I tried to interrupt him.

But he was so angry that it was impossible to interrupt him and said something which made it seem to me impossible either to explain or apologize.

But I regretted the transaction exceedingly, and have always considered that I was well punished for my joke at the expense of my unhappy classmate.
An anecdote came down from a class before my time which I think ought not to be lost.

One of the boys when the cold weather came on in the first term of his freshman year took out from the college library a book which was nearly the largest and thickest volume it contained.

It was the works of Bishop Williams, who I think was one of the seven bishops persecuted by James II.