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H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | often oddly low with unaccountable blank ends unexpected gaps And least satisfactory of all is something that I cannot touch somewhere I cannot determine where in the seat of the emotions Cravings instincts desires that harm humanity a strange hidden reservoir to burst forth suddenly and inundate the whole being of the creature with anger hate or fear These creatures of mine seemed strange and uncanny to you so soon as you began to observe them but to me just after I make them they seem to be indisputably human beings It s afterwards as I observe them that the |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | lacking any tactile sensibility The two most formidable Animal Men were my Leopard man and a creature made of hyena and swine Larger than these were the three bull creatures who pulled in the boat Then came the silvery hairy man who was also the Sayer of the Law M ling and a satyr like creature of ape and goat There were three Swine men and a Swine woman a mare rhinoceros creature and several other females whose sources I did not ascertain There were several wolf creatures a bear bull and a Saint Bernard man I have already described |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | the distance which put me in mind of my perils and those of my friend To walk by the sea at that hour of the morning and in a place so desert like and lonesome struck me with a kind of fear As soon as the day began to break I put on my shoes and climbed a hill the ruggedest scramble I ever undertook falling the whole way between big blocks of granite or leaping from one to another When I got to the top the dawn was come There was no sign of the brig which must have |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | me as I write but I must content myself with a synopsis of the case up to the point when upon the evening of the first day the evidence of Miss Frances Morton threw a singular light upon the case Mr Porlock Carr the counsel for the prosecution had marshalled his facts with his usual skill and as the day wore on it became more and more evident how difficult was the task which Mr Humphrey who had been retained for the defence had before him Several witnesses were put up to swear to the intemperate expressions which the young |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | was perhaps nearly nine at night he had eaten nothing since lunch he had drunk a good deal and he was exhausted by emotion when the thought of Houston came into his head He turned not merely to the man as a friend but to his house as a place of refuge The danger that threatened him was still so vague that he knew neither what to fear nor where he might expect it but this much at least seemed undeniable that a private house was safer than a public inn Moved by these counsels he turned at once to |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | hills The sea was here quite quiet there was no sound of any surf the moon shone clear and I thought in my heart I had never seen a place so desert and desolate But it was dry land and when at last it grew so shallow that I could leave the yard and wade ashore upon my feet I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful Both at least I was tired as I never was before that night and grateful to God as I trust I have been often though never with more cause CHAPTER |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | made of rough stakes and stones and saw him put into the boat which was rowed by a crew of convicts like himself No one seemed surprised to see him or interested in seeing him or glad to see him or sorry to see him or spoke a word except that somebody in the boat growled as if to dogs Give way you which was the signal for the dip of the oars By the light of the torches we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore like a wicked Noah s |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | The night is dark I would fain leave you on a path at least My mind misgiveth me y are likely to be lost Without any more words he began to walk forward and the other once more followed him The blackness grew thicker and thicker Only here and there in open places they saw the sky dotted with small stars In the distance the noise of the rout of the Lancastrian army still continued to be faintly audible but with every step they left it farther in the rear At the end of half an hour of silent progress |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | every attempt at reanimation After a time for reasons that will appear later these attempts were discontinued For a great space he lay in that strange condition inert and still neither dead nor living but as it were suspended hanging midway between nothingness and existence His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation a dreamless inanition a vast space of peace The tumult of his mind had swelled and risen to an abrupt climax of silence Where was the man Where is any man when insensibility takes hold of him It seems only yesterday said Isbister |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Mrs Crummles who was his unworthy mother sneered and called him presumptuous boy and he defied her what a tumult of applause came on When he quarrelled with the other gentleman about the young lady and producing a case of pistols said that if he WAS a gentleman he would fight him in that drawing room until the furniture was sprinkled with the blood of one if not of two how boxes pit and gallery joined in one most vigorous cheer When he called his mother names because she wouldn t give up the young lady s property and she |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | holding your hands up Can t do that said Montgomery with an explanatory nod over his shoulder Undignified Go up to the trees then said I as you please It s a damned silly ceremony said Montgomery Both turned and faced the six or seven grotesque creatures who stood there in the sunlight solid casting shadows moving and yet so incredibly unreal Montgomery cracked his whip at them and forthwith they all turned and fled helter skelter into the trees and when Montgomery and Moreau were at a distance I judged sufficient I waded ashore and picked up and examined |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | a cargo of redwood They were swarthy fellows bearded and fierce as active and wiry as panthers Both of them had spent their lives in those upper waters of the Amazon which we were about to explore and it was this recommendation which had caused Lord John to engage them One of them Gomez had the further advantage that he could speak excellent English These men were willing to act as our personal servants to cook to row or to make themselves useful in any way at a payment of fifteen dollars a month Besides these we had engaged three |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | these conditions The Time Traveller looked at us and then at the mechanism Well said the Psychologist This little affair said the Time Traveller resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus is only a model It is my plan for a machine to travel through time You will notice that it looks singularly askew and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar as though it was in some way unreal He pointed to the part with his finger Also here is one little white lever and here is another The |
Jane Austen | Emma | I hope nothing may happen to prevent the ball What a disappointment it would be I do look forward to it I own with _very_ great pleasure It was not to oblige Jane Fairfax therefore that he would have preferred the society of William Larkins No she was more and more convinced that Mrs Weston was quite mistaken in that surmise There was a great deal of friendly and of compassionate attachment on his side but no love Alas there was soon no leisure for quarrelling with Mr Knightley Two days of joyful security were immediately followed by the over |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | want to know things he said at last I m studyin the pretty dears That s enough for you No offense said I His good humor returned and he laughed No offense young fellah I m goin to get a young devil chick for Challenger That s one of my jobs No I don t want your company I m safe in this cage and you are not So long and I ll be back in camp by night fall He turned away and I left him wandering on through the wood with his extraordinary cage around him If Lord |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | I must have a partner And you We can do such things But to morrow Now Kemp I feel as though I must sleep or perish Kemp stood in the middle of the room staring at the headless garment I suppose I must leave you he said It s incredible Three things happening like this overturning all my preconceptions would make me insane But it s real Is there anything more that I can get you Only bid me good night said Griffin Good night said Kemp and shook an invisible hand He walked sideways to the door Suddenly the |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | She saw me well enough but instead of turning round and calling after me ran away laughing This obliged me to run after her and she ran so fast that we were very near the cottage before I caught her Oh it s you is it said little Em ly Why you knew who it was Em ly said I And didn t YOU know who it was said Em ly I was going to kiss her but she covered her cherry lips with her hands and said she wasn t a baby now and ran away laughing more than |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | sisters took your part I hope Traddles Why I can t say they did he returned When we had comparatively reconciled Mrs Crewler to it we had to break it to Sarah You recollect my mentioning Sarah as the one that has something the matter with her spine Perfectly She clenched both her hands said Traddles looking at me in dismay shut her eyes turned lead colour became perfectly stiff and took nothing for two days but toast and water administered with a tea spoon What a very unpleasant girl Traddles I remarked Oh I beg your pardon Copperfield said |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | upon one of the most inexplicable crimes of the century an incident which is I believe absolutely unprecedented in the criminal annals of any country Although there is a reluctance to discuss the matter in official circles and little information has been given to the Press there are still indications that the statement of this arch criminal is corroborated by the facts and that we have at last found a solution for a most astounding business As the matter is eight years old and as its importance was somewhat obscured by a political crisis which was engaging the public attention |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | for I do not pretend to understand the language I am a very poor Italian scholar Yes yes I see you are I see you know nothing of the matter You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted transposed curtailed Italian lines into clear comprehensible elegant English You need not say anything more of your ignorance Here is complete proof I will not oppose such kind politeness but I should be sorry to be examined by a real proficient I have not had the pleasure of visiting in Camden Place so long replied he |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions You may possibly have heard my name from our mutual friend Mortimer I am Stapleton of Merripit House Your net and box would have told me as much said I for I knew that Mr Stapleton was a naturalist But how did you know me I have been calling on Mortimer and he pointed you out to me from the window of his surgery as you passed As our road lay the same way I thought that I would overtake you and introduce myself I trust that Sir Henry is none |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | right of the line of the stream when we came upon a considerable opening in the trees A belt of brushwood led up to a tangle of rocks the whole plateau was strewn with boulders We were walking slowly towards these rocks among bushes which reached over our waists when we became aware of a strange low gabbling and whistling sound which filled the air with a constant clamor and appeared to come from some spot immediately before us Lord John held up his hand as a signal for us to stop and he made his way swiftly stooping and |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | gentlemen cannot always be within doors and in the nearness of the Parsonage or the pleasantness of the walk to it or of the people who lived in it the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day They called at various times of the morning sometimes separately sometimes together and now and then accompanied by their aunt It was plain to them all that Colonel Fitzwilliam came because he had pleasure in their society a persuasion which of course recommended him still more and Elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in being |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | that the words were from a newspaper but that you should name which and add that it came from the leading article is really one of the most remarkable things which I have ever known How did you do it I presume Doctor that you could tell the skull of a negro from that of an Esquimau Most certainly But how Because that is my special hobby The differences are obvious The supra orbital crest the facial angle the maxillary curve the But this is my special hobby and the differences are equally obvious There is as much difference to |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | pushing their good fortune in Laura Place Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description She had called on her former governess and had heard from her of there being an old schoolfellow in Bath who had the two strong claims on her attention of past kindness and present suffering Miss Hamilton now Mrs Smith had shewn her kindness in one of those periods of her life when it had been most valuable Anne had gone unhappy to school grieving for the loss of a mother whom she had dearly loved feeling her separation from home and suffering |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | inquiries and he unrepulsable was persisting in both What did that shake of the head mean said he What was it meant to express Disapprobation I fear But of what What had I been saying to displease you Did you think me speaking improperly lightly irreverently on the subject Only tell me if I was Only tell me if I was wrong I want to be set right Nay nay I entreat you for one moment put down your work What did that shake of the head mean In vain was her Pray sir don t pray Mr Crawford repeated |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | have lived happily at Horsham and I had begun to hope that this curse had passed away from the family and that it had ended with the last generation I had begun to take comfort too soon however yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips This is the envelope he continued The postmark is London eastern division Within are the very words which were upon |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | she had not stirred nor had Richard Naseby dared to quit the window And then about half past one the candle she had been thus intently watching flared up into a last blaze of paper and she leaped to her feet with an ejaculation looked about her once blew out the light turned round and was heard rapidly mounting the staircase in the dark Dick was left once more alone to darkness and to that dulled and dogged state of mind when a man thinks that Misery must now have done her worst and is almost glad to think so |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | head and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes I fear said he taking out his watch that I am a few minutes too late When I gave you this envelope I must confess that I had never intended that you should open it for it had been my fixed intention to be with you before the hour The unfortunate delay can be apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank I fear that it has given my colleague Professor Summerlee |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | they were jointed in the wrong place The dogs were still snarling and strained at their chains after these men as the white haired man landed with them The three big fellows spoke to one another in odd guttural tones and the man who had waited for us on the beach began chattering to them excitedly a foreign language as I fancied as they laid hands on some bales piled near the stern Somewhere I had heard such a voice before and I could not think where The white haired man stood holding in a tumult of six dogs and |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | told you that rejoined Mr Brownlow but put on your glasses and see if you can t find out what you were wanted for will you The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles But Oliver s patience was not proof against this new trial and yielding to his first impulse he sprang into her arms God be good to me cried the old lady embracing him it is my innocent boy My dear old nurse cried Oliver He would come back I knew he would said the old lady holding him in her arms How |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | interest And so you re a Jacobite said I as I set meat before him Ay said he beginning to eat And you by your long face should be a Whig Whig or Whigamore was the cant name for those who were loyal to King George Betwixt and between said I not to annoy him for indeed I was as good a Whig as Mr Campbell could make me And that s naething said he But I m saying Mr Betwixt and Between he added this bottle of yours is dry and it s hard if I m to pay |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | prettiest Louisa had the higher spirits and she knew not _now_ whether the more gentle or the more lively character were most likely to attract him Mr and Mrs Musgrove either from seeing little or from an entire confidence in the discretion of both their daughters and of all the young men who came near them seemed to leave everything to take its chance There was not the smallest appearance of solicitude or remark about them in the Mansion house but it was different at the Cottage the young couple there were more disposed to speculate and wonder and Captain |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | marks of prolonged and sordid negligence The door which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker was blistered and distained Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels children kept shop upon the steps the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings and for close on a generation no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages Mr Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by street but when they came abreast of the entry the former lifted up his cane and pointed Did you ever |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | word Challenger From now onwards you devote your energies to getting us out of this horrible country and back once more to civilization CHAPTER XV Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders I write this from day to day but I trust that before I come to the end of it I may be able to say that the light shines at last through our clouds We are held here with no clear means of making our escape and bitterly we chafe against it Yet I can well imagine that the day may come when we may be glad that we |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | had a fit of strong shuddering which clucked my teeth together and there came on me that dreadful sense of illness which we have no name for either in Scotch or English I thought I should have died and made my peace with God forgiving all men even my uncle and the fishers and as soon as I had thus made up my mind to the worst clearness came upon me I observed the night was falling dry my clothes were dried a good deal truly I was in a better case than ever before since I had landed on |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | adventures and I shall here set down so much of Alan s as seems either curious or needful It appears he ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed saw me and lost me and saw me again as I tumbled in the roost and at last had one glimpse of me clinging on the yard It was this that put him in some hope I would maybe get to land after all and made him leave those clues and messages which had brought me for my sins to that unlucky country of Appin In the meanwhile |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | rattling fillip on his bald head the brains were clear and active and I saw and made no deductions If you know this doctor I ventured to remark after a somewhat awful pause I should gather that you do not share the landlord s good opinion Fettes paid no regard to me Yes he said with sudden decision I must see him face to face There was another pause and then a door was closed rather sharply on the first floor and a step was heard upon the stair That s the doctor cried the landlord Look sharp and you |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | him Miss Murdstone during the latter portion of the contest had dismounted and was now waiting with her brother at the bottom of the steps until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them My aunt a little ruffled by the combat marched past them into the house with great dignity and took no notice of their presence until they were announced by Janet Shall I go away aunt I asked trembling No sir said my aunt Certainly not With which she pushed me into a corner near her and fenced Me in with a chair as if it |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | in common but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them Jekyll who was composite now with the most sensitive apprehensions now with a greedy gusto projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit Jekyll had more than a father s interest Hyde had more than a son s indifference To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | face lit up with a boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him The light beat upon him where he stood but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him Barrymore had returned from taking our luggage to our rooms He stood in front of us now with the subdued manner of a well trained servant He was a remarkable looking man tall handsome with a square black beard and pale distinguished features Would you wish dinner to be served at once sir Is it ready In a very few minutes sir You will find |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | amiability and sweetness and there was a simplicity in it and indeed in his whole manner when the studious pondering frost upon it was got through very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me Repeating no and not the least and other short assurances to the same purport Doctor Strong jogged on before us at a queer uneven pace and we followed Mr Wickfield looking grave I observed and shaking his head to himself without knowing that I saw him The schoolroom was a pretty large hall on the quietest side of the house confronted by the stately |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | so once more violently signed to the lawyer to give ear A voice answered from within Tell him I cannot see anyone it said complainingly Thank you sir said Poole with a note of something like triumph in his voice and taking up his candle he led Mr Utterson back across the yard and into the great kitchen where the fire was out and the beetles were leaping on the floor Sir he said looking Mr Utterson in the eyes Was that my master s voice It seems much changed replied the lawyer very pale but giving look for look |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | in the west and grew ever broader and more red All trace of the moon had vanished The circling of the stars growing slower and slower had given place to creeping points of light At last some time before I stopped the sun red and very large halted motionless upon the horizon a vast dome glowing with a dull heat and now and then suffering a momentary extinction At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | bad and wretched as myself I must go back Whether it is God s wrath for the wrong I have done I do not know but I am drawn back to him through every suffering and ill usage and I should be I believe if I knew that I was to die by his hand at last What am I to do said Rose I should not let you depart from me thus You should lady and I know you will rejoined the girl rising You will not stop my going because I have trusted in your goodness and forced |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | a thick voice with something in it a kind of whistling overtone that struck me as peculiar but the English accent was strangely good The Ape man looked at me as though he expected something I perceived the pause was interrogative He comes to live with you I said It is a man He must learn the Law I began to distinguish now a deeper blackness in the black a vague outline of a hunched up figure Then I noticed the opening of the place was darkened by two more black heads My hand tightened on my stick The thing |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | face He was full of rage of tense muscular excitement his hands gripped his lips were pressed together The way to the Council House across the ruins was impassable but Asano met that difficulty and took Graham into the premises of the central post office The post office was nominally at work but the blue clothed porters moved sluggishly or had stopped to stare through the arches of their galleries at the shouting men who were going by outside Every man to his ward Every man to his ward Here by Asano s advice Graham revealed his identity They crossed |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | a thin white face He has a thin long whip said Montgomery Yesterday he bled and wept said the Satyr You never bleed nor weep The Master does not bleed or weep Ollendorffian beggar said Montgomery you ll bleed and weep if you don t look out He has five fingers he is a five man like me said the Ape man Come along Prendick said Montgomery taking my arm and I went on with him The Satyr and the Ape man stood watching us and making other remarks to each other He says nothing said the Satyr Men have |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | temper and they could not but own when their aunt inquired into her faults or their brother Edmund urged her claims to their kindness that Fanny was good natured enough Edmund was uniformly kind himself and she had nothing worse to endure on the part of Tom than that sort of merriment which a young man of seventeen will always think fair with a child of ten He was just entering into life full of spirits and with all the liberal dispositions of an eldest son who feels born only for expense and enjoyment His kindness to his little cousin |
Jane Austen | Emma | it was a great deal too large and he cut it smaller and kept playing some time with what was left before he gave it back to me And so then in my nonsense I could not help making a treasure of it so I put it by never to be used and looked at it now and then as a great treat My dearest Harriet cried Emma putting her hand before her face and jumping up you make me more ashamed of myself than I can bear Remember it Aye I remember it all now all except your saving |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | in the former dog like manner There too I was again left to wander about as I liked It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was on that last occasion open or shut Enough that I saw no gate then and that I saw one now As it stood open and as I knew that Estella had let the visitors out for she had returned with the keys in her hand I strolled into the garden and strolled all over it |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Watson we shall order breakfast and afterwards I shall walk down to Doctors Commons where I hope to get some data which may help us in this matter It was nearly one o clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper scrawled over with notes and figures I have seen the will of the deceased wife said he To determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned The total income which at the time of the |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | something to show by way of proof before I lay such a tale before my fellow men It is true that others will soon follow and will confirm what I have said and yet I should wish to carry conviction from the first Those lovely iridescent bubbles of the air should not be hard to capture They drift slowly upon their way and the swift monoplane could intercept their leisurely course It is likely enough that they would dissolve in the heavier layers of the atmosphere and that some small heap of amorphous jelly might be all that I should |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | smile on me when I die cried his companion shivering Who will talk to me in those long nights They cannot come from home they would frighten me if they did for I don t know what it is and shouldn t know them Pain and fear pain and fear for me alive or dead No hope no hope The bell rang to bed and the boy subsiding at the sound into his usual listless state crept away as if anxious to avoid notice It was with a heavy heart that Nicholas soon afterwards no not retired there was no |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | and the empty ocean about us as though it was yesterday The place seemed waiting for me The stores were landed and the house was built The Kanakas founded some huts near the ravine I went to work here upon what I had brought with me There were some disagreeable things happened at first I began with a sheep and killed it after a day and a half by a slip of the scalpel I took another sheep and made a thing of pain and fear and left it bound up to heal It looked quite human to me when |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | folly like the present It is mere folly Mere nonsense In a little while it will weigh lighter than any feather But I might I might if this silly business were not completely relinquished altogether be induced in some anxious moment to guard her from and surround her with protections against the consequences of any foolish step in the way of marriage Now Mr Copperfield I hope that you will not render it necessary for me to open even for a quarter of an hour that closed page in the book of life and unsettle even for a quarter of |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | a oyster remarked Mr Claypole after he had swallowed it What a pity it is a number of em should ever make you feel uncomfortable isn t it Charlotte It s quite a cruelty said Charlotte So it is acquiesced Mr Claypole An t yer fond of oysters Not overmuch replied Charlotte I like to see you eat em Noah dear better than eating em myself Lor said Noah reflectively how queer Have another said Charlotte Here s one with such a beautiful delicate beard I can t manage any more said Noah I m very sorry Come here Charlotte |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | me from him and to force himself from me not answering a word not looking at or seeing anyone blindly striving for he knew not what his face all staring and distorted a frightful spectacle I conjured him incoherently but in the most impassioned manner not to abandon himself to this wildness but to hear me I besought him to think of Agnes to connect me with Agnes to recollect how Agnes and I had grown up together how I honoured her and loved her how she was his pride and joy I tried to bring her idea before him |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | broad plumed hat the curling love locks the white lace collar and the straight severe face which was framed between them It was not a brutal countenance but it was prim hard and stern with a firm set thin lipped mouth and a coldly intolerant eye Is it like anyone you know There is something of Sir Henry about the jaw Just a suggestion perhaps But wait an instant He stood upon a chair and holding up the light in his left hand he curved his right arm over the broad hat and round the long ringlets Good heavens I |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | man walking with a slight stagger and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder As he reached the corner of Goodge Street a row broke out between this stranger and a little knot of roughs One of the latter knocked off the man s hat on which he raised his stick to defend himself and swinging it over his head smashed the shop window behind him Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his assailants but the man shocked at having broken the window and seeing an official looking person in uniform rushing towards him dropped his |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | looked at me curiously but of course it was not their affair and so at last I got my lunch It was not particularly well served but it sufficed and when I had had it I sat over a cigar trying to plan my line of action And outside a snowstorm was beginning The more I thought it over Kemp the more I realised what a helpless absurdity an Invisible Man was in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages That afternoon it seemed |
Jane Austen | Emma | perhaps when we come to talk it over but these sort of things require a good deal of consideration One cannot resolve upon them in a hurry If Mr and Mrs Weston will be so obliging as to call here one morning we may talk it over and see what can be done But unfortunately sir my time is so limited Oh interrupted Emma there will be plenty of time for talking every thing over There is no hurry at all If it can be contrived to be at the Crown papa it will be very convenient for the horses |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | and to think over my plan of campaign This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the matter He was a lawyer That sounded ominous What was the relation between them and what the object of his repeated visits Was she his client his friend or his mistress If the former she had probably transferred the photograph to his keeping If the latter it was less likely On the issue of this question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony Lodge or turn my attention to the gentleman s chambers in the Temple It was a delicate |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners confound them And I ve closed the wood where the Fernworthy folk used to picnic These infernal people seem to think that there are no rights of property and that they can swarm where they like with their papers and their bottles Both cases decided Dr Watson and both in my favour I haven t had such a day since I had Sir John Morland for trespass because he shot in his own warren How on earth did you do that Look it up in the books sir |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | a cheerful and cursory reading of the face of life and possibly this attitude of mind was the original cause of his misfortunes Beyond this hint philosophy is silent on his career and superstition steps in with the more ready explanation that he was detested of the gods His father that iron gentleman had long ago enthroned himself on the heights of the Disruption Principles What these are and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence but to the Scot they often prove unctuously nourishing |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | heavy hammer which lay beside the bed showed how murderous had been his intentions Do not use any violence said Lord Linchmere as we raised the struggling man to his feet He will have a period of stupor after this excitement I believe that it is coming on already As he spoke the convulsions became less violent and the madman s head fell forward upon his breast as if he were overcome by sleep We led him down the passage and stretched him upon his own bed where he lay unconscious breathing heavily Two of you will watch him said |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | of Marvel he smoked faster his voice grew angry Kemp tried to gather what he could He was afraid of me I could see that he was afraid of me said the Invisible Man many times over He meant to give me the slip he was always casting about What a fool I was The cur I should have killed him Where did you get the money asked Kemp abruptly The Invisible Man was silent for a space I can t tell you to night he said He groaned suddenly and leant forward supporting his invisible head on invisible hands |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | dark and wore a large cloak He had the air of a stranger and seemed by a certain haggardness in his look as well as by the dusty soils on his dress to have travelled some distance He eyed Bumble askance as he entered but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation Mr Bumble had quite dignity enough for two supposing even that the stranger had been more familiar so he drank his gin and water in silence and read the paper with great show of pomp and circumstance It so happened however as it will |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | alone but now his imagination also was engaged or rather enslaved and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room Mr Enfield s tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city then of the figure of a man walking swiftly then of a child running from the doctor s and then these met and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams Or else he would see a |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | of pleasure as Tom Their mother had no objection to the plan and they were not in the least afraid of their father s disapprobation There could be no harm in what had been done in so many respectable families and by so many women of the first consideration and it must be scrupulousness run mad that could see anything to censure in a plan like theirs comprehending only brothers and sisters and intimate friends and which would never be heard of beyond themselves Julia _did_ seem inclined to admit that Maria s situation might require particular caution and delicacy |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | am sure I managed very well before we were married There s evidence said my mother sobbing ask Peggotty if I didn t do very well when I wasn t interfered with Edward said Miss Murdstone let there be an end of this I go tomorrow Jane Murdstone said her brother be silent How dare you to insinuate that you don t know my character better than your words imply I am sure my poor mother went on at a grievous disadvantage and with many tears I don t want anybody to go I should be very miserable and unhappy |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | of it And after three years of secrecy and exasperation I found that to complete it was impossible impossible How asked Kemp Money said the Invisible Man and went again to stare out of the window He turned around abruptly I robbed the old man robbed my father The money was not his and he shot himself CHAPTER XX AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREET For a moment Kemp sat in silence staring at the back of the headless figure at the window Then he started struck by a thought rose took the Invisible Man s arm and turned |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | years of servile security against multitudes demoralised by lives of venial privilege and sensual indulgence They had no artillery no differentiation into this force or that the only weapon on either side was the little green metal carbine whose secret manufacture and sudden distribution in enormous quantities had been one of Ostrog s culminating moves against the Council Few had had any experience with this weapon many had never discharged one many who carried it came unprovided with ammunition never was wilder firing in the history of warfare It was a battle of amateurs a hideous experimental warfare armed rioters |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | in sherry but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss for as to sherry my poor dear mother s own sherry was in the market then and ten years afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country to fifty members at half a crown a head the winner to spend five shillings I was present myself and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused at a part of myself being disposed of in that way The caul was |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | just stepped across the road to try the effect from the opposite side of the street Satisfied that nothing could possibly look better in its way Mr Kenwigs then stepped back again and calling through the keyhole to Morleena to open the door vanished into the house and was seen no longer Now considered as an abstract circumstance there was no more obvious cause or reason why Mr Kenwigs should take the trouble of muffling this particular knocker than there would have been for his muffling the knocker of any nobleman or gentleman resident ten miles off because for the |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life she will cherish all her present powers of mind He had done and was unanswered It would have surprised Anne if Louisa could have readily answered such a speech words of such interest spoken with such serious warmth She could imagine what Louisa was feeling For herself she feared to move lest she should be seen While she remained a bush of low rambling holly protected her and they were moving on Before they were beyond her hearing however Louisa spoke again Mary is good natured enough |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | they quarrel so dreadfully They will fight some of them for precedence on staircases Dreadful isn t it But I think Wraysbury the fashionable capillotomist is here From Capri Capillotomist said Graham Ah I remember An artist Why not We have to cultivate him she said apologetically Our heads are in his hands She smiled Graham hesitated at the invited compliment but his glance was expressive Have the arts grown with the rest of civilised things he said Who are your great painters She looked at him doubtfully Then laughed For a moment she said I thought you meant She |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | problem was solved In a flash I saw my course I turned about no longer aimless and went circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways towards the back streets north of the Strand for I remembered though not very distinctly where that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district The day was cold with a nipping wind down the northward running streets I walked fast to avoid being overtaken Every crossing was a danger every passenger a thing to watch alertly One man as I was about to pass him at the top of Bedford Street turned upon |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | other I think that was the chain of events Mr Windibank Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes had been talking and he rose from his chair now with a cold sneer upon his pale face It may be so or it may not Mr Holmes said he but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law now and not me I have done nothing actionable from the first but as long as you keep that door locked you lay yourself open |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | years ago I was about to throw it away but I remembered that it was inflammable and burnt with a good bright flame was in fact an excellent candle and I put it in my pocket I found no explosives however nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | brown opium smoke and terraced with wooden berths like the forecastle of an emigrant ship Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying in strange fantastic poses bowed shoulders bent knees heads thrown back and chins pointing upward with here and there a dark lack lustre eye turned upon the newcomer Out of the black shadows there glimmered little red circles of light now bright now faint as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the metal pipes The most lay silent but some muttered to themselves and others talked together in a |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | seemed a very world that I must search through in a moment Agnes I cannot bear to see you so and think that I have been the cause My dearest girl dearer to me than anything in life if you are unhappy let me share your unhappiness If you are in need of help or counsel let me try to give it to you If you have indeed a burden on your heart let me try to lighten it For whom do I live now Agnes if it is not for you Oh spare me I am not myself Another |
Jane Austen | Emma | Mr Perry could not quite understand him but he was very sure there must be a _lady_ in the case and he told him so and Mr Elton only looked very conscious and smiling and rode off in great spirits Miss Nash had told her all this and had talked a great deal more about Mr Elton and said looking so very significantly at her that she did not pretend to understand what his business might be but she only knew that any woman whom Mr Elton could prefer she should think the luckiest woman in the world for beyond |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | it off it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure Second because as my narrative will make alas too evident my discoveries were incomplete Enough then that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy and a second form and countenance substituted none the less natural to me because they were the expression and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul I hesitated |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | imagination with the image of Miss Mackenzie incongruous and yet kindred thoughts for did not each imply unusual tightening of the pegs of resolution did not each woo him forth and warn him back again into himself Between these two considerations at least he was more than usually moved and when he got to Randolph Crescent he quite forgot the four hundred pounds in the inner pocket of his greatcoat hung up the coat with its rich freight upon his particular pin of the hatstand and in the very action sealed his doom CHAPTER II IN WHICH JOHN REAPS THE |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | chair against the wall a round table and a large iron safe were the principal things which met the eye Holmes walked slowly round and examined each and all of them with the keenest interest What s in here he asked tapping the safe My stepfather s business papers Oh you have seen inside then Only once some years ago I remember that it was full of papers There isn t a cat in it for example No What a strange idea Well look at this He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | her all her life afterwards or at least till within the last two years of her life and can answer any question you may wish to put Nay said Anne I have no particular enquiry to make about her I have always understood they were not a happy couple But I should like to know why at that time of his life he should slight my father s acquaintance as he did My father was certainly disposed to take very kind and proper notice of him Why did Mr Elliot draw back Mr Elliot replied Mrs Smith at that period |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | I can help you No my dear fellow it is at the hour of action that I turn to you for aid But this is splendid really unique from some points of view When you pass Bradley s would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco Thank you It would be as well if you could make it convenient not to return before evening Then I should be very glad to compare impressions as to this most interesting problem which has been submitted to us this morning I knew that seclusion and solitude were |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | in the choir of that church Who is this King of Glory went the voices from within and to John this was like the end of all Christian observances for he was now to be a wild man like Ishmael and his life was to be cast in homeless places and with godless people It was thus with no rising sense of the adventurous but in mere desolation and despair that he turned his back on his native city and set out on foot for California with a more immediate eye to Glasgow CHAPTER IV THE SECOND SOWING IT is |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | watch Why said I One would think you expected to be attacked Perhaps I do In that case why not lock your door Perhaps I WANT to be attacked It looked more and more like lunacy However there was nothing for it but to submit I shrugged my shoulders and sat down in the arm chair beside the empty fireplace I am to remain on watch then said I ruefully We will divide the night If you will watch until two I will watch the remainder Very good Call me at two o clock then I will do so Keep |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | caught Filby s eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man and he winked at me solemnly III The Time Traveller Returns I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine The fact is the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed you never felt that you saw all round him you always suspected some subtle reserve some ingenuity in ambush behind his lucid frankness Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller s words we should have shown _him_ far less |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | drew in her head again murmuring Wretches I would not have confessed to my visit for any consideration Mr Jaggers said I by way of putting it neatly on somebody else has the reputation of being more in the secrets of that dismal place than any man in London He is more in the secrets of every place I think said Estella in a low voice You have been accustomed to see him often I suppose I have been accustomed to see him at uncertain intervals ever since I can remember But I know him no better now than I |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | thereafter Dick was back at the Goat and Bagpipes breaking his fast and receiving the report of his messengers and sentries Duckworth was still absent from Shoreby and this was frequently the case for he played many parts in the world shared many different interests and conducted many various affairs He had founded that fellowship of the Black Arrow as a ruined man longing for vengeance and money and yet among those who knew him best he was thought to be the agent and emissary of the great king maker of England Richard Earl of Warwick In his absence at |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | deeply sunburnt and thick black eyebrows blacker in contrast with the perfect whiteness of his hair roughly clothed in shabby garments of a strange and uncouth make and having about him an indefinable manner of depression and degradation this for a moment was all he saw But he looked again and the face and person seemed gradually to grow less strange to change as he looked to subside and soften into lineaments that were familiar until at last they resolved themselves as if by some strange optical illusion into those of one whom he had known for many years and |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind Such relief however as it was in her power to afford by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences she frequently sent them It had always been evident to her that such an income as theirs under the direction of two persons so extravagant in their wants and heedless of the future must be very insufficient to their support and whenever they changed their quarters either Jane or herself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance |
Jane Austen | Emma | be almost always either talking together or silent together Mrs Elton left them no choice If Jane repressed her for a little time she soon began again and though much that passed between them was in a half whisper especially on Mrs Elton s side there was no avoiding a knowledge of their principal subjects The post office catching cold fetching letters and friendship were long under discussion and to them succeeded one which must be at least equally unpleasant to Jane inquiries whether she had yet heard of any situation likely to suit her and professions of Mrs Elton |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | in vain while Captain Wentworth staggering against the wall for his support exclaimed in the bitterest agony Oh God her father and mother A surgeon said Anne He caught the word it seemed to rouse him at once and saying only True true a surgeon this instant was darting away when Anne eagerly suggested Captain Benwick would not it be better for Captain Benwick He knows where a surgeon is to be found Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea and in a moment it was all done in rapid moments Captain Benwick had resigned the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | and I began to find myself deceived Give me back my father be what you were before and you may talk of love indeed Then you cannot forgive me cannot he asked I have nothing to forgive she answered You do not understand Is that your last word Esther said he very white and biting his lip to keep it still Yes that is my last word replied she Then we are here on false pretences and we stay here no longer he said Had you still loved me right or wrong I should have taken you away because then |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | at the doctor s with a small party Lanyon had been there and the face of the host had looked from one to the other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends On the 12th and again on the 14th the door was shut against the lawyer The doctor was confined to the house Poole said and saw no one On the 15th he tried again and was again refused and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | still refused to raise his eyes It was as well for his resolution perhaps for her pleading face was one which it was hard to resist You re angry Robert said she Well I guess you have every cause to be Pray make no apology to me said Lord St Simon bitterly Oh yes I know that I have treated you real bad and that I should have spoken to you before I went but I was kind of rattled and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just didn t know what I was doing or |
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