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Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | gate in the fence standing ajar I pushed it open and went in A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon and the moon was not yet up to scatter it But the stars were shining beyond the mist and the moon was coming and the evening was not dark I could trace out where every part of the old house had been and where the brewery had been and where the gates and where the casks I had done so and was looking along the desolate garden walk when I beheld a solitary figure in it The figure showed |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | in When he came to the low church wall he got over it like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff and then turned round to look for me When I saw him turning I set my face towards home and made the best use of my legs But presently I looked over my shoulder and saw him going on again towards the river still hugging himself in both arms and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there for stepping places when the rains were heavy or the |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | On the other hand if I should find the hut and its tenant should not be within it I must remain there however long the vigil until he returned Holmes had missed him in London It would indeed be a triumph for me if I could run him to earth where my master had failed Luck had been against us again and again in this inquiry but now at last it came to my aid And the messenger of good fortune was none other than Mr Frankland who was standing grey whiskered and red faced outside the gate of his |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | family I have heard it It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor He spoke with a smile but I seemed to read in his eyes that he took the matter more seriously The story took a great hold upon the imagination of Sir Charles and I have no doubt that it led to his tragic end But how His nerves were so worked up that the appearance of any dog might have had a fatal effect upon his diseased |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | were sweeping down When the monoplane was rising again he drew a deep breath and replied That and he indicated the white thing still fluttering down was a swan I never saw it said Graham The aeronaut made no answer and Graham saw little drops upon his forehead They drove horizontally while Graham clambered back to the passenger s place out of the lash of the wind And then came a swift rush down with the wind screw whirling to check their fall and the flying stage growing broad and dark before them The sun sinking over the chalk hills |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | certainly do she replied with a smile but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome I should be sorry indeed if it were _We_ were always good friends and now we are better True Are the others coming out I do not know Mrs Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to Meryton And so my dear sister I find from our uncle and aunt that you have actually seen Pemberley She replied in the affirmative I almost envy you the pleasure and yet I believe it would be too much for me or else I |
Jane Austen | Emma | her husband s plans and her own for a marriage between Frank and Emma How to settle the claims of Enscombe and Hartfield had been a continual impediment less acknowledged by Mr Weston than by herself but even he had never been able to finish the subject better than by saying Those matters will take care of themselves the young people will find a way But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future It was all right all open all equal No sacrifice on any side worth the name It was a |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | Man suddenly become visible and set off at once along the lane in pursuit But Hall had hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways clutching one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground He had been charged just as one charges a man at football The second labourer came round in a circle stared and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own accord turned to resume the pursuit only to be tripped by the ankle just as Huxter had been Then as the first labourer |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | whose warning I had so foolishly rejected Come come she cried breathlessly They will be here in a moment They will see that you are not there Oh do not waste the so precious time but come This time at least I did not scorn her advice I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair The latter led to another broad passage and just as we reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of two voices one answering the other from the floor on which we |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | which she acted in putting an end to it Had she not imagined herself consulting his good even more than her own she could hardly have given him up The belief of being prudent and self denying principally for _his_ advantage was her chief consolation under the misery of a parting a final parting and every consolation was required for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions on his side totally unconvinced and unbending and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a relinquishment He had left the country in consequence A few months had |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I had finished it but when I went to it I was discontented with it It remembered me and was terrified beyond imagination and it had no more than the wits of a sheep The more I looked at it the clumsier it seemed until at last I put the monster out of its misery These animals without courage these fear haunted pain driven things without a spark of pugnacious energy to face torment they are no good for man making Then I took a gorilla I had and upon that working with infinite care and mastering difficulty after difficulty |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | sigh Good said Dick Come with me to the stables there we shall get the pony trap and drive to the junction To night you shall be in London I am yours so wholly that no words can make me more so and besides you know it and the words are needless May God help me to be good to you Esther may God help me for I see that you will not So without more speech they set out together and were already got some distance from the spot ere he observed that she was still carrying the hand |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | entertain a hope Their own inclinations ascertained there were no difficulties behind no drawback of poverty or parent It was a match which Sir Thomas s wishes had even forestalled Sick of ambitious and mercenary connexions prizing more and more the sterling good of principle and temper and chiefly anxious to bind by the strongest securities all that remained to him of domestic felicity he had pondered with genuine satisfaction on the more than possibility of the two young friends finding their natural consolation in each other for all that had occurred of disappointment to either and the joyful consent |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | else Estella said I turning to her now and trying to command my trembling voice you know I love you You know that I have loved you long and dearly She raised her eyes to my face on being thus addressed and her fingers plied their work and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance I saw that Miss Havisham glanced from me to her and from her to me I should have said this sooner but for my long mistake It induced me to hope that Miss Havisham meant us for one another While I thought you could |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | perceived the girl in grey close to him her face lit her gesture onward For the instant she became to him flushed and eager as she was an embodiment of the song He emerged in the alcove again Incontinently the mounting waves of the song broke upon his appearing and flashed up into a foam of shouting Guided by Lincoln s hand he marched obliquely across the centre of the stage facing the people The hall was a vast and intricate space galleries balconies broad spaces of amphitheatral steps and great archways Far away high up seemed the mouth of |
Jane Austen | Emma | Where I have a regard I always think a person well looking But I gave what I believed the general opinion when I called him plain Well my dear Jane I believe we must be running away The weather does not look well and grandmama will be uneasy You are too obliging my dear Miss Woodhouse but we really must take leave This has been a most agreeable piece of news indeed I shall just go round by Mrs Cole s but I shall not stop three minutes and Jane you had better go home directly I would not have |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | he hasn t them But he thinks the tramp has And you must prevent him from eating or sleeping day and night the country must be astir for him Food must be locked up and secured all food so that he will have to break his way to it The houses everywhere must be barred against him Heaven send us cold nights and rain The whole country side must begin hunting and keep hunting I tell you Adye he is a danger a disaster unless he is pinned and secured it is frightful to think of the things that may |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | a different quarter of the town The concealment innocent as it seems was the first step in the second tragicomedy of John s existence Meanwhile he had never written home Whether from diffidence or shame or a touch of anger or mere procrastination or because as we have seen he had no skill in literary arts or because as I am sometimes tempted to suppose there is a law in human nature that prevents young men not otherwise beasts from the performance of this simple act of piety months and years had gone by and John had never written The |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | my design of keeping him in ignorance of the fate of his wealth Mr Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having let it slip through my fingers and said we must memorialize by and by and try at all events for some of it But he did not conceal from me that although there might be many cases in which the forfeiture would not be exacted there were no circumstances in this case to make it one of them I understood that very well I was not related to the outlaw or connected with him by any recognizable |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | an expenditure as they were at It must then be something out of the house What could it be I thought of the assistant s fondness for photography and his trick of vanishing into the cellar The cellar There was the end of this tangled clue Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London He was doing something in the cellar something which took many hours a day for months on end What could it be once more I could think |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | had him by the throat the devil of terror babbled in his ears and suddenly without a word uttered with no conscious purpose formed in his will John whipped about tumbled over the roadside wall and began running for his life across the fallows He had not gone far he was not past the midst of the first afield when his whole brain thundered within him Fool You have your watch The shock stopped him and he faced once more toward the cab The driver was leaning over the wall brandishing his whip his face empurpled roaring like a bull |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | this point and said in a consolatory and complimentary voice Camilla my dear it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other I am not aware observed the grave lady whose voice I had heard but once that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person my dear Miss Sarah Pocket whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells and a |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | at some supreme moment that one realised that one was indeed entangled in its meshes If there was one report there might be others so I looked round the hut in search of them There was no trace however of anything of the kind nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular place save that he must be of Spartan habits and cared little for the comforts of life When I thought of the heavy rains and looked at the gaping roof I understood how strong and |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | dream and then silently refused Madam said Dick let me beseech you punish me not so cruelly Wherein I have offended you I know not I have indeed carried you away but with a friendly violence I have indeed exposed you to the inclemency of night but the hurry that lies upon me hath for its end the preservation of another who is no less frail and no less unfriended than yourself At least madam punish not yourself and eat if not for hunger then for strength I will eat nothing at the hands that slew my kinsman she replied |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | be firm but only by relationship and in an inferior and tributary degree My mother was another exception She might be firm and must be but only in bearing their firmness and firmly believing there was no other firmness upon earth It s very hard said my mother that in my own house My own house repeated Mr Murdstone Clara OUR own house I mean faltered my mother evidently frightened I hope you must know what I mean Edward it s very hard that in YOUR own house I may not have a word to say about domestic matters I |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | dancers They can afford to wait said Graham they can afford to wait I know I m not a Latin There s questions I want to ask some expert about your machinery I m keen I want no distractions You have the world to choose from said Lincoln whatever you want is yours Asano appeared and under the escort of a strong guard they returned through the city streets to Graham s apartments Far larger crowds had assembled to witness his return than his departure had gathered and the shouts and cheering of these masses of people sometimes drowned Lincoln |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | upon it whatever esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now as a young man he had not the smallest value for it His chance for the Kellynch estate was something but all the honour of the family he held as cheap as dirt I have often heard him declare that if baronetcies were saleable anybody should have his for fifty pounds arms and motto name and livery included but I will not pretend to repeat half that I used to hear him say on that subject It would not be fair and yet you ought |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | existing state of my uncertain thoughts and plans Therefore I had sent him the unopened pocket book by Herbert to hold in his own keeping and I felt a kind of satisfaction whether it was a false kind or a true I hardly know in not having profited by his generosity since his revelation of himself As the time wore on an impression settled heavily upon me that Estella was married Fearful of having it confirmed though it was all but a conviction I avoided the newspapers and begged Herbert to whom I had confided the circumstances of our last |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Folair sitting himself down in a chair with great coolness Since you came here Lenville has done nothing but second business and instead of having a reception every night as he used to have they have let him come on as if he was nobody What do you mean by a reception asked Nicholas Jupiter exclaimed Mr Folair what an unsophisticated shepherd you are Johnson Why applause from the house when you first come on So he has gone on night after night never getting a hand and you getting a couple of rounds at least and sometimes three till |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance There Mrs Bennet My mind however is now made up on the subject for having received ordination at Easter I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship and be |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the secret louder than words Nay upon all sides proof floweth on me Sir Daniel he or his men hath done this thing Dick paused in the stone passage with a heavy heart At that hour in the ebb of Sir Daniel s fortune when he was beleaguered by the archers of the Black Arrow and proscribed by the victorious Yorkists was Dick also to turn upon the man who had nourished and taught him who had severely punished indeed but yet unwearyingly protected his youth The necessity if it should prove to be one was cruel Pray Heaven he |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | and often strangely coloured or strangely placed eyes None could laugh though the Ape man had a chattering titter Beyond these general characters their heads had little in common each preserved the quality of its particular species the human mark distorted but did not hide the leopard the ox or the sow or other animal or animals from which the creature had been moulded The voices too varied exceedingly The hands were always malformed and though some surprised me by their unexpected human appearance almost all were deficient in the number of the digits clumsy about the finger nails and |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | water was long out and this posture of running on the hands and knees brings an overmastering weakness and weariness so that the joints ache and the wrists faint under your weight Now and then indeed where was a big bush of heather we lay awhile and panted and putting aside the leaves looked back at the dragoons They had not spied us for they held straight on a half troop I think covering about two miles of ground and beating it mighty thoroughly as they went I had awakened just in time a little later and we must have |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | menacing in that constant mutter which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half breed endlessly repeated We will kill you if we can We will kill you if we can No one ever moved in the silent woods All the peace and soothing of quiet Nature lay in that dark curtain of vegetation but away from behind there came ever the one message from our fellow man We will kill you if we can said the men in the east We will kill you if we can said the men in the north All day the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | before dared to cut short an interview in this high handed fashion But the truth is the very mass of his son s delinquencies daunted the old gentleman He was like the man with the cart of apples this was beyond him That Alexander should have spoiled his table taken his money stayed out all night and then coolly acknowledged all was something undreamed of in the Nicholsonian philosophy and transcended comment The return of the change which the old gentleman still carried in his hand had been a feature of imposing impudence it had dealt him a staggering blow |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing yet avoided And then by a return on his former subject he conceived a spark of hope This Master Hyde if he were studied thought he must have secrets of his own black secrets by the look of him secrets compared to which poor Jekyll s worst would be like sunshine Things cannot continue as they are It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing like |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | are so interested in our friend have not settled down in his own hotel That means that while they are as we have seen very anxious to watch him they are equally anxious that he should not see them Now this is a most suggestive fact What does it suggest It suggests halloa my dear fellow what on earth is the matter As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself His face was flushed with anger and he held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands So |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | point and it widened the field of my inquiry I fear that I bore you with these details but I have to let you see my little difficulties if you are to understand the situation I am following you closely I answered I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge and a gentleman sprang out He was a remarkably handsome man dark aquiline and moustached evidently the man of whom I had heard He appeared to be in a great hurry shouted to the cabman to wait and brushed past |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | came back from Miss Havisham s In the mean time Herbert and I were to consider separately what it would be best to say whether we should devise any pretence of being afraid that he was under suspicious observation or whether I who had never yet been abroad should propose an expedition We both knew that I had but to propose anything and he would consent We agreed that his remaining many days in his present hazard was not to be thought of Next day I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | wished to avoid seeing her He had inquired after her she found slightly as might suit a former slight acquaintance seeming to acknowledge such as she had acknowledged actuated perhaps by the same view of escaping introduction when they were to meet The morning hours of the Cottage were always later than those of the other house and on the morrow the difference was so great that Mary and Anne were not more than beginning breakfast when Charles came in to say that they were just setting off that he was come for his dogs that his sisters were following |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | and farewell The Admiral swore by all his gods he should not go Dick he said You are a selfish dog you forget your old Admiral You wouldn t leave him alone would you It was useless to remind him that the house was not his to dispose of that being a class of considerations to which his intelligence was closed so Dick tore himself off by force and shouting a good bye made off along the lane to Thymebury CHAPTER IX IN WHICH THE LIBERAL EDITOR RE APPEARS AS DEUS EX MACHINA IT was perhaps a week later as |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | last summer she went with the lady who presided over it to Ramsgate and thither also went Mr Wickham undoubtedly by design for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs Younge in whose character we were most unhappily deceived and by her connivance and aid he so far recommended himself to Georgiana whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child that she was persuaded to believe herself in love and to consent to an elopement She was then but fifteen which must be her excuse and after stating |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | same with all possible speed and not to loiter by the way Tim Linkinwater s sister lamented the housekeeper condoled and both kept thrusting their heads out of the second floor window to see if the boy was coming which would have been highly satisfactory and upon the whole tantamount to his being come as the distance to the corner was not quite five yards when all of a sudden and when he was least expected the messenger carrying the bandbox with elaborate caution appeared in an exactly opposite direction puffing and panting for breath and flushed with recent exercise |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | lurking man upon the moor was to be found among the stone huts upon the hillside With these two facts in my possession I felt that either my intelligence or my courage must be deficient if I could not throw some further light upon these dark places I had no opportunity to tell the baronet what I had learned about Mrs Lyons upon the evening before for Dr Mortimer remained with him at cards until it was very late At breakfast however I informed him about my discovery and asked him whether he would care to accompany me to Coombe |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived It is pleasant to me to observe Watson that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up and I am bound to say occasionally to embellish you have given prominence not so much to the many _causes célèbres_ and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | its career I gave it a last tap tried all the screws again put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod and sat myself in the saddle I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other pressed the first and almost immediately the second I seemed to reel I felt a nightmare sensation of falling and looking round I saw the laboratory exactly as before Had anything |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | of ways at a lower or higher level And though he came on no more fighting the whole city stirred with battle Once he had to run to avoid a marching multitude of men that swept the street Everyone abroad seemed involved For the most part they were men and they carried what he judged were weapons It seemed as though the struggle was concentrated mainly in the quarter of the city from which he came Ever and again a distant roaring the remote suggestion of that conflict reached his ears Then his caution and his curiosity struggled together But |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | at least he must keep close at hand and he turned to recall the porter But his reflections brief as they had appeared must have occupied him longer than he supposed and there was the man already returning with the receipt Well that was settled he had lost his portmanteau also for the sixpence with which he had paid the Murrayfield Toll was one that had strayed alone into his waistcoat pocket and unless he once more successfully achieved the adventure of the house of crime his portmanteau lay in the cloakroom in eternal pawn for lack of a penny |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | that but something rather right than wrong It will bring no millennium but I am resolved now that I will rule What you have said has awakened me You are right Ostrog must know his place And I will learn One thing I promise you This Labour slavery shall end And you will rule Yes Provided There is one thing Yes That you will help me _I_ a girl Yes Does it not occur to you I am absolutely alone She started and for an instant her eyes had pity Need you ask whether I will help you she said |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | till she died of Air Miss Mowcher sat down on the fender again and took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes Be thankful for me if you have a kind heart as I think you have she said that while I know well what I am I can be cheerful and endure it all I am thankful for myself at any rate that I can find my tiny way through the world without being beholden to anyone and that in return for all that is thrown at me in folly or vanity as I go along I can throw |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | sudden glare of gas It seemed while it lasted to be all alight and alive with that inexplicable feeling I had had before and when we were out of it I was as much dazed for a few moments as if I had been in lightning So we fell into other talk and it was principally about the way by which we were travelling and about what parts of London lay on this side of it and what on that The great city was almost new to her she told me for she had never left Miss Havisham s neighborhood |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | clanged upon steel and cries of pain and the shout of battle resounded Lead me to your captain youth said the conquered knight It is fit this butchery should cease Sir replied Dick so far as these brave fellows have a captain the poor gentleman who here addresses you is he Call off your dogs then and I will bid my villains hold returned the other There was something noble both in the voice and manner of his late opponent and Dick instantly dismissed all fears of treachery Lay down your arms men cried the stranger knight I have yielded |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | pronouns and even the verb to eat But it was slow work and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations so I determined rather of necessity to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined And very little doses I found they were before long for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued VI The Sunset of Mankind A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts and that was their lack of interest They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment like children |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | down It s no good place David and I m free to say it s worse by daylight than by dark Alan said I hear my way of it Appin s death for us we have none too much money nor yet meal the longer they seek the nearer they may guess where we are it s all a risk and I give my word to go ahead until we drop Alan was delighted There are whiles said he when ye are altogether too canny and Whiggish to be company for a gentleman like me but there come other whiles |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | was I could see a misshapen man short broad and clumsy with a crooked back a hairy neck and a head sunk between his shoulders He was dressed in dark blue serge and had peculiarly thick coarse black hair I heard the unseen dogs growl furiously and forthwith he ducked back coming into contact with the hand I put out to fend him off from myself He turned with animal swiftness In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly It was a singularly deformed one The facial part projected forming something dimly suggestive of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | his teeth grate with the convulsive action of his jaws and his face was so ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason Compose yourself said I He turned a dreadful smile to me and as if with the decision of despair plucked away the sheet At sight of the contents he uttered one loud sob of such immense relief that I sat petrified And the next moment in a voice that was already fairly well under control Have you a graduated glass he asked I rose from my place with something of an effort |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | of Some Freaks of Atavism _Lancet_ 1882 Do We Progress _Journal of Psychology_ March 1883 Medical Officer for the parishes of Grimpen Thorsley and High Barrow No mention of that local hunt Watson said Holmes with a mischievous smile but a country doctor as you very astutely observed I think that I am fairly justified in my inferences As to the adjectives I said if I remember right amiable unambitious and absent minded It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr Darcy He likes to have his own way very well replied Colonel Fitzwilliam But so we all do It is only that he has better means of having it than many others because he is rich and many others are poor I speak feelingly A younger son you know must be inured to self denial and dependence In my opinion the younger son of an earl can know very little of either Now seriously what have you ever known of self |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | in the morning but Holmes was afoot earlier still for I saw him as I dressed coming up the drive Yes we should have a full day today he remarked and he rubbed his hands with the joy of action The nets are all in place and the drag is about to begin We ll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big lean jawed pike or whether he has got through the meshes Have you been on the moor already I have sent a report from Grimpen to Princetown as to the death of Selden |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | of a man He paused and his attitude suggested a roving glance at the window But how did you get to Iping said Kemp anxious to keep his guest busy talking I went there to work I had one hope It was a half idea I have it still It is a full blown idea now A way of getting back Of restoring what I have done When I choose When I have done all I mean to do invisibly And that is what I chiefly want to talk to you about now You went straight to Iping Yes I |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | said it preyed upon my mind all the time I was dressing and gave me I was conscious a sneaking and guilty air when I passed her on the staircase as I was going down to breakfast I was so sensitively aware indeed of being younger than I could have wished that for some time I could not make up my mind to pass her at all under the ignoble circumstances of the case but hearing her there with a broom stood peeping out of window at King Charles on horseback surrounded by a maze of hackney coaches and looking |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | through the snow I returned to the inn yard and impressed by my remembrance of the face looked awfully around for it It was not there The snow had covered our late footprints my new track was the only one to be seen and even that began to die away it snowed so fast as I looked back over my shoulder CHAPTER 41 DORA S AUNTS At last an answer came from the two old ladies They presented their compliments to Mr Copperfield and informed him that they had given his letter their best consideration with a view to the |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | out though not daring to look again for her own countenance she knew was unfit to be seen she was yet perfectly conscious of Lady Russell s eyes being turned exactly in the direction for him of her being in short intently observing him She could thoroughly comprehend the sort of fascination he must possess over Lady Russell s mind the difficulty it must be for her to withdraw her eyes the astonishment she must be feeling that eight or nine years should have passed over him and in foreign climes and in active service too without robbing him of |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | and stood with eyes interrogating each other I could have sworn said Mr Bunting The candle said Mr Bunting Who lit the candle The drawer said Mrs Bunting And the money s gone She went hastily to the doorway Of all the strange occurrences There was a violent sneeze in the passage They rushed out and as they did so the kitchen door slammed Bring the candle said Mr Bunting and led the way They both heard a sound of bolts being hastily shot back As he opened the kitchen door he saw through the scullery that the back door |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | should really be amiss or any malefactor seek to escape by the back you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door We give you ten minutes to get to your stations As Bradshaw left the lawyer looked at his watch And now Poole let us get to ours he said and taking the poker under his arm led the way into the yard The scud had banked over the moon and it was now quite dark The wind which only broke in puffs and draughts |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | these three days Is it rescue whispered Graham Escape Yes Sire If you will You are my party the party of the Sleeper Yes Sire What am I to do said Graham There was a struggle The stranger s arm appeared and his hand was bleeding His knees came into view over the edge of the funnel Stand away from me he said and he dropped rather heavily on his hands and one shoulder at Graham s feet The released ventilator whirled noisily The stranger rolled over sprang up nimbly and stood panting hand to a bruised shoulder and with |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | potato and after that another chop and another potato When we had done he brought me a pudding and having set it before me seemed to ruminate and to become absent in his mind for some moments How s the pie he said rousing himself It s a pudding I made answer Pudding he exclaimed Why bless me so it is What looking at it nearer You don t mean to say it s a batter pudding Yes it is indeed Why a batter pudding he said taking up a table spoon is my favourite pudding Ain t that lucky |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | opened wider and the Time Traveller stood before us I gave a cry of surprise Good heavens man what s the matter cried the Medical Man who saw him next And the whole tableful turned towards the door He was in an amazing plight His coat was dusty and dirty and smeared with green down the sleeves his hair disordered and as it seemed to me greyer either with dust and dirt or because its colour had actually faded His face was ghastly pale his chin had a brown cut on it a cut half healed his expression was haggard |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | and supped and lay down to sleep without another word The gillie put us across Loch Rannoch in the dusk of the next day and gave us his opinion as to our best route This was to get us up at once into the tops of the mountains to go round by a circuit turning the heads of Glen Lyon Glen Lochay and Glen Dochart and come down upon the lowlands by Kippen and the upper waters of the Forth Alan was little pleased with a route which led us through the country of his blood foes the Glenorchy Campbells |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural having a black top hat a long frock coat and a pair of high gaiters with a hunting crop swinging in his hand So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side A large face seared with a thousand wrinkles burned |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | sister too whom you have so often asked me about Is this your Yorkshire gallantry For shame for shame Smike brightened up and smiled When I talk of home pursued Nicholas I talk of mine which is yours of course If it were defined by any particular four walls and a roof God knows I should be sufficiently puzzled to say whereabouts it lay but that is not what I mean When I speak of home I speak of the place where in default of a better those I love are gathered together and if that place were a gypsy |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | had any influence with the savage creature or who would venture to set him free I slipped in in safety and lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this morning but I must be back before three o clock for Mr and Mrs Rucastle are going on a visit and will be away all the evening so that I must look after the child Now I have told you all my adventures Mr Holmes and I should be very glad if you |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | what Wickham s debts have been said Elizabeth and how much is settled on his side on our sister we shall exactly know what Mr Gardiner has done for them because Wickham has not sixpence of his own The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited Their taking her home and affording her their personal protection and countenance is such a sacrifice to her advantage as years of gratitude cannot enough acknowledge By this time she is actually with them If such goodness does not make her miserable now she will never deserve to be happy What |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | work and without wasting time upon apologies showed him the button lying in the hollow of my palm Aweel aweel said Neil and I think ye might have begun with that end of the stick whatever But if ye are the lad with the silver button all is well and I have the word to see that ye come safe But if ye will pardon me to speak plainly says he there is a name that you should never take into your mouth and that is the name of Alan Breck and there is a thing that ye would never |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | she learned that he had actually written home to defer his return having promised to remain some days longer with his friend If she had felt impatience and regret before if she had been sorry for what she said and feared its too strong effect on him she now felt and feared it all tenfold more She had moreover to contend with one disagreeable emotion entirely new to her jealousy His friend Mr Owen had sisters he might find them attractive But at any rate his staying away at a time when according to all preceding plans she was to |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | The little group of appliances for telegraphic communication attracted the Master so strongly that his delightfully prepared dinner served by a number of charmingly dexterous girls waited for a space The habit of smoking had almost ceased from the face of the earth but when he expressed a wish for that indulgence enquiries were made and some excellent cigars were discovered in Florida and sent to him by pneumatic despatch while the dinner was still in progress Afterwards came the aeronauts and a feast of ingenious wonders in the hands of a latter day engineer For the time at any |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand sat the strangest lady I have ever seen or shall ever see She was dressed in rich materials satins and lace and silks all of white Her shoes were white And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair and she had bridal flowers in her hair but her hair was white Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table Dresses less splendid than the dress she wore and half packed trunks were |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | after this frightful scene and was so weak that for an hour or more he had not the strength to walk Day was dawning when they again emerged A great multitude had already assembled the windows were filled with people smoking and playing cards to beguile the time the crowd were pushing quarrelling joking Everything told of life and animation but one dark cluster of objects in the centre of all the black stage the cross beam the rope and all the hideous apparatus of death CHAPTER LIII AND LAST The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Pemberley were not a very fine place what was the name of its proprietor and with no little alarm whether the family were down for the summer A most welcome negative followed the last question and her alarms now being removed she was at leisure to feel a great deal of curiosity to see the house herself and when the subject was revived the next morning and she was again applied to could readily answer and with a proper air of indifference that she had not really any dislike to the scheme To Pemberley therefore they were to go Chapter |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | advance as she had been before he slipped quietly down and followed her again At nearly the centre of the bridge she stopped The man stopped too It was a very dark night The day had been unfavourable and at that hour and place there were few people stirring Such as there were hurried quickly past very possibly without seeing but certainly without noticing either the woman or the man who kept her in view Their appearance was not calculated to attract the importunate regards of such of London s destitute population as chanced to take their way over the |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | He recognised the voice as that of the Invisible Man and the note was that of a man suddenly infuriated by a painful blow In another moment Mr Cuss was back in the parlour He s coming back Bunting he said rushing in Save yourself Mr Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth rug and a _West Surrey Gazette_ Who s coming he said so startled that his costume narrowly escaped disintegration Invisible Man said Cuss and rushed on to the window We d better clear out from here He s |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | clear between him and the door He put up an internal prayer Then whipping forth his arm he made but one snatch of the ring and at the same instant levering up the table he sent it bodily over upon the seaman Tom He poor soul went down bawling under the ruins and before Arblaster understood that anything was wrong or Pirret could collect his dazzled wits Dick had run to the door and escaped into the moonlit night The moon which now rode in the mid heavens and the extreme whiteness of the snow made the open ground about |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | out my revolver aimed between its terror struck eyes and fired As I did so the Hyena swine saw the Thing and flung itself upon it with an eager cry thrusting thirsty teeth into its neck All about me the green masses of the thicket were swaying and cracking as the Beast People came rushing together One face and then another appeared Don t kill it Prendick cried Moreau Don t kill it and I saw him stooping as he pushed through under the fronds of the big ferns In another moment he had beaten off the Hyena swine with |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | seemed to alter his mind about what was on his lips I wish you d help me with these rabbits he said His procedure with the rabbits was singular I waded in with him and helped him lug one of the hutches ashore No sooner was that done than he opened the door of it and tilting the thing on one end turned its living contents out on the ground They fell in a struggling heap one on the top of the other He clapped his hands and forthwith they went off with that hopping run of theirs fifteen or |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | taking my leave of the firm until dinner I went upstairs again I had hoped to have no other companion than Agnes But Mrs Heep had asked permission to bring herself and her knitting near the fire in that room on pretence of its having an aspect more favourable for her rheumatics as the wind then was than the drawing room or dining parlour Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral without remorse I made a virtue of necessity and gave her a friendly salutation I m |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | do better than break up our camp and travel to westward until we find some means of ascent The ground at the foot of the cliff was rocky and broken so that the going was slow and difficult Suddenly we came however upon something which cheered our hearts It was the site of an old encampment with several empty Chicago meat tins a bottle labeled Brandy a broken tin opener and a quantity of other travelers debris A crumpled disintegrated newspaper revealed itself as the Chicago Democrat though the date had been obliterated Not mine said Challenger It must be |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | night with Mr Yates and though he and Maria are very good friends I think she likes Sotherton too well to be inconstant I would not give much for Mr Rushworth s chance if Henry stept in before the articles were signed If you have such a suspicion something must be done and as soon as the play is all over we will talk to him seriously and make him know his own mind and if he means nothing we will send him off though he is Henry for a time Julia _did_ suffer however though Mrs Grant discerned it |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters Something had evidently aroused his suspicions It may have been that Barrymore had some private signal which we had neglected to give or the fellow may have had some other reason for thinking that all was not well but I could read his fears upon his wicked face Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness I sprang forward therefore and Sir Henry did the same At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up |
Jane Austen | Emma | of gruel with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by every body he proceeded to say with an air of grave reflection It was an awkward business my dear your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here I never had much opinion of the sea air Mr Wingfield most strenuously recommended it sir or we should not have gone He recommended it for all the children but particularly for the weakness in little Bella s throat both sea air and bathing Ah my dear but Perry had many doubts about the sea doing her |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | have their own pain and severe was its kind but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the house again and returning through the well known apartments In such moments Anne had no power of saying to herself These rooms ought to belong only to us Oh how fallen in their destination How unworthily occupied An ancient family to be so driven away Strangers filling their place No except when she thought of her mother and remembered where she had been used to sit and preside she had no sigh of that description to heave Mrs |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | dusk when they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day To that I owed my stalking by the Leopard man on the night of my arrival But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious prohibitions And here perhaps I may give a few general facts about the island and the Beast People The island which was of irregular outline and lay low upon the wide sea had a total area I suppose of seven |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | servant and locked the door Nicholas jumped into a cabriolet and drove to a bye place near Golden Square where he had appointed to meet Noggs and so quickly had everything been done that it was barely half past nine when he reached the place of meeting Here is the letter for Ralph said Nicholas and here the key When you come to me this evening not a word of last night Ill news travels fast and they will know it soon enough Have you heard if he was much hurt Newman shook his head I will ascertain that myself |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | still entirely engaged in detailing farther particulars of the Thrush s going out of harbour in which he had a strong right of interest being to commence his career of seamanship in her at this very time Another moment and Fanny was in the narrow entrance passage of the house and in her mother s arms who met her there with looks of true kindness and with features which Fanny loved the more because they brought her aunt Bertram s before her and there were her two sisters Susan a well grown fine girl of fourteen and Betsey the youngest |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | and reconciliation which could never be looked for again and which could never cease to be dear She left it all behind her all but the recollection that such things had been Anne had never entered Kellynch since her quitting Lady Russell s house in September It had not been necessary and the few occasions of its being possible for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from Her first return was to resume her place in the modern and elegant apartments of the Lodge and to gladden the eyes of its mistress There |
Jane Austen | Emma | the felling of a tree and the destination of every acre for wheat turnips or spring corn was entered into with as much equality of interest by John as his cooler manners rendered possible and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness While they were thus comfortably occupied Mr Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and fearful affection with his daughter My poor dear Isabella said he fondly taking her hand and interrupting for a few moments her busy labours for some one of |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | was Prisoner Felon Bondsman plain as plain could be It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts But I can compare the effect of it when on to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress started through that thin layer of pretence and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head It was abandoned as soon as tried and he wore his grizzled |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | in the empty coach house wall and came into the breakfast parlour whip in hand It was Mr Jack Maldon and Mr Jack Maldon was not at all improved by India I thought I was in a state of ferocious virtue however as to young men who were not cutting down trees in the forest of difficulty and my impression must be received with due allowance Mr Jack said the Doctor Copperfield Mr Jack Maldon shook hands with me but not very warmly I believed and with an air of languid patronage at which I secretly took great umbrage But |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | was certain that I could not help with those And Holmes had expressly said that I should study the neighbours upon the moor I accepted Stapleton s invitation and we turned together down the path It is a wonderful place the moor said he looking round over the undulating downs long green rollers with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges You never tire of the moor You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains It is so vast and so barren and so mysterious You know it well then I have only been here two years |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | consternation We must make an example said Moreau I ve no doubt in my own mind that the Leopard man was the sinner But how can we prove it I wish Montgomery you had kept your taste for meat in hand and gone without these exciting novelties We may find ourselves in a mess yet through it I was a silly ass said Montgomery But the thing s done now and you said I might have them you know We must see to the thing at once said Moreau I suppose if anything should turn up M ling can take |
Jane Austen | Emma | the same few minutes She saw it all with a clearness which had never blessed her before How improperly had she been acting by Harriet How inconsiderate how indelicate how irrational how unfeeling had been her conduct What blindness what madness had led her on It struck her with dreadful force and she was ready to give it every bad name in the world Some portion of respect for herself however in spite of all these demerits some concern for her own appearance and a strong sense of justice by Harriet there would be no need of _compassion_ to the |
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