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Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | be in that Well there is at least a curious coincidence of dates A ventilator is made a cord is hung and a lady who sleeps in the bed dies Does not that strike you I cannot as yet see any connection Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed No It was clamped to the floor Did you ever see a bed fastened like that before I cannot say that I have The lady could not move her bed It must always be in the same relative position to the ventilator and to the rope or so we |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | his daughter shall go to bed and you and I will keep it up till all s blue Thereupon Esther arose in sullen glory She had sat and listened for two mortal hours while her idol defiled himself and sneered away his godhead One by one her illusions had departed And now he wished to order her to bed in her own house now he called her Puss now even as he uttered the words toppling on his chair he broke the stem of his tobacco pipe in three Never did the sheep turn upon her shearer with a more |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | to show himself to the Vanished Council an hour from his awakening Now the place was empty except for two cable attendants These men seemed hugely astonished to recognise the Sleeper in the man who swung down from the cross seat Where is Ostrog he demanded I must see Ostrog forthwith He has disobeyed me I have come back to take things out of his hands Without waiting for Asano he went straight across the place ascended the steps at the further end and pulling the curtain aside found himself facing the perpetually labouring Titan The hall was empty Its |
Jane Austen | Emma | and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face He listened with all due deference acknowledged that he had heard many people say the same but yet he must confess that to him nothing could make amends for the want of the fine glow of health Where features were indifferent a fine complexion gave beauty to them all and where they were good the effect was fortunately he need not attempt to describe what the effect was Well said Emma there is no disputing about taste At least you |
Jane Austen | Emma | my hearing any thing of Miss Fairfax to day So obliging of you No we should not have heard if it had not been for this particular circumstance of her being to come here so soon My mother is so delighted for she is to be three months with us at least Three months she says so positively as I am going to have the pleasure of reading to you The case is you see that the Campbells are going to Ireland Mrs Dixon has persuaded her father and mother to come over and see her directly They had not |
Jane Austen | Emma | they are not put off he cannot stir But I know they will because it is a family that a certain lady of some consequence at Enscombe has a particular dislike to and though it is thought necessary to invite them once in two or three years they always are put off when it comes to the point I have not the smallest doubt of the issue I am as confident of seeing Frank here before the middle of January as I am of being here myself but your good friend there nodding towards the upper end of the table |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | need of ale than masses The saints so grant it Master Dick returned the other But here comes Sir Oliver An he were as quick with the long bow as with the pen he would be a brave man at arms Sir Oliver gave Dick a sealed packet with this superscription To my ryght worchypful master Sir Daniel Brackley knyght be thys delyvered in haste And Dick putting it in the bosom of his jacket gave the word and set forth westward up the village BOOK I THE TWO LADS CHAPTER I AT THE SIGN OF THE SUN IN KETTLEY |
Jane Austen | Emma | I mean in person tall and with that sort of look and not very talkative Quite wrong my dear aunt there is no likeness at all Very odd but one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand One takes up a notion and runs away with it Mr Dixon you say is not strictly speaking handsome Handsome Oh no far from it certainly plain I told you he was plain My dear you said that Miss Campbell would not allow him to be plain and that you yourself Oh as for me my judgment is worth nothing |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | Foremost of all of course were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them But besides that I could speak from experience of the central lake I could testify that it was full of strange creatures and I had seen several land forms of primeval life which we had not before encountered I reflected as I walked that few men in the world could have spent a stranger night or added more to human knowledge in the course of it I was plodding up the slope turning these thoughts over in my mind |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | augments my sorrow that ye had not marched the earlier Well said the knight what would ye The beginning of a feast and the end of a fray sir messenger and he mounted into his saddle Why how now he cried John Joanna Nay by the sacred rood where is she Host where is that girl Girl Sir Daniel cried the landlord Nay sir I saw no girl Boy then dotard cried the knight Could ye not see it was a wench She in the murrey coloured mantle she that broke her fast with water rogue where is she Nay |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | am an experimental investigator Indeed sir said Mrs Hall much impressed And my baggage contains apparatus and appliances Very useful things indeed they are sir said Mrs Hall And I m very naturally anxious to get on with my inquiries Of course sir My reason for coming to Iping he proceeded with a certain deliberation of manner was a desire for solitude I do not wish to be disturbed in my work In addition to my work an accident I thought as much said Mrs Hall to herself necessitates a certain retirement My eyes are sometimes so weak and painful |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | of my money for myself because I couldn t trust it to you as you were growing rusty in business matters We have been taking counsel together and getting on very well all things considered Agnes is worth the whole firm in my opinion If I may umbly make the remark said Uriah Heep with a writhe I fully agree with Miss Betsey Trotwood and should be only too appy if Miss Agnes was a partner You re a partner yourself you know returned my aunt and that s about enough for you I expect How do you find yourself |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | arm and two ribs badly fractured In the morning my note had been found a search party of a dozen farmers assembled and I had been tracked down and carried back to my bedroom where I had lain in high delirium ever since There was it seems no sign of the creature and no bloodstain which would show that my bullet had found him as he passed Save for my own plight and the marks upon the mud there was nothing to prove that what I said was true Six weeks have now elapsed and I am able to sit |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | have been frequently chronicled in these columns The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play or to imagine that death could be from any but natural causes Sir Charles was a widower and a man who may be said to have been in some ways of an eccentric habit of mind In spite of his considerable wealth he was |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I ve put some stuff into you now Notice your arm s sore Injections You ve been insensible for nearly thirty hours I thought slowly I was distracted now by the yelping of a number of dogs Am I eligible for solid food I asked Thanks to me he said Even now the mutton is boiling Yes I said with assurance I could eat some mutton But said he with a momentary hesitation you know I m dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat _Damn that howling_ I thought I detected a certain suspicion |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | had seen above ground in the ruin hastily retreating before the light Living as they did in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes and they reflected the light in the same way I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light But so soon as I struck a match in order to see them they fled incontinently vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels from which their |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | short upon the matron and bent his gaze upon her till even she who was not easily cowed was fain to withdraw her eyes and turn them towards the ground This is the woman is it demanded Monks Hem That is the woman replied Mr Bumble mindful of his wife s caution You think women never can keep secrets I suppose said the matron interposing and returning as she spoke the searching look of Monks I know they will always keep _one_ till it s found out said Monks And what may that be asked the matron The loss of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | then Stapleton never reached that island of refuge towards which he struggled through the fog upon that last night Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in this cold and cruel hearted man is forever buried Many traces we found of him in the bog girt island where he had hid his savage ally A huge driving wheel and a shaft half filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners driven |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | hand to his side Your legs are longer than mine and you are more accustomed to walking said he laughing I think that the place where we turn off is somewhere here Yes this is it round the corner of the trattoria Now it is a very narrow path so perhaps I had better go in front and you can follow He had lit his lantern and by its light they were enabled to follow a narrow and devious track which wound across the marshes of the Campagna The great Aqueduct of old Rome lay like a monstrous caterpillar across |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | beside him in the tussle Mr Shuan and five more were either killed outright or thoroughly disabled but of these two fell by my hand the two that came by the skylight Four more were hurt and of that number one and he not the least important got his hurt from me So that altogether I did my fair share both of the killing and the wounding and might have claimed a place in Alan s verses But poets have to think upon their rhymes and in good prose talk Alan always did me more than justice In the meanwhile |
Jane Austen | Emma | no doubt She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhood and sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half She was then interrupted by Harriet s coming in and if Harriet s praise could have satisfied her she might soon have been comforted Oh if I could but play as well as you and Miss Fairfax Don t class us together Harriet My playing is no more like her s than a lamp is like sunshine Oh dear I think you |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Bennet by admiring Mrs Phillips s manners and politeness He protested that except Lady Catherine and her daughter he had never seen a more elegant woman for she had not only received him with the utmost civility but even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening although utterly unknown to her before Something he supposed might be attributed to his connection with them but yet he had never met with so much attention in the whole course of his life Chapter 16 As no objection was made to the young people s engagement with their aunt and |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | But such as they were it may well be supposed how eagerly she went through them and what a contrariety of emotion they excited Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power and steadfastly was she persuaded that he could have no explanation to give which a just sense of shame would not conceal With a strong prejudice against everything he might say she began his account of what had happened at Netherfield She read with an eagerness which hardly left her |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | it She was bandaged and clamped of course so I had her safe but she woke while she was still misty and miaowed dismally and someone came knocking It was an old woman from downstairs who suspected me of vivisecting a drink sodden old creature with only a white cat to care for in all the world I whipped out some chloroform applied it and answered the door Did I hear a cat she asked My cat Not here said I very politely She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room strange enough to |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | in fact the Leap to which I alluded when I last had the pleasure of seeing you Advertising is rather expensive I remarked dubiously Exactly so said Mrs Micawber preserving the same logical air Quite true my dear Mr Copperfield I have made the identical observation to Mr Micawber It is for that reason especially that I think Mr Micawber ought as I have already said in justice to himself in justice to his family and in justice to society to raise a certain sum of money on a bill Mr Micawber leaning back in his chair trifled with his |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | red headed hound of a Campbell to be pleasured Well Alan said I that is a strange story and a fine one too And Whig as I may be I am glad the man was beaten Him beaten echoed Alan It s little ye ken of Campbells and less of the Red Fox Him beaten No nor will be till his blood s on the hillside But if the day comes David man that I can find time and leisure for a bit of hunting there grows not enough heather in all Scotland to hide him from my vengeance Man |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | years old and whose own manners indicated respectability was not to be hastily rejected Neither had anything occurred in the intelligence of their Lambton friends that could materially lessen its weight They had nothing to accuse him of but pride pride he probably had and if not it would certainly be imputed by the inhabitants of a small market town where the family did not visit It was acknowledged however that he was a liberal man and did much good among the poor With respect to Wickham the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | write of it more strongly I had no care of my life neither past nor future and I scarce remembered there was such a lad as David Balfour I did not think of myself but just of each fresh step which I was sure would be my last with despair and of Alan who was the cause of it with hatred Alan was in the right trade as a soldier this is the officer s part to make men continue to do things they know not wherefore and when if the choice was offered they would lie down where they |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | They were grave it is true and thoughtful but of an invincible serenity For the moment we could only sit among the bushes in patience and wait the coming of Zambo Presently his honest black face topped the rocks and his Herculean figure emerged upon the top of the pinnacle What I do now he cried You tell me and I do it It was a question which it was easier to ask than to answer One thing only was clear He was our one trusty link with the outside world On no account must he leave us No no |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | over again with somebody else I think we must get him to Bath Sophy must write and beg him to come to Bath Here are pretty girls enough I am sure It would be of no use to go to Uppercross again for that other Miss Musgrove I find is bespoke by her cousin the young parson Do not you think Miss Elliot we had better try to get him to Bath CHAPTER XIX While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne and expressing his wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath Captain Wentworth was already on his way |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | a gentle persuasive voice Ah what indeed I murmured What does it prove Shall I tell you he cooed Pray do It proves he roared with a sudden blast of fury that you are the damnedest imposter in London a vile crawling journalist who has no more science than he has decency in his composition He had sprung to his feet with a mad rage in his eyes Even at that moment of tension I found time for amazement at the discovery that he was quite a short man his head not higher than my shoulder a stunted Hercules whose |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | of a class of rich men He thought of Bellamy the hero of whose Socialistic Utopia had so oddly anticipated this actual experience But here was no Utopia no Socialistic state He had already seen enough to realise that the ancient antithesis of luxury waste and sensuality on the one hand and abject poverty on the other still prevailed He knew enough of the essential factors of life to understand that correlation And not only were the buildings of the city gigantic and the crowds in the street gigantic but the voices he had heard in the ways the uneasiness |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | there which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old The moon was shining bright upon the clearing and there in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen dead of fear and of fatigue But it was not the sight of her body nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her which raised the hair upon the heads of these three dare devil roysterers but it was that standing over Hugo and plucking at his throat there stood a foul thing a great black beast shaped like a |
Jane Austen | Emma | am quite roasted No coffee I thank you for me never take coffee A little tea if you please sir by and bye no hurry Oh here it comes Every thing so good Frank Churchill returned to his station by Emma and as soon as Miss Bates was quiet she found herself necessarily overhearing the discourse of Mrs Elton and Miss Fairfax who were standing a little way behind her He was thoughtful Whether he were overhearing too she could not determine After a good many compliments to Jane on her dress and look compliments very quietly and properly taken |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | sweetheart as of so superior a being and he was instantly taken with a feeling of diffidence But he had little opportunity for thought A low Hist sounded from close by and he hastened to descend the ladder Who goes he whispered Greensheve came the reply in tones similarly guarded What want ye asked Dick The house is watched Master Shelton returned the outlaw We are not alone to watch it for even as I lay on my belly on the wall I saw men prowling in the dark and heard them whistle softly one to the other By my |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | John was our leader when such practical details were in question The climb was a more simple thing now that the rope dangled down the face of the worst part of the ascent Within an hour we had brought up the rifles and a shot gun The half breeds had ascended also and under Lord John s orders they had carried up a bale of provisions in case our first exploration should be a long one We had each bandoliers of cartridges Now Challenger if you really insist upon being the first man in said Lord John when every preparation |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | gives me nutshells but what is his sleight of hand to mine when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes Having settled that I must go to the Blue Boar my mind was much disturbed by indecision whether or not to take the Avenger It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar s posting yard it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor s shop and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb s boy On the other hand |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | in the last interview I had with her Now I ll tell you a piece of information It was never so well worth your while to get me out of this country as it is to night Ah If it was all your money twenty times told to the last brass farden As he shook his heavy hand at me with his mouth snarling like a tiger s I felt that it was true What are you going to do to me I m a going said he bringing his fist down upon the table with a heavy blow and |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | bawling orders over their din Montgomery having unshipped the rudder landed likewise and all set to work at unloading I was too faint what with my long fast and the sun beating down on my bare head to offer any assistance Presently the white haired man seemed to recollect my presence and came up to me You look said he as though you had scarcely breakfasted His little eyes were a brilliant black under his heavy brows I must apologise for that Now you are our guest we must make you comfortable though you are uninvited you know He looked |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | of causing it to turn upon its master at the other side Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper so that it flew upon the first person it saw In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr Grimesby Roylott s death and I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience IX THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER S THUMB Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes for solution during the years of our intimacy there were only two |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | at table Littimer was there and had his usual effect upon me When I said to him that I hoped Mrs Steerforth and Miss Dartle were well he answered respectfully and of course respectably that they were tolerably well he thanked me and had sent their compliments This was all and yet he seemed to me to say as plainly as a man could say You are very young sir you are exceedingly young We had almost finished dinner when taking a step or two towards the table from the corner where he kept watch upon us or rather upon |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | me sir was the undaunted reply That s very well said returned the lawyer and whatever comes of it I shall make it my business to see you are no loser There is an axe in the theatre continued Poole and you might take the kitchen poker for yourself The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand and balanced it Do you know Poole he said looking up that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril You may say so sir indeed returned the butler It is well then that |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | once that someone had been meddling with them Then I called you sir and told you I was backwards and forwards all night and I never saw a soul or heard a sound Come up and have some breakfast with me said Mortimer and he took me into his own chambers Now what DO you think of this Jackson he asked It is the most objectless futile idiotic business that ever I heard of It can only be the work of a monomaniac Can you put forward any theory A curious idea came into my head This object is a |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | view of it By the wilderness of casks that I had walked on long ago and on which the rain of years had fallen since rotting them in many places and leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on end I made my way to the ruined garden I went all round it round by the corner where Herbert and I had fought our battle round by the paths where Estella and I had walked So cold so lonely so dreary all Taking the brewery on my way back I raised the rusty latch of a |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | I let down the side glass next to him and took off my glove and let my hand just rest upon the window frame so that he might see the ring and then I bowed and smiled like anything Elizabeth could bear it no longer She got up and ran out of the room and returned no more till she heard them passing through the hall to the dining parlour She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia with anxious parade walk up to her mother s right hand and hear her say to her eldest sister Ah Jane |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | table and in spite of my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises on science the others being volumes of poetry Then I walked across to the window hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the country side but an oak shutter heavily barred was folded across it It was a wonderfully silent house There was an old clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage but otherwise everything was deadly still A vague feeling of uneasiness began to steal over me Who were these German people and what were they doing living in this |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | had not expected an examination but fortunately I was ready for one My answers seemed to please him for his stern features relaxed You appear to have read my book with some profit sir said he It is a rare thing for me to meet anyone who takes an intelligent interest in such matters People can find time for such trivialities as sport or society and yet the beetles are overlooked I can assure you that the greater part of the idiots in this part of the country are unaware that I have ever written a book at all I |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | smokes Indian cigars uses a cigar holder and carries a blunt pen knife in his pocket There are several other indications but these may be enough to aid us in our search Lestrade laughed I am afraid that I am still a sceptic he said Theories are all very well but we have to deal with a hard headed British jury _Nous verrons_ answered Holmes calmly You work your own method and I shall work mine I shall be busy this afternoon and shall probably return to London by the evening train And leave your case unfinished No finished But |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | himself as to tell you a true piece of autobiography upon the occasion when he first met you and I dare say he has many a time regretted it since He was once a schoolmaster in the north of England Now there is no one more easy to trace than a schoolmaster There are scholastic agencies by which one may identify any man who has been in the profession A little investigation showed me that a school had come to grief under atrocious circumstances and that the man who had owned it the name was different had disappeared with his |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men regarding the contents of the place and for some time I was thinking of that and of the unaccountable familiarity of the name of Moreau but so odd is the human memory that I could not then recall that well known name in its proper connection From that my thoughts went to the indefinable queerness of the deformed man on the beach I never saw such a gait such odd motions as he pulled at the box I recalled that none of these men had spoken to me though most |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | s From this digression let me proceed to Dover I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage and was enabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenant inherited her feud and waged incessant war against donkeys Having settled the little business I had to transact there and slept there one night I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning It was now winter again and the fresh cold windy day and the sweeping downland brightened up my hopes a little Coming into Canterbury I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | hurried business See ye not how swift the beating draweth near It is now close by said Matcham They were now on the edge of the pit and as the pit itself was on a certain eminence they commanded a view over the greater proportion of the clearing up to the thick woods that closed it in The daylight which was very clear and grey showed them a riband of white foot path wandering among the gorse It passed some hundred yards from the pit and ran the whole length of the clearing east and west By the line of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | which the deed had been done although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter the other without doubt had been carried away by the murderer A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim but no cards or papers except a sealed and stamped envelope which he had been probably carrying to the post and which bore the name and address of Mr Utterson This was brought to the lawyer the next morning |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | wondered and questioned him eagerly but in vain He delighted in being asked but he would not tell No no some time or other perhaps but not now He would mention no names now but such he could assure her had been the fact He had many years ago received such a description of Miss Anne Elliot as had inspired him with the highest idea of her merit and excited the warmest curiosity to know her Anne could think of no one so likely to have spoken with partiality of her many years ago as the Mr Wentworth of Monkford |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | very faint and weak but they were overheard at once The curtain at the bed s head was hastily drawn back and a motherly old lady very neatly and precisely dressed rose as she undrew it from an arm chair close by in which she had been sitting at needle work Hush my dear said the old lady softly You must be very quiet or you will be ill again and you have been very bad as bad as bad could be pretty nigh Lie down again there s a dear With those words the old lady very gently placed |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | difference You must rehearse it with me that I may fancy _you_ him and get on by degrees You _have_ a look of _his_ sometimes Have I I will do my best with the greatest readiness but I must _read_ the part for I can say very little of it _None_ of it I suppose You are to have the book of course Now for it We must have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to the front of the stage There very good school room chairs not made for a theatre I dare say much more |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | he was the proprietor of the place The other presided over the ROUGE ET NOIR table He was probably some ten years younger and was a plump paunchy sturdy looking fellow with his under lip a little pursed from a habit of counting money inwardly as he paid it but with no decidedly bad expression in his face which was rather an honest and jolly one than otherwise He wore no coat the weather being hot and stood behind the table with a huge mound of crowns and half crowns before him and a cash box for notes This game |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | of us to make a movement the fly was already rattling toward the station The scene was over like a dream but the dream had left proofs and traces of its passage Next day the servant found the fine gold spectacles broken on the threshold and that very night we were all standing breathless by the bar room window and Fettes at our side sober pale and resolute in look God protect us Mr Fettes said the landlord coming first into possession of his customary senses What in the universe is all this These are strange things you have been |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | with the overthrow of the Council For the time Why should you expect trouble asked Graham abruptly There is a lot of discontent social discontent The Labour Department You are learning said Ostrog with a touch of surprise Yes It is chiefly the discontent with the Labour Department It was that discontent supplied the motive force of this overthrow that and your awakening Yes Ostrog smiled He became explicit We had to stir up their discontent we had to revive the old ideals of universal happiness all men equal all men happy no luxury that everyone may not share ideas |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | front of the altar I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church Suddenly to my surprise the three at the altar faced round to me and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards me Thank God he cried You ll do Come Come What then I asked Come man come only three minutes or it won t be legal I was half dragged up to the altar and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear and vouching for things |
Jane Austen | Emma | people in general and the devil of a temper Emma liked the subject so well that she began upon it to Mrs Weston very soon after their moving into the drawing room wishing her joy yet observing that she knew the first meeting must be rather alarming Mrs Weston agreed to it but added that she should be very glad to be secure of undergoing the anxiety of a first meeting at the time talked of for I cannot depend upon his coming I cannot be so sanguine as Mr Weston I am very much afraid that it will all |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Fanny s mind was engaged in these sort of hopes her uncle was soon after tea called out of the room an occurrence too common to strike her and she thought nothing of it till the butler reappeared ten minutes afterwards and advancing decidedly towards herself said Sir Thomas wishes to speak with you ma am in his own room Then it occurred to her what might be going on a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks but instantly rising she was preparing to obey when Mrs Norris called out Stay stay Fanny what |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | was a change in his voice that went to the heart Take care of yourselves says he I am dead He tried to open his clothes as if to look for the wound but his fingers slipped on the buttons With that he gave a great sigh his head rolled on his shoulder and he passed away The lawyer said never a word but his face was as sharp as a pen and as white as the dead man s the servant broke out into a great noise of crying and weeping like a child and I on my side |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | even on his encouragement to such a flight of audacious independence it was soon settled that if nothing were heard to the contrary Mrs Grant might expect her And you know what your dinner will be said Mrs Grant smiling the turkey and I assure you a very fine one for my dear turning to her husband cook insists upon the turkey s being dressed to morrow Very well very well cried Dr Grant all the better I am glad to hear you have anything so good in the house But Miss Price and Mr Edmund Bertram I dare say |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | high station in his own esteem and thus contributed indirectly to his better behaviour for he was scrupulous as well as high spirited and prided himself on nothing more than on a just submission So things went on until the famous occasion when Mr Naseby becoming engrossed in securing the election of a sound party candidate to Parliament wrote a flaming letter to the papers The letter had about every demerit of party letters in general it was expressed with the energy of a believer it was personal it was a little more than half unfair and about a quarter |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | she was met by her father who came out of his library with a letter in his hand Lizzy said he I was going to look for you come into my room She followed him thither and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations She followed her father to the fire place and they both sat down He then said |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | encircled by another and each of her arms by another so that she was openly mentioned as the kettle drum The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent representing himself as it were in one breath as an able seaman a strolling actor a grave digger a clergyman and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing match on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged This gradually led to a want of toleration for him and even on his being detected in holy orders and declining to perform the |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | the poor devils have to jump and the game is to see whether they are merely dashed to pieces or whether they get skewered on the canes They took us out to see it and the whole tribe lined up on the edge Four of the Indians jumped and the canes went through em like knittin needles through a pat of butter No wonder we found that poor Yankee s skeleton with the canes growin between his ribs It was horrible but it was doocedly interestin too We were all fascinated to see them take the dive even when we |
Jane Austen | Emma | soon cut it all away and it would not do so you lent him another and this was left upon the table as good for nothing But I kept my eye on it and as soon as I dared caught it up and never parted with it again from that moment I do remember it cried Emma I perfectly remember it Talking about spruce beer Oh yes Mr Knightley and I both saying we liked it and Mr Elton s seeming resolved to learn to like it too I perfectly remember it Stop Mr Knightley was standing just here was |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | other shout Graham stood his intelligence clinging helplessly to the thing he had just heard The Council he repeated blankly and then snatched at a name that had struck him But who is Ostrog he said He is the organiser the organiser of the revolt Our Leader in your name In my name And you Why is he not here He has deputed us I am his brother his half brother Lincoln He wants you to show yourself to these people and then come on to him That is why he has sent He is at the wind vane offices |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | row He went to the door released the strap and it slammed The American closed the other door Lemme go inside said Marvel staggering and weeping but still clutching the books Lemme go inside Lock me in somewhere I tell you he s after me I give him the slip He said he d kill me and he will _You re_ safe said the man with the black beard The door s shut What s it all about Lemme go inside said Marvel and shrieked aloud as a blow suddenly made the fastened door shiver and was followed by a |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | I am here upon an errand of expedition Stay me not I command here for my Lord of Gloucester For my Lord of Gloucester repeated the priest Hath then the battle gone so sore The battle father is at an end Lancaster clean sped my Lord of Risingham Heaven rest him left upon the field And now with your good leave I follow mine affairs And thrusting on one side the priest who seemed stupefied at the news Dick pushed open the door and rattled up the stairs four at a bound and without pause or stumble till he stepped |
Jane Austen | Emma | by the very few who presumed ever to see imperfection in her as rather negligent in that respect and as not contributing what she ought to the stock of their scanty comforts She had had many a hint from Mr Knightley and some from her own heart as to her deficiency but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable a waste of time tiresome women and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second rate and third rate of Highbury who were calling on them for ever and therefore she |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | that moment with propriety have spoken for himself she believed in short what Anne did not believe The same image of Mr Elliot speaking for himself brought Anne to composure again The charm of Kellynch and of Lady Elliot all faded away She never could accept him And it was not only that her feelings were still adverse to any man save one her judgement on a serious consideration of the possibilities of such a case was against Mr Elliot Though they had now been acquainted a month she could not be satisfied that she really knew his character That |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | enough I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha Well then I shan t tell you So now Oh it is a matter of no importance but I don t know why you should be so warm over such a trifle Warm You d be as warm maybe if you were as pestered as I am When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end of the business but it s Where are the geese and Who did you sell the geese to and What will you |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | the darkening window There was never any ceremony about the visits of such old friends and neighbours as we were We had not sat here many minutes when Mrs Markleham who usually contrived to be in a fuss about something came bustling in with her newspaper in her hand and said out of breath My goodness gracious Annie why didn t you tell me there was someone in the Study My dear mama she quietly returned how could I know that you desired the information Desired the information said Mrs Markleham sinking on the sofa I never had such a |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | with a touch of sullenness But I have been pedantically exact as you call it The fellow had a key and what s more he has it still I saw him use it not a week ago Mr Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word and the young man presently resumed Here is another lesson to say nothing said he I am ashamed of my long tongue Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again With all my heart said the lawyer I shake hands on that Richard SEARCH FOR MR HYDE That evening Mr Utterson |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | men He sidled in and out of a room to take up the less space He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet and more slowly He carried his head on one side partly in modest depreciation of himself partly in modest propitiation of everybody else It is nothing to say that he hadn t a word to throw at a dog He couldn t have thrown a word at a mad dog He might have offered him one gently or half a one or a fragment of one for he spoke as slowly as he walked but he |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | like a story that is told Serve me my dear Lanyon and save Your friend H J P S I had already sealed this up when a fresh terror struck upon my soul It is possible that the post office may fail me and this letter not come into your hands until to morrow morning In that case dear Lanyon do my errand when it shall be most convenient for you in the course of the day and once more expect my messenger at midnight It may then already be too late and if that night passes without event you |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | of authorship an author s skill in his craft being by such critics chiefly estimated with relation to the dilemmas in which he leaves his characters at the end of every chapter this brief introduction to the present one may perhaps be deemed unnecessary If so let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey or he would not be invited to proceed upon such |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | in the westward sky I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon So I travelled stopping ever and again in great strides of a thousand years or more drawn on by the mystery of the earth s fate watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky and the life of the old earth ebb away At last more than thirty million years hence the huge red hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens Then I stopped once more for the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | so near to smiling and was so different in effect This is a time when I do not like to be disturbed he said I know that returned John but I have I want I ve made a dreadful mess of it he broke out and turned to the window Mr Nicholson sat silent for an appreciable time while his unhappy son surveyed the poles in the back green and a certain yellow cat that was perched upon the wall Despair sat upon John as he gazed and he raged to think of the dreadful series of his misdeeds and |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | her as his mother Mrs Maylie was anxiously waiting to receive her son when he reached the cottage The meeting did not take place without great emotion on both sides Mother whispered the young man why did you not write before I did replied Mrs Maylie but on reflection I determined to keep back the letter until I had heard Mr Losberne s opinion But why said the young man why run the chance of that occurring which so nearly happened If Rose had I cannot utter that word now if this illness had terminated differently how could you ever |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | of a group of minor officers A broader lower stage surrounded this quarter deck and on this were the black uniformed guards of the revolt armed with the little green weapons whose very names Graham still did not know Those standing about him perceived that his eyes wandered perpetually from the swarming people in the twilight ruins about him to the darkling mass of the White Council House whence the Trustees would presently come and to the gaunt cliffs of ruin that encircled him and so back to the people The voices of the crowd swelled to a deafening tumult |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | could have carried away a victim as easily as a cat would a mouse In that case the others would have followed in pursuit But then they would assuredly have taken their rifles with them The more I tried to think it out with my confused and weary brain the less could I find any plausible explanation I searched round in the forest but could see no tracks which could help me to a conclusion Once I lost myself and it was only by good luck and after an hour of wandering that I found the camp once more Suddenly |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | a whistle in the air and then a sounding smack and the fragments of a broken arrow fell about their ears Some one from the upper quarters of the wood perhaps the very sentinel they saw posted in the fir had shot an arrow at the chimney top Matcham could not restrain a little cry which he instantly stifled and even Dick started with surprise and dropped the windac from his fingers But to the fellows on the lawn this shaft was an expected signal They were all afoot together tightening their belts testing their bow strings loosening sword and |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen She did not blame Lady Russell she did not blame herself for having been guided by her but she felt that were any young person in similar circumstances to apply to her for counsel they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness such uncertain future good She was persuaded that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home and every anxiety attending his profession all their probable fears delays and disappointments she should yet have been a happier woman in maintaining the engagement than she had |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | to be written to make the world wiser Which is still a marvel to more experienced people than Oliver Twist every day of their lives There are a good many books are there not my boy said Mr Brownlow observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling A great number sir replied Oliver I never saw so many You shall read them if you behave well said the old gentleman kindly and you will like that better than looking at the outsides that is some cases because there are books of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | to Armitage s words I waited by the Blue John Gap for half an hour or more but there was no return of the sound so at last I wandered back to the farmhouse rather mystified by what had occurred Decidedly I shall explore that cavern when my strength is restored Of course Armitage s explanation is too absurd for discussion and yet that sound was certainly very strange It still rings in my ears as I write April 20 In the last three days I have made several expeditions to the Blue John Gap and have even penetrated some |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | Clearly the man wanted to talk An idea natural enough under the circumstances prompted him to keep the conversation going I ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself he said in a tone of commonplace gossip but in those cases I have known people have usually found something I dare make no experiments He spoke wearily He gave a gesture of rejection and for a space both men were silent Exercise suggested Isbister diffidently with a glance from his interlocutor s face of wretchedness to the touring costume he wore That is what I have tried Unwisely perhaps I have followed |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | opposite to the balcony was densely crowded with blue clad people Some sort of struggle had sprung into life People seemed to be pushed up the running platforms on either side and carried away against their will They would spring off so soon as they were beyond the thick of the confusion and run back towards the conflict It is the Sleeper Verily it is the Sleeper shouted voices That is never the Sleeper shouted others More and more faces were turned to him At the intervals along this central area Graham noted openings pits apparently the heads of staircases |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | soften and to turn into something like sympathy What was the use of revenging his death upon a man who was as much stricken by that death as I was And then as my wits gradually returned I began to realize also that I could do nothing against MacCoy which would not recoil upon my mother and myself How could we convict him without a full account of my brother s career being made public the very thing which of all others we wished to avoid It was really as much our interest as his to cover the matter up |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | of day at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members With every day and from both sides of my intelligence the moral and the intellectual I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck that man is not truly one but truly two I say two because the state |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | was no longer blue North eastward it was inky black and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless and south eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where cut by the horizon lay the huge hull of the sun red and motionless The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south eastern face It was the same rich green |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | cuddled up and basked in that yellow pool of light exactly as a cat would do It was so graceful so sinewy and so gently and smoothly diabolical that I could not take my eyes from the opening Isn t he splendid said my host enthusiastically Glorious I never saw such a noble creature Some people call it a black puma but really it is not a puma at all That fellow is nearly eleven feet from tail to tip Four years ago he was a little ball of black fluff with two yellow eyes staring out of it He |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | when he was doing me the honour of talking to me in the playground that I hazarded the observation that something or somebody I forget what now was like something or somebody in Peregrine Pickle He said nothing at the time but when I was going to bed at night asked me if I had got that book I told him no and explained how it was that I had read it and all those other books of which I have made mention And do you recollect them Steerforth said Oh yes I replied I had a good memory and |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | speak to one another With the exception perhaps of Admiral and Mrs Croft who seemed particularly attached and happy Anne could allow no other exceptions even among the married couples there could have been no two hearts so open no tastes so similar no feelings so in unison no countenances so beloved Now they were as strangers nay worse than strangers for they could never become acquainted It was a perpetual estrangement When he talked she heard the same voice and discerned the same mind There was a very general ignorance of all naval matters throughout the party and he |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | door of the chief hotel which Oliver used to stare up at with awe and think a mighty palace but which had somehow fallen off in grandeur and size and here was Mr Grimwig all ready to receive them kissing the young lady and the old one too when they got out of the coach as if he were the grandfather of the whole party all smiles and kindness and not offering to eat his head no not once not even when he contradicted a very old postboy about the nearest road to London and maintained he knew it best |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | for they told him it was his brother and it was the same man he had met at the market town and seen looking in with Fagin at the window of his little room Monks cast a look of hate which even then he could not dissemble at the astonished boy and sat down near the door Mr Brownlow who had papers in his hand walked to a table near which Rose and Oliver were seated This is a painful task said he but these declarations which have been signed in London before many gentlemen must be in substance repeated |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | into anger Gratitude and faith are words Dick Shelton he continued but I look to deeds In this hour of my peril when my name is attainted when my lands are forfeit when this wood is full of men that hunger and thirst for my destruction what doth gratitude what doth faith I have but a little company remaining is it grateful or faithful to poison me their hearts with your insidious whisperings Save me from such gratitude But come now what is it ye wish Speak we are here to answer If ye have aught against me stand forth |
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