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
THE EPILOGUE So ends the story of the strange and evil experiments of the Invisible Man. And if you would learn more of him you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord. The sign of the inn is an empty board save for a hat and boots, and the name is the title of this story. The landlord is a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair, and a sporadic rosiness of visage. Drink generously, and he will tell you generously of all the things that happened to him after that time, and of how the lawyers tried to do him out of the treasure found upon him. "When they found they couldn't prove who's money was which, I'm blessed," he says, "if they didn't try to make me out a blooming treasure trove! Do I _look_ like a Treasure Trove? And then a gentleman gave me a guinea a night to tell the story at the Empire
Music 'All--just to tell 'em in my own words--barring one." And if you want to cut off the flow of his reminiscences abruptly, you can always do so by asking if there weren't three manuscript books in the story. He admits there were and proceeds to explain, with asseverations that everybody thinks _he_ has 'em! But bless you! he hasn't. "The Invisible Man it was took 'em off to hide 'em when I cut and ran for Port Stowe. It's that Mr. Kemp put people on with the idea of _my_ having 'em." And then he subsides into a pensive state, watches you furtively, bustles nervously with glasses, and presently leaves the bar. He is a bachelor man--his tastes were ever bachelor, and there are no women folk in the house. Outwardly he buttons--it is expected of him--but in his more vital privacies, in the matter of braces for example, he still turns to string. He conducts his house without
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- Page 291 and 292: presented as a tangible antagonist,
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- Page 297 and 298: voice heard about sunset by a coupl
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- Page 301 and 302: the house at once, examine all the
- Page 303 and 304: "Your servant's been assaulted, Kem
- Page 305 and 306: table. The two men stopped in the d
- Page 307 and 308: As they stood hesitating in the hal
- Page 309 and 310: "Well?" said Adye, sitting up. "Get
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- Page 313 and 314: fastenings of the ground-floor wind
- Page 315 and 316: "The Invisible Man!" said Kemp. "He
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- Page 321 and 322: violent riot. Every window was brok
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- Page 325 and 326: doubt they were locked and barred--
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- Page 329 and 330: ose to his knees. Kemp clung to him
- Page 331 and 332: side--ugh!" Suddenly an old woman,
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THE EPILOGUE<br />
So ends the story of the strange and evil<br />
experiments of the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong>. And if you<br />
would learn more of him you must go to a little<br />
inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sign of the inn is an empty board save for<br />
a hat and boots, and the name is the title of this<br />
story. <strong>The</strong> landlord is a short and corpulent<br />
little man with a nose of cylindrical<br />
proportions, wiry hair, and a sporadic rosiness<br />
of visage. Drink generously, and he will tell<br />
you generously of all the things that happened<br />
to him after that time, and of how the lawyers<br />
tried to do him out of the treasure found upon<br />
him.<br />
"When they found they couldn't prove who's<br />
money was which, I'm blessed," he says, "if<br />
they didn't try to make me out a blooming<br />
treasure trove! Do I _look_ like a Treasure<br />
Trove? And then a gentleman gave me a<br />
guinea a night to tell the story at the Empire
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