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Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | like an oven by a great fire of coal At a table hard by the chimney a tall dark sober looking man sat writing In spite of the heat of the room he wore a thick sea jacket buttoned to the neck and a tall hairy cap drawn down over his ears yet I never saw any man not even a judge upon the bench look cooler or more studious and self possessed than this ship captain He got to his feet at once and coming forward offered his large hand to Ebenezer I am proud to see you Mr |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume XVI HOW THE BEAST FOLK TASTE BLOOD My inexperience as a writer betrays me and I wander from the thread of my story After I had breakfasted with Montgomery he took me across the island to see the fumarole and the source of the hot spring into whose scalding waters I had blundered on the previous day Both of us carried whips and loaded revolvers |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Crawford had been obliged to give up and make the best of his way back I told you I lost my way after passing that old farmhouse with the yew trees because I can never bear to ask but I have not told you that with my usual luck for I never do wrong without gaining by it I found myself in due time in the very place which I had a curiosity to see I was suddenly upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills a |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | which have effected so singular an interference with the general laws of survival Yet I admit that there may very well be places where an expert human climber may reach the summit and yet a cumbrous and heavy animal be unable to descend It is certain that there is a point where an ascent is possible How do you know that sir asked Summerlee sharply Because my predecessor the American Maple White actually made such an ascent How otherwise could he have seen the monster which he sketched in his notebook There you reason somewhat ahead of the proved facts |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | threw my hand down and instinctively I gripped my stick Eat roots and herbs it is His will said the Ape man I am the Sayer of the Law said the grey figure Here come all that be new to learn the Law I sit in the darkness and say the Law It is even so said one of the beasts in the doorway Evil are the punishments of those who break the Law None escape None escape said the Beast Folk glancing furtively at one another None none said the Ape man none escape See I did a little |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | is _not_ dead M ling turned his sharp eyes on me He has changed his shape he has changed his body I went on For a time you will not see him He is there I pointed upward where he can watch you You cannot see him but he can see you Fear the Law I looked at them squarely They flinched He is great he is good said the Ape man peering fearfully upward among the dense trees And the other Thing I demanded The Thing that bled and ran screaming and sobbing that is dead too said the |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | dangers I could not go abroad in snow it would settle on me and expose me Rain too would make me a watery outline a glistening surface of a man a bubble And fog I should be like a fainter bubble in a fog a surface a greasy glimmer of humanity Moreover as I went abroad in the London air I gathered dirt about my ankles floating smuts and dust upon my skin I did not know how long it would be before I should become visible from that cause also But I saw clearly it could not be for |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and protecting in person up and down the staircase a supernumerary whom she engaged from the outer world These vigorous measures struck such terror to the breast of Mrs Crupp that she subsided into her own kitchen under the impression that my aunt was mad My aunt being supremely indifferent to Mrs Crupp s opinion and everybody else s and rather favouring than discouraging the idea Mrs Crupp of late the bold became within a few days so faint hearted that rather than encounter my aunt upon the staircase she would endeavour to hide her portly form behind doors leaving |
Jane Austen | Emma | Weston observed all young people would have their little whims There was one person among his new acquaintance in Surry not so leniently disposed In general he was judged throughout the parishes of Donwell and Highbury with great candour liberal allowances were made for the little excesses of such a handsome young man one who smiled so often and bowed so well but there was one spirit among them not to be softened from its power of censure by bows or smiles Mr Knightley The circumstance was told him at Hartfield for the moment he was silent but Emma heard |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | be able to take some care of Mr Gargery together until he settles down How are you going to live Biddy If you want any mo How am I going to live repeated Biddy striking in with a momentary flush upon her face I ll tell you Mr Pip I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here I can be well recommended by all the neighbors and I hope I can be industrious and patient and teach myself while I teach others You know Mr Pip pursued Biddy with a |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | said and that it was really best for our purpose that I should not have known that he was upon the moor That s better said he seeing the shadow rise from my face And now tell me the result of your visit to Mrs Laura Lyons it was not difficult for me to guess that it was to see her that you had gone for I am already aware that she is the one person in Coombe Tracey who might be of service to us in the matter In fact if you had not gone today it is exceedingly |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | He offered a few commonplace remarks assurances of loyalty and frank inquiries about the Master s health His manner was breezy his accent lacked the easy staccato of latter day English He made it admirably clear to Graham that he was a bluff aerial dog he used that phrase that there was no nonsense about him that he was a thoroughly manly fellow and old fashioned at that that he didn t profess to know much and that what he did not know was not worth knowing He made a curt bow ostentatiously free from obsequiousness and passed I am |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | I could not believe my ears And then suddenly I thought of the time which had elapsed and how it coincided with my injuries Then Lord Southerton must have died about the same time that I was hurt His death occurred upon that very day Summers looked hard at me as I spoke and I am convinced for he was a very shrewd fellow that he had guessed the true state of the case He paused for a moment as if awaiting a confidence from me but I could not see what was to be gained by exposing such a |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | the more serious classes but gave him a standing with the riotous And yet Colette s was not a hell it could not come without vaulting hyperbole under the rubric of a gilded saloon and if it was a sin to go there the sin was merely local and municipal Colette whose name I do not know how to spell for I was never in epistolary communication with that hospitable outlaw was simply an unlicensed publican who gave suppers after eleven at night the Edinburgh hour of closing If you belonged to a club you could get a much better |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | funds in a drawer a sum suitable to the occasion Now look here he said there is the payment made first proof of your good faith first step to your security You have now to clinch it by a second Enter the payment in your book and then you for your part may defy the devil The next few seconds were for Fettes an agony of thought but in balancing his terrors it was the most immediate that triumphed Any future difficulty seemed almost welcome if he could avoid a present quarrel with Macfarlane He set down the candle which |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | content to have stood there and looked at him until evening and to have forgotten meanwhile that there was such a thing as a soured mind or a crabbed countenance to be met with in the whole wide world But even a very remote approach to this gratification was not to be made for although he seemed quite unconscious of having been the subject of observation he looked casually at Nicholas and the latter fearful of giving offence resumed his scrutiny of the window instantly Still the old gentleman stood there glancing from placard to placard and Nicholas could not |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | over his left eye in a post chaise from Birmingham and after we had seen Shakespeare s tomb and birthplace we went back to the inn there where we slept that night and I recollect that all night long I dreamt of nothing but a black gentleman at full length in plaster of Paris with a lay down collar tied with two tassels leaning against a post and thinking and when I woke in the morning and described him to Mr Nickleby he said it was Shakespeare just as he had been when he was alive which was very curious |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | and Captain Wentworth coming towards them They came also for a stroll till breakfast was likely to be ready but Louisa recollecting immediately afterwards that she had something to procure at a shop invited them all to go back with her into the town They were all at her disposal When they came to the steps leading upwards from the beach a gentleman at the same moment preparing to come down politely drew back and stopped to give them way They ascended and passed him and as they passed Anne s face caught his eye and he looked at her |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | much surprised had either of my daughters on receiving a proposal of marriage at any time which might carry with it only _half_ the eligibility of _this_ immediately and peremptorily and without paying my opinion or my regard the compliment of any consultation put a decided negative on it I should have been much surprised and much hurt by such a proceeding I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect _You_ are not to be judged by the same rule You do not owe me the duty of a child But Fanny if your heart can |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished he got up hastily and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village as fast as he could go CHAPTER IX MR THOMAS MARVEL You must picture Mr Thomas Marvel as a person of copious flexible visage a nose of cylindrical protrusion a liquorish ample fluctuating mouth and a beard of bristling eccentricity His figure inclined to embonpoint his short limbs accentuated this inclination He wore a furry silk hat and the frequent substitution of twine and shoe laces for buttons apparent at critical points of his costume marked a man essentially |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | power to cut him off by suicide I find it in my heart to pity him It is useless and the time awfully fails me to prolong this description no one has ever suffered such torments let that suffice and yet even to these habit brought no not alleviation but a certain callousness of soul a certain acquiescence of despair and my punishment might have gone on for years but for the last calamity which has now fallen and which has finally severed me from my own face and nature My provision of the salt which had never been renewed |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | him How would it all be She had already been obliged to tell Lady Russell that Louisa Musgrove was to marry Captain Benwick It had cost her something to encounter Lady Russell s surprise and now if she were by any chance to be thrown into company with Captain Wentworth her imperfect knowledge of the matter might add another shade of prejudice against him The following morning Anne was out with her friend and for the first hour in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain but at last in returning down Pulteney Street she distinguished |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | his majestic beard that any man of science should commit himself to so ignoble a sentiment You are in a land which offers such an inducement to the ambitious naturalist as none ever has since the world began and you suggest leaving it before we have acquired more than the most superficial knowledge of it or of its contents I expected better things of you Professor Summerlee You must remember said Summerlee sourly that I have a large class in London who are at present at the mercy of an extremely inefficient locum tenens This makes my situation different from |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | of view would have been the same as yours and my presence would have warned our very formidable opponents to be on their guard As it is I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall and I remain an unknown factor in the business ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment But why keep me in the dark For you to know could not have helped us and might possibly have led to my discovery You would have wished to tell me something |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | s having left the house but when convinced of his being gone she was eager to go down and be with her uncle and have all the happiness of his joy as well as her own and all the benefit of his information or his conjectures as to what would now be William s destination Sir Thomas was as joyful as she could desire and very kind and communicative and she had so comfortable a talk with him about William as to make her feel as if nothing had occurred to vex her till she found towards the close that |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | given to understand so much by her friend could not know herself to be so highly rated by a sensible man without many of those agreeable sensations which her friend meant to create Lady Russell was now perfectly decided in her opinion of Mr Elliot She was as much convinced of his meaning to gain Anne in time as of his deserving her and was beginning to calculate the number of weeks which would free him from all the remaining restraints of widowhood and leave him at liberty to exert his most open powers of pleasing She would not speak |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | I know what s due Dear boy and Pip s comrade don t you be afeerd of me being low Tramping begging thieving working sometimes when I could though that warn t as often as you may think till you put the question whether you would ha been over ready to give me work yourselves a bit of a poacher a bit of a laborer a bit of a wagoner a bit of a haymaker a bit of a hawker a bit of most things that don t pay and lead to trouble I got to be a man A |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | s rates Hem said Mr Bumble Well Well replied the undertaker I was thinking that if I pay so much towards em I ve a right to get as much out of em as I can Mr Bumble and so I think I ll take the boy myself Mr Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm and led him into the building Mr Sowerberry was closeted with the board for five minutes and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening upon liking a phrase which means in the case of a parish apprentice that if the |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | scale than Elizabeth and though little more than sixteen her figure was formed and her appearance womanly and graceful She was less handsome than her brother but there was sense and good humour in her face and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle Elizabeth who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr Darcy had been was much relieved by discerning such different feelings They had not long been together before Mr Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming to wait on her and she had barely time to express her |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | upon the staff he looked round him with a sad smiling sympathy on all that he beheld he even asked the name of a plant and rallied himself gently for an old town bird ignorant of nature This country life will make me young again he sighed They reached the top of the hill towards the first hour of evening the sun was descending heaven the colour had all drawn into the west the hills were modelled in their least contour by the soft slanting shine and the wide moorlands veined with glens and hazelwoods ran west and north in |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | to me as I gained some knowledge of that wild Highland country on which I was so soon to land In those days so close on the back of the great rebellion it was needful a man should know what he was doing when he went upon the heather It was I that showed the example telling him all my misfortune which he heard with great good nature Only when I came to mention that good friend of mine Mr Campbell the minister Alan fired up and cried out that he hated all that were of that name Why said |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | was that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking This morose journeyman had no liking for me When I was very small and timid he gave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge and that he knew the fiend very well also that it was necessary to make up the fire once in seven years with a live boy and that I might consider myself fuel When I became Joe s prentice Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him howbeit he |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | the table sword in hand the air that he was making all the time began to run a little clearer and then clearer still and then out he burst with a great voice into a Gaelic song I have translated it here not in verse of which I have no skill but at least in the king s English He sang it often afterwards and the thing became popular so that I have heard it and had it explained to me many s the time This is the song of the sword of Alan The smith made it The fire |
Jane Austen | Emma | more pleasure than at this moment never had his smile been stronger nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her Well said she to herself this is most strange After I had got him off so well to chuse to go into company and leave Harriet ill behind Most strange indeed But there is I believe in many men especially single men such an inclination such a passion for dining out a dinner engagement is so high in the class of their pleasures their employments their dignities almost their duties that any thing gives way to |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | Yes said I It was killed I don t understand said I do you mean to say It killed the Kanaka yes It killed several other things that it caught We chased it for a couple of days It only got loose by accident I never meant it to get away It wasn t finished It was purely an experiment It was a limbless thing with a horrible face that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion It was immensely strong and in infuriating pain It lurked in the woods for some days until we hunted it and then |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | shall be happy to express my sentiments said he with elaborate sarcasm I am not in the habit of being taken to task in the fashion which seems to be customary with your lordship I was not aware that it was necessary to ask your permission before smiling at a harmless pleasantry It was not until he had received his apology that our touchy friend would suffer himself to be appeased When at last his ruffled feelings were at ease he addressed us at some length from his seat upon a fallen tree speaking as his habit was as if |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | chiefly of smiles The creature s friendliness affected me exactly as a child s might have done We passed each other flowers and she kissed my hands I did the same to hers Then I tried talk and found that her name was Weena which though I don t know what it meant somehow seemed appropriate enough That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week and ended as I will tell you She was exactly like a child She wanted to be with me always She tried to follow me everywhere and on my next journey |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | assisting them an absolute breach between the sisters had taken place It was the natural result of the conduct of each party and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces To save herself from useless remonstrance Mrs Price never wrote to her family on the subject till actually married Lady Bertram who was a woman of very tranquil feelings and a temper remarkably easy and indolent would have contented herself with merely giving up her sister and thinking no more of the matter but Mrs Norris had a spirit of activity which could not be satisfied till she |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | that The unhappy looking figure in the obsolete silk hat passed up the street of the little village with his burdens and vanished into the gathering darkness beyond the lights of the windows CHAPTER XIV AT PORT STOWE Ten o clock the next morning found Mr Marvel unshaven dirty and travel stained sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets looking very weary nervous and uncomfortable and inflating his cheeks at infrequent intervals on the bench outside a little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe Beside him were the books but now they were |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | wavings of his hand I told him I had no Gaelic and at this he became very angry and I began to suspect he thought he was talking English Listening very close I caught the word whateffer several times but all the rest was Gaelic and might have been Greek and Hebrew for me Whatever said I to show him I had caught a word Yes yes yes yes says he and then he looked at the other men as much as to say I told you I spoke English and began again as hard as ever in the Gaelic |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | to prowl about Miss Estella Come and fight said the pale young gentleman What could I do but follow him I have often asked myself the question since but what else could I do His manner was so final and I was so astonished that I followed where he led as if I had been under a spell Stop a minute though he said wheeling round before we had gone many paces I ought to give you a reason for fighting too There it is In a most irritating manner he instantly slapped his hands against one another daintily flung |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | had continued to prevail throughout the town and what with the hurried clashing of bells the sounding of trumpets the swift movement of bodies of horse the cries of the commanders and the shrieks of women the noise was almost deafening to the ear Presently little by little the tumult began to subside and soon after files of men in armour and bodies of archers began to assemble and form in line of battle in the market place A large portion of this body were in murrey and blue and in the mounted knight who ordered their array Dick recognised |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | J Steerforth and the rest to work which is only second in my foreboding apprehensions to the time when the man with the wooden leg shall unlock the rusty gate to give admission to the awful Mr Creakle I cannot think I was a very dangerous character in any of these aspects but in all of them I carried the same warning on my back Mr Mell never said much to me but he was never harsh to me I suppose we were company to each other without talking I forgot to mention that he would talk to himself sometimes |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | must have been a Cameron from Mamore that did the act and if I did not see that the lad might be caught Ye havenae surely thought of that said they with such innocent earnestness that my hands dropped at my side and I despaired of argument Very well then said I paper me if you please paper Alan paper King George We re all three innocent and that seems to be what s wanted But at least sir said I to James recovering from my little fit of annoyance I am Alan s friend and if I can be |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | to the harbour It was a considerable basin lying among sand hills and surrounded with patches of down ancient ruinous lumber and tumble down slums of the town Many decked ships and many open boats either lay there at anchor or had been drawn up on the beach A long duration of bad weather had driven them from the high seas into the shelter of the port and the great trooping of black clouds and the cold squalls that followed one another now with a sprinkling of dry snow now in a mere swoop of wind promised no improvement but |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | packed me off to the galley to get supper for the gentleman I lost no time I promise you and when I came back into the round house I found the gentleman had taken a money belt from about his waist and poured out a guinea or two upon the table The captain was looking at the guineas and then at the belt and then at the gentleman s face and I thought he seemed excited Half of it he cried and I m your man The other swept back the guineas into the belt and put it on again |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | He will win And what the world will be like under him no one can tell My sons are under the wind vanes all three One of my daughters in law was his mistress for a while His mistress We re not common people Though they ve sent me to wander to night and take my chance I knew what was going on Before most people But this darkness And to fall over a dead body suddenly in the dark His wheezy breathing could be heard Ostrog said Graham The greatest Boss the world has ever seen said the voice |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | it is all we can do to make him wash his hands and his face is as black as a tinker s Well when once his case has been settled he will have a regular prison bath and I think if you saw him you would agree with me that he needed it I should like to see him very much Would you That is easily done Come this way You can leave your bag No I think that I ll take it Very good Come this way if you please He led us down a passage opened a barred |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | of the human species I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory though for myself I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth At first proceeding from the problems of our own age it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer was the key to the whole position No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you and wildly incredible and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way There is a tendency |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | moor at night And you a trained man of science believe it to be supernatural I do not know what to believe Holmes shrugged his shoulders I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world said he In a modest way I have combated evil but to take on the Father of Evil himself would perhaps be too ambitious a task Yet you must admit that the footmark is material The original hound was material enough to tug a man s throat out and yet he was diabolical as well I see that you have quite gone over to the |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | he had often showed that he possessed He was happier with a spud and a watering can among his orchids and chrysanthemums It was quite an interesting problem whether he was absolutely devoid of sense or miserably wanting in spirit Did he know his lady s ways and condone them or was he a mere blind doting fool It was a point to be discussed over the teacups in snug little drawing rooms or with the aid of a cigar in the bow windows of clubs Bitter and plain were the comments among men upon his conduct There was but |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | you must remember Miss Bennet that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house and the delay of his plan has merely desired it asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety To yield readily easily to the _persuasion_ of a friend is no merit with you To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either You appear to me Mr Darcy to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request without waiting for arguments |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | explicit for this that follows unless his explanation is to be accepted is an absolutely unaccountable thing He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room and set it in front of the fire with two legs on the hearthrug On this table he placed the mechanism Then he drew up a chair and sat down The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp the bright light of which fell upon the model There were also perhaps a dozen candles about two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | together to the side of the fly Let me present you to Sir Thomas Rossiter Dr Hamilton said Lord Linchmere You will find that you have a strong community of tastes I bowed Sir Thomas stood very stiffly looking at me severely from under the broad brim of his hat Lord Linchmere tells me that you know something about beetles said he What do you know about beetles I know what I have learned from your work upon the coleoptera Sir Thomas I answered Give me the names of the better known species of the British scarabaei said he I |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | were clad in the same soft and yet strong silky material Fruit by the bye was all their diet These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians and while I was with them in spite of some carnal cravings I had to be frugivorous also Indeed I found afterwards that horses cattle sheep dogs had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction But the fruits were very delightful one in particular that seemed to be in season all the time I was there a floury thing in a three sided husk was especially good and I made it my staple At |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | wounded man My lord duke shall order you further and if ye obey him with spirit and good will then is your fortune made Give me the lamp a little nearer to mine eyes till that I write these words for you He wrote a note to his worshipful kinsman Sir John Hamley and then a second which he left without external superscripture This is for the duke he said The word is England and Edward and the counter England and York And Joanna my lord asked Dick Nay ye must get Joanna how ye can replied the baron I |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | find a piece of this poor surgeon s friend on the staircase I ve been lamed with orange peel once and I know orange peel will be my death or I ll be content to eat my own head sir This was the handsome offer with which Mr Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made and it was the more singular in his case because even admitting for the sake of argument the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being |
Jane Austen | Emma | to the young ladies How do you do Mr Richard I saw you the other day as you rode through the town Mrs Otway I protest and good Mr Otway and Miss Otway and Miss Caroline Such a host of friends and Mr George and Mr Arthur How do you do How do you all do Quite well I am much obliged to you Never better Don t I hear another carriage Who can this be very likely the worthy Coles Upon my word this is charming to be standing about among such friends And such a noble fire I |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | from her strange companion Thank Heaven upon your knees dear lady cried the girl that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger and riot and drunkenness and and something worse than all as I have been from my cradle I may use the word for the alley and the gutter were mine as they will be my deathbed I pity you said Rose in a broken voice It wrings my heart to hear you Heaven bless you for your goodness rejoined the girl |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | real character had information been in her power she had never felt a wish of inquiring His countenance voice and manner had established him at once in the possession of every virtue She tried to recollect some instance of goodness some distinguished trait of integrity or benevolence that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr Darcy or at least by the predominance of virtue atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class what Mr Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years continuance But no such recollection befriended her She could see |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I shall do to oblige you The next thing you threaten to commit suicide about I shan t do even at some personal inconvenience He sat in my deck chair a cigar half consumed in his white dexterous looking fingers The light of the swinging lamp fell on his white hair he stared through the little window out at the starlight I sat as far away from him as possible the table between us and the revolvers to hand Montgomery was not present I did not care to be with the two of them in such a little room You |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | me is why this hound presuming that all our conjectures are correct I presume nothing Well then why this hound should be loose tonight I suppose that it does not always run loose upon the moor Stapleton would not let it go unless he had reason to think that Sir Henry would be there My difficulty is the more formidable of the two for I think that we shall very shortly get an explanation of yours while mine may remain forever a mystery The question now is what shall we do with this poor wretch s body We cannot leave |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | hesitated as he approached Go away cried I There was something very suggestive of a dog in the cringing attitude of the creature It retreated a little way very like a dog being sent home and stopped looking at me imploringly with canine brown eyes Go away said I Do not come near me May I not come near you it said No go away I insisted and snapped my whip Then putting my whip in my teeth I stooped for a stone and with that threat drove the creature away So in solitude I came round by the ravine |
Jane Austen | Emma | not he I have an idea he was standing just here Ah I do not know I cannot recollect It is very odd but I cannot recollect Mr Elton was sitting here I remember much about where I am now Well go on Oh that s all I have nothing more to shew you or to say except that I am now going to throw them both behind the fire and I wish you to see me do it My poor dear Harriet and have you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things Yes simpleton as I was but |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | no security nothing to go upon but Faith There is no faith but faith faith which is courage Things that he had long wished to believe he found that he believed He spoke gustily in broken incomplete sentences but with all his heart and strength of this new faith within him He spoke of the greatness of self abnegation of his belief in an immortal life of Humanity in which we live and move and have our being His voice rose and fell and the recording appliances hummed as he spoke dim attendants watched him out of the shadow His |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | lances with him said the man Lances No women then asked Shelton Troth I saw not said the archer But there were none in the house if that be your quest I thank you said Dick Here is a piece for your pains But groping in his wallet Dick found nothing Inquire for me to morrow he added Richard Shelt Sir Richard Shelton he corrected and I will see you handsomely rewarded And then an idea struck Dick He hastily descended to the courtyard ran with all his might across the garden and came to the great door of the |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | was no insignificant barrier indeed Mrs Musgrove was of a comfortable substantial size infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humour than tenderness and sentiment and while the agitations of Anne s slender form and pensive face may be considered as very completely screened Captain Wentworth should be allowed some credit for the self command with which he attended to her large fat sighings over the destiny of a son whom alive nobody had cared for Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions A large bulky figure has as good a right to |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | countenances stooping to look in This glass has seen some strange things sir whispered Poole And surely none stranger than itself echoed the lawyer in the same tones For what did Jekyll he caught himself up at the word with a start and then conquering the weakness what could Jekyll want with it he said You may say that said Poole Next they turned to the business table On the desk among the neat array of papers a large envelope was uppermost and bore in the doctor s hand the name of Mr Utterson The lawyer unsealed it and several |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | other directions Certainly it had some means of finding its way about and of hunting down the sheep upon the hillside As to its choice of dark nights it is part of my theory that light was painful to those great white eyeballs and that it was only a pitch black world which it could tolerate Perhaps indeed it was the glare of my lantern which saved my life at that awful moment when we were face to face So I read the riddle I leave these facts behind me and if you can explain them do so or if |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | was laughed to scorn at one place and wiser for that when at last he reached a second stairway he professed simply to have news of extraordinary importance for Ostrog What it was he would not say They sent his note reluctantly For a long time he waited in a little room at the foot of the lift shaft and thither at last came Lincoln eager apologetic astonished He stopped in the doorway scrutinising Graham then rushed forward effusively Yes he cried It is you And you are not dead Graham made a brief explanation My brother is waiting explained |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | no sign of life whatever He sat in his usual place and attitude like a great stuffed figure But when she began to look about her and to speak to me he nodded his head and grinned several times I have not the least notion at whom or what he meant by it It s a beautiful day Mr Barkis I said as an act of politeness It ain t bad said Mr Barkis who generally qualified his speech and rarely committed himself Peggotty is quite comfortable now Mr Barkis I remarked for his satisfaction Is she though said Mr |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | husband up to that pitch At last he rapped opened the door and got as far as Excuse me Go to the devil said the stranger in a tremendous voice and Shut that door after you So that brief interview terminated CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER The stranger went into the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half past five in the morning and there he remained until near midday the blinds down the door shut and none after Hall s repulse venturing near him All that time he must have fasted Thrice he rang his |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | were some rough shelter where he and some more of these Beast People lived I might perhaps find them friendly find some handle in their minds to take hold of I did not know how far they had forgotten their human heritage My ape like companion trotted along by my side with his hands hanging down and his jaw thrust forward I wondered what memory he might have in him How long have you been on this island said I How long he asked and after having the question repeated he held up three fingers The creature was little better |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | if we had refused to join them When people come in this manner on purpose to ask us how can one say no Just as they were setting off the gentlemen returned They had taken out a young dog who had spoilt their sport and sent them back early Their time and strength and spirits were therefore exactly ready for this walk and they entered into it with pleasure Could Anne have foreseen such a junction she would have staid at home but from some feelings of interest and curiosity she fancied now that it was too late to retract |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | outside in Belmore Street said I As to the letter if the writer wishes to be anonymous I think he has a right to remain so We must trust to the future to show some reason for the curious course which he has adopted So we dismissed the subject but all that night after my return to my chambers I was puzzling my brain as to what possible motive Professor Andreas could have for writing an anonymous warning letter to his successor for that the writing was his was as certain to me as if I had seen him actually |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | the Admiral stopping short I have been expecting this Let us let us go back to the Trevanion Arms and talk this matter out over a bottle Certainly not went Dick You have had far too much already The parasite was on the point of resenting this but a look at Dick s face and some recollection of the terms on which they had stood in Paris came to the aid of his wisdom and restrained him As you please he said although I don t know what you mean nor care But let us walk if you prefer it |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | a longer and steadier stride I saw as we traversed the open that the pursuit was now spreading from a column into a line The Hyena swine still ran close to me watching me as it ran every now and then puckering its muzzle with a snarling laugh At the edge of the rocks the Leopard man realising that he was making for the projecting cape upon which he had stalked me on the night of my arrival had doubled in the undergrowth but Montgomery had seen the manoeuvre and turned him again So panting tumbling against rocks torn by |
Jane Austen | Emma | think that it was for their accommodation the carriage was used at all I do suspect he would not have had a pair of horses for himself and that it was only as an excuse for assisting them Very likely said Emma nothing more likely I know no man more likely than Mr Knightley to do the sort of thing to do any thing really good natured useful considerate or benevolent He is not a gallant man but he is a very humane one and this considering Jane Fairfax s ill health would appear a case of humanity to him |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | will shut up a right of way and defy the parish to make him open it At others he will with his own hands tear down some other man s gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass He is learned in old manorial and communal rights and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy according to his latest exploit He |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | the Miss Musgroves had been here Mrs Musgrove told me I should find them here before he walked to the window to recollect himself and feel how he ought to behave They are up stairs with my sister they will be down in a few moments I dare say had been Anne s reply in all the confusion that was natural and if the child had not called her to come and do something for him she would have been out of the room the next moment and released Captain Wentworth as well as herself He continued at the window |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | crash to the ground if there is no tenant of the Hall I fear lest I should be swayed too much by my own obvious interest in the matter and that is why I bring the case before you and ask for your advice Holmes considered for a little time Put into plain words the matter is this said he In your opinion there is a diabolical agency which makes Dartmoor an unsafe abode for a Baskerville that is your opinion At least I might go the length of saying that there is some evidence that this may be so |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | and I can t help her nor can I any of the people against whom a hundred tricks but none so vile as this are plotted every day Well that adds to my pain but not to theirs The thing is no worse because I know it and it tortures me as well as them Gride and Nickleby Good pair for a curricle Oh roguery roguery roguery With these reflections and a very hard knock on the crown of his unfortunate hat at each repetition of the last word Newman Noggs whose brain was a little muddled by so much |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | thence to the High Street about the dead body The police ought to know you see and they ought to know through John and I can tell them some rigmarole about my brother being a man of highly nervous organisation and the rest of it And then I ll tell you what John did you notice the name upon the cab John gave the name of the driver which as I have not been able to command the vehicle I here suppress Well resumed Alexander I ll call round at their place before I come back and pay your shot |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | and throw it on the stair We ve had nothing else this week back nothing but papers and a closed door and the very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking Well sir every day ay and twice and thrice in the same day there have been orders and complaints and I have been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in town Every time I brought the stuff back there would be another paper telling me to return it because it was not pure and another order to a different firm This drug is wanted |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | Poor Oliver unwillingly complied Master Bates rolling up the new clothes under his arm departed from the room leaving Oliver in the dark and locking the door behind him The noise of Charley s laughter and the voice of Miss Betsy who opportunely arrived to throw water over her friend and perform other feminine offices for the promotion of her recovery might have kept many people awake under more happy circumstances than those in which Oliver was placed But he was sick and weary and he soon fell sound asleep CHAPTER XVII OLIVER S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS BRINGS A GREAT |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | slipped out of the room for to hear herself the subject of any discussion with her uncle was more than her nerves could bear She was anxious she knew more anxious perhaps than she ought to be for what was it after all whether she went or staid but if her uncle were to be a great while considering and deciding and with very grave looks and those grave looks directed to her and at last decide against her she might not be able to appear properly submissive and indifferent Her cause meanwhile went on well It began on Lady |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | upon the dining room floor The dining room was a very long apartment and was reached through a passage so that John upon his entrance brought but little light with him and must move toward the windows with spread arms groping and knocking on the furniture Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body It was what he had looked for yet it shocked him and he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard Men had killed themselves ere now in such excesses a dreary and degraded end |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | hours would place Madeline Bray for ever beyond his reach consign her to unspeakable misery and perhaps to an untimely death all this quite stunned and overwhelmed him Every hope connected with her that he had suffered himself to form or had entertained unconsciously seemed to fall at his feet withered and dead Every charm with which his memory or imagination had surrounded her presented itself before him only to heighten his anguish and add new bitterness to his despair Every feeling of sympathy for her forlorn condition and of admiration for her heroism and fortitude aggravated the indignation which |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | left Fanny to her fate a fate which had not Fanny s heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford might have been a little harder than she deserved for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen or one should not read about them as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent manner attention and flattery can do I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition and so much taste as belonged to her she could |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | up a faggot of this and we made our way up weed covered steps to the particular cave which was marked in the drawing It was as I had said empty save for a great number of enormous bats which flapped round our heads as we advanced into it As we had no desire to draw the attention of the Indians to our proceedings we stumbled along in the dark until we had gone round several curves and penetrated a considerable distance into the cavern Then at last we lit our torches It was a beautiful dry tunnel with smooth |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | as he listened He had spent his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs had heard voices mirth continually thought they must be a most delightful set of people longed to be with them but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing the shadow of a right to introduce himself If he had but asked who the party were The name of Musgrove would have told him enough Well it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn which he had adopted when quite a young man on the |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | grey Thing still regarding me That s well grunted Montgomery The Other with the Whip began the grey Thing Well said I Said he was dead But Montgomery was still sober enough to understand my motive in denying Moreau s death He is not dead he said slowly not dead at all No more dead than I am Some said I have broken the Law they will die Some have died Show us now where his old body lies the body he cast away because he had no more need of it It is this way Man who walked in |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | and well judging her first was to see Anne happy She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities and when the awkwardness of the beginning was over found little hardship in attaching herself as a mother to the man who was securing the happiness of her other child Of all the family Mary was probably the one most immediately gratified by the circumstance It was creditable to have a sister married and she might flatter herself with having been greatly instrumental to the connexion by keeping Anne with her in the autumn and as her own sister must |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | long that he had come to regard them as almost normal human beings His London days seemed a glorious impossible past to him Only once in a year or so did he go to Africa to deal with Moreau s agent a trader in animals there He hardly met the finest type of mankind in that seafaring village of Spanish mongrels The men aboard ship he told me seemed at first just as strange to him as the Beast Men seemed to me unnaturally long in the leg flat in the face prominent in the forehead suspicious dangerous and cold |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | It was also solemnly arranged that poor Oliver should for the purposes of the contemplated expedition be unreservedly consigned to the care and custody of Mr William Sikes and further that the said Sikes should deal with him as he thought fit and should not be held responsible by the Jew for any mischance or evil that might be necessary to visit him it being understood that to render the compact in this respect binding any representations made by Mr Sikes on his return should be required to be confirmed and corroborated in all important particulars by the testimony of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | out at a moment s notice To me with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom and in the cold dank air of the vault They have but one retreat whispered Holmes That is back through the house into Saxe Coburg Square I hope that you have done what I asked you Jones I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door Then we have stopped all the holes And now we must be silent and wait What a time it seemed From comparing notes |
Jane Austen | Emma | will say something pretty loud about you and me in return but I cannot stay to hear it Oh Mr Knightley one moment more something of consequence so shocked Jane and I are both so shocked about the apples What is the matter now To think of your sending us all your store apples You said you had a great many and now you have not one left We really are so shocked Mrs Hodges may well be angry William Larkins mentioned it here You should not have done it indeed you should not Ah he is off He never |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | claim to be your husband until I come back Well we talked it over and he had fixed it all up so nicely with a clergyman all ready in waiting that we just did it right there and then Frank went off to seek his fortune and I went back to Pa The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana and then he went prospecting in Arizona and then I heard of him from New Mexico After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners camp had been attacked by Apache Indians and there |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | nothing I have offended them and they will not hear me but when I have put them in good humour by this concession I am not without hopes of persuading them to confine the representation within a much smaller circle than they are now in the high road for This will be a material gain My object is to confine it to Mrs Rushworth and the Grants Will not this be worth gaining Yes it will be a great point But still it has not your approbation Can you mention any other measure by which I have a chance of |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | be a comfortable couple Now do my dear Five minutes after this honest and straightforward speech little Miss La Creevy and Tim were talking as pleasantly as if they had been married for a score of years and had never once quarrelled all the time and five minutes after that when Miss La Creevy had bustled out to see if her eyes were red and put her hair to rights Tim moved with a stately step towards the drawing room exclaiming as he went There an t such another woman in all London I KNOW there an t By this |
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