Almost quenched in the laugh he heard one word however, in the same voice which had made the jest--a voice he knew well enough--that of Patrick Beauchamp.

His face blazed up; his eyes flashed; and he had made one step forward, when he was arrested by the still face of the dead woman, which, ghostly as the morning moon, returned no glow in the red sunlight of his wrath; and in reverence he restrained his anger.

In another moment, the professor arrived.
During the lecture and accompanying demonstrations.

Alec was deaf and blind from burning rage; in the midst of which, however, he almost forgot his own wrong in regarding that done to the dead.

He became, in his own eyes, the champion of one whom nature and death had united to render defenceless.