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It's a society fad now to have what are called 'slumming parties, and of course I've been asked to help. It makes my blood tingle when I hear them talk over the 'fun' as they call it. They get detectives to protect them, and then go through the tenements the homes of the poor and pry into their privacy and poverty, just out of curiosity.
"Hullo, pauper!" said the first. I felt my cheeks tingle, and my tongue wanted to say something very sharp, but I kept my teeth closed for a moment and then said: "Good morning, sir!"
There was an interval after "Castles in the Air"; Eileen sat, with her marvellously white hands resting on the keys, awaiting further suggestion. "Sing that funny song, Uncle Philip!" pleaded Billy; "you know the one about: "She hit him with a shingle Which made his breeches tingle Because he pinched his little baby brother; And he ran down the lane With his pants full of pain.
The kiss she had given him still seemed to tingle in his very soul, while her last smile was like a ray of warmest sunshine. But her face, never designed to be severe, was averted. After having heard the affairs of the nation discussed in a sound, scriptural manner, they all sat down to a dinner such as had never blessed poor Mr. Stanhope's vision before.
He did not turn, however, and when at last he disappeared, Mrs. Yorke, with a sigh of relief, went up to her room and began to write rapidly. When Alice Yorke came from her jaunt, she had on her face an expression of pleasant anticipation. She had been talking to Dr. Balsam, and he had said things about Gordon Keith that had made her cheeks tingle.
She noticed that as Nathanael spoke, the other three looked at him and herself doubtfully, as if to inquire how much she knew and anxiously, as though there were something painful and uncomfortable in a stranger's first seeing Elizabeth. Mrs. Harper felt her cheeks tingle nervously, but still she put her arm in her husband's, and said, "I should much like to go."
Then the tingle of wild impatience and suspense subsided, and happiness began! It had not been a good beginning, but it was very charming now. Adelaide and her father were full of jokes together, so quick and bright that Kate listened instead of talking.
But in this case, if you weren't in such a silly rage, I could show you that I've done nothing wrong. Only I know you wouldn't listen now, and I shan't condescend " "Condescend! I like that," said Kenrick, interrupting him with a scornful laugh, which made Walter's blood tingle. "You condescend to me, forsooth."
Once, when I had the effrontery to venture a word in his behalf, I had been silenced so effectively as to make my ears tingle. A thousand little signs led me to a conclusion which pained me more than I can express. Heaven is my witness that no baser feeling leads me to hint of it here.
Arsdale led the way to the shower, and a few minutes later Donaldson felt his skin tingle to new life beneath the cold spray. Facing the Sun When he came down-stairs he found her dressed in white and looking like a nun. Her hair was brushed back from her forehead and the silk-figured Japanese shawl was over her shoulders. He recalled the shawl and with it the picture she had made that first night.
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