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Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Painfully slowly and doggedly with extraordinary tenacity and single mindedness he had climbed from rung to rung of the ladder of fame until now he was a member of the Berlin Academy and there was every reason to believe that he would shortly be promoted to the Chair of the greatest of German Universities But the singleness of purpose which had brought him to the same high level as the rich and brilliant Englishman had caused him in everything outside their work to stand infinitely below him He had never found a pause in his studies in which to cultivate |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | long pause he added The king of the ape men was really a creature of great distinction a most remarkably handsome and intelligent personality Did it not strike you A most remarkable creature said I And the Professor much eased in his mind settled down to his slumber once more CHAPTER XIV Those Were the Real Conquests We had imagined that our pursuers the ape men knew nothing of our brush wood hiding place but we were soon to find out our mistake There was no sound in the woods not a leaf moved upon the trees and all was |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | shaving cleaving floating scum of coal in and out under the figure head of the _John of Sunderland_ making a speech to the winds as is done by many Johns and the _Betsy of Yarmouth_ with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head in and out hammers going in ship builders yards saws going at timber clashing engines going at things unknown pumps going in leaky ships capstans going ships going out to sea and unintelligible sea creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen in and out out at |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | But it s not so bad as you feel man Your nerves are worked to rags Let me give you something that will make you sleep _That_ will keep on for hours yet You must simply get to sleep or I won t answer for it I did not reply I bowed forward and covered my face with my hands Presently he returned with a small measure containing a dark liquid This he gave me I took it unresistingly and he helped me into the hammock When I awoke it was broad day For a little while I lay flat |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | deserved your warmest thanks He could not explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands He took the more chivalrous view however and preserved her secret And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the coronet cried Mr Holder Oh my God what a blind fool I have been And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the scene of the struggle How cruelly I have misjudged him When I arrived |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | your robbing your bank in California of course replied Alexander It was plain from Flora s face that this was the first she had heard of it it was plainer still from John s that he was innocent I he exclaimed I rob my bank My God Flora this is too much even you must allow that Meaning you didn t asked Alexander I never robbed a soul in all my days cried John except my father if you call that robbery and I brought him back the money in this room and he wouldn t even take it Look |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | interests that it must be so For instance it s your object to take care of number one meaning yourself Certainly replied Mr Bolter Yer about right there Well You can t take care of yourself number one without taking care of me number one Number two you mean said Mr Bolter who was largely endowed with the quality of selfishness No I don t retorted Fagin I m of the same importance to you as you are to yourself I say interrupted Mr Bolter yer a very nice man and I m very fond of yer but we ain |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | journey At six o clock next morning Mr Bumble having exchanged his cocked hat for a round one and encased his person in a blue great coat with a cape to it took his place on the outside of the coach accompanied by the criminals whose settlement was disputed with whom in due course of time he arrived in London He experienced no other crosses on the way than those which originated in the perverse behaviour of the two paupers who persisted in shivering and complaining of the cold in a manner which Mr Bumble declared caused his teeth to |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | must be soon bringing them together again Their last meeting had been most important in opening his feelings she had derived from it a delightful conviction but she feared from his looks that the same unfortunate persuasion which had hastened him away from the Concert Room still governed He did not seem to want to be near enough for conversation She tried to be calm and leave things to take their course and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence Surely if there be constant attachment on each side our hearts must understand each other ere long |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | it so that it might be the more readily grasped and the blade drawn Mr Stewart I am thinking says Robin Troth Mr Macgregor it s not a name to be ashamed of answered Alan I did not know ye were in my country sir says Robin It sticks in my mind that I am in the country of my friends the Maclarens says Alan That s a kittle point returned the other There may be two words to say to that But I think I will have heard that you are a man of your sword Unless ye were |
Jane Austen | Emma | was still more lucky she wanted exactly the advice they gave This was the occurrence The Coles had been settled some years in Highbury and were very good sort of people friendly liberal and unpretending but on the other hand they were of low origin in trade and only moderately genteel On their first coming into the country they had lived in proportion to their income quietly keeping little company and that little unexpensively but the last year or two had brought them a considerable increase of means the house in town had yielded greater profits and fortune in general |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | own friend my dear replied Fagin with his most insinuating grin He hasn t as good a one as himself anywhere Except sometimes replied Morris Bolter assuming the air of a man of the world Some people are nobody s enemies but their own yer know Don t believe that said Fagin When a man s his own enemy it s only because he s too much his own friend not because he s careful for everybody but himself Pooh pooh There ain t such a thing in nature There oughn t to be if there is replied Mr Bolter |
Jane Austen | Emma | of consciousness with which congratulations were received the blush of guilt which accompanied the name of my excellent friend Colonel Campbell Mrs Weston kind hearted and musical was particularly interested by the circumstance and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject and having so much to ask and to say as to tone touch and pedal totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible which she plainly read in the fair heroine s countenance They were soon joined by some of the gentlemen and the very first of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | with a man Why not appeal to his better side He grasped at the new hope Great Scott and so you did he cried as if in a transport of delight his voice sounding false in his own ears Well if that s so I ve something to say to you I ll just get out I guess Where are we any way The driver had fluttered his ticket in the eyes of the branch toll keeper and they were now brought to on the highest and most solitary part of the by road On the left a row of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | said I Did you notice the soil Rocks But round the water where the reeds were It was a bluish soil It looked like clay Exactly A volcanic tube full of blue clay What of that I asked Oh nothing nothing said he and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet the high strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger I should have thought no more of Lord John s remark were it not that once again that night I heard him mutter to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | returned from Bristol Witness with considerable confusion I do not know A Juryman Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father fatally injured Witness Nothing definite The Coroner What do you mean Witness I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the open that I could think of nothing except of my father Yet I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay upon the ground to the left of me It seemed to me to be something grey in colour a coat |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | his sheet again when he liked In five minutes a dozen turnings intervened between me and the costumier s shop No one appeared to notice me very pointedly My last difficulty seemed overcome He stopped again And you troubled no more about the hunchback said Kemp No said the Invisible Man Nor have I heard what became of him I suppose he untied himself or kicked himself out The knots were pretty tight He became silent and went to the window and stared out What happened when you went out into the Strand Oh disillusionment again I thought my troubles |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | man and don t stand staring An agitated German waiter had appeared upon the scene No sir I have made inquiry all over the hotel but I can hear no word of it Well either that boot comes back before sundown or I ll see the manager and tell him that I go right straight out of this hotel It shall be found sir I promise you that if you will have a little patience it will be found Mind it is for it s the last thing of mine that I ll lose in this den of thieves Well |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | compelled to return to Liverpool And so the matter stood and has continued to stand up to the present year of 1898 Incredible as it may seem nothing has transpired during these eight years which has shed the least light upon the extraordinary disappearance of the special train which contained Monsieur Caratal and his companion Careful inquiries into the antecedents of the two travellers have only established the fact that Monsieur Caratal was well known as a financier and political agent in Central America and that during his voyage to Europe he had betrayed extraordinary anxiety to reach Paris His |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | sir replied Bumble That boy will be hung said the gentleman in the white waistcoat I know that boy will be hung Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman s opinion An animated discussion took place Oliver was ordered into instant confinement and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish In other words five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade business or calling I never was |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | how pleasant to be called Uriah spontaneously he cried and gave himself a jerk like a convulsive fish You thought her looking very beautiful tonight Master Copperfield I thought her looking as she always does superior in all respects to everyone around her I returned Oh thank you It s so true he cried Oh thank you very much for that Not at all I said loftily There is no reason why you should thank me Why that Master Copperfield said Uriah is in fact the confidence that I am going to take the liberty of reposing Umble as I |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | of punishment But when that little child is dropped into heavier for that grab of whisker or shaking then that man naterally up and says to himself Where is the good as you are a doing I grant you I see the arm says the man but I don t see the good I call upon you sir therefore to pint out the good The man says I observed as Joe waited for me to speak The man says Joe assented Is he right that man Dear Joe he is always right Well old chap said Joe then abide by |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | I conclude that I must have been insensible for about two hours What roused me to consciousness once more was that sharp metallic click which had been the precursor of my terrible experience It was the shooting back of the spring lock Then before my senses were clear enough to entirely apprehend what they saw I was aware of the round benevolent face of my cousin peering in through the open door What he saw evidently amazed him There was the cat crouching on the floor I was stretched upon my back in my shirt sleeves within the cage my |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | Man said Mr Marvel And what s _he_ been up to Everything said the mariner controlling Marvel with his eye and then amplifying every blessed thing I ain t seen a paper these four days said Marvel Iping s the place he started at said the mariner In _deed_ said Mr Marvel He started there And where he came from nobody don t seem to know Here it is Pe culiar Story from Iping And it says in this paper that the evidence is extra ordinary strong extra ordinary Lord said Mr Marvel But then it s an extra ordinary |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | known I believe as a peccary a gorgeously feathered oriole some sort of armadillo and a singular lumbering in toed beast like a very fat badger were among the creatures which I observed as we drove along the winding avenue Mr Everard King my unknown cousin was standing in person upon the steps of his house for he had seen us in the distance and guessed that it was I His appearance was very homely and benevolent short and stout forty five years old perhaps with a round good humoured face burned brown with the tropical sun and shot with |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Bennet Yes ma am all All What all five out at once Very odd And you only the second The younger ones out before the elder ones are married Your younger sisters must be very young Yes my youngest is not sixteen Perhaps _she_ is full young to be much in company But really ma am I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters that they should not have their share of society and amusement because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early The last born has as good a right to the |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | of all the fantastic things that had happened during the last few days I saw the ugly little Jew of a landlord vociferating in his rooms I saw his two sons marvelling and the wrinkled old woman s gnarled face as she asked for her cat I experienced again the strange sensation of seeing the cloth disappear and so I came round to the windy hillside and the sniffing old clergyman mumbling Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust at my father s open grave You also said a voice and suddenly I was being forced towards the |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | seeing it all its own freshness and all the freshness of its wearer s feelings must be worn away It would be sunk into a badge of disgrace for what can be more unbecoming or more worthless than the uniform of a lieutenant who has been a lieutenant a year or two and sees others made commanders before him So reasoned Edmund till his father made him the confidant of a scheme which placed Fanny s chance of seeing the second lieutenant of H M S Thrush in all his glory in another light This scheme was that she should |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | his son and the poor fellow was waiting for me half an hour I think nobody can justly accuse me of sparing myself upon any occasion but really I cannot do everything at once And as for Fanny s just stepping down to my house for me it is not much above a quarter of a mile I cannot think I was unreasonable to ask it How often do I pace it three times a day early and late ay and in all weathers too and say nothing about it I wish Fanny had half your strength ma am If |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and making me blush in the most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye After watching me into the second chop he said There s half a pint of ale for you Will you have it now I thanked him and said Yes Upon which he poured it out of a jug into a large tumbler and held it up against the light and made it look beautiful My eye he said It seems a good deal don t it It does seem a good deal I answered with a smile For it was quite delightful to me to |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | in some other way with the rich furniture of various descriptions which was profusely displayed They waited here a much longer time than was agreeable to Mr Ralph Nickleby who eyed the gaudy frippery about him with very little concern and was at length about to pull the bell when a gentleman suddenly popped his head into the room and seeing somebody there as suddenly popped it out again Here Hollo cried Ralph Who s that At the sound of Ralph s voice the head reappeared and the mouth displaying a very long row of very white teeth uttered in |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature the whole interplay of instinct reason and fate in its simplest form The Leopard man had happened to go under that was all the difference Poor brute Poor brutes I began to see the viler aspect of Moreau s cruelty I had not thought before of the pain and trouble that came to these poor victims after they had passed from Moreau s hands I had shivered only at the days of actual torment in the enclosure But now that seemed to me the lesser part Before |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world he was caught by their easy playfulness Of this she was perfectly unaware to her he |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | seemed as if Mr Shepherd in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter s good will towards a naval officer as tenant had been gifted with foresight for the very first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton and indeed he had received a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent By the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make Admiral Croft was a native of Somersetshire who having acquired a very handsome fortune was wishing to settle in his own |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Mr Rankeillor with a smile and in particular he so much disrelished me expressions of mine that in a word he showed me to the door We were then at a full stand for whatever shrewd suspicions we might entertain we had no shadow of probation In the very article comes Captain Hoseason with the story of your drowning whereupon all fell through with no consequences but concern to Mr Campbell injury to my pocket and another blot upon your uncle s character which could very ill afford it And now Mr Balfour said he you understand the whole process |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | lower parts and one rail bent awry The Time Traveller put the lamp down on the bench and ran his hand along the damaged rail It s all right now he said The story I told you was true I m sorry to have brought you out here in the cold He took up the lamp and in an absolute silence we returned to the smoking room He came into the hall with us and helped the Editor on with his coat The Medical Man looked into his face and with a certain hesitation told him he was suffering from |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | pushed into a dark thick undergrowth that was black and succulent under foot As I plunged into the reeds my foremost pursuers emerged from the gap I broke my way through this undergrowth for some minutes The air behind me and about me was soon full of threatening cries I heard the tumult of my pursuers in the gap up the slope then the crashing of the reeds and every now and then the crackling crash of a branch Some of the creatures roared like excited beasts of prey The staghound yelped to the left I heard Moreau and Montgomery |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | who is lying yonder he swept his long arm towards the huge mottled expanse of green splotched bog which stretched away until it merged into the russet slopes of the moor Chapter 15 A Retrospection It was the end of November and Holmes and I sat upon a raw and foggy night on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting room in Baker Street Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | my arm But my story slips away from me as I speak of her It must have been the night before her rescue that I was awakened about dawn I had been restless dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps I woke with a start and with an odd fancy that some greyish animal had just rushed out of the chamber I tried to get to sleep again but I felt restless and uncomfortable It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | her She gave a moment s recollection as they hurried along to the little circumstances which the same spots had witnessed earlier in the morning There she had listened to Henrietta s schemes for Dr Shirley s leaving Uppercross farther on she had first seen Mr Elliot a moment seemed all that could now be given to any one but Louisa or those who were wrapped up in her welfare Captain Benwick was most considerately attentive to her and united as they all seemed by the distress of the day she felt an increasing degree of good will towards him |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | trying to think In a moment the Invisible Man would be in the kitchen This door would not keep him a moment and then A ringing came at the front door again It would be the policemen He ran into the hall put up the chain and drew the bolts He made the girl speak before he dropped the chain and the three people blundered into the house in a heap and Kemp slammed the door again The Invisible Man said Kemp He has a revolver with two shots left He s killed Adye Shot him anyhow Didn t you |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | virtuous indignation and felt it her duty as a married lady and a moral member of society to mention the circumstance to the young person without delay Accordingly Mrs Wititterly broke ground next morning during a pause in the novel reading Miss Nickleby said Mrs Wititterly I wish to speak to you very gravely I am sorry to have to do it upon my word I am very sorry but you leave me no alternative Miss Nickleby Here Mrs Wititterly tossed her head not passionately only virtuously and remarked with some appearance of excitement that she feared that palpitation of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | this should cost me another And then he condemned the fear as a disloyalty and broke the seal Within there was another enclosure likewise sealed and marked upon the cover as not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll Utterson could not trust his eyes Yes it was disappearance here again as in the mad will which he had long ago restored to its author here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketted But in the will that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | property or let in shareholders he left it all to the Sleeper and put it under a Board of Trustees that he had picked and trained He knew then the Sleeper wouldn t wake that he would go on sleeping sleeping till he died He knew that quite well And plump a man in the United States who had lost two sons in a boat accident followed that up with another great bequest His trustees found themselves with a dozen myriads of lions worth or more of property at the very beginning What was his name Graham No I mean |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | feel some resentment against Mr Crawford yet if he really loved her and were unhappy too It was all wretchedness together In about a quarter of an hour her uncle returned she was almost ready to faint at the sight of him He spoke calmly however without austerity without reproach and she revived a little There was comfort too in his words as well as his manner for he began with Mr Crawford is gone he has just left me I need not repeat what has passed I do not want to add to anything you may now be feeling |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | them here ma am I should hope if there was any incompatibility to meet the pecuniary obligations said Miss La Creevy with another cough that the lady s family would No they wouldn t ma am interrupted Ralph hastily Don t think it If I am to understand that said Miss La Creevy the case wears a very different appearance You may understand it then ma am said Ralph and make your arrangements accordingly I am the family ma am at least I believe I am the only relation they have and I think it right that you should know |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | window where the stranger had been wont to work Cuss had hit almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled Diary Diary said Cuss putting the three books on the table Now at any rate we shall learn something The Vicar stood with his hands on the table Diary repeated Cuss sitting down putting two volumes to support the third and opening it H m no name on the fly leaf Bother cypher And figures The vicar came round to look over his shoulder Cuss turned the pages over with a face suddenly disappointed I m dear me |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | of the Chequers by the formidable hunchback and the whole reserve of the Yorkists began to come scattering backwards in the excess of disarray and terror Dick and his fellows faced about fresh men poured out of the houses a cruel blast of arrows met the fugitives full in the face while Gloucester was already riding down their rear in the inside of a minute and a half there was no living Lancastrian in the street Then and not till then did Dick hold up his reeking blade and give the word to cheer Meanwhile Gloucester dismounted from his horse |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | bearing advertisements likely to be of interest to mothers Of all the strange things that Graham came upon that night none jarred more upon his habits of thought than this place The spectacle of the little pink creatures their feeble limbs swaying uncertainly in vague first movements left alone without embrace or endearment was wholly repugnant to him The attendant doctor was of a different opinion His statistical evidence showed beyond dispute that in the Victorian times the most dangerous passage of life was the arms of the mother that there human mortality had ever been most terrible On the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | the acuteness of the symptoms but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred This person who had thus from the first moment of his entrance struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable his clothes that is to say although they were of rich and sober fabric were enormously too large for him in every measurement the trousers hanging on |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | be though said Alan unless we manage the better At this the lass turned and ran out of that part of the house leaving us alone together Alan in high good humour at the furthering of his schemes and I in bitter dudgeon at being called a Jacobite and treated like a child Alan I cried I can stand no more of this Ye ll have to sit it then Davie said he For if ye upset the pot now ye may scrape your own life out of the fire but Alan Breck is a dead man This was so |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | duty at the gate I found Miss Havisham just as I had left her and she spoke of Estella in the very same way if not in the very same words The interview lasted but a few minutes and she gave me a guinea when I was going and told me to come again on my next birthday I may mention at once that this became an annual custom I tried to decline taking the guinea on the first occasion but with no better effect than causing her to ask me very angrily if I expected more Then and after |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | jungle and ten minutes later I was among the reeds upon the borders of the central lake I was exceedingly dry so I lay down and took a long draught of its waters which were fresh and cold There was a broad pathway with many tracks upon it at the spot which I had found so that it was clearly one of the drinking places of the animals Close to the water s edge there was a huge isolated block of lava Up this I climbed and lying on the top I had an excellent view in every direction The |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | purple stroked his little beard hesitated and answered in an undertone He is Howard your chief guardian You see Sire it s a little difficult to explain The Council appoints a guardian and assistants This hall has under certain restrictions been public In order that people might satisfy themselves We have barred the doorways for the first time But I think if you don t mind I will leave him to explain Odd said Graham Guardian Council Then turning his back on the new comer he asked in an undertone Why is this man _glaring_ at me Is he a |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | seen the beginning and the end of their acquaintance but not with a few months ended Anne s share of suffering from it Her attachment and regrets had for a long time clouded every enjoyment of youth and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close and time had softened down much perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him but she had been too dependent on time alone no aid had been given in change of place except |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | figure in the group in recognition of whom the proprietor pulled off his hat This was Sir Mulberry Hawk with whom were his friend and pupil and a small train of gentlemanly dressed men of characters more doubtful than obscure The proprietor in a low voice bade Sir Mulberry good day Sir Mulberry in the same tone bade the proprietor go to the devil and turned to speak with his friends There was evidently an irritable consciousness about him that he was an object of curiosity on this first occasion of showing himself in public after the accident that had |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | though I told him how ill I was not one of them have been near me It did not happen to suit the Miss Musgroves I suppose and they never put themselves out of their way You will see them yet perhaps before the morning is gone It is early I never want them I assure you They talk and laugh a great deal too much for me Oh Anne I am so very unwell It was quite unkind of you not to come on Thursday My dear Mary recollect what a comfortable account you sent me of yourself You |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | One word more Rose Dearest Rose one more cried Harry throwing himself before her If I had been less less fortunate the world would call it if some obscure and peaceful life had been my destiny if I had been poor sick helpless would you have turned from me then Or has my probable advancement to riches and honour given this scruple birth Do not press me to reply answered Rose The question does not arise and never will It is unfair almost unkind to urge it If your answer be what I almost dare to hope it is retorted |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | of his face he added However I have said what I came to say and with another apology for this intrusion I may take myself off Of course I shall observe your directions in considering the matter as one to be arranged between you and me solely and not to be referred to up at the Doctor s Have you dined asked Mr Wickfield with a motion of his hand towards the table Thank ee I am going to dine said Mr Maldon with my cousin Annie Good bye Mr Wickfield without rising looked after him thoughtfully as he went |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | deputed to wait accompanied by Miss Knag and officered of course by Madame Mantalini Kate s part in the pageant was humble enough her duties being limited to holding articles of costume until Miss Knag was ready to try them on and now and then tying a string or fastening a hook and eye She might not unreasonably have supposed herself beneath the reach of any arrogance or bad humour but it happened that the lady and daughter were both out of temper that day and the poor girl came in for her share of their revilings She was awkward |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | collation was by this time deep in the pie Nothing of this had been unobserved by Mr Squeers who so long as the attention of the company was fixed upon other objects hugged himself to think that his son and heir should be fattening at the enemy s expense But there being now an appearance of a temporary calm in which the proceedings of little Wackford could scarcely fail to be observed he feigned to be aware of the circumstance for the first time and inflicted upon the face of that young gentleman a slap that made the very tea |
Jane Austen | Emma | his hopes He wanted to marry well and having the arrogance to raise his eyes to her pretended to be in love but she was perfectly easy as to his not suffering any disappointment that need be cared for There had been no real affection either in his language or manners Sighs and fine words had been given in abundance but she could hardly devise any set of expressions or fancy any tone of voice less allied with real love She need not trouble herself to pity him He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself and if Miss Woodhouse |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | person but of his room and of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed the gems but no trace of them could be found nor would the wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our threats This morning he was removed to a cell and I after going through all the police formalities have hurried round to you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter The police have openly confessed that they can at present make nothing of it You may go to any expense which you think necessary |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | s rather odd He s unavoidably detained He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he s not back Says he ll explain when he comes It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil said the Editor of a well known daily paper and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner The other men were Blank the Editor aforementioned a certain journalist and another a quiet shy man with a beard whom I didn t know and |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | XXI IN OXFORD STREET In going downstairs the first time I found an unexpected difficulty because I could not see my feet indeed I stumbled twice and there was an unaccustomed clumsiness in gripping the bolt By not looking down however I managed to walk on the level passably well My mood I say was one of exaltation I felt as a seeing man might do with padded feet and noiseless clothes in a city of the blind I experienced a wild impulse to jest to startle people to clap men on the back fling people s hats astray and |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | pieces in the first encounter and to avoid this it was needful to make the surprise of their arrival as complete as possible The footmen therefore were all once more taken up behind the riders and Dick had the signal honour meted out to him of mounting behind Gloucester himself For as far as there was any cover the troops moved slowly and when they came near the end of the trees that lined the highway stopped to breathe and reconnoitre The sun was now well up shining with a frosty brightness out of a yellow halo and right over |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | must not disappoint your father My dear aunt this is being serious indeed Yes and I hope to engage you to be serious likewise Well then you need not be under any alarm I will take care of myself and of Mr Wickham too He shall not be in love with me if I can prevent it Elizabeth you are not serious now I beg your pardon I will try again At present I am not in love with Mr Wickham no I certainly am not But he is beyond all comparison the most agreeable man I ever saw and |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | pacing the room swiftly eagerly with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him To me who knew his every mood and habit his attitude and manner told their own story He was at work again He had risen out of his drug created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own His manner was not effusive It seldom was but he was glad I think to see me With hardly a word spoken |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | sight unabated Perhaps he was deaf perhaps he thought it unworthy of an old archer of Agincourt to pay any heed to such disturbances but neither the surly notes of the alarm bell nor the near approach of Bennet and the lad appeared at all to move him and he continued obstinately digging and piped up very thin and shaky Now dear lady if thy will be I pray you that you will rue on me Nick Appleyard said Hatch Sir Oliver commends him to you and bids that ye shall come within this hour to the Moat House there |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Bennet Hatch That burned Grimstone walls and thatch One for Sir Oliver Oates That cut Sir Harry Shelton s throat Sir Daniel ye shull have the fourt We shall think it fair sport Ye shull each have your own part A blak arrow in each blak heart Get ye to your knees for to pray Ye are ded theeves by yea and nay JON AMEND ALL of the Green Wood And his jolly fellaweship Item we have mo arrowes and goode hempen cord for otheres of your following Now well a day for charity and the Christian graces cried Sir |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | men was describing to the other how he had seen a man down below there dodge behind a girder and had aimed at a guess and hit him cleanly as he dodged too far He s down there still said the marksman See that little patch Yes Between those bars A few yards behind them lay a dead stranger face upward to the sky with the blue canvas of his jacket smouldering in a circle about the neat bullet hole on his chest Close beside him a wounded man with a leg swathed about sat with an expressionless face and |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | down the blinds Now Mr Dick said my aunt with her grave look and her forefinger up as before I am going to ask you another question Look at this child David s son said Mr Dick with an attentive puzzled face Exactly so returned my aunt What would you do with him now Do with David s son said Mr Dick Ay replied my aunt with David s son Oh said Mr Dick Yes Do with I should put him to bed Janet cried my aunt with the same complacent triumph that I had remarked before Mr Dick sets |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | more on their way they could see him some distance behind beating his feet upon the ground and tearing his hair in transports of real or pretended rage I am an ass said the doctor after a long silence Did you know that before Oliver No sir Then don t forget it another time An ass said the doctor again after a further silence of some minutes Even if it had been the right place and the right fellows had been there what could I have done single handed And if I had had assistance I see no good that |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | declaration but Mr Bennet was firm It soon led to another and Mrs Bennet found with amazement and horror that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion Mrs Bennet could hardly comprehend it That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid exceeded all she could believe possible She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | an archaic indignation He rose angry and half ashamed at himself for witnessing this thing even in solitude He pulled forward the apparatus and with some violence sought for a means of stopping its action Something snapped A violet spark stung and convulsed his arm and the thing was still When he attempted next day to replace these Tannhauser cylinders by another pair he found the apparatus broken He struck out a path oblique to the room and paced to and fro struggling with intolerable vast impressions The things he had derived from the cylinders and the things he had |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | laugh me out of my opinion My dearest Lizzy do but consider in what a disgraceful light it places Mr Darcy to be treating his father s favourite in such a manner one whom his father had promised to provide for It is impossible No man of common humanity no man who had any value for his character could be capable of it Can his most intimate friends be so excessively deceived in him Oh no I can much more easily believe Mr Bingley s being imposed on than that Mr Wickham should invent such a history of himself as |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | had been some sort of attack and the rifle shot no doubt marked the time when it had occurred That there should have been only one shot showed that it had been all over in an instant The rifles still lay upon the ground and one of them Lord John s had the empty cartridge in the breech The blankets of Challenger and of Summerlee beside the fire suggested that they had been asleep at the time The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter together with our unfortunate cameras and plate carriers but |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | an immense development of reading rooms lounges and libraries had witnessed to the growth of social confidence These promises had by this time attained to their complete fulfilment The locked and barred household had passed away These people below him belonged he learnt to the lower middle class the class just above the blue labourers a class so accustomed in the Victorian period to feed with every precaution of privacy that its members when occasion confronted them with a public meal would usually hide their embarrassment under horseplay or a markedly militant demeanour But these gaily if lightly dressed people |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | hand When I wrote last we were about to leave the Indian village where we had been deposited by the Esmeralda I have to begin my report by bad news for the first serious personal trouble I pass over the incessant bickerings between the Professors occurred this evening and might have had a tragic ending I have spoken of our English speaking half breed Gomez a fine worker and a willing fellow but afflicted I fancy with the vice of curiosity which is common enough among such men On the last evening he seems to have hid himself near the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | t think he was as hard as this And what do you say to that Alick asked Flora I say the cablegram shall go to night cried Alexander with energy Answer prepaid too If this can be cleared away and upon my word I do believe it can we shall all be able to hold up our heads again Here you John you stick down the address of your bank manager You Flora you can pack John into my bed for which I have no further use to night As for me I am off to the post office and |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | crawl from one heather bush to another as hunters do when they are hard upon the deer It was a clear day again with a blazing sun the water in the brandy bottle was soon gone and altogether if I had guessed what it would be to crawl half the time upon my belly and to walk much of the rest stooping nearly to the knees I should certainly have held back from such a killing enterprise Toiling and resting and toiling again we wore away the morning and about noon lay down in a thick bush of heather to |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | They came leaping down from the gap into the light gallery that had led to the Silent Rooms They ran along it so near were they that Graham could see the weapons in their hands Then Ostrog was shouting in his ear to the men who held him and once more he was struggling with all his strength against their endeavours to thrust him towards the opening that yawned to receive him They can t come down panted Ostrog They daren t fire It s all right We ll save him from them yet For long minutes as it seemed |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | extraordinary quickness he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house The lawyer stood awhile when Mr Hyde had left him the picture of disquietude Then he began slowly to mount the street pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity The problem he was thus debating as he walked was one of a class that is rarely solved Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation he had a displeasing smile he had borne himself to the lawyer with a |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | my dear mother your anxiety I was unlucky there What is the matter asked her ladyship in the heavy tone of one half roused I was not asleep Oh dear no ma am nobody suspected you Well Edmund he continued returning to the former subject posture and voice as soon as Lady Bertram began to nod again but _this_ I _will_ maintain that we shall be doing no harm I cannot agree with you I am convinced that my father would totally disapprove it And I am convinced to the contrary Nobody is fonder of the exercise of talent in |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | plateau So far all had been kindly however far apart our desires might be but we felt well assured that our actual plans of a descent must be kept secret for we had reason to fear that at the last they might try to hold us by force In spite of the danger from dinosaurs which is not great save at night for as I may have said before they are mostly nocturnal in their habits I have twice in the last three weeks been over to our old camp in order to see our negro who still kept watch |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | my hands exulting in the freshness of these sensations and in the act I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature There was no mirror at that date in my room that which stands beside me as I write was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations The night however was far gone into the morning the morning black as it was was nearly ripe for the conception of the day the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber and I determined flushed as I was with |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Bend me then your bow cried the other What will ye be a man Dick crossed himself Would ye have me shoot upon a leper he cried The hand would fail me Nay now he added nay now let be With sound men I will fight but not with ghosts and lepers Which this is I wot not One or other Heaven be our protection Now said Matcham if this be man s courage what a poor thing is man But sith ye will do naught let us lie close Then came a single broken jangle on the bell He |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | an hour There was a slamming of doors a ringing of bells and the voice of Mr Heelas bellowing like a bull Shut the doors shut the windows shut everything the Invisible Man is coming Instantly the house was full of screams and directions and scurrying feet He ran himself to shut the French windows that opened on the veranda as he did so Kemp s head and shoulders and knee appeared over the edge of the garden fence In another moment Kemp had ploughed through the asparagus and was running across the tennis lawn to the house You can |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | the placid face and steadfast eyes of my companion showed that no surprise was intended It is useless for us to pretend that we do not know you Dr Watson said he The records of your detective have reached us here and you could not celebrate him without being known yourself When Mortimer told me your name he could not deny your identity If you are here then it follows that Mr Sherlock Holmes is interesting himself in the matter and I am naturally curious to know what view he may take I am afraid that I cannot answer that |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | of a nephew he said getting up and leaning moodily against the chimney piece with his face towards the fire than to be myself twenty times richer and twenty times wiser and be the torment to myself that I have been in this Devil s bark of a boat within the last half hour I was so confounded by the alteration in him that at first I could only observe him in silence as he stood leaning his head upon his hand and looking gloomily down at the fire At length I begged him with all the earnestness I felt |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | have it purified of you If you live here tomorrow I ll have your story and your character proclaimed on the common stair There are decent women in the house I am told and it is a pity such a light as you should be among them and concealed If leaving here you seek any refuge in this town in any character but your true one which you are welcome to bear without molestation from me the same service shall be done you if I hear of your retreat Being assisted by a gentleman who not long ago aspired to |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | switchback of a helpless headlong motion I felt the same horrible anticipation too of an imminent smash As I put on pace night followed day like the flapping of a black wing The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky leaping it every minute and every minute marking a day I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air I had a dim impression of scaffolding but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and concern for her I am sure for her by her falling on my neck for a moment and crying that she only grieved for me In another moment she suppressed this emotion and said with an aspect more triumphant than dejected We must meet reverses boldly and not suffer them to frighten us my dear We must learn to act the play out We must live misfortune down Trot CHAPTER 35 DEPRESSION As soon as I could recover my presence of mind which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt s intelligence I proposed to |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | painful method of progression than running All the gaunt villas sleeping in the afternoon sun looked locked and barred no doubt they were locked and barred by his own orders But at any rate they might have kept a lookout for an eventuality like this The town was rising up now the sea had dropped out of sight behind it and people down below were stirring A tram was just arriving at the hill foot Beyond that was the police station Was that footsteps he heard behind him Spurt The people below were staring at him one or two were |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | was beginning to be evident He would use the baronet in order to convince the Stapletons that we were really gone while we should actually return at the instant when we were likely to be needed That telegram from London if mentioned by Sir Henry to the Stapletons must remove the last suspicions from their minds Already I seemed to see our nets drawing closer around that lean jawed pike Mrs Laura Lyons was in her office and Sherlock Holmes opened his interview with a frankness and directness which considerably amazed her I am investigating the circumstances which attended the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | feet and looked a question at me as clear as if he had spoken O cried I they re all murderers here it s a ship full of them They ve murdered a boy already Now it s you Ay ay said he but they have n t got me yet And then looking at me curiously Will ye stand with me That will I said I I am no thief nor yet murderer I ll stand by you Why then said he what s your name David Balfour said I and then thinking that a man with so fine |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | to call the authority to mind she extinguished her candle and drew up the window blind to admit the light of morning which had by this time begun to dawn It s a bad light to distinguish objects in murmured Mrs Nickleby peering into the garden and my eyes are not very good I was short sighted from a child but upon my word I think there s another large vegetable marrow sticking at this moment on the broken glass bottles at the top of the wall CHAPTER 38 Comprises certain Particulars arising out of a Visit of Condolence which |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | lava a crack in the knotted rock and on either side interwoven heaps of sea mat palm fans and reeds leaning against the rock formed rough and impenetrably dark dens The winding way up the ravine between these was scarcely three yards wide and was disfigured by lumps of decaying fruit pulp and other refuse which accounted for the disagreeable stench of the place The little pink sloth creature was still blinking at me when my Ape man reappeared at the aperture of the nearest of these dens and beckoned me in As he did so a slouching monster wriggled |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | Fragonard a martial Girardet and a dreamy Turner But amid these varied ornaments there were scattered the trophies which brought back strongly to my recollection the fact that Lord John Roxton was one of the great all round sportsmen and athletes of his day A dark blue oar crossed with a cherry pink one above his mantel piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man while the foils and boxing gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | goodness to the last moment of my life Why indeed Fanny I should hope to be remembered at such a distance as the White House You speak as if you were going two hundred miles off instead of only across the park but you will belong to us almost as much as ever The two families will be meeting every day in the year The only difference will be that living with your aunt you will necessarily be brought forward as you ought to be _Here_ there are too many whom you can hide behind but with _her_ you will |
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