The fact is, that during the course of his lectures at the Johannæum, the Professor often came to a complete standstill; he fought with wilful words that refused to pass his struggling lips, such words as resist and distend the cheeks, and at last break out into the unasked-for shape of a round and most unscientific oath: then his fury would gradually abate.
En sus explicaciones en el Johannaeum, se detenía a lo mejor luchando con un recalcitrante vocablo que no quería salir de sus labios; con una de esas palabras que se resisten, se hinchan y acaban por ser expelidas bajo la forma de un taco, siendo éste el origen de su cólera.