Then he rose to his feet erect, like an insulted man, and thrust the chair away from him.
"Yes," he said in a voice indescribable, "you are right.

I am afraid of him.

Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him, and strike him on the mouth.

If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him down." "How ?" asked the staring Professor.

"Why ?" "Because I am afraid of him," said Syme; "and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid." De Worms blinked at him with a sort of blind wonder.