I gathered that she was ready to interfere, had occasion demanded.
But occasion did not demand; and she held her peace quietly.
The rest of the examination proceeded without a hitch.

For a minute or two, it is true, I fancied that Sebastian betrayed a certain suppressed agitation--a trifling lack of his accustomed perspicuity and his luminous exposition.

But, after meandering for a while through a few vague sentences, he soon recovered his wonted calm; and as he went on with his demonstration, throwing himself eagerly into the case, his usual scientific enthusiasm came back to him undiminished.

He waxed eloquent (after his fashion) over the "beautiful" contrast between Callaghan's wholesome blood, "rich in the vivifying architectonic grey corpuscles which rebuild worn tissues," and the effete, impoverished, unvitalised fluid which stagnated in the sluggish veins of the dead patient.

The carriers of oxygen had neglected their proper task; the granules whose duty it was to bring elaborated food-stuffs to supply the waste of brain and nerve and muscle had forgotten their cunning.
The bricklayers of the bodily fabric had gone out on strike; the weary scavengers had declined to remove the useless by-products.