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
apid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience. "George! You gart whad a wand?" At that he turned and hurried down to her. "Janny," he said, over the rail of the cellar steps, "'tas the truth what Henfrey sez. 'E's not in uz room, 'e en't. And the front door's onbolted." At first Mrs. Hall did not understand, and as soon as she did she resolved to see the empty room for herself. Hall, still holding the bottle, went first. "If 'e en't there," he said, "'is close are. And what's 'e doin' 'ithout 'is close, then? 'Tas a most curious business." As they came up the cellar steps they both, it was afterwards ascertained, fancied they heard the front door open and shut, but seeing it closed and nothing there, neither said a word to the other about it at the time. Mrs. Hall
passed her husband in the passage and ran on first upstairs. Someone sneezed on the staircase. Hall, following six steps behind, thought that he heard her sneeze. She, going on first, was under the impression that Hall was sneezing. She flung open the door and stood regarding the room. "Of all the curious!" she said. She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, was surprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair. But in another moment he was beside her. She bent forward and put her hand on the pillow and then under the clothes. "Cold," she said. "He's been up this hour or more." As she did so, a most extraordinary thing happened. The bed-clothes gathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, and then jumped headlong over the bottom rail. It was exactly as if a hand had
- Page 9 and 10: when she got there. The visitor sat
- Page 11 and 12: ig spectacles they had lacked hithe
- Page 13 and 14: "Will you get me some matches?" sai
- Page 15 and 16: CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRS
- Page 17 and 18: "Would you mind, sir, this man a-co
- Page 19 and 20: ecause she did not want to be snubb
- Page 21 and 22: "That I think, is all," said the st
- Page 23 and 24: But he went feeling excessively ann
- Page 25 and 26: He told Hall how his aunt at Hastin
- Page 27 and 28: CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BO
- Page 29 and 30: was all the business of a swift hal
- Page 31 and 32: dargs"; "Whad _'e_ bite 'n for, tha
- Page 33 and 34: ottles, large white-glass bottles,
- Page 35 and 36: necessary investigations--the sligh
- Page 37 and 38: There was a noise of hobnails on th
- Page 39 and 40: CHAPTER IV MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE
- Page 41 and 42: neither head nor tail of what she h
- Page 43 and 44: February was known to have occurred
- Page 45 and 46: down the village, and when he had g
- Page 47 and 48: quietly, and then his footsteps cam
- Page 49 and 50: He resumed. He'd read it. Five ingr
- Page 51 and 52: out of his pocket again, and raised
- Page 53 and 54: CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICAR
- Page 55 and 56: stood there in the hall undecided w
- Page 57 and 58: heard a sound of bolts being hastil
- Page 59: the bolts of the front door had bee
- Page 63 and 64: scream of alarm, succeeded in getti
- Page 65 and 66: deal of talk and no decisive action
- Page 67 and 68: CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE ST
- Page 69 and 70: sold old second-hand ordinary bicyc
- Page 71 and 72: The stranger swore briefly but vivi
- Page 73 and 74: want to know is how you _did_ come
- Page 75 and 76: Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tum
- Page 77 and 78: People shouted conflicting informat
- Page 79 and 80: disposed of him for a moment, and M
- Page 81 and 82: confounded nuisance, but I am. That
- Page 83 and 84: ealising what was happening. He gri
- Page 85 and 86: Men staggered right and left as the
- Page 87 and 88: CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth
- Page 89 and 90: CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You mu
- Page 91 and 92: "H'm," said the Voice. "I've worn w
- 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
- Page 99 and 100: He felt the hand that had closed ro
- Page 101 and 102: ack and came to you--you. And--" "_
- Page 103 and 104: CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPI
- Page 105 and 106: cocoanut shies. There was also prom
- Page 107 and 108: went into the bar. In the course of
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apid telescoping of the syllables and<br />
interrogative cocking up of the final words to a<br />
high note, by which the West Sussex villager is<br />
wont to indicate a brisk impatience. "<strong>George</strong>!<br />
You gart whad a wand?"<br />
At that he turned and hurried down to her.<br />
"Janny," he said, over the rail of the cellar<br />
steps, "'tas the truth what Henfrey sez. 'E's not<br />
in uz room, 'e en't. And the front door's<br />
onbolted."<br />
At first Mrs. Hall did not understand, and as<br />
soon as she did she resolved to see the empty<br />
room for herself. Hall, still holding the bottle,<br />
went first. "If 'e en't there," he said, "'is close<br />
are. And what's 'e doin' 'ithout 'is close, then?<br />
'Tas a most curious business."<br />
As they came up the cellar steps they both, it<br />
was afterwards ascertained, fancied they<br />
heard the front door open and shut, but seeing<br />
it closed and nothing there, neither said a<br />
word to the other about it at the time. Mrs. Hall
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