Jacob was excited.

It was the first time he had read his essay aloud.
"Damned swine!" he said, rather too extravagantly; but the praise had gone to his head.

Professor Bulteel, of Leeds, had issued an edition of Wycherley without stating that he had left out, disembowelled, or indicated only by asterisks, several indecent words and some indecent phrases.

An outrage, Jacob said; a breach of faith; sheer prudery; token of a lewd mind and a disgusting nature.

Aristophanes and Shakespeare were cited.