Possible Clues:

• Vibration, of design from Burgess
• Shake in abject remorse
• The city turns up a little right. That will shake you
• A slight shake - perhaps of the earth
• Thrill stemmed by quiet remorse
• Richter scale reading
• Quake possibly more in extremes of terror
• Quick quake
• Quake in the centre — more or less
• A slight shake - perhaps of earth