Consequently it was to meet the glare of the company and my own lifted eyebrows and freezing eyes that the real Professor came into the room.
"I need hardly say there was a collision.

The pessimists all round me looked anxiously from one Professor to the other Professor to see which was really the more feeble.

But I won.

An old man in poor health, like my rival, could not be expected to be so impressively feeble as a young actor in the prime of life.

You see, he really had paralysis, and working within this definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was.