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was seated in the armchair before the fire, dozing it would seem, with his bandaged head drooping on one side. The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire--which lit his eyes like adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in darkness--and the scanty vestiges of the day that came in through the open door. Everything was ruddy, shadowy, and indistinct to her, the more so since she had just been lighting the bar lamp, and her eyes were dazzled. But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open--a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face. It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it. Then he stirred, started up in his chair, put up his hand. She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face just as she had seen him hold the serviette before. The shadows, she fancied, had tricked her.
"Would you mind, sir, this man a-coming to look at the clock, sir?" she said, recovering from the momentary shock. "Look at the clock?" he said, staring round in a drowsy manner, and speaking over his hand, and then, getting more fully awake, "certainly." Mrs. Hall went away to get a lamp, and he rose and stretched himself. Then came the light, and Mr. Teddy Henfrey, entering, was confronted by this bandaged person. He was, he says, "taken aback." "Good afternoon," said the stranger, regarding him--as Mr. Henfrey says, with a vivid sense of the dark spectacles--"like a lobster." "I hope," said Mr. Henfrey, "that it's no intrusion."
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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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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
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He resumed. He'd read it. Five ingr
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out of his pocket again, and raised
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CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICAR
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stood there in the hall undecided w
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heard a sound of bolts being hastil
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the bolts of the front door had bee
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passed her husband in the passage a
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scream of alarm, succeeded in getti
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deal of talk and no decisive action
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CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE ST
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sold old second-hand ordinary bicyc
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The stranger swore briefly but vivi
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want to know is how you _did_ come
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Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tum
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People shouted conflicting informat
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disposed of him for a moment, and M
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confounded nuisance, but I am. That
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ealising what was happening. He gri
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Men staggered right and left as the
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CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth
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CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You mu
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"H'm," said the Voice. "I've worn w
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"Are yer _buried_?" said Mr. Thomas
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"One minute," said the Voice, penet
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The third flint fell. "It's very si
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He felt the hand that had closed ro
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ack and came to you--you. And--" "_
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CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPI
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cocoanut shies. There was also prom
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went into the bar. In the course of
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proceedings interested him no more.
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"Diary!" said Cuss, putting the thr
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Both gentlemen started violently, l
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"I won't argue again," said Cuss. "
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the doctor and the vicar sat up, bo
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ain't right," he said, and came rou
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to us, wuz he?" "Disgraceful!" said
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Everyone stood listening intently.
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of the village green came round the
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Behind him as he was halfway up the
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of old Fletcher's planks and two ch
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CHAPTER XIII MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES H
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am I to do?" "What am _I_ to do?" a
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"_I'll_ stimulate you." "I wish you
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that." The unhappy-looking figure i
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an hour, however, an elderly marine
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"In _this_ newspaper," said the mar
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leastways didn't see 'im. He was st
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He nodded his head slowly. "It make
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confidential undertone. Suddenly hi
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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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