The sight of that propagandist document affected him, to use the old simile, as scarlet does a bull.

Gilbert knew the man's prejudices, but, in his own more cultured mind, could not have conceived such frenzy of hatred as this piece of Christian doctrine excited in Bunce.

For five minutes the poor fellow was possessed; sweat covered his face; he was shaken as if by bodily anguish.

He read scraps aloud, commenting on them with scornful violence.

Last of all he flung the paper to the ground and trampled it into shreds.