Read the excerpt from the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame.
as he gazed, something bright and small seemed to twinkle down in the heart of it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star.
but it could hardly be a star in such an unlikely situation; and it was too glittering and small for a glow-worm.
then, as he looked, it winked at him, and so declared itself to be an eye; and a small face began gradually to grow up round it, like a frame round a picture.

how does the author’s word choice express the tone of the excerpt?