But of a sudden his face had become ferocious, startling in its exasperated surprise, its savage wrath.

His eyes glared blood-shot, his teeth were uncovered, his jaws protruded as if in an animal impulse to rend.
'How's this got here ?' he almost roared.

'Who brings things o' this kind into my room?
Who's put this into my children's hands ?' 'What on earth is it ?' Gilbert asked in amazement.
'What is it?
Look at that! Look at that, I say! If this is the landlady's work, I'll find a new room this very night!' Gilbert tried to take the paper, but Bunce's hand, which trembled violently, held it with such a grip that there was no getting possession of it.

With difficulty Grail perceived that it was a religious tract.
'Why, there's no great harm done,' he said.

'The children can't read, can they ?' 'Jack can! The boy can! I'm teaching him myself.' He raved.