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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 long. "Not in London at any rate. "I went into the slums towards Great Portland Street, and found myself at the end of the street in which I had lodged. I did not go that way, because of the crowd halfway down it opposite to the still smoking ruins of the house I had fired. My most immediate problem was to get clothing. What to do with my face puzzled me. Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops--news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth--an array of masks and noses. I realised that problem was solved. In a flash I saw my course. I turned about, no longer aimless, and went--circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though
not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district. "The day was cold, with a nipping wind down the northward running streets. I walked fast to avoid being overtaken. Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly. One man as I was about to pass him at the top of Bedford Street, turned upon me abruptly and came into me, sending me into the road and almost under the wheel of a passing hansom. The verdict of the cab-rank was that he had had some sort of stroke. I was so unnerved by this encounter that I went into Covent Garden Market and sat down for some time in a quiet corner by a stall of violets, panting and trembling. I found I had caught a fresh cold, and had to turn out after a time lest my sneezes should attract attention. "At last I reached the object of my quest, a dirty, fly-blown little shop in a by-way near Drury Lane, with a window full of tinsel robes, sham jewels, wigs, slippers, dominoes and
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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
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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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Page 205 and 206: The Invisible Man rose and began pa
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Page 215 and 216: tips of the coloured hairs. And, as
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Page 219 and 220: palaeolithic in a bottle." "I awoke
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Page 235 and 236: "I looked down and saw the youngste
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Page 241 and 242: impregnably. "Only one thing could
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Page 253: CHAPTER XXIII IN DRURY LANE "But yo
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Page 263 and 264: Kemp. "Yes--stunned him--as he was
Page 265 and 266: "Of course I was in a fix--an infer
Page 267 and 268: etter type, slightly grotesque but
Page 269 and 270: stared out. "What happened when you
Page 271 and 272: invisibility made it possible to ge
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Page 279 and 280: "And it is killing we must do, Kemp
Page 281 and 282: "Let me see," said the Invisible Ma
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Page 285 and 286: "But how?" cried Kemp, and suddenly
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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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