her absorbed young face with a thrillthrillof possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity .
He wentgoin , and for an instant experienced that ecstatic thrillthrillwhich only comes to elderly gentlemen of solitary habit who in a house full of their juniors find themselves alone at last .
It was possible , I reflectedreflect, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene , of the details of the picture , would be sufficient to modify , or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and , actingactupon this idea , I reinedreinmy horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling , and gazedgazedown -- but with a shuddershuddereven more thrillingthrillthan before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the grey sedge , and the ghastly tree-stems , and the vacant and eye-like windows .
thrilledthrillout above the silent house ( the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song ) a warm pink mountedmountto the girl 's cheek , mantledmantleher brow to the roots of her fair braids , and suffusedsuffusethe young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia .