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
should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping. Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation. Mrs. Hall was sensitive on the point. When questioned, she explained very carefully that he was an "experimental investigator," going gingerly over the syllables as one who dreads pitfalls. When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things." Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands, and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact. Out of her hearing there was a view largely entertained that he was a criminal trying to escape from justice by wrapping himself up so as to conceal himself altogether from the eye of the police. This idea sprang from the brain of Mr. Teddy Henfrey. No crime of any magnitude dating from the middle or end of
February was known to have occurred. Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted. These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him. But he detected nothing. Another school of opinion followed Mr. Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald view or some modification of it; as, for instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to assert that "if he choses to show enself at fairs he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to the man with the one talent. Yet another view explained the entire matter by regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic. That had the advantage of accounting for everything
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February was known to have occurred.<br />
Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould,<br />
the probationary assistant in the National<br />
School, this theory took the form that the<br />
stranger was an Anarchist in disguise,<br />
preparing explosives, and he resolved to<br />
undertake such detective operations as his<br />
time permitted. <strong>The</strong>se consisted for the most<br />
part in looking very hard at the stranger<br />
whenever they met, or in asking people who<br />
had never seen the stranger, leading<br />
questions about him. But he detected nothing.<br />
Another school of opinion followed Mr.<br />
Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald<br />
view or some modification of it; as, for<br />
instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to<br />
assert that "if he choses to show enself at fairs<br />
he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a<br />
bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to<br />
the man with the one talent. Yet another view<br />
explained the entire matter by regarding the<br />
stranger as a harmless lunatic. That had the<br />
advantage of accounting for everything
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