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H.G. Wells | Time Machine | any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground But a civilised man is better off than the savage in this respect He can go up against gravitation in a balloon and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension or even turn about and travel the other way Oh _this_ began Filby is all Why not said the Time Traveller It s against reason said Filby What reason said the Time Traveller You can show black is white by |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | s accident If it falls on you it falls on me that am your near kinsman and harboured ye while ye were in the country And if it comes on me he paused and bit his fingers with a white face It would be a painful thing for our friends if I was to hang said he It would be an ill day for Appin says Alan It s a day that sticks in my throat said James O man man man man Alan you and me have spoken like two fools he cried striking his hand upon the wall |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | faults had already fallen to be one of those old aches which awaken again indeed upon occasion but which we can always vanquish by an effort of the will and to have the long lost resuscitated in a fresh disgrace was doubly bitter Macewen said the old man this must be hushed up if possible If I give you a cheek for this sum about which they are certain could you take it on yourself to let the matter rest I will said Macewen I will take the risk of it You understand resumed Mr Nicholson speaking precisely but with |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | would be a short shrift and a lang tow for Alan But I have the King of France s commission in my pocket which would aye be some protection I misdoubt it much said I I have doubts mysel said Alan drily And good heaven man cried I you that are a condemned rebel and a deserter and a man of the French King s what tempts ye back into this country It s a braving of Providence Tut says Alan I have been back every year since forty six And what brings ye man cried I Well ye see |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Professor the astonished commissionaire bringing up the rear When we reached the violated case Mortimer stopped and examined the breastplate Already one of the stones of the lower row had had its setting turned back in the same manner as the others My friend held it up and glanced furiously at his prisoner How could you he cried How could you It is horrible horrible said the Professor I don t wonder at your feelings Take me to your room But this shall not be left exposed cried Mortimer He picked the breastplate up and carried it tenderly in his |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | they did not attempt to oppose it for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants while they waited at table and judged it better that _one_ only of the household and the one whom they could most trust should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject In the dining room they were soon joined by Mary and Kitty who had been too busily engaged in their separate apartments to make their appearance before One came from her books and the other from her toilette The faces of both however were |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | glance of triumph at me Oh he mentioned his name did he That was imprudent What was the name that he mentioned His name said the cabman was Mr Sherlock Holmes Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman s reply For an instant he sat in silent amazement Then he burst into a hearty laugh A touch Watson an undeniable touch said he I feel a foil as quick and supple as my own He got home upon me very prettily that time So his name was Sherlock Holmes was it Yes sir |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | precisely what I was going to observe cried Mrs Croft I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once and have to struggle with a few difficulties together than be involved in a long engagement I always think that no mutual Oh dear Mrs Croft cried Mrs Musgrove unable to let her finish her speech there is nothing I so abominate for young people as a long engagement It is what I always protested against for my children It is all very well I used to say for young people to be engaged if there is |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | principle As a child I was taught what was _right_ but I was not taught to correct my temper I was given good principles but left to follow them in pride and conceit Unfortunately an only son for many years an only _child_ I was spoilt by my parents who though good themselves my father particularly all that was benevolent and amiable allowed encouraged almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing to care for none beyond my own family circle to think meanly of all the rest of the world to _wish_ at least to think meanly of their |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | circumstance might portend It was so beautiful a day that he was loth to forecast evil yet something must perforce have happened at the cottage and that of a decisive nature for here was Miss M Glashan on her travels with a small patrimony in brown paper parcels and the old lady s bearing implied hot battle and unqualified defeat Was the house to be closed against him Was Esther left alone or had some new protector made his appearance from among the millions of Europe It is the character of love to loathe the near relatives of the loved |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph tartly let him get that situation and his fortune is made If he don t like that let him get one for himself Without friends money recommendation or knowledge of business of any kind let him find honest employment in London which will keep him in shoe leather and I ll give him a thousand pounds At least said Mr Ralph Nickleby checking himself I would if I had it Poor fellow said the young lady Oh uncle must we be separated so soon Don t tease your uncle with questions when he is thinking only for our good |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | loss to interpret It was midnight when I arrived at home I had reached my own gate and was standing listening for the deep bell of St Paul s the sound of which I thought had been borne towards me among the multitude of striking clocks when I was rather surprised to see that the door of my aunt s cottage was open and that a faint light in the entry was shining out across the road Thinking that my aunt might have relapsed into one of her old alarms and might be watching the progress of some imaginary conflagration |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | same said Marvel I know the chap that started the lie There ain t no Invisible Man whatsoever Blimey But how bout this paper D you mean to say Not a word of it said Marvel stoutly The mariner stared paper in hand Mr Marvel jerkily faced about Wait a bit said the mariner rising and speaking slowly D you mean to say I do said Mr Marvel Then why did you let me go on and tell you all this blarsted stuff then What d yer mean by letting a man make a fool of himself like that for |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | pain Where you ve hid how you do it I _don t_ know I m beat That s all said the Voice I m invisible That s what I want you to understand Anyone could see that There is no need for you to be so confounded impatient mister _Now_ then Give us a notion How are you hid I m invisible That s the great point And what I want you to understand is this But whereabouts interrupted Mr Marvel Here Six yards in front of you Oh _come_ I ain t blind You ll be telling me next |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine Happily then when it was not too late I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion and put these in my pocket Then I turned again to see what I could do in the way of communication And then looking more nearly into their features I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden china type of prettiness Their hair which was |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | as a delicate attention in arranging my streaming hatband and smoothing my cloak My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr and Mrs Hubble who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession And now the range of marshes lay clear before us with the sails of the ships on the river growing out of it and we went into the churchyard close to the graves of my unknown parents Philip Pirrip late of this parish and Also Georgiana Wife of the Above And there my sister was laid quietly in the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | before the fire I will do much for Master Shelton returned the first but to come to the gallows for any man nay brothers not that The door of the inn opened and another man entered hastily and approached the youth before the fire Master Shelton he said Sir Daniel goeth forth with a pair of links and four archers Dick for this was our young friend rose instantly to his feet Lawless he said ye will take John Capper s watch Greensheve follow with me Capper lead forward We will follow him this time an he go to York |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | firm I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine not that I had any dislike to the lad but his blood was in him and that was enough I stood firm McCarthy threatened I braved him to do his worst We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses to talk it over When I went down there I found him talking with his son so I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in me seemed |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | who in a cause like this can turn that from its purpose And what may your purpose be most lofty lady said Ralph To offer to the unhappy subject of your treachery at this last moment replied Nicholas a refuge and a home If the near prospect of such a husband as you have provided will not prevail upon her I hope she may be moved by the prayers and entreaties of one of her own sex At all events they shall be tried I myself avowing to her father from whom I come and by whom I am commissioned |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | disadvantage something like Joe s in his Sunday suit I went circuitously to Miss Havisham s by all the back ways and rang at the bell constrainedly on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves Sarah Pocket came to the gate and positively reeled back when she saw me so changed her walnut shell countenance likewise turned from brown to green and yellow You said she You Good gracious What do you want I am going to London Miss Pocket said I and want to say good bye to Miss Havisham I was not expected for she left |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | hearing I am come to make my own apologies for keeping you waiting but I have nothing in the world to say for myself I knew it was very late and that I was behaving extremely ill and therefore if you please you must forgive me Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure Fanny s answer was extremely civil and Edmund added his conviction that she could be in no hurry For there is more than time enough for my cousin to ride twice as far as she ever goes said he |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place No one can say so more confidently than I The proposition took me completely by surprise but before I had time to answer Baskerville seized me by the hand and wrung it heartily Well now that is real kind of you Dr Watson said he You see how it is with me and you know just as much about the matter as I do If you will come down to Baskerville Hall and see me through I ll never forget it The promise of adventure had always |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | With an affectation of indifference I began to chop idly at the ground in front of me with my hatchet They looked I noticed at the deep cuts I made in the turf Then the Satyr raised a doubt I answered him Then one of the dappled things objected and an animated discussion sprang up round the fire Every moment I began to feel more convinced of my present security I talked now without the catching in my breath due to the intensity of my excitement that had troubled me at first In the course of about an hour I |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | of business Ah says he falling again to smiling I got my wastefulness from the same man I got the buttons from and that was my poor father Duncan Stewart grace be to him He was the prettiest man of his kindred and the best swordsman in the Hielands David and that is the same as to say in all the world I should ken for it was him that taught me He was in the Black Watch when first it was mustered and like other gentlemen privates had a gillie at his back to carry his firelock for him |
Jane Austen | Emma | says he need not eat a single meal by himself if he does not chuse it that he has more invitations than there are days in the week And so excellent in the Church Miss Nash has put down all the texts he has ever preached from since he came to Highbury Dear me When I look back to the first time I saw him How little did I think The two Abbots and I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by and Miss Nash came and scolded us away |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | elbows on the table made a triangle with his two thumbs and his two forefingers and tapping his nose with the apex thereof replied smiling as he said it I deny everything At this unexpected answer a hoarse murmur arose from the deputation and the same gentleman who had expressed an opinion relative to the gammoning nature of the introductory speech again made a monosyllabic demonstration by growling out Resign Which growl being taken up by his fellows swelled into a very earnest and general remonstrance I am requested sir to express a hope said Mr Pugstyles with a distant |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | on the table like one stupid He took no notice of my coming in nor did he move when the captain followed and leant on the berth beside me looking darkly at the mate I stood in great fear of Hoseason and had my reasons for it but something told me I need not be afraid of him just then and I whispered in his ear How is he He shook his head like one that does not know and does not wish to think and his face was very stern Presently Mr Riach came in He gave the captain |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | Lincoln He is alone in the wind vane offices We feared you had been killed in the theatre He doubted and things are very urgent still in spite of what we are telling them _there_ or he would have come to you They ascended a lift passed along a narrow passage crossed a great hall empty save for two hurrying messengers and entered a comparatively little room whose only furniture was a long settee and a large oval disc of cloudy shifting grey hung by cables from the wall There Lincoln left Graham for a space and he remained alone |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | hydraulic engineer Inspector Bradstreet of Scotland Yard a plain clothes man and myself Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre There you are said he That circle is drawn at a radius of ten miles from the village The place we want must be somewhere near that line You said ten miles I think sir It was an hour s good drive And you think that they brought you back all that way when you were unconscious They must have |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | had however an aunt my mother s maiden sister Miss Honoria Westphail who lives near Harrow and we were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady s house Julia went there at Christmas two years ago and met there a half pay major of marines to whom she became engaged My stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and offered no objection to the marriage but within a fortnight of the day which had been fixed for the wedding the terrible event occurred which has deprived me of my only companion Sherlock Holmes had been leaning |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | it might as well have been forty miles I placed one arm round the trunk of the tree and leaned over the abyss Far down were the small dark figures of our servants looking up at us The wall was absolutely precipitous as was that which faced me This is indeed curious said the creaking voice of Professor Summerlee I turned and found that he was examining with great interest the tree to which I clung That smooth bark and those small ribbed leaves seemed familiar to my eyes Why I cried it s a beech Exactly said Summerlee A |
Jane Austen | Emma | was no elegance ease but not elegance She was almost sure that for a young woman a stranger a bride there was too much ease Her person was rather good her face not unpretty but neither feature nor air nor voice nor manner were elegant Emma thought at least it would turn out so As for Mr Elton his manners did not appear but no she would not permit a hasty or a witty word from herself about his manners It was an awkward ceremony at any time to be receiving wedding visits and a man had need be all |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | with a quick flash of his dark eyes moved further away from the Professor Then placing his hand upon his breast and holding himself with great dignity he uttered the word Maretas several times The Professor unabashed seized the nearest Indian by the shoulder and proceeded to lecture upon him as if he were a potted specimen in a class room The type of these people said he in his sonorous fashion whether judged by cranial capacity facial angle or any other test cannot be regarded as a low one on the contrary we must place it as considerably higher |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | in depth and intensity as the afternoon wore on They were painful at first but their constant resurgence at last altogether upset my balance I flung aside a crib of Horace I had been reading and began to clench my fists to bite my lips and to pace the room Presently I got to stopping my ears with my fingers The emotional appeal of those yells grew upon me steadily grew at last to such an exquisite expression of suffering that I could stand it in that confined room no longer I stepped out of the door into the slumberous |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the crowding of terrified priests and choristers the attempt had been in vain and they had stoically resumed their places And now pale with horror Sir Oliver rose to his feet and called upon Sir Daniel pointing with one hand to Dick Here he cried is Richard Shelton alas the hour blood guilty Seize him bid him be seized For all our lives sakes take him and bind him surely He hath sworn our fall Sir Daniel was blinded by anger blinded by the hot blood that still streamed across his face Where he bellowed Hale him forth By the |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt she carried the cloth plates and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost _eclat_ Although the fire was burning up briskly she was surprised to see that her visitor still wore his hat and coat standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard His gloved hands were clasped behind him and he seemed to be lost in thought She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | to be a huge gray bird flap slowly up from the ground and skim smoothly off flying very low and straight until it was lost among the tree ferns Did you see it cried Challenger in exultation Summerlee did you see it His colleague was staring at the spot where the creature had disappeared What do you claim that it was he asked To the best of my belief a pterodactyl Summerlee burst into derisive laughter A pter fiddlestick said he It was a stork if ever I saw one Challenger was too furious to speak He simply swung his |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | his estimation the woman he had lost and there begun to deplore the pride the folly the madness of resentment which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way From that period his penance had become severe He had no sooner been free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of Louisa s accident no sooner begun to feel himself alive again than he had begun to feel himself though alive not at liberty I found said he that I was considered by Harville an engaged man That neither Harville nor his |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | had aimed the Invisible Man countered with the axe the helmet crumpled like paper and the blow sent the man spinning to the floor at the head of the kitchen stairs But the second policeman aiming behind the axe with his poker hit something soft that snapped There was a sharp exclamation of pain and then the axe fell to the ground The policeman wiped again at vacancy and hit nothing he put his foot on the axe and struck again Then he stood poker clubbed listening intent for the slightest movement He heard the dining room window open and |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Mr Dick to come round to the chandler s shop and take possession of the bed which Mr Peggotty had lately vacated The chandler s shop being in Hungerford Market and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days there was a low wooden colonnade before the door not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live in the old weather glass which pleased Mr Dick mightily The glory of lodging over this structure would have compensated him I dare say for many inconveniences but as there were really few to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | you sir But your family have been with us for several generations have they not I should be sorry to begin my life here by breaking an old family connection I seemed to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler s white face I feel that also sir and so does my wife But to tell the truth sir we were both very much attached to Sir Charles and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us I fear that we shall never again be easy in our minds at Baskerville Hall But |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | frigid dinner parties taking his share in the conversation with the freedom of the man and the traveller and laying down the law upon finance with the authority of the successful investor But this programme was not to be begun before evening not till just before dinner indeed at which meal the reassembled family were to sit roseate and the best wine the modern fatted calf should flow for the prodigal s return Meanwhile he walked familiar streets merry reminiscences crowding round him sad ones also both with the same surprising pathos The keen frosty air the low rosy wintry |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | see And wrote inside From a true friend like the fust But the fust was put underneath the door and this come by the post day afore yesterday I m a going to seek her at the post mark He showed it to me It was a town on the Upper Rhine He had found out at Yarmouth some foreign dealers who knew that country and they had drawn him a rude map on paper which he could very well understand He laid it between us on the table and with his chin resting on one hand tracked his course |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling How then were they dissociated I was so far in my reflections when as I have said a side light began to shine upon the subject from the laboratory table I began to perceive more |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | He saw the Councillors first afar off in the glare of one of the temporary lights that marked their path a little group of white figures in a black archway In the Council House they had been in darkness He watched them approaching drawing nearer past first this blazing electric star and then that the minatory roar of the crowd over whom their power had lasted for a hundred and fifty years marched along beside them As they drew still nearer their faces came out weary white and anxious He saw them blinking up through the glare about him and |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | or niece could make her wish the marriage But it was possible to part with her because Susan remained to supply her place Susan became the stationary niece delighted to be so and equally well adapted for it by a readiness of mind and an inclination for usefulness as Fanny had been by sweetness of temper and strong feelings of gratitude Susan could never be spared First as a comfort to Fanny then as an auxiliary and last as her substitute she was established at Mansfield with every appearance of equal permanency Her more fearless disposition and happier nerves made |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | see Miss Andreas and showed us into the modest drawing room I have mentioned incidentally that the Professor s daughter was a very beautiful girl She was a blonde tall and graceful with a skin of that delicate tint which the French call mat the colour of old ivory or of the lighter petals of the sulphur rose I was shocked however as she entered the room to see how much she had changed in the last fortnight Her young face was haggard and her bright eyes heavy with trouble Father has gone to Scotland she said He seems to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | rough stone paving of the disappointing road which is all that is left of the most famous highway of the world A peasant or two going home from the wine shop and a few carts of country produce coming up to Rome were the only things which they met They swung along with the huge tombs looming up through the darkness upon each side of them until they had come as far as the Catacombs of St Calistus and saw against a rising moon the great circular bastion of Cecilia Metella in front of them Then Burger stopped with his |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | and was subjected to Van Tromp for about an hour The next day Saturday it is believed that little intercourse took place between Esther and her father but towards the afternoon Dick met the latter returning from the direction of the inn where he had struck up quite a friendship with the landlord Dick wondered who paid for these excursions and at the thought that the reprobate must get his pocket money where he got his board and lodging from poor Esther s generosity he had it almost in his heart to knock the old gentleman down He on his |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | am concerned sir I would not have delayed his return for a day My uncle disapproved it all so entirely when he did arrive that in my opinion everything had gone quite far enough She had never spoken so much at once to him in her life before and never so angrily to any one and when her speech was over she trembled and blushed at her own daring He was surprised but after a few moments silent consideration of her replied in a calmer graver tone and as if the candid result of conviction I believe you are right |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | might be up with a good many more and that it would come out rather worse for you than it would for me my dear The man started and turned round upon the Jew But the old gentleman s shoulders were shrugged up to his ears and his eyes were vacantly staring on the opposite wall There was a long pause Every member of the respectable coterie appeared plunged in his own reflections not excepting the dog who by a certain malicious licking of his lips seemed to be meditating an attack upon the legs of the first gentleman or |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | every minute he began to retrace his steps Then it was he encountered the two Swine men I had seen dancing on the night of my arrival blood stained they were about the mouth and intensely excited They came crashing through the ferns and stopped with fierce faces when they saw him He cracked his whip in some trepidation and forthwith they rushed at him Never before had a Beast Man dared to do that One he shot through the head M ling flung himself upon the other and the two rolled grappling M ling got his brute under and |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | she was met by her father who came out of his library with a letter in his hand Lizzy said he I was going to look for you come into my room She followed him thither and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations She followed her father to the fire place and they both sat down He then said |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | honoured with a call from her ladyship and nothing escaped her observation that was passing in the room during these visits She examined into their employments looked at their work and advised them to do it differently found fault with the arrangement of the furniture or detected the housemaid in negligence and if she accepted any refreshment seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs Collins s joints of meat were too large for her family Elizabeth soon perceived that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county she |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | and very bold and my heart turned towards you in mine own despite and now if we can in any way compass it I would marry you with right good will And if by cruel destiny it may not be still ye ll be dear to me While my heart beats it ll be true to you And I said Dick that never cared a straw for any manner of woman until now I took to you when I thought ye were a boy I had a pity to you and knew not why When I would have belted you |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | Stapletons came in afterwards and the good doctor took us all to the yew alley at Sir Henry s request to show us exactly how everything occurred upon that fatal night It is a long dismal walk the yew alley between two high walls of clipped hedge with a narrow band of grass upon either side At the far end is an old tumble down summer house Halfway down is the moor gate where the old gentleman left his cigar ash It is a white wooden gate with a latch Beyond it lies the wide moor I remembered your theory |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | the moon his eye sockets were blotches of black under his stubbly eyebrows You re a solemn prig Prendick a silly ass You re always fearing and fancying We re on the edge of things I m bound to cut my throat to morrow I m going to have a damned Bank Holiday to night He turned and went out into the moonlight M ling he cried M ling old friend Three dim creatures in the silvery light came along the edge of the wan beach one a white wrapped creature the other two blotches of blackness following it They |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | the foliage overhead His back was to me Hullo said I He came down with a twisting jump and stood facing me I say said I where can I get something to eat Eat he said Eat Man s food now And his eye went back to the swing of ropes At the huts But where are the huts Oh I m new you know At that he swung round and set off at a quick walk All his motions were curiously rapid Come along said he I went with him to see the adventure out I guessed the huts |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | If things should go wrong I will have some claims to the title of martyr This eternal reading of riddles was too much for me I felt that I must put a term to it I think it would very much better sir if you were to trust me entirely said I It is impossible for me to act effectively when I do not know what are the objects which we have in view or even where we are going Oh as to where we are going there need be no mystery about that said he we are going to |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | had appeared from the Jolly Bargemen and they were sharing it by turns in a peaceable manner The lull had a sedative and philosophical influence on Joe who followed me out into the road to say as a parting observation that might do me good On the Rampage Pip and off the Rampage Pip such is Life With what absurd emotions for we think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy I found myself again going to Miss Havisham s matters little here Nor how I passed and repassed the gate many times |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | fellow countryman in a far land Not only a fellow countryman my good sir said Challenger but also if I may be allowed to enlarge your simile an ally of the first value This beech tree will be our saviour By George cried Lord John a bridge Exactly my friends a bridge It is not for nothing that I expended an hour last night in focusing my mind upon the situation I have some recollection of once remarking to our young friend here that G E C is at his best when his back is to the wall Last night |
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 insurgents men and women Moral don t go rebelling Haha Galloop Galloop They are lively fellows Lively brave fellows Let this be a lesson to the disorderly banderlog of this city Yah Banderlog Filth of the earth Galloop Galloop The voice ceased There was |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Agnes And patient Agnes I inquired with a little hesitation Yes returned Agnes laughing Pretty well And yet said I I get so miserable and worried and am so unsteady and irresolute in my power of assuring myself that I know I must want shall I call it reliance of some kind Call it so if you will said Agnes Well I returned See here You come to London I rely on you and I have an object and a course at once I am driven out of it I come here and in a moment I feel an altered |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | would have been glad enough to have taken his place and given all the news of the family John struck with a little chill was eager to be gone Only the door was scarce closed again before he regretted that he had not asked about that man He was to pay no more visits till he had seen his father and made all well at home Alan had been the only possible exception and John had not time to go as far as Murrayfield But here he was on Regent Terrace there was nothing to prevent him going round the |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | second accompanied by the phenomenon as child what a roar of applause broke out The people in the Borum box rose as one man waving their hats and handkerchiefs and uttering shouts of Bravo Mrs Borum and the governess cast wreaths upon the stage of which some fluttered into the lamps and one crowned the temples of a fat gentleman in the pit who looking eagerly towards the scene remained unconscious of the honour the tailor and his family kicked at the panels of the upper boxes till they threatened to come out altogether the very ginger beer boy remained |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | surface which has only two dimensions we can represent a figure of a three dimensional solid and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four if they could master the perspective of the thing See I think so murmured the Provincial Mayor and knitting his brows he lapsed into an introspective state his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words Yes I think I see it now he said after some time brightening in a quite transitory manner Well I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | kitchen floor and put it on again He did this with the air of a Jack who was so right that he could afford to do anything Why what do you make out that they done with their buttons then Jack asked the landlord vacillating weakly Done with their buttons returned the Jack Chucked em overboard Swallered em Sowed em to come up small salad Done with their buttons Don t be cheeky Jack remonstrated the landlord in a melancholy and pathetic way A Custum Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons said the Jack repeating the obnoxious |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | Hyde a person of small stature he inquired Particularly small and particularly wicked looking is what the maid calls him said the officer Mr Utterson reflected and then raising his head If you will come with me in my cab he said I think I can take you to his house It was by this time about nine in the morning and the first fog of the season A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours so that as the cab crawled from street to street Mr Utterson beheld |
Jane Austen | Emma | catch Miss Fairfax s eye My friend Mr Perry What are they saying about Mr Perry Has he been here this morning And how does he travel now Has he set up his carriage Emma soon recollected and understood him and while she joined in the laugh it was evident from Jane s countenance that she too was really hearing him though trying to seem deaf Such an extraordinary dream of mine he cried I can never think of it without laughing She hears us she hears us Miss Woodhouse I see it in her cheek her smile her vain |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | nor I was of an age for such indulgences But a glass of ale you may have and welcome said I He mopped and mowed at me and called me names but he was glad to get the ale for all that and presently we were set down at a table in the front room of the inn and both eating and drinking with a good appetite Here it occurred to me that as the landlord was a man of that county I might do well to make a friend of him I offered him a share as was much |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | whom I can discuss my results The matter is a perfectly trivial one he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat but there are points in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even of instruction I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire for a sharp frost had set in and the windows were thick with the ice crystals I suppose I remarked that homely as it looks this thing has some deadly story linked on to it that it is the clue which will guide |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | cried Good old Tommy Then he came near the bars with his back still towards me Down you stupid beast he roared Down sir Don t you know your master Suddenly even in my bemuddled brain a remembrance came of those words of his when he had said that the taste of blood would turn the cat into a fiend My blood had done it but he was to pay the price Get away he screamed Get away you devil Baldwin Baldwin Oh my God And then I heard him fall and rise and fall again with a sound like |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | his esteem and from that time onwards I found myself upon more confidential terms with him And now the silent and majestic figure of my employer became an object of greater interest to me I began to understand that strangely human look in his eyes those deep lines upon his care worn face He was a man who was fighting a ceaseless battle holding at arm s length from morning till night a horrible adversary who was forever trying to close with him an adversary which would destroy him body and soul could it but fix its claws once more |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | and gave him what he asked He thanked me with a smiling nod measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders The mixture which was at first of a reddish hue began in proportion as the crystals melted to brighten in colour to effervesce audibly and to throw off small fumes of vapour Suddenly and at the same moment the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to a dark purple which faded again more slowly to a watery green My visitor who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye smiled set down |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | amount of walking with it Perfectly sound said Holmes And then again there is the friends of the C C H I should guess that to be the Something Hunt the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance and which has made him a small presentation in return Really Watson you excel yourself said Holmes pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities It |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | had money enough to lend them the amount they needed Mr Micawber s answer expressed the disturbance of his mind He said shaking hands with me Copperfield you are a true friend but when the worst comes to the worst no man is without a friend who is possessed of shaving materials At this dreadful hint Mrs Micawber threw her arms round Mr Micawber s neck and entreated him to be calm He wept but so far recovered almost immediately as to ring the bell for the waiter and bespeak a hot kidney pudding and a plate of shrimps for |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | hound Mrs Lyons knew neither of these things but had been impressed by the death occurring at the time of an uncancelled appointment which was only known to him However both of them were under his influence and he had nothing to fear from them The first half of his task was successfully accomplished but the more difficult still remained It is possible that Stapleton did not know of the existence of an heir in Canada In any case he would very soon learn it from his friend Dr Mortimer and he was told by the latter all details about |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true hearted Englishman so I need hardly beg the reader to observe that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound judging philosophers have laid |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Gardiner and after relating the circumstances she thus went on I am now convinced my dear aunt that I have never been much in love for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion I should at present detest his very name and wish him all manner of evil But my feelings are not only cordial towards _him_ they are even impartial towards Miss King I cannot find out that I hate her at all or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl There can be no love in all |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | he was resolutely borne away before she knew that Captain Wentworth had done it Her sensations on the discovery made her perfectly speechless She could not even thank him She could only hang over little Charles with most disordered feelings His kindness in stepping forward to her relief the manner the silence in which it had passed the little particulars of the circumstance with the conviction soon forced on her by the noise he was studiously making with the child that he meant to avoid hearing her thanks and rather sought to testify that her conversation was the last of |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | it fifty pounds in gold and burn it to ashes before his face Mr Squeers after following with his eye the action of Ralph s hand towards the fire place as if he were at that moment consuming the paper drew a long breath and said Yes but who s to bring it Nobody perhaps for much is to be done before it can be got at said Ralph But if anybody you Mr Squeers s first tokens of consternation and his flat relinquishment of the task would have staggered most men if they had not immediately occasioned an utter |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | on any account leaving off dancing La ra la La ra la until I felt a much greater Monster than before We had only one check to our pleasure and that happened a little while before I took my leave when Miss Mills chancing to make some allusion to tomorrow morning I unluckily let out that being obliged to exert myself now I got up at five o clock Whether Dora had any idea that I was a Private Watchman I am unable to say but it made a great impression on her and she neither played nor sang any |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | but _one_ thing to be done Fanny I must take Anhalt myself I am well aware that nothing else will quiet Tom Fanny could not answer him It is not at all what I like he continued No man can like being driven into the _appearance_ of such inconsistency After being known to oppose the scheme from the beginning there is absurdity in the face of my joining them _now_ when they are exceeding their first plan in every respect but I can think of no other alternative Can you Fanny No said Fanny slowly not immediately but But what |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | bag from under his cloak and laid it on the table There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes he said Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note book and handed it to him And Mademoiselle s address he asked Is Briony Lodge Serpentine Avenue St John s Wood Holmes took a note of it One other question said he Was the photograph a cabinet It was Then good night your Majesty and I trust that we shall soon have some good news for you And good night Watson he added as the |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | his face under the yellow paraffine flare as he drank himself into a garrulous misery I have a memory of infinite tedium He wandered into a maudlin defence of the Beast People and of M ling M ling he said was the only thing that had ever really cared for him And suddenly an idea came to him I m damned said he staggering to his feet and clutching the brandy bottle By some flash of intuition I knew what it was he intended You don t give drink to that beast I said rising and facing him Beast said |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | made myself a hovel of boughs amid the black ruins of Moreau s enclosure Some memory of pain I found still made that place the safest from the Beast Folk It would be impossible to detail every step of the lapsing of these monsters to tell how day by day the human semblance left them how they gave up bandagings and wrappings abandoned at last every stitch of clothing how the hair began to spread over the exposed limbs how their foreheads fell away and their faces projected how the quasi human intimacy I had permitted myself with some of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | must rely entirely on the hundred men of his command Seven volleys of arrows followed one upon the other and in the very thick of the discharges Dick was touched from behind upon the arm and found a page holding out to him a leathern jack strengthened with bright plates of mail It is from my Lord of Gloucester said the page He hath observed Sir Richard that ye went unarmed Dick with a glow at his heart at being so addressed got to his feet and with the assistance of the page donned the defensive coat Even as he |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | in the eye of Heaven I do declare myself but sinful as against you I am not neither have been ever My father returned Dick in the same tone of voice trust me I design nothing but as for your innocence I may not forget that ye cleared yourself but lamely A man may be innocently guilty replied the priest He may be set blindfolded upon a mission ignorant of its true scope So it was with me I did decoy your father to his death but as Heaven sees us in this sacred place I knew not what I |
Jane Austen | Emma | by the sports and the nonsense the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home and Mrs Weston no one could doubt that a daughter would be most to her and it would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach should not have their powers in exercise again She has had the advantage you know of practising on me she continued like La Baronne d Almane on La Comtesse d Ostalis in Madame de Genlis Adelaide and Theodore and we shall now see her own little Adelaide educated on a |
Jane Austen | Emma | friend and companion such as few possessed intelligent well informed useful gentle knowing all the ways of the family interested in all its concerns and peculiarly interested in herself in every pleasure every scheme of hers one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault How was she to bear the change It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs Weston only half a mile from |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | bedstead with both hands and bent himself in vain to move it Help me Jack For your life s sake help me stoutly he cried Between them with a huge effort they dragged the big frame of oak across the room and thrust it endwise to the chamber door Ye do but make things worse said Joanna sadly He will then enter by the trap Not so replied Dick He durst not tell his secret to so many It is by the trap that we shall flee Hark The attack is over Nay it was none It had indeed been |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | was but it was never Dr Jekyll and it is the belief of my heart that there was murder done Poole replied the lawyer if you say that it will become my duty to make certain Much as I desire to spare your master s feelings much as I am puzzled by this note which seems to prove him to be still alive I shall consider it my duty to break in that door Ah Mr Utterson that s talking cried the butler And now comes the second question resumed Utterson Who is going to do it Why you and |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | when he put his letter into her hand She knew not what to think or how to account for it They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water and every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground or a finer reach of the woods to which they were approaching but it was some time before Elizabeth was sensible of any of it and though she answered mechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt and seemed to direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out she distinguished no part |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | a bow window where he can see the ships sail up and down the river You are acquainted with the young lady most probably Not personally said I The truth was that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good and that when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance When I |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | life and character The thing besides had come so suddenly like thunder out of a clear sky that I was all amazed and helpless The soldiers began to spread some of them to run and others to put up their pieces and cover me and still I stood Jock in here among the trees said a voice close by Duck Indeed I scarce knew what I was doing but I obeyed and as I did so I heard the firelocks bang and the balls whistle in the birches Just inside the shelter of the trees I found Alan Breck standing |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | an amateur s pride and looked to be famous by the morrow Dick who had heard nothing of the matter was up first on that inauspicious day and took the journal to an arbour in the garden He found his father s manifesto in one column and in another a leading article No one that we are aware of ran the article had consulted Mr Naseby on the subject but if he had been appealed to by the whole body of electors his letter would be none the less ungenerous and unjust to Mr Dalton We do not choose to |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | 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 |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | fixed upon me his stumpy hands clenched and held close by his side He stopped in this crouching attitude when I turned his eyes a little averted For a moment we stood eye to eye I dropped the whip and snatched at the pistol in my pocket for I meant to kill this brute the most formidable of any left now upon the island at the first excuse It may seem treacherous but so I was resolved I was far more afraid of him than of any other two of the Beast Folk His continued life was I knew a |
Jane Austen | Emma | gestures and movements might be understood by any one who looked on like Emma but her words every body s words were soon lost under the incessant flow of Miss Bates who came in talking and had not finished her speech under many minutes after her being admitted into the circle at the fire As the door opened she was heard So very obliging of you No rain at all Nothing to signify I do not care for myself Quite thick shoes And Jane declares Well as soon as she was within the door Well This is brilliant indeed This |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | way of happiness I could exert myself I could do something But to be waiting so long in inaction and waiting only for evil had been dreadful Within the first five minutes I said I will be at Bath on Wednesday and I was Was it unpardonable to think it worth my while to come and to arrive with some degree of hope You were single It was possible that you might retain the feelings of the past as I did and one encouragement happened to be mine I could never doubt that you would be loved and sought by |
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