Possible Clues:

• Needlework style
• Angered with pain, use needle, in a way
• Bit of embroidery
• Upset at pain from running: this isn't running
• Annoyed Titus in school made to do this?
• Sewers use this method to traverse way to seventeen
• Peevish little chap carrying last of this needlework
• Short pain proving a bind
• Embroidery style with X's
• Upset with sharp pain, something done with needle?