Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldbut there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
F. Scott Fitzgerald