Liedenbrock is not at table!" "Who could have believed it ?" I said, with my mouth full.
"Something serious is going to happen," said the servant, shaking her head.
My opinion was, that nothing more serious would happen than an awful scene when my uncle should have discovered that his dinner was devoured.

I had come to the last of the fruit when a very loud voice tore me away from the pleasures of my dessert.

With one spring I bounded out of the dining-room into the study..