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"Concerning that incandescent but unfortunate young man," remarked the amiable Presbyterian "I trust God's Providence to care for children and fools " "And yet I found his remarks suggestive," said the twinkling-eyed Methodist. "That is, we asked for the belief of the average non-church-goer and I dare say he gave it to us.
"She'll be raising bigger crops than you men give her a year to get started. Well, girls, come on, then." They turned abruptly away, and Irish was left to his accounting with the Happy Family. He had not denied the thoughts and intentions imputed to him by the twinkling-eyed Miss Allen.
To him, as he sat long in his office brooding upon the darkness of life, there came a visitor, a tall, angular, twinkling-eyed, slow-speaking individual who perpetually chewed an unlighted cigar. He was Plonny Neal, no other, the reputed great chieftain of city politics. Once the Post, in an article inspired by West, had referred to Plonny as "this notorious grafter."
Those were the greedy ones. But this one! "What's she stalling for with that face?" he asked himself. Sophy Gold was moving toward the lift, the twinkling-eyed Miss Morrissey with her. "I'm working too hard to play. Thanks, just the same. Good-night." Max Tack, his face blank, stood staring up at them as the lift began to ascend. "Trazyem," said Miss Morrissey grandly to the lift man.
He was a twinkling-eyed, pimple-faced man, with his hair standing upright all over his head; and as he stood with one arm a-kimbo, holding up the glass to the light with the other hand, he looked quite friendly. 'There was a gentleman here, yesterday, he said 'a stout gentleman, by the name of Topsawyer perhaps you know him? 'No, I said, 'I don't think
It was Golemar, followed a moment later by a grinning, twinkling-eyed Ba'tiste. "Bon! Good!" he exclaimed. "See, Golemar? What I say to you? He wait up for Ba'teese. Bon! Now alert, mon ami! The pencil and the paper!" He slumped into a chair and dived into a pocket of his red shirt, to bring forth a mass of scribbled sheets, to stare at them, striving studiously to make out the writing.
Suffield, the gaunt, dark, but twinkling-eyed Methodist, also sniffed at the conclusion of the ethnic-trinities person. "We have an age of substitutes," he remarked.
Then America really becomes in his mind the synonym for kindness and service, and from mouth to mouth goes abroad the fame of the land that is aiming to do him good, without any menacing background of exploitation." I talked with one bright-faced, twinkling-eyed, red-blooded, big-framed missionary who was crossing with his family of a wife and four children.
"I mind him well," said old Jim on the morning of Theodosia's wedding day. There was a little group about the blacksmith's forge. Old Jim was in the centre. He was a fat, twinkling-eyed old man, fresh and ruddy in spite of his ninety years. "And," he went on, "he was about the settest man you'd ever see or want to see.
"Of course such inducements should increase the value," confirmed Mr. Vedder gravely, and he proceeded to hold another colloquy with the twinkling-eyed tenor. Amarilly went home for the surplice and received therefor the sum of one dollar, which swelled the Jenkins's purse perceptibly. And here began the mundane career of the minister's surplice.
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