"he trembled"

The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant

"He had been touched so little in his life; he trembled at the tenderness of her hand on him."


"Whereever she walked, Judy was careful to steer her thoughts away from Cornelius. She never took the path where she'd first laid eyes on him crouched over a squirrel trap."


"One night, alone in her Dogtown bed, Judy finally admitted to herself that she had been in love with Cornelius. 'In love' precisely as it was described in the novels and poems she had read with Martha; love as a kind of sweet madness that colored everything. Judy had been shocked that strangers across the ocean could describe the workings of her Yankee heart: the preoccupation and yearning, the soaring happiness and keen appreciation of a man's hidden qualities, the sublime meeting of souls. And yet, there was never a mention of the sort of union she'd shared with Cornelius, the longing and fulfillment of the flesh that could transform two bodies into one."