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The great Professor Challenger has been -- very improperly and / imperfectly -- used in fiction. A daring author placed him in impossible / and romantic situations in order to see how he would react to them. He / reacted to the extent of a libel action, an abortive appeal for / suppression, a riot in Sloane Street, two personal assaults, and the / loss of his position as lecturer upon Physiology at the London School of / Sub-Tropical Hygiene. Otherwise, the matter passed more peaceably than / might have been expected.
But he was losing something of his fire. Those huge shoulders were a / little bowed. The spade-shaped Assyrian beard showed tangles of grey / amid the black, his eyes were a trifle less aggressive, his smile less / self-complacent, his voice as monstrous as ever but less ready to roar / down all opposition. Yet he was dangerous, as all around him were / painfully aware. The volcano was not extinct, and constant rumblings / threatened some new explosion. Life had much yet to teach him, but he / was a little less intolerant in learning.