在日期之前的几周里，他会暴风雨，愤怒，对一切的不平等，旧的令人震惊的呼吸精神像凤凰一样，从他满足的灰烬中产生。
(For weeks in advance of the date he would storm and rage and fulminate about the inequity of it all, and the old contumacious fire-breathing spirit arose like a phoenix from the ashes of his contentment.)