When Farmer Oak smiled , the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears , his eyes were reduced to chinks , and diverging wrinkles appeared round them , extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun .
Though this incidentincidenthorrified Beatrice , it also secretly amused her and became part of what in a later generation would have been termed her “ line . ”