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Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | here I would have spared you the degradation but we must hear them from your own lips before we part and you know why Go on said the person addressed turning away his face Quick I have almost done enough I think Don t keep me here This child said Mr Brownlow drawing Oliver to him and laying his hand upon his head is yo... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | he was A long research Got quite cross A damnable long research said he blowing the cork out so to speak Oh said I And out came the grievance The man was just on the boil and my question boiled him over He had been given a prescription most valuable prescription what for he wouldn t say Was it medical Damn you What are... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | year before the child was born I found out that And this is all said Monks after a close and eager scrutiny of the contents of the little packet All replied the woman Mr Bumble drew a long breath as if he were glad to find that the story was over and no mention made of taking the five and twenty pounds back again and n... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | counted the teaspoons re weighed the sugar tongs made a closer inspection of the milk pot and ascertained to a nicety the exact condition of the furniture down to the very horse hair seats of the chairs and had repeated each process full half a dozen times before he began to think that it was time for Mrs Corney to ret... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | In the bottom of his heart Dick already entertained a great terror and some hatred for the man whom he had rescued but the invitation was so worded that it would not have been merely discourteous but cruel to refuse or hesitate and he hastened to comply And now my lord duke he said when he had regained his freedom do I... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | cottage door he knocked and a voice bade him enter The kitchen which opened directly off the garden was somewhat darkened by foliage but he could see her as she approached from the far end to meet him This second sight of her surprised him Her strong black brows spoke of temper easily aroused and hard to quiet her mout... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | I could but silence that foul tongue I did it Mr Holmes I would do it again Deeply as I have sinned I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it But that my girl should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more than I could suffer I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul a... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | And there to the south A wilderness of swampy forest where no white man has ever been The unknown is up against us on every side Outside the narrow lines of the rivers what does anyone know Who will say what is possible in such a country Why should old man Challenger not be right At which direct defiance the stubborn s... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | you Nothing down it right down to the joint I could see right down it to the elbow and there was a glimmer of light shining through a tear of the cloth Good God I said Then he stopped Stared at me with those black goggles of his and then at his sleeve Well That s all He never said a word just glared and put his sleeve ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | camp for some carbolic Who knows what venom these beasts may have in their hideous jaws But surely no men ever had just such a day since the world began Some fresh surprise was ever in store for us When following the course of our brook we at last reached our glade and saw the thorny barricade of our camp we thought th... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | so fast that his legs verily twinkled Another of those fools said Dr Kemp Like that ass who ran into me this morning round a corner with the Visible Man a coming sir I can t imagine what possesses people One might think we were in the thirteenth century He got up went to the window and stared at the dusky hillside and ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | the action of the fire the other half of the stick was found behind the door and as this clinched his suspicions the officer declared himself delighted A visit to the bank where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the murderer s credit completed his gratification You may depend upon it sir he told Mr Utte... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | which leads a man to lurk in such a place at such a time And what deep and earnest purpose can he have which calls for such a trial There in that hut upon the moor seems to lie the very centre of that problem which has vexed me so sorely I swear that another day shall not have passed before I have done all that man can... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | my rent too Here take my horse The Admiral this hot afternoon was sitting by the window with a long glass He already knew the Squire by sight and now seeing him dismount before the cottage and come striding through the garden concluded without doubt he was there to ask for Esther s hand This is why the girl is not yet ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | presently beating for admittance In an evil hour he satisfied the jealous inquiries of the contraband hotel keeper in an evil hour he penetrated into the somewhat unsavoury interior Alan to be sure was there seated in a room lighted by noisy gas jets beside a dirty table cloth engaged on a coarse meal and in the compan... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | influence I leave the stones in your hands sir Do what you like about it But remember that whatever you do against me is done against the future husband of your only daughter You will hear from me soon again Elise It is the last time that I will ever cause pain to your tender heart and with these words he left both the... |
Jane Austen | Emma | could be ignorant of any of the particulars of Mr Frank Churchill s going she proceeded to give them all it was of no consequence What Mr Elton had learned from the ostler on the subject being the accumulation of the ostler s own knowledge and the knowledge of the servants at Randalls was that a messenger had come over... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | situation for what it is worth he inflated his chest enormously and looked insolently around him at the words is that evolution has advanced under the peculiar conditions of this country up to the vertebrate stage the old types surviving and living on in company with the newer ones Thus we find such modern creatures as... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | duty or discretion as inevitably to defy the suggestions of very opposite feelings She only roused herself from the broodings of this restless agitation to let Mrs Clay know that she had been seen with Mr Elliot three hours after his being supposed to be out of Bath for having watched in vain for some intimation of the... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | down with a darkened brow to make a feint of breakfasting Small indeed was my appetite This inexplicable incident this reversal of my previous experience seemed like the Babylonian finger on the wall to be spelling out the letters of my judgment and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and p... |
Jane Austen | Emma | would be dangerous Harriet tempted by every thing and swayed by half a word was always very long at a purchase and while she was still hanging over muslins and changing her mind Emma went to the door for amusement Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury Mr Perry walking hastily by ... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | and pleasing and one very pretty There is a beauty in every family it is a regular thing Two play on the pianoforte and one on the harp and all sing or would sing if they were taught or sing all the better for not being taught or something like it I know nothing of the Miss Owens said Fanny calmly You know nothing and ... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | carried him down to the beach and went splashing into the dazzling welter of the sea On said I on Carry him far They went in up to their armpits and stood regarding me Let go said I and the body of Montgomery vanished with a splash Something seemed to tighten across my chest Good said I with a break in my voice and the... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | m a queer man and strange wi strangers but my word is my bond and there s the proof of it Now my uncle seemed so miserly that I was struck dumb by this sudden generosity and could find no words in which to thank him No a word said he Nae thanks I want nae thanks I do my duty I m no saying that everybody would have done... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | such a sentiment is allowable in human nature nothing to reproach myself with and if I mistake not a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman s portion He looked at her looked at Lady Russell and looking again at her replied as if in cool deliberation Not yet But there are hopes of her being forgiven in time I tr... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | my inability to settle to anything which I hope arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure on which I held my means I had a taste for reading and read regularly so many hours a day That matter of Herbert s was still progressing and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | me The short and the long of what you mean said Nancy speaking very emphatically and slightly frowning at Oliver as if to bespeak his serious attention to her words is that if you re crossed by him in this job you have on hand you ll prevent his ever telling tales afterwards by shooting him through the head and will ta... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | the table and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender She went to these things resolutely I suppose I may have them to dry now she said in a voice that brooked no denial Leave the hat said her visitor ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady as where there were many children A lady without a family was the very best preserver of furniture in the world He had seen Mrs Croft too she was at Taunton with the admiral and had been present almost all the time they were talking t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | some minutes An acute observer might however have detected some signs of dissent amid the applause and gathered that the proceedings were likely to become more lively than harmonious It may safely be prophesied however that no one could have foreseen the extraordinary turn which they were actually to take Of the appear... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | which still lay ready in my cabinet For two months however I was true to my determination for two months I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm the praises of conscience began... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | word with hatred He has been drinking Go she said and was turning to re enter the house when another thought arrested her Meet me to morrow morning at the stile she said I will replied Dick And then the door closed behind her and Dick was alone in the darkness There was still a chink of light above the sill a warm mild... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | head past present or to come Mrs Nickleby kindly added that she hoped her children might never have greater cause to reproach themselves than she had and prepared herself to receive the escort who soon returned with the intelligence that the old gentleman was safely housed and that they found his custodians who had bee... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and restrictions that may have been imposed I am sure you will not disappoint my opinion of you by failing at any time to treat your aunt Norris with the respect and attention that are due to her But enough of this Sit down my dear I must speak to you for ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | would ye have They re none such fools as I took them for We have still the Forth to pass Davie weary fall the rains that fed and the hillsides that guided it And why go east said I Ou just upon the chance said he If we cannae pass the river we ll have to see what we can do for the firth There are fords upon the river a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | was broad awake and understood what passed sometimes I only heard voices or men snoring like the voice of a silly river and the plaids upon the wall dwindled down and swelled out again like firelight shadows on the roof I must sometimes have spoken or cried out for I remember I was now and then amazed at being answered... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | will be overbold and at the risk of your disfavour recall your lordship s promise replied Dick Richard of Gloucester flushed Mark it right well he said harshly I love not mercy nor yet mercymongers Ye have this day laid the foundations of high fortune If ye oppose to me my word which I have plighted I will yield But by... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | the red faced gentleman in the high chair So you ll begin to pick oakum to morrow morning at six o clock added the surly one in the white waistcoat For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple process of picking oakum Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle and was then hurried away to a large ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | another until now he looked from the top of the fortifications with the eye of a philosopher and a patron on the people down in the trenches My reflections on this theme were still in progress when dinner was announced Mr Waterbrook went down with Hamlet s aunt Mr Henry Spiker took Mrs Waterbrook Agnes whom I should ha... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | other two I turned and walked towards the dead bodies keeping my face towards the three kneeling Beast Men very much as an actor passing up the stage faces the audience They broke the Law said I putting my foot on the Sayer of the Law They have been slain even the Sayer of the Law even the Other with the Whip Great is ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | always been lucky he knew he should be so still Such confidence powerful in its own warmth and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it must have been enough for Anne but Lady Russell saw it very differently His sanguine temper and fearlessness of mind operated very differently on her She saw in it but an aggrava... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | up again God knows you are rejoined Nicholas and if you fail it shall go hard but I ll do enough for us both Do we go all the way today asked Smike after a short silence That would be too severe a trial even for your willing legs said Nicholas with a good humoured smile No Godalming is some thirty and odd miles from Lo... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | wrong The Upperworld people might once have been the favoured aristocracy and the Morlocks their mechanical servants but that had long since passed away The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards or had already arrived at an altogether new relationship The Eloi like the Carlov... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | how and the man followed She waved her hand to me to go away so earnestly that all confounded as I was I turned from them at once In doing so I heard her say to the coachman Drive anywhere Drive straight on and presently the chariot passed me going up the hill What Mr Dick had told me and what I had supposed to be a de... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | cut out of the soft tufa The lantern cast a flickering light bright below and dim above over the cracked brown walls In every direction were the black openings of passages which radiated from this common centre I want you to follow me closely my friend said Burger Do not loiter to look at anything upon the way for the ... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | And you remember that we came up with the two in a ditch and that there was a scuffle between them and that one of them had been severely handled and much mauled about the face by the other I see it all before me And that the soldiers lighted torches and put the two in the centre and that we went on to see the last of ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | and broke out again Paris is now pacified All resistance is over Galloop The black police hold every position of importance in the city They fought with great bravery singing songs written in praise of their ancestors by the poet Kipling Once or twice they got out of hand and tortured and mutilated wounded and captured... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | day of the cattle in the field Like the cattle they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs And their end was the same I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been It had committed suicide It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease a balanced society with security and perm... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | recede do not sue to me for leniency when the power will have passed into other hands and do not say I plunged you down the gulf into which you rushed yourself Monks was plainly disconcerted and alarmed besides He hesitated You will decide quickly said Mr Brownlow with perfect firmness and composure If you wish me to p... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Blame While this was going on I looked about me at the servants Some were on ladders digging in the thatch of the house or the farm buildings from which they brought out guns swords and different weapons of war others carried them away and by the sound of mattock blows from somewhere farther down the brae I suppose the... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | always believe returned her father petulantly What is it By this time Nicholas had recovered sufficient presence of mind to speak for himself so he said as it had been agreed he should say that he had called about a pair of hand screens and some painted velvet for an ottoman both of which were required to be of the mos... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | at my own expense I could not help myself I laughed aloud Going through the big palace it seemed to me that the little people avoided me It may have been my fancy or it may have had something to do with my hammering at the gates of bronze Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance I was careful however to show no conce... |
Jane Austen | Emma | her father s gentleness with admiration as well as wonder Mr Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was They remained but a few minutes together as Miss Woodhouse must not be kept waiting and Harriet then came running to her with a smiling face and in a flutter of spirits which Miss Woodhouse hoped very soon t... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | placed the tray before me on the table Then astonishment paralysed me Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face The man had pointed ears covered with a fine brown fur Your breakfast sair he said I stared at his face without attempting to answer him He turned and went toward... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | of old tombs the paths worn by the feet of worshippers and mourners and the offerings and the inscriptions of bereaved affection To rustic neighbourhoods where love is more than commonly tenacious and where some bonds of blood or fellowship unite the entire society of a parish the body snatcher far from being repelled ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman I grant you it might be wrong to have her so much with me not that anything in the world I am sure would induce my father to make a degrading match but he might be rendered unhappy But poor Mrs Clay who with all her merits can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty I really think... |
Jane Austen | Emma | a vast dislike to puppies quite a horror of them They were never tolerated at Maple Grove Neither Mr Suckling nor me had ever any patience with them and we used sometimes to say very cutting things Selina who is mild almost to a fault bore with them much better While she talked of his son Mr Weston s attention was chai... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | you occupying your dear mother s place succeeding to all her rights and all her popularity as well as to all her virtues would be the highest possible gratification to me You are your mother s self in countenance and disposition and if I might be allowed to fancy you such as she was in situation and name and home presi... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | to say that he believed her to have been right in originally dividing them he was ready to say almost everything else in her favour and as for Mrs Smith she had claims of various kinds to recommend her quickly and permanently Her recent good offices by Anne had been enough in themselves and their marriage instead of de... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | exclamatory for a little while with gaps of wonderment and then the Editor got fervent in his curiosity Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing or has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases he inquired I feel assured it s this business of the Time Machine I said and took up the Psychologist s account of our pre... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | I did indeed fall asleep in a little stone built village in the days when there were hedgerows and villages and inns and all the countryside cut up into little pieces little fields Have you never heard of those days And it is I I who speak to you who awakened again these four days since Four days since the Sleeper But ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | This is a time of unrest And in fact your appearance your waking just now has a sort of connexion He spoke jerkily like a man not quite sure of his breathing He stopped abruptly I don t understand said Graham It will be clearer later said Howard He glanced uneasily upward as though he found the progress of the lift slo... |
Jane Austen | Emma | and shrubs which the wind was despoiling and the length of the day which only made such cruel sights the longer visible The weather affected Mr Woodhouse and he could only be kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless attention on his daughter s side and by exertions which had never cost her half so much before It ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up I wish I knew how you reach your results I reached this one said my friend by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag I think Watson that if we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast VII THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE I ha... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | ran on unheeding and so they came to and clambered up slippery steps to the rim of a great dome of glass Round this they went Far below a number of people seemed to be dancing and music filtered through the dome Graham fancied he heard a shouting through the snowstorm and his guide hurried him on with a new spurt of ha... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | an hour having spent scarcely twenty four hours in London after his return from Norfolk before he set off again that her cousin Edmund was in town had been in town he understood a few days that he had not seen him himself but that he was well had left them all well at Mansfield and was to dine as yesterday with the Fra... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | been profoundly affected by these changes Social triumphs too had been effected I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters gloriously clothed and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil There were no signs of struggle neither social nor economical struggle The shop the advertisement traffic all that commerce which co... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | forward and handed Mrs Hall something which she staring at his metamorphosed face accepted automatically Then when she saw what it was she screamed loudly dropped it and staggered back The nose it was the stranger s nose pink and shining rolled on the floor Then he removed his spectacles and everyone in the bar gasped ... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | the brother and sister about Bath so much between the two young men about hunting so much of politics between Mr Crawford and Dr Grant and of everything and all together between Mr Crawford and Mrs Grant as to leave her the fairest prospect of having only to listen in quiet and of passing a very agreeable day She could... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | to speak to you very particularly I have something to tell you my child Mr Creakle at whom of course I looked shook his head without looking at me and stopped up a sigh with a very large piece of buttered toast You are too young to know how the world changes every day said Mrs Creakle and how the people in it pass away... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | can Perhaps that will be considered an acceptable course of proceeding I have already said sir that I have had my suspicions of Miss Spenlow in reference to David Copperfield for some time I have frequently endeavoured to find decisive corroboration of those suspicions but without effect I have therefore forborne to me... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | generally revel in my extraordinary advantage But hardly had I emerged upon Great Portland Street however my lodging was close to the big draper s shop there when I heard a clashing concussion and was hit violently behind and turning saw a man carrying a basket of soda water syphons and looking in amazement at his burd... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | girl by dint of friendly nods and muttered encouragements I have got a friend that I think can gratify your darling wish and put you in the right way where you can take whatever department of the business you think will suit you best at first and be taught all the others Yer speak as if yer were in earnest replied Noah... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | at all reconciled to the idea of so unsuitable a match The strangeness of Mr Collins s making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted She had always felt that Charlotte s opinion of matrimony was not exactly like her own but she had not supposed it to be possible tha... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | by white men Besides The negroes are only an instrument But that is not the question I am the Master I mean to be the Master And I tell you these negroes shall not come The people I believe in the people Because you are an anachronism You are a man out of the Past an accident You are Owner perhaps of the world Nominall... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | as heartily as Master Bates could have done if he had heard the request Silence there cried the jailer What is this inquired one of the magistrates A pick pocketing case your worship Has the boy ever been here before He ought to have been a many times replied the jailer He has been pretty well everywhere else _I_ know ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | You never heard such a jabberin and shriekin in your life The men were little red fellows and had been bitten and clawed so that they could hardly walk The ape men put two of them to death there and then fairly pulled the arm off one of them it was perfectly beastly Plucky little chaps they are and hardly gave a squeak... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | have not forgot sir that at the time of the murder he had still the key with him But that s not all I don t know Mr Utterson if you ever met this Mr Hyde Yes said the lawyer I once spoke with him Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman something that gave a man a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | at which Alan might be found and the signals that were to be made by any that came seeking him Then I gave what money I had a guinea or two of Rankeillor s so that he should not starve in the meanwhile and then we stood a space and looked over at Edinburgh in silence Well good bye said Alan and held out his left hand G... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger I don t follow I met the eye of the Psychologist and read my own interpretation in his face I thought of the Time Traveller limping painfully upstairs I don t think anyone else had noticed his lameness The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man who rang t... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | poultry was very much in want of some variety at home The arrival therefore of a sister whom she had always loved and now hoped to retain with her as long as she remained single was highly agreeable and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to Londo... |
Jane Austen | Emma | was perfectly resolved She believed it would be wiser for her to say and know at once all that she meant to say and know Plain dealing was always best She had previously determined how far she would proceed on any application of the sort and it would be safer for both to have the judicious law of her own brain laid dow... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | wind s eye sir once once only since I reached this place retorted the Admiral And even then I was fit for any drawing room I should like you to tell me how many fathers lay and clerical go upstairs every day with a face like a lobster and cod s eyes and are dull upon the back of it not even mirth for the money No if th... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | office I might have had more difficulty in constraining myself to be silent under his words if I had had less difficulty in impressing upon Peggotty who was only angry on my account good creature that we were not in a place for recrimination and that I besought her to hold her peace She was so unusually roused that I w... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | a distinct emphatic voice The boy has been a good boy here and that is his reward Of course as an honest man you will expect no other and no more How Joe got out of the room I have never been able to determine but I know that when he did get out he was steadily proceeding upstairs instead of coming down and was deaf to... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | tree burst into flame left little time for reflection My iron bar still gripped I followed in the Morlocks path It was a close race Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left But at last I emerged upon a small open space and as I did so a Morloc... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | concerns A strong guard of the Wind Vane police awaited the Master outside the Wind Vane offices and they cleared a space for him on the upper moving platform His passage to the flying stages was unexpected nevertheless a considerable crowd gathered and followed him to his destination As he went along he could hear the... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | face with Mr Van Tromp in a suit of French country velveteens and with a remarkable carbuncle on his nose Then as though this was the end of what she could endure in the way of joy Esther turned and ran out of the room The two men remained looking at each other with some confusion on both sides Van Tromp was naturally ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | smoke arose from any of the chimneys nor was there any semblance of a garden My heart sank That I cried The woman s face lit up with a malignant anger That is the house of Shaws she cried Blood built it blood stopped the building of it blood shall bring it down See here she cried again I spit upon the ground and crack ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and had a tooth out I hope it was a double one The Doctor gave out that he was not quite well and remained alone for a considerable part of every day during the remainder of the visit Agnes and her father had been gone a week before we resumed our usual work On the day preceding its resumption the Doctor gave me with h... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr Norris which happened when Fanny was about fifteen and necessarily introduced alterations and novelties Mrs Norris on quitting the Parsonage removed first to the Park and afterwards to a small house of Sir Thomas s in the village and consoled herself for the los... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | the pressure kicked presently against a step and found himself ascending a slope And abruptly the faces all about him leapt out of the black visible ghastly white and astonished terrified perspiring in a livid glare One face a young man s was very near to him not twenty inches away At the time it was but a passing inci... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | disappear Have a good look at the thing Look at the table too and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery I don t want to waste this model and then be told I m a quack There was a minute s pause perhaps The Psychologist seemed about to speak to me but changed his mind Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger toward... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | great city when you are once in it Don t break cover too soon Lie close Wait till things slacken before you try the open even for foreign air I thanked him for his valuable advice and asked him what Herbert had done Mr Herbert said Wemmick after being all of a heap for half an hour struck out a plan He mentioned to me ... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | I see it the Upperworld man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness and the Underworld to mere mechanical industry But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection absolute permanency Apparently as time went on the feeding of an Underworld however it was effected had become disjointed Mother... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | remark that door he asked and when his companion had replied in the affirmative It is connected in my mind added he with a very odd story Indeed said Mr Utterson with a slight change of voice and what was that Well it was this way returned Mr Enfield I was coming home from some place at the end of the world about three... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | was so with Elizabeth still the same handsome Miss Elliot that she had begun to be thirteen years ago and Sir Walter might be excused therefore in forgetting her age or at least be deemed only half a fool for thinking himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else for he ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | who was as I understood soon to be her husband accompanied us in our inspection There were fifteen rooms but the Babylonian the Syrian and the central hall which contained the Jewish and Egyptian collection were the finest of all Professor Andreas was a quiet dry elderly man with a clean shaven face and an impassive ma... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | admit that the vivisected human being as you called it is after all only the puma said Moreau He had made me visit that horror in the inner room to assure myself of its inhumanity It is the puma I said still alive but so cut and mutilated as I pray I may never see living flesh again Of all vile Never mind that said Mor... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | man I heard his astonished cry don t be a silly ass man Another minute thought I and he would have had me locked in and as ready as a hospital rabbit for my fate He emerged behind the corner for I heard him shout Prendick Then he began to run after me shouting things as he ran This time running blindly I went northeast... |
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