The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
"Good heavens!" said Mr. Bunting, hesitating between two horrible alternatives. He heard a frightful struggle in the passage of the inn, and his decision was made. He clambered out of the window, adjusted his costume hastily, and fled up the village as fast as his fat little legs would carry him. From the moment when the Invisible Man screamed with rage and Mr. Bunting made his memorable flight up the village, it became impossible to give a consecutive account of affairs in Iping. Possibly the Invisible Man's original intention was simply to cover Marvel's retreat with the clothes and books. But his temper, at no time very good, seems to have gone completely at some chance blow, and forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing, for the mere satisfaction of hurting. You must figure the street full of running figures, of doors slamming and fights for hiding-places. You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium
of old Fletcher's planks and two chairs--with cataclysmic results. You must figure an appalled couple caught dismally in a swing. And then the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall. Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane. The Invisible Man amused himself for a little while by breaking all the windows in the "Coach and Horses," and then he thrust a street lamp through the parlour window of Mrs. Gribble. He it must have been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins' cottage on the Adderdean road. And after that, as his peculiar qualities allowed, he passed out of human perceptions altogether, and he was neither heard, seen, nor felt in
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- Page 87 and 88: CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth
- Page 89 and 90: CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You mu
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- 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
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- Page 103 and 104: CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPI
- Page 105 and 106: cocoanut shies. There was also prom
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- 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
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- Page 133 and 134: am I to do?" "What am _I_ to do?" a
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- Page 149 and 150: said Mr. Marvel. "Bandying words! I
- Page 151 and 152: inns--doors standing that sunny wea
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- Page 161 and 162: looked about him helplessly. The ba
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- Page 171 and 172: perceived a coiled and blood-staine
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"Good heavens!" said Mr. Bunting, hesitating<br />
between two horrible alternatives. He heard a<br />
frightful struggle in the passage of the inn, and<br />
his decision was made. He clambered out of<br />
the window, adjusted his costume hastily, and<br />
fled up the village as fast as his fat little legs<br />
would carry him.<br />
From the moment when the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong><br />
screamed with rage and Mr. Bunting made his<br />
memorable flight up the village, it became<br />
impossible to give a consecutive account of<br />
affairs in Iping. Possibly the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong>'s<br />
original intention was simply to cover Marvel's<br />
retreat with the clothes and books. But his<br />
temper, at no time very good, seems to have<br />
gone completely at some chance blow, and<br />
forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing,<br />
for the mere satisfaction of hurting.<br />
You must figure the street full of running<br />
figures, of doors slamming and fights for<br />
hiding-places. You must figure the tumult<br />
suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium