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nervous system, and fills you with delight.
"How can I express all that I felt from the contact of Teleny's hand? It set me on fire; and, strange to say, it soothed me at the same time. How sweeter, softer, it was, than any woman's kiss. I felt his grasp steal slowly over all my body, caressing my lips, my throat, my breast; my nerves quivered from head to foot with delight, then it sank downwards into my reins, and Priapus, re-awakened, uplifted his head. I actually felt I was being taken possession of, and I was happy to belong to him.
"I should have liked to have said something polite in acknowledgment for the pleasure he had given me by his playing, still what unhackneyed phrase could have expressed all the admiration I felt for him?
"'But, gentlemen,' said he, 'I am afraid I am keeping you away from the music.'
"'I, myself, was just going away,' quoth I.
"'The concert bores you then, does it?'
"'No, on the contrary; but after having heard you play, I cannot listen to any more music to-night.'
