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Professor Challenger was in a bad humour, and when that was so his / household were made aware of it. Neither were the effects of his wrath / confined to those around him, for most of those terrible letters which / appeared from time to time in the Press, flaying and scarifying some / unhappy opponent, were thunderbolt flashes from an offended Jove who sat / in sombre majesty in his study-throne on the heights of a Victoria flat. / Servants would hardly dare to enter the room where, glooming and / glowering, the maned and bearded head looked up from his papers as a / lion from a bone. Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she / felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers / may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage. She was not safe from / the acridity of his tongue, but at least she need not fear physical / violence, which was well within the possibilities for others.
Sometimes these Berserk fits of the famous Professor arose from material / causes. "Hepatic, sir, hepatic! " he would explain in extenuation after / some aggravated assault. But on this particular occasion he had a very / definite cause for discontent. It was Spiritualism!