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Don't you think that maybe if she understood she might let me?" How in the world had that last question ever popped out? How had she worked up to it? A little appalled, a little abashed, but withal atingle at her own daring, she breathlessly, even hopefully, awaited his answer. But father ruthlessly squashed her hopes with two fell sentences and one terrifying oath. "I should say not!
Auberry was his name, and as I talked with him he told me of days passed with my heroes Fremont, Carson, Ashley, Bill Williams, Jim Bridger, even the negro ruffian Beckwourth all men of the border of whose deeds I had read. Auberry had trapped from the St. Mary's to the sources of the Red, and his tales, told in simple and matter-of-fact terms, set my very blood atingle.
Steve was not beyond the age of enthusiasm; Terry was all atingle. Life was shaping itself to an adventure.
The man went straight to the great cabin, and poor Barnaby, his brain all atingle, stood looking after him, feeling that now indeed the last drop of bitterness had been added to his trouble to have such a wretch overhear what he had said.
To take the place of this the lower strata draws in from the sea, filled with the coolness and sparkle of the brine and informed with that mysterious tonic which seems born of wind-tossed salt water. At such times the east wind brings the breath of life to our nostrils and sets the jaded motor centres of our nerves atingle with new power.
There are some verses " The Duke quoted, with a half-guilty air: "Now I loiter, and dream to the branches swaying In furtive conference, high overhead Atingle with rumors that Winter is sped And over his ruins a world goes Maying. "Verses!" The Earl snorted. "At your age!"
Oh, would they come out through the waiting-room thought Robin, shrinking back. And what had Adam Kraus said? But Mr. Granger had opened another door Robin heard it close. She stepped noiselessly toward that half-open door at the end of the room. Her head was clear, her heart atingle. He, Adam Kraus, had dared to say the invention was his!
Should we seek to name the most human man among those who let the nation to its struggle with slavery, and yet was no statesmen, we should, of course, name Lowell. We know that his humor went further than any man's passion toward setting tolerant men atingle with the new impulses of the day.
Sky above; wild woods where never foot had trod; air that drew through the nostrils in thirst-quenching draughts; blood atingle to the laughing rhythm of the river what wonder that youth leaped to a fresh life from the mummified existence of little, old peoples in little, old lands? We laughed aloud from fulness of life. Jean laid his paddle athwart, ripped off his buckskin, and smiled back.
Then suddenly there springs to our eye a line of truest beauty which sets our senses atingle with delight, and all our labor is more than paid. And if our great poets were to be judged by single lines or single stanzas we may safely say that Wordsworth would be placed high among them. He is so placed, but it is rather by the love of the few than by the voice of the many.
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