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"It's quite wonderful enough for _my_ modest wants," said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "Howjer manage it! How the dooce is it done?" "It's too long a story. And besides--" "I tell you, the whole business fairly beats me," said Mr. Marvel. "What I want to say at present is this: I need help. I have come to that--I came upon you suddenly. I was wandering, mad with rage, naked, impotent. I could have murdered. And I saw you--" "_Lord_!" said Mr. Marvel. "I came up behind you--hesitated--went on--" Mr. Marvel's expression was eloquent. "--then stopped. 'Here,' I said, 'is an outcast like myself. This is the man for me.' So I turned
ack and came to you--you. And--" "_Lord_!" said Mr. Marvel. "But I'm all in a tizzy. May I ask--How is it? And what you may be requiring in the way of help?--<strong>Invisible</strong>!" "I want you to help me get clothes--and shelter--and then, with other things. I've left them long enough. If you won't--well! But you _will--must_." "Look here," said Mr. Marvel. "I'm too flabbergasted. Don't knock me about any more. And leave me go. I must get steady a bit. And you've pretty near broken my toe. It's all so unreasonable. Empty downs, empty sky. Nothing visible for miles except the bosom of Nature. And then comes a voice. A voice out of heaven! And stones! And a fist--Lord!" "Pull yourself together," said the Voice, "for you have to do the job I've chosen for you." Mr. Marvel blew out his cheeks, and his eyes
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The Invisible Man Wells, H. G. (Her
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sovereigns flung upon the table, he
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like a man of stone, his back hunch
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He held a white cloth--it was a ser
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when she got there. The visitor sat
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ig spectacles they had lacked hithe
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"Will you get me some matches?" sai
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CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRS
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"Would you mind, sir, this man a-co
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ecause she did not want to be snubb
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"That I think, is all," said the st
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But he went feeling excessively ann
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He told Hall how his aunt at Hastin
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CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BO
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was all the business of a swift hal
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dargs"; "Whad _'e_ bite 'n for, tha
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ottles, large white-glass bottles,
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necessary investigations--the sligh
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There was a noise of hobnails on th
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CHAPTER IV MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE
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neither head nor tail of what she h
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February was known to have occurred
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down the village, and when he had g
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quietly, and then his footsteps cam
Page 49 and 50: He resumed. He'd read it. Five ingr
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Page 55 and 56: stood there in the hall undecided w
Page 57 and 58: heard a sound of bolts being hastil
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Page 69 and 70: sold old second-hand ordinary bicyc
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Page 73 and 74: want to know is how you _did_ come
Page 75 and 76: Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tum
Page 77 and 78: People shouted conflicting informat
Page 79 and 80: disposed of him for a moment, and M
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Page 83 and 84: ealising what was happening. He gri
Page 85 and 86: Men staggered right and left as the
Page 87 and 88: CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth
Page 89 and 90: CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You mu
Page 91 and 92: "H'm," said the Voice. "I've worn w
Page 93 and 94: "Are yer _buried_?" said Mr. Thomas
Page 95 and 96: "One minute," said the Voice, penet
Page 97 and 98: The third flint fell. "It's very si
Page 99: He felt the hand that had closed ro
Page 103 and 104: CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPI
Page 105 and 106: cocoanut shies. There was also prom
Page 107 and 108: went into the bar. In the course of
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Page 111 and 112: "Diary!" said Cuss, putting the thr
Page 113 and 114: Both gentlemen started violently, l
Page 115 and 116: "I won't argue again," said Cuss. "
Page 117 and 118: the doctor and the vicar sat up, bo
Page 119 and 120: ain't right," he said, and came rou
Page 121 and 122: to us, wuz he?" "Disgraceful!" said
Page 123 and 124: Everyone stood listening intently.
Page 125 and 126: of the village green came round the
Page 127 and 128: Behind him as he was halfway up the
Page 129 and 130: of old Fletcher's planks and two ch
Page 131 and 132: CHAPTER XIII MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES H
Page 133 and 134: am I to do?" "What am _I_ to do?" a
Page 135 and 136: "_I'll_ stimulate you." "I wish you
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Page 141 and 142: "In _this_ newspaper," said the mar
Page 143 and 144: leastways didn't see 'im. He was st
Page 145 and 146: He nodded his head slowly. "It make
Page 147 and 148: confidential undertone. Suddenly hi
Page 149 and 150: said Mr. Marvel. "Bandying words! I
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inns--doors standing that sunny wea
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And his eye, presently wandering fr
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lips, and his breath came hoarse an
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convulsive turn, and attempted to s
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see who was at the door. He got dow
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looked about him helplessly. The ba
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the cabmen, gripped the wrist of th
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ody."
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of yellow light. The moon in its fi
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on upstairs, and then it suddenly o
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perceived a coiled and blood-staine
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The hand gripped his arm. He struck
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"Griffin," answered the Voice. A yo
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the seat of the chair. He stared at
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efore I eat," said the Invisible Ma
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Kemp got up. "_You_ didn't do any s
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ound to brood upon his chase down t
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striking the table smartly. "I've p
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arguments of this morning, it is qu
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went downstairs. He lit the dining-
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He rent the paper open; a couple of
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Burdock. This gave Kemp the essence
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CHAPTER XIX CERTAIN FIRST PRINCIPLE
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Griffin sat at the breakfast-table-
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that tramp has hidden--there are ma
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eflected or indeed affected in any
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instance, is made up of transparent
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The Invisible Man rose and began pa
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man--robbed my father. "The money w
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lodging-house in a slum near Great
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knew and loved. There stood the app
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to wash." "And you processed her?"
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tips of the coloured hairs. And, as
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"It's very probably been killed," s
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palaeolithic in a bottle." "I awoke
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"At the thought of the possibility
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was the cat had howled until I chlo
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window and pitched them out on to t
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_patois_, agreed with the old lady
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CHAPTER XXI IN OXFORD STREET "In go
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aside, and dodged behind the cab-ma
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Bloomsbury Square, intending to str
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"I looked down and saw the youngste
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young fellow I got through, and in
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urning; my clothes, my apparatus, a
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impregnably. "Only one thing could
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complete realisation of the advanta
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seen stockings and gloves for sale.
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marvelling, and the wrinkled old wo
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one another advice how to catch me.
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them, went flat, got rid of my vest
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CHAPTER XXIII IN DRURY LANE "But yo
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not very distinctly where, that som
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Apparently I had interrupted a meal
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the door behind him--as he would ha
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possible. The house was very old an
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Kemp. "Yes--stunned him--as he was
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"Of course I was in a fix--an infer
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etter type, slightly grotesque but
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stared out. "What happened when you
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invisibility made it possible to ge
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"There are no deaths expected," sai
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masked and muffled man. You have a
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happened, in spite of this publicit
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"And it is killing we must do, Kemp
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"Let me see," said the Invisible Ma
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Then suddenly he was struck violent
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"But how?" cried Kemp, and suddenly
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now, Kemp, what else?" "Dogs," said
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CHAPTER XXVI THE WICKSTEED MURDER T
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presented as a tangible antagonist,
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involved the use of a weapon. We ca
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Now this, to the present writer's m
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voice heard about sunset by a coupl
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CHAPTER XXVII THE SIEGE OF KEMP'S H
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the house at once, examine all the
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"Your servant's been assaulted, Kem
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table. The two men stopped in the d
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As they stood hesitating in the hal
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"Well?" said Adye, sitting up. "Get
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"Promise not to rush the door," Ady
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fastenings of the ground-floor wind
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"The Invisible Man!" said Kemp. "He
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a position about two feet from the
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Man downstairs. Then he thought bet
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violent riot. Every window was brok
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head and shoulders and knee appeare
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doubt they were locked and barred--
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He glanced up the street towards th
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ose to his knees. Kemp clung to him
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side--ugh!" Suddenly an old woman,
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carried him into that house. And th
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Music 'All--just to tell 'em in my
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armchair, fills a long clay pipe sl
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