Way off through the trees I could see the twinkle of Cresset's lights and I thought of them there; but it was as if they were at the other end of the world, too far for me to reach them or for them to hear my call.
Well, not exactly in the henhouse, Peter," said his father, with a twinkle in his eyes.
Most pathetic," said Miss Chase, with a twinkle in her dark eyes.
Adventures are thrust on some people,' was the nonchalant reply, with shoulders depressed, and a twinkle of the eye, as if he purposed amazing his auditor.
A very winsome young lady also sat in a lounge-chair, and Forel close by glanced at her with a most unbusinessliketwinkle in his eyes.
So I should have fancied," said the girl, more to herself than the listener, and wondered whether it was an effect of the firelight or the curious twinkle had once more flashed into his eyes.
Miss Deringham saw the twinkle in her father's eyes and laughed a little.
The laugh rang pleasantly, and the faint twinkle in Alton's eyes was in keeping with it.
No," said Alton with a twinkle in his eyes, "I don't think that is a thing anybody could bring up against me.
There was a faint twinkle in the speaker's eyes which Alton understood, for Atkinson, who was not an adept at trailing deer, had shot more than a wapiti.
The teamster said nothing, but a faint twinkle replaced the anger in his eye, when as they started again Miss Deringham glanced at him questioningly.
Alton noticed the movement, and glanced at him with a twinkle in his eyes.
Again the rifle flashed, and he wondered vacantly whether the twinkle that perplexed his hazy sight could be lights that blinked at them.
The grey eyes were keen and steady until a sympathetic twinkle crept into them, and Miss Deringham felt that the man understood her position.
Okanagan glanced at him with a little twinkle which was not altogether mirthful in his eyes.
There was a twinkle in the rector's eyes which I did not altogether relish.
He winked again; there was positively an impertinent twinklein his eye.
But now he was breaking out in a new way, and I missed the reassuring twinkle in his eye.
I cried in alarm, for that familiartwinkle in his eye had been replaced by a strange exaltation.
Yes," replied Sarah, apparently very serious, though there was a twinklein her eye.
A slim moon hung in the west, considerately withholding a part of her light that the stars might twinkle the brighter in their vain effort to rival Bettina's eyes.
The profits of the Muse went to provide this room of old furniture and roses, this beautiful garden a-twinkle with Japanese lanterns, like gorgeous fire-flowers blossoming under the white crescent-moon of early June.
More slowly, but still at a good pace, she descended towards the Black Hole, now beginning totwinkle and glimmer with lights, and far less grimy and prosaic than in the crude day.
The twinkle had disappeared from his blue eyes, like the flash on a ripple, and the eyes were as quiet and gray as the water after the ripple had passed.
Why, Cary, I even learnt my politics from you,” he said, with a twinkle in his eye.
Next day Steve rode his new horse to Birdwood and, with a twinkle in his eyes, offered him to Blair.
The twinkle in his gray eyes and a something in his lazy voice reminded Ruth of Reely Thurston.
For reasons of State,” added Steve, with a twinkle in his eye, as he glanced over it.
After the benediction, when Caroline asked how he enjoyed it, the cause of the twinklebecame apparent.
He listened to the sermon, the text of which was from the Beatitudes, with outward solemnity, but with a twinkle in his eye.
Warren turned and looked at her, a twinkle in his eyes.
The twinklewent out of Warren Baker's eyes and his pleasant voice was serious when he spoke.
I just know I saw them dodge; besides, I saw the twinkle in that old fisherman's eye," said Dick Wooster.
You evidently had a very jolly day, boys," said Mr. Bernard, with a twinkle in his gray eyes.
Captain Dare asked, with a twinklein the funny light-gray eyes overshadowed with bushy brows.
Nor any ginger, even if we had the treacle and flour," added Ben, with a mischievous twinkle of the eye.
Let us hope that she did," said the superintendent, kindly, and with a twinkle of his fine eyes which the others did not notice.
Once he fancied he caught the twinkle of a light so low down that it was on shore, but it vanished quickly and he believed he was mistaken.
Mr. Hoffer blinked and peered at Mark with a sort of twinkle in his blue eyes.
I could see Mark's eyes begin to twinkleand knew he was enjoying himself.
When she came to herself, she was propped against the rock, and Gerald was fanning her with his cap and gazing at her with eyes of anxiety and tenderness, which yet had a twinkle in their depths.
Colonel Ferrers," said Gertrude; "a story that makes your eyes twinkle so must be one that we all want to hear.
Upon the low swell the lights were beginning to twinkle from the windows of the Aydelot home, and the sounds of voices and of hurrying footsteps told of something unusual going on within.
Whatever there is lacking seriousness in the judge's face is too slight to call for notice--a mere twinkle to be ignored.
The eyes of her companions twinkle a little interchange across her unseen, but are careful to keep anything suggesting a smile out of their voices as they apply for enlightenment.
But if the doctor were quite in earnest over a sort of Spartan declaration of policy his heart feels the prudence of, would that responsive twinkle flutter in his face behind its mock gravity?
His own eye twinkled a little, but the twinkle was determined and sinister, with only an alloy of humour.
Notwithstanding the respectful modesty of her tone, there was just a twinkle of satire in her eye.
