snickering right out when the Hen took to loading up Shorty with little Gustavuses; but Boston didn't notice nothing, and Shorty who had wits as sharp as pin-points, and could be counted on for what cards was needed in the kind of game the Hen was playing put down the ace she asked for and never turned a hair.
The fat man's eyes contracted till they seemed like pin-points, and their scrutiny made Bateman so uncomfortable that he felt himself blushing. "I guess Braunschmidt & Co. and Edward Barnard didn't see eye to eye on certain matters," he replied. Bateman did not quite like the fellow's manner, so he got up, not without dignity, and with an apology for troubling him bade him good-day.
You can't be trusted to take even reasonable care of yourself. Heaven only knows how it is you weren't killed long ago. It was thanks to no discretion on your part. You don't know the meaning of the word." Nick did not answer, did not so much as seem to hear. He was standing before the Brigadier. His eyes gleamed in his alert face two weird pin-points of light.
"It has not given it, little one!" His child had let down on her question his thought to the basis of life, as if on threads. Now he looked around, and his smile was bristling with pin-points of irony, increasing in sharpness. He thought a long time before he said, aloud: "What comes of this?" And afterward, in an inquiring tone, he almost cried: "An error?"
"Oh, well," he muttered to himself as he watched the few harbor lights falling astern, yellow pin-points on the velvety black of the shore," this is likely to be the finish of that. I think I've burned my last bridge. And I have learned to stand on my own feet, whether she believes so or not." "Anon we return, being gathered again Across the sad valleys all drabbled with rain."
There were several red glares at different points, and the pile of debris upon the railway line was still smoldering darkly, but they all seemed mere pin-points of light compared to that monstrous conflagration throbbing beyond the hills. What copy it would have made for the Gazette!
Gwendolyn, watching, saw two shining spots in Jane's back face grow suddenly small to the size of glinting pin-points; then disappear. The nurse turned, and came dancing back. "You'd better let me have that braid, old man," she cried rudely. "I'll smooth down your saucy tongue," he threatened. "Tee! hee! hee! hee!" she tittered. "Ha! ha! ha!" Gwendolyn had heard her laugh before.
Hobart rushed to another room with the tumbler. I could hear him fumbling. I stooped over Harry. But he held up his hand. "No, Charlotte, no. You must not. If " He stopped. Again the strange attention, as if he was listening to something far off in the distance; the pupils of his hollow, worn, lustreless eyes were pin-points. He stood on his feet rigid, quivering; then he held up his hand.
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