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The Invisible Man - LimpidSoft

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CHAPTER XXIII. IN DRURY LANE<br />

"I did. Rather. Did I kill that fool of a constable?"<br />

"No," said Kemp. "He’s expected to recover."<br />

"That’s his luck, then. I clean lost my temper, the fools!<br />

Why couldn’t they leave me alone? And that grocer<br />

lout?"<br />

"<strong>The</strong>re are no deaths expected," said Kemp.<br />

"I don’t know about that tramp of mine," said the <strong>Invisible</strong><br />

<strong>Man</strong>, with an unpleasant laugh.<br />

"By Heaven, Kemp, you don’t know what rage is! ... To<br />

have worked for years, to have planned and plotted, and<br />

then to get some fumbling purblind idiot messing across<br />

your course! ... Every conceivable sort of silly creature<br />

that has ever been created has been sent to cross me.<br />

"If I have much more of it, I shall go wild–I shall start<br />

mowing ’em.<br />

"As it is, they’ve made things a thousand times more<br />

difficult."<br />

"No doubt it’s exasperating," said Kemp, drily.<br />

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