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Updated: June 28, 2025
A strange excitement tingled through her, born of shame and shyness and fear, and of something else she did not understand, something which had lain banked in her nature like a fire since childhood and now threw forth its first flame of heat. What did it mean, that passionate fierceness with which her lips had clung to his?
The night had fallen; but it was not the comfortable night that soothes the troubled minds of mortal men; it was a night that agitated the soul mysteriously so that each nerve in the body tingled. There was a lurid darkness which displayed and yet distorted the objects that surrounded them.
"Boss, he run second!" Holley kept repeating. Bostil had the heart to shake hands with Holley and say he was glad, when it was on his lips to blurt out there had been no race. Then Bostil's nerves tingled at sight of Van trotting the King up the course toward the slope. Bostil watched with searching eyes. Sage King did not appear to be injured. Van rode straight up the slope and leaped off.
But he began to realize, after a time, that giving way to such excitement would do no good that it would be far wiser to sit quietly down and try to exercise his wits; but his mind was a perfect chaos, his head ached, his temples throbbed, his nerves tingled in every portion of his body, and to think calmly in such a state was beyond his power.
He suffered horribly. His skin tingled and he burnt hotly from head to foot. And then he swallowed, his will triumphed and he was again as outwardly self-possessed and nonchalant as he strove to appear.
The fingers that held the petal tingled, and a flush rose in her cheek. "I do know it," she said in a low voice. "You're always telling me. But, Dick" she flashed a mischievous glance at him "while you're holding me although it would be very nice we should starve." "Then let us starve," he cried vehemently. "Oh, no. Oh, most decidedly no. Starvation would be so unbecoming.
He turned his head deliberately and looked at her; and again she tingled with an apprehension which no previous word or action of his had ever justified. "Unprofitable questions," he said coolly, "like ill-timed jests, are better left alone." It was the first intentional snub he had ever administered to her, and she quivered under it, furious but impotent.
And she had tingled with pride as she introduced him to her friends, or gazed at him across the flower-laden table as he sat beside Edith Hanbury at the bridesmaids' dinner in Wayland Square. The wedding ceremony had somehow upset her opinion of him, but Honora regarded this change as temporary.
Even as he raised the saw, he stiffened in his tracks, listening; his blood tingled to his finger tips. He heard a footstep on the stair, faint, guarded, but unmistakable. It came on, slowly, stealthily. Pete thrust saw and rope under his mattress and flung himself upon it, all dressed as he was, face to the wall, with one careless arm under his head, just as if he had dropped asleep unawares.
But I found out nothing the next morning, and I left with a paternal benediction from Malbrouck, and a smile from his wife that sent my blood tingling as it hadn't tingled since a certain season in London, which began with my tuneful lyre sounding hopeful numbers and ended with it hanging on the willows.
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