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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
like me This appeal produced an effect on a good tempered faced man cook who with some of the other servants was looking on and who stepped forward to interfere Take it up for her Joe can t you said this person What s the good replied the man You don t suppose the young lady will see such as her do you This allusion to Nancy s doubtful character raised a vast quantity of chaste wrath in the bosoms of four housemaids who remarked with great fervour that the creature was a disgrace to her sex and strongly advocated
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
friend occasionally His father is dead he is wholly ignorant of the world has no resources whatever and wants something to do said Ralph I recommend him to this splendid establishment of yours as an opening which will lead him to fortune if he turns it to proper account Do you see that Everybody must see that replied Squeers half imitating the sneer with which the old gentleman was regarding his unconscious relative I do of course said Nicholas eagerly He does of course you observe said Ralph in the same dry hard manner If any caprice of temper should
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
fire as if he had known all about it beforehand And how much have you got asked my sister laughing Positively laughing What would present company say to ten pound demanded Joe They d say returned my sister curtly pretty well Not too much but pretty well It s more than that then said Joe That fearful Impostor Pumblechook immediately nodded and said as he rubbed the arms of his chair It s more than that Mum Why you don t mean to say began my sister Yes I do Mum said Pumblechook but wait a bit Go on Joseph
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow
I would not churlishly continue Let us then separate my lord you laying your right hand in mine and at the hour and place that ye shall name let us encounter and agree Y are too trustful boy said the other but this time your trust is not misplaced I will meet you at the point of day at St Bride s Cross Come lads follow The strangers disappeared from the scene with a rapidity that seemed suspicious and while the outlaws fell to the congenial task of rifling the dead bodies Dick made once more the circuit of the
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of Baskervilles
wife The descriptions agreed When I learned that the missing man was devoted to entomology the identification was complete The darkness was rising but much was still hidden by the shadows If this woman is in truth his wife where does Mrs Laura Lyons come in I asked That is one of the points upon which your own researches have shed a light Your interview with the lady has cleared the situation very much I did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her husband In that case regarding Stapleton as an unmarried man she counted no doubt
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
knew now that we of the Whips could be killed even as they themselves were killed Were they peering at me already out of the green masses of ferns and palms over yonder watching until I came within their spring Were they plotting against me What was the Hyena swine telling them My imagination was running away with me into a morass of unsubstantial fears My thoughts were disturbed by a crying of sea birds hurrying towards some black object that had been stranded by the waves on the beach near the enclosure I knew what that object was but
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
flies and with my wanderings much nearer a hundred in four days and with little fatigue Indeed I was by far in better heart and health of body at the end of that long tramp than I had been at the beginning CHAPTER XVI THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON ACROSS MORVEN There is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline on the mainland Both shores of the Sound are in the country of the strong clan of the Macleans and the people that passed the ferry with me were almost all of that clan The skipper of the boat
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
out of one of the places further up this strange street and stood up in featureless silhouette against the bright green beyond staring at me I hesitated having half a mind to bolt the way I had come and then determined to go through with the adventure I gripped my nailed stick about the middle and crawled into the little evil smelling lean to after my conductor It was a semi circular space shaped like the half of a bee hive and against the rocky wall that formed the inner side of it was a pile of variegated fruits cocoa
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
the house I tell you of for I have only seen him twice and both times he was covered up in a large cloak I think that s all I can give you to know him by Stay though she added Upon his throat so high that you can see a part of it below his neckerchief when he turns his face there is A broad red mark like a burn or scald cried the gentleman How s this said the girl You know him The young lady uttered a cry of surprise and for a few moments they were
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll s predecessor but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll dead or alive Poole stamped on the flags of the corridor He must be buried here he said hearkening to the sound Or he may have fled said Utterson and he turned to examine the door in the by street It was locked and lying near by on
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
which her fancy told her she still possessed of bringing on her the renewal of his addresses It had been settled in the evening between the aunt and the niece that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy s in coming to see them on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley for she had reached it only to a late breakfast ought to be imitated though it could not be equalled by some exertion of politeness on their side and consequently that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning They were
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
hand That s _my_ way Bound out of hand Goodness knows Uncle Pumblechook said my sister grasping the money we re deeply beholden to you Never mind me Mum returned that diabolical cornchandler A pleasure s a pleasure all the world over But this boy you know we must have him bound I said I d see to it to tell you the truth The Justices were sitting in the Town Hall near at hand and we at once went over to have me bound apprentice to Joe in the Magisterial presence I say we went over but I was
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
began to rise and I thought of the pressure on my hand when I had spoken the last words he had heard on earth Estella was the next to break the silence that ensued between us I have very often hoped and intended to come back but have been prevented by many circumstances Poor poor old place The silvery mist was touched with the first rays of the moonlight and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes Not knowing that I saw them and setting herself to get the better of them she said quietly Were
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul s bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison Following the wall of the jail I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles and from this and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer I inferred that the trials were on While I looked about me here an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
would there was a motley assemblage of feasting laughing talking begging gambling and mummery Of the gambling booths there was a plentiful show flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground striped hangings crimson cloth pinnacled roofs geranium pots and livery servants There were the Stranger s club house the Athenaeum club house the Hampton club house the St James s club house and half a mile of club houses to play IN and there were ROUGE ET NOIR French hazard and other games to play AT It is into one of these booths that our story takes its way
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
rusticity a sister s husband who looked the gentleman and a house commodious and well fitted up and Mrs Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance Mary Crawford was remarkably pretty Henry though not handsome had air and countenance the manners of both were lively and pleasant and Mrs Grant immediately gave them credit for everything else She was delighted with each but Mary was her dearest object and having never been able to glory in beauty of her own she thoroughly enjoyed the power of
Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
has she been saying to you It is a little cold for the time of the year said Holmes What has she been saying to you screamed the old man furiously But I have heard that the crocuses promise well continued my companion imperturbably Ha You put me off do you said our new visitor taking a step forward and shaking his hunting crop I know you you scoundrel I have heard of you before You are Holmes the meddler My friend smiled Holmes the busybody His smile broadened Holmes the Scotland Yard Jack in office Holmes chuckled heartily Your
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
arch in space the moon a fainter fluctuating band and I could see nothing of the stars save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue The landscape was misty and vague I was still on the hillside upon which this house now stands and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour now brown now green they grew spread shivered and passed away I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair and pass like dreams The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
one of the coffee room fires to think about him at my leisure I gradually fell from the consideration of his happiness to tracing prospects in the live coals and to thinking as they broke and changed of the principal vicissitudes and separations that had marked my life I had not seen a coal fire since I had left England three years ago though many a wood fire had I watched as it crumbled into hoary ashes and mingled with the feathery heap upon the hearth which not inaptly figured to me in my despondency my own dead hopes I
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
were relieved by it from all restraint and without aiming at one gratification that would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas they felt themselves immediately at their own disposal and to have every indulgence within their reach Fanny s relief and her consciousness of it were quite equal to her cousins but a more tender nature suggested that her feelings were ungrateful and she really grieved because she could not grieve Sir Thomas who had done so much for her and her brothers and who was gone perhaps never to return that she should see him go without a
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
you might do what you know of if you felt disposed to try it Now burn When I had shown this to Herbert and had put it in the fire but not before we had both got it by heart we considered what to do For of course my being disabled could now be no longer kept out of view I have thought it over again and again said Herbert and I think I know a better course than taking a Thames waterman Take Startop A good fellow a skilled hand fond of us and enthusiastic and honorable I had
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
and left our camp with the stores entirely surrounded by this protecting hedge We then slowly and cautiously set forth into the unknown following the course of the little stream which flowed from our spring as it should always serve us as a guide on our return Hardly had we started when we came across signs that there were indeed wonders awaiting us After a few hundred yards of thick forest containing many trees which were quite unknown to me but which Summerlee who was the botanist of the party recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
own much greater prowess is more than I can tell For though he had a great taste for courage in other men yet he admired it most in Alan Breck CHAPTER XIII THE LOSS OF THE BRIG It was already late at night and as dark as it ever would be at that season of the year and that is to say it was still pretty bright when Hoseason clapped his head into the round house door Here said he come out and see if ye can pilot Is this one of your tricks asked Alan Do I look like
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
where the shadows lurked and down a bushy slope I could see the Thing rather more distinctly now It was no animal for it stood erect At that I opened my mouth to speak and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice I tried again and shouted Who is there There was no answer I advanced a step The Thing did not move only gathered itself together My foot struck a stone That gave me an idea Without taking my eyes off the black form before me I stooped and picked up this lump of rock but at my motion
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales and Fantasies
way or the other here was the dangerous beginning of a separation between two hearts Esther found herself at variance with her sweetest friend she could no longer look into his heart and find it written with the same language as her own she could no longer think of him as the sun which radiated happiness upon her life for she had turned to him once and he had breathed upon her black and chilly radiated blackness and frost To put the whole matter in a word she was beginning although ever so slightly to fall out of love CHAPTER
Jane Austen
Emma
him a good night The compliment was just returned coldly and proudly and under indescribable irritation of spirits she was then conveyed to Hartfield There she was welcomed with the utmost delight by her father who had been trembling for the dangers of a solitary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well for Mr John Knightley ashamed of his ill humour was now all kindness
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of Baskervilles
furious was he that he was hardly articulate and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning Seems to me they are playing me for a sucker in this hotel he cried They ll find they ve started in to monkey with the wrong man unless they are careful By thunder if that chap can t find my missing boot there will be trouble I can take a joke with the best Mr Holmes but they ve got a bit over the mark
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
But no sooner was Mr Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into his safe where it reposed from that time forward What he thought Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer And his blood ran cold in his veins INCIDENT OF DR LANYON Time ran on thousands of pounds were offered in reward for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury but Mr Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never existed Much of his past was unearthed indeed and all disreputable tales came out of the
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
I said rather small and furry distinctly furry But the whole man is one of the strangest beings I ever set eyes on A sharp hoarse cry of animal pain came from the enclosure behind us Its depth and volume testified to the puma I saw Montgomery wince Yes he said Where did you pick up the creature San Francisco He s an ugly brute I admit Half witted you know Can t remember where he came from But I m used to him you know We both are How does he strike you He s unnatural I said There
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body For an endless period as it seemed to me I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner she was a little ship schooner rigged fore and aft come up out of the sea She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass for she
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
a moment I could see nothing but the waving summits of the ferns and reeds Then suddenly upon the bank of the stream appeared something at first I could not distinguish what it was It bowed its round head to the water and began to drink Then I saw it was a man going on all fours like a beast He was clothed in bluish cloth and was of a copper coloured hue with black hair It seemed that grotesque ugliness was an invariable character of these islanders I could hear the suck of the water at his lips as
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
I warn t sure in my mind wen I come out this morning as I could go and break to Ham of my own self what had so thankfully happened So I writ a letter while I was out and put it in the post office telling of em how all was as tis and that I should come down tomorrow to unload my mind of what little needs a doing of down theer and most like take my farewell leave of Yarmouth And do you wish me to go with you said I seeing that he left something unsaid
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow
church It stood wide open within every corner of the pavement was crowded with fugitive burghers surrounded by their families and laden with the most precious of their possessions while at the high altar priests in full canonicals were imploring the mercy of God Even as Dick entered the loud chorus began to thunder in the vaulted roofs He hurried through the groups of refugees and came to the door of the stair that led into the steeple And here a tall churchman stepped before him and arrested his advance Whither my son he asked severely My father answered Dick
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
Latin but with a very ill meaning which he had made in elegiac verses upon a person of that house When I told him of my catechist he shook his head and said I was lucky to have got clear off That is a very dangerous man he said Duncan Mackiegh is his name he can shoot by the ear at several yards and has been often accused of highway robberies and once of murder The cream of it is says I that he called himself a catechist And why should he not says he when that is what he
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas contemptuously In it and out of it too replied the actor Why you know Lenville says I thought I had silenced him effectually interrupted Nicholas reddening Perhaps you have rejoined the immovable Mr Folair if you have he said this before he was silenced Lenville says that you re a regular stick of an actor and that it s only the mystery about you that has caused you to go down with the people here and that Crummles keeps it up for his own sake though Lenville says he don t believe there s anything at all in it
Jane Austen
Emma
suggestion of Can it really be as my brother imagined can it be possible for this man to be beginning to transfer his affections from Harriet to me Absurd and insufferable Yet he would be so anxious for her being perfectly warm would be so interested about her father and so delighted with Mrs Weston and at last would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would be lover and made it some effort with her to preserve her good manners For her own sake she could not be rude
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
said he above all of Highlanders many of whom are obnoxious to the law Well it might have been better not said I but since I have let it slip I may as well continue Not at all said Mr Rankeillor I am somewhat dull of hearing as you may have remarked and I am far from sure I caught the name exactly We will call your friend if you please Mr Thomson that there may be no reflections And in future I would take some such way with any Highlander that you may have to mention dead or alive
Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
lost nothing by them No sir But I want to find out about them and who they are and what their object was in playing this prank if it was a prank upon me It was a pretty expensive joke for them for it cost them two and thirty pounds We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you And first one or two questions Mr Wilson This assistant of yours who first called your attention to the advertisement how long had he been with you About a month then How did he come In answer to an advertisement
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
You are too solicitous about him He is very well Mrs Heep with a prodigious sniff resumed her knitting She never left off or left us for a moment I had arrived early in the day and we had still three or four hours before dinner but she sat there plying her knitting needles as monotonously as an hour glass might have poured out its sands She sat on one side of the fire I sat at the desk in front of it a little beyond me on the other side sat Agnes Whensoever slowly pondering over my letter I
Jane Austen
Emma
exclaimed quite as much as was necessary or being acting a part perhaps rather more at the conduct of the Churchills in keeping him away She then proceeded to say a good deal more than she felt of the advantage of such an addition to their confined society in Surry the pleasure of looking at somebody new the gala day to Highbury entire which the sight of him would have made and ending with reflections on the Churchills again found herself directly involved in a disagreement with Mr Knightley and to her great amusement perceived that she was taking the
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
days or lend him at all events No no said Biddy gently You must marry So Herbert and Clara say but I don t think I shall Biddy I have so settled down in their home that it s not at all likely I am already quite an old bachelor Biddy looked down at her child and put its little hand to her lips and then put the good matronly hand with which she had touched it into mine There was something in the action and in the light pressure of Biddy s wedding ring that had a very pretty
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
I have raised for myself with the work of my whole life Let us part I shall be watched or seen Go Go If I have done you any service all I ask is that you leave me and let me go my way alone It is useless said the gentleman with a sigh We compromise her safety perhaps by staying here We may have detained her longer than she expected already Yes yes urged the girl You have What cried the young lady can be the end of this poor creature s life What repeated the girl Look before
Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
happy and prosperous man without a care in the world Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured age One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another My niece Mary has deserted me Deserted you Yes Her bed this morning had not been slept in her room was empty and a note for me lay upon the hall table I had said to her last night in sorrow and not in anger that if she had married my boy all might have been well with him Perhaps it was thoughtless of me to say so It is to
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
of this age of ours this ripe prime of the human race when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors I at least would defend myself Without further delay I determined to make myself arms and a fastness where I might sleep With that refuge as a base I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realising to what creatures night by night I lay exposed I felt I could never sleep again until my bed was secure from them I shuddered with horror to think how they must already
H.G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes
about him circling wildly to avoid him as it seemed They drove past him above below eastward and westward Far away to the westward was the sound of a collision and two falling flares Far away to the southward a second squadron was coming Steadily he beat upward Presently all the aeroplanes were below him but for a moment he doubted the height he had of them and did not swoop again And then he came down upon a second victim and all its load of soldiers saw him coming The big machine heeled and swayed as the fear maddened
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride His sense of her inferiority of its being a degradation of the family obstacles which had always opposed to inclination were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding but was very unlikely to recommend his suit In spite of her deeply rooted dislike she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man s affection and though her intentions did not vary for an instant she
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales and Fantasies
his surprise in one simple English word friendly to the mouth of Jack tar and the sooty pitman and hurried to spread the news round the servants hall of Naseby House Luncheon would be on the table in little beyond an hour and the Squire on sitting down would hardly fail to ask for Master Richard Hence as the intelligent reader can foresee this groom has a part to play in the imbroglio Meantime Dick had been thinking deeply and bitterly It seemed to him as if his love had gone from him indeed yet gone but a little way
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
servant at the squire s house was compelled to admit that he had heard his master return about three that morning which corroborated Mrs Madding s statement that she had seen him among the laurel bushes near the gate upon the occasion of her second visit The muddy boots and an alleged similarity in the footprints were duly dwelt upon and it was felt when the case for the prosecution had been presented that however circumstantial it might be it was none the less so complete and so convincing that the fate of the prisoner was sealed unless something quite
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
rather reluctantly I put it down And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat I don t know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate The sun s heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when it is focused by dewdrops as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts Lightning
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
I that at first they seemed to me delicious Perhaps they were out of season or perhaps there was something wrong in the sea about my island But at least I had no sooner eaten my first meal than I was seized with giddiness and retching and lay for a long time no better than dead A second trial of the same food indeed I had no other did better with me and revived my strength But as long as I was on the island I never knew what to expect when I had eaten sometimes all was well and
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
a considerable interest in its well doing she had sedulously applied herself to the investigation of some little matters connected with that gentleman s private character which she had so well elucidated and artfully imparted to Madame Mantalini as to open her eyes more effectually than the closest and most philosophical reasoning could have done in a series of years To which end the accidental discovery by Miss Knag of some tender correspondence in which Madame Mantalini was described as old and ordinary had most providentially contributed However notwithstanding her firmness Madame Mantalini wept very piteously and as she leant
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
formal and cold was their manner whenever they did Her mother s ungraciousness made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth s mind and she would at times have given anything to be privileged to tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them together that the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance Anxious and
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
They were men men like yourselves whom you have infected with some bestial taint men whom you have enslaved and whom you still fear You who listen I cried pointing now to Moreau and shouting past him to the Beast Men You who listen Do you not see these men still fear you go in dread of you Why then do you fear them You are many For God s sake cried Montgomery stop that Prendick Prendick cried Moreau They both shouted together as if to drown my voice and behind them lowered the staring faces of the Beast Men
Jane Austen
Persuasion
lived in perpetual fright at that time and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself or when I should hear from him next but as long as we could be together nothing ever ailed me and I never met with the smallest inconvenience Aye to be sure Yes indeed oh yes I am quite of your opinion Mrs Croft was Mrs Musgrove s hearty answer There is nothing so bad as a separation I am quite of your opinion _I_ know what it is for Mr Musgrove always attends the assizes and I
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
and that not of an agreeable kind Mr Jaggers never laughed but he wore great bright creaking boots and in poising himself on these boots with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together awaiting an answer he sometimes caused the boots to creak as if _they_ laughed in a dry and suspicious way As he happened to go out now and as Wemmick was brisk and talkative I said to Wemmick that I hardly knew what to make of Mr Jaggers s manner Tell him that and he ll take it as a compliment answered Wemmick he
Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
a head In the meantime Mr Merryweather we must put the screen over that dark lantern And sit in the dark I am afraid so I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket and I thought that as we were a _partie carrée_ you might have your rubber after all But I see that the enemy s preparations have gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light And first of all we must choose our positions These are daring men and though we shall take them at a disadvantage they may do us some
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
I have here set down but even they must admit that Joyce Armstrong has disappeared and I would commend to them his own words This note book may explain what I am trying to do and how I lost my life in doing it But no drivel about accidents or mysteries if YOU please The Leather Funnel My friend Lionel Dacre lived in the Avenue de Wagram Paris His house was that small one with the iron railings and grass plot in front of it on the left hand side as you pass down from the Arc de Triomphe I
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
contempt of every man in existence The black hearted scoundrel With this gentle allusion to the absent Mr Squeers Nicholas repressed his rising wrath and relating to Newman exactly what had passed at Dotheboys Hall entreated him to speak out without more pressing Thus adjured Mr Noggs took from an old trunk a sheet of paper which appeared to have been scrawled over in great haste and after sundry extraordinary demonstrations of reluctance delivered himself in the following terms My dear young man you mustn t give way to this sort of thing will never do you know as to
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
to let me awake Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames But at last above the subsiding red of the fire above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures came the white light of the day I searched again for traces of Weena but there were none It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
I shall be back before midnight when we shall send for the police They went out locking the door of the theatre behind them and Utterson once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall trudged back to his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained DR LANYON S NARRATIVE On the ninth of January now four days ago I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion Henry Jekyll I was a good deal surprised by this
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
the Avon It is the most English part of England Shakespeare the flower of the whole race was born right in the middle of it It is a land of rolling pastures rising in higher folds to the westwards until they swell into the Malvern Hills There are no towns but numerous villages each with its grey Norman church You have left the brick of the southern and eastern counties behind you and everything is stone stone for the walls and lichened slabs of stone for the roofs It is all grim and solid and massive as befits the heart
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
down rejoined the other But her teeth were tight set and she clenched the mug so hard that it was as much as I could do to get it back again So I drank it and it did me good Looking cautiously round to ascertain that they were not overheard the two hags cowered nearer to the fire and chuckled heartily I mind the time said the first speaker when she would have done the same and made rare fun of it afterwards Ay that she would rejoined the other she had a merry heart A many many beautiful corpses
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
conscience that s such an enemy to rest Ah sir there s blood foully shed in every step of it But hark again a little closer put your heart in your ears Mr Utterson and tell me is that the doctor s foot The steps fell lightly and oddly with a certain swing for all they went so slowly it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll Utterson sighed Is there never anything else he asked Poole nodded Once he said Once I heard it weeping Weeping how that said the lawyer conscious of a sudden
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
I believe so Have you ever known what it was to be exposed to imminent danger No I don t know that I ever have But you think you would be prompt and cool at such a time I hope so Well I believe that you would I have the more confidence in you because you do not pretend to be certain as to what you would do in a position that was new to you My impression is that so far as personal qualities go you are the very man of whom I am in search That being settled
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
not been so silent all the time replied his mother Fanny has been reading to me and only put the book down upon hearing you coming And sure enough there was a book on the table which had the air of being very recently closed a volume of Shakespeare She often reads to me out of those books and she was in the middle of a very fine speech of that man s what s his name Fanny when we heard your footsteps Crawford took the volume Let me have the pleasure of finishing that speech to your ladyship said
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
that an agricultural labourer James Flynn in the employment of Mathew Dodd farmer of the Chauntry Farm Withyham perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock A few paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken binocular glasses Finally among some nettles in the ditch he caught sight of a flat canvas backed book which proved to be a note book with detachable leaves some of which had come loose and were fluttering along the base of the hedge These he collected but some including the first were never recovered and
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
crying I saw her do that night what I had never seen her do before I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support When they went away together in the waning moonlight and I looked after them comparing their departure in my mind with Martha s I saw that she held his arm with both her hands and still kept close to him CHAPTER 23 I CORROBORATE Mr DICK AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION When I awoke in the morning I thought very much
Jane Austen
Persuasion
that post we shall certainly take that post But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed the danger and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they neither fell into a rut nor ran foul of a dung cart and Anne with some amusement at their style of driving which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage CHAPTER XI The time now approached for Lady Russell s return the day was even fixed and Anne being engaged to join her
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
I am still so confused that I can hardly think clearly of the facts of the present or of the chances of the future To my astounded senses the one seems most terrible and the other as black as night No men have ever found themselves in a worse position nor is there any use in disclosing to you our exact geographical situation and asking our friends for a relief party Even if they could send one our fate will in all human probability be decided long before it could arrive in South America We are in truth as far
H.G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes
sense of successful effort the descents through the rarefied air were beyond all experience He wanted never to leave the upper air again For a time he was intent upon the landscape that ran swiftly northward beneath him Its minute clear detail pleased him exceedingly He was impressed by the ruin of the houses that had once dotted the country by the vast treeless expanse of country from which all farms and villages had gone save for crumbling ruins He had known the thing was so but seeing it so was an altogether different matter He tried to make out
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
up on the surgeon s coming to her with other aid I was astonished to see that both my hands were burnt for I had no knowledge of it through the sense of feeling On examination it was pronounced that she had received serious hurts but that they of themselves were far from hopeless the danger lay mainly in the nervous shock By the surgeon s directions her bed was carried into that room and laid upon the great table which happened to be well suited to the dressing of her injuries When I saw her again an hour afterwards
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of Baskervilles
up his two guineas like a good one and away he went into the station Only just as he was leaving he turned round and he said It might interest you to know that you have been driving Mr Sherlock Holmes That s how I come to know the name I see And you saw no more of him Not after he went into the station And how would you describe Mr Sherlock Holmes The cabman scratched his head Well he wasn t altogether such an easy gentleman to describe I d put him at forty years of age and
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
Jew changing countenance only two of em Where s the third They can t have got into trouble Hark The footsteps approached nearer they reached the landing The door was slowly opened and the Dodger and Charley Bates entered closing it behind them CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY Where s Oliver said the Jew rising with a menacing look Where s the boy The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his violence and looked uneasily at each
Jane Austen
Emma
she had herself the highest value for elegance Her height was pretty just such as almost every body would think tall and nobody could think very tall her figure particularly graceful her size a most becoming medium between fat and thin though a slight appearance of ill health seemed to point out the likeliest evil of the two Emma could not but feel all this and then her face her features there was more beauty in them altogether than she had remembered it was not regular but it was very pleasing beauty Her eyes a deep grey with dark eye
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
I shook her off perhaps a little roughly and in another moment I was in the throat of the well I saw her agonised face over the parapet and smiled to reassure her Then I had to look down at the unstable hooks to which I clung I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones The rebounding dancing hail hung in a little cloud over the machine and drove along the ground like smoke In a moment I was wet to the skin Fine hospitality said I to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you Presently I thought what a fool I was to get wet I stood up and looked round me A colossal figure carved apparently in some white stone loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour But all else of the world was invisible My sensations would
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twis
has come over you you jade Wot is it Let me go said the girl with great earnestness then sitting herself down on the floor before the door she said Bill let me go you don t know what you are doing You don t indeed For only one hour do do Cut my limbs off one by one cried Sikes seizing her roughly by the arm If I don t think the gal s stark raving mad Get up Not till you let me go not till you let me go Never never screamed the girl Sikes looked on
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
we should deceive our hosts and benefactors but under the circumstances we had really no alternative and I hereby tell them that they will only waste their time and their money if they attempt to follow upon our traces Even the names have been altered in our accounts and I am very sure that no one from the most careful study of them could come within a thousand miles of our unknown land The excitement which had been caused through those parts of South America which we had to traverse was imagined by us to be purely local and I
Jane Austen
Persuasion
out of the way till all was over when she found it most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them This meeting of the two parties proved highly satisfactory and decided the whole business at once Each lady was previously well disposed for an agreement and saw nothing therefore but good manners in the other and with regard to the gentlemen there was such an hearty good humour such an open trusting liberality on the Admiral s side as could not but influence Sir Walter who had besides been flattered into his very best
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of Baskervilles
smiled As long as I have my trousers I have a hip pocket and as long as I have my hip pocket I have something in it Good My friend and I are also ready for emergencies You re mighty close about this affair Mr Holmes What s the game now A waiting game My word it does not seem a very cheerful place said the detective with a shiver glancing round him at the gloomy slopes of the hill and at the huge lake of fog which lay over the Grimpen Mire I see the lights of a house
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery
the embankment and rolled among the bushes Injuries to his head from the fall appear to be cause of death Ground has now been carefully examined and there is no trace of the missing train The country was as has already been stated in the throes of a political crisis and the attention of the public was further distracted by the important and sensational developments in Paris where a huge scandal threatened to destroy the Government and to wreck the reputations of many of the leading men in France The papers were full of these events and the singular disappearance
H.G. Wells
Time Machine
dangers There is a sentiment arising and it will grow against connubial jealousy against fierce maternity against passion of all sorts unnecessary things now and things that make us uncomfortable savage survivals discords in a refined and pleasant life I thought of the physical slightness of the people their lack of intelligence and those big abundant ruins and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature For after the battle comes Quiet Humanity had been strong energetic and intelligent and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived And now came the
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
I held my breath trying to see what it was It began to move slowly interminably Then something soft and warm and moist passed across my hand All my muscles contracted I snatched my hand away A cry of alarm began and was stifled in my throat Then I just realised what had happened sufficiently to stay my fingers on the revolver Who is that I said in a hoarse whisper the revolver still pointed _I_ Master Who are _you _ They say there is no Master now But I know I know I carried the bodies into the sea
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
memory and one at least the man who lay in the damp grasses by my side will know if I have lied A wide open space lay before us some hundreds of yards across all green turf and low bracken growing to the very edge of the cliff Round this clearing there was a semi circle of trees with curious huts built of foliage piled one above the other among the branches A rookery with every nest a little house would best convey the idea The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
always represented on the slate by his initial letter and ran into the forge followed by Joe and me Why of course cried Biddy with an exultant face Don t you see It s _him_ Orlick without a doubt She had lost his name and could only signify him by his hammer We told him why we wanted him to come into the kitchen and he slowly laid down his hammer wiped his brow with his arm took another wipe at it with his apron and came slouching out with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
at his word as he might change his mind another day and warn me off his grounds Elizabeth felt that they had entirely misunderstood his character but said nothing From what we have seen of him continued Mrs Gardiner I really should not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by anybody as he has done by poor Wickham He has not an ill natured look On the contrary there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks And there is something of dignity in his countenance that would not give one an unfavourable
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales and Fantasies
she pressed the matter no farther indeed her father was already seen returning it by no means left her thoughts At one moment she simply resented the selfishness of a man who had obtruded his dark looks and passionate language on her joy for there is nothing that a woman can less easily forgive than the language of a passion which even if only for the moment she does not share At another she suspected him of jealousy against her father and for that although she could see excuses for it she yet despised him And at least in one
Jane Austen
Emma
Nonsensical girl was his reply but not at all in anger Emma had as much reason to be satisfied with the rest of the party as with Mr Knightley She was received with a cordial respect which could not but please and given all the consequence she could wish for When the Westons arrived the kindest looks of love the strongest of admiration were for her from both husband and wife the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object and at dinner she found him seated by her and as she firmly believed
H.G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes
of the Awakening was in progress Myriads are taking holiday or staying from work because of that quite apart from the labourers who refuse to go back said Asano These people are always ready for holidays Graham walked to the parapet and stood leaning over looking down at the dancers Save for two or three remote whispering couples who had stolen apart he and his guide had the gallery to themselves A warm breath of scent and vitality came up to him Both men and women below were lightly clad bare armed open necked as the universal warmth of the
H.G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes
his shoulders Human beings he said with a curious smile on his heavy face Our social ideas he said have a certain increased liberality perhaps in comparison with your times If a man wishes to relieve such a tedium as this by feminine society for instance We think it no scandal We have cleared our minds of formulae There is in our city a class a necessary class no longer despised discreet Graham stopped dead It would pass the time said Howard It is a thing I should perhaps have thought of before but as a matter of fact so
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
memory and will thrive for a considerable time on very slight and sparing food Thus it is that it often attains its most luxuriant growth in separation and under circumstances of the utmost difficulty and thus it was that Nicholas thinking of nothing but the unknown young lady from day to day and from hour to hour began at last to think that he was very desperately in love with her and that never was such an ill used and persecuted lover as he Still though he loved and languished after the most orthodox models and was only deterred from
H.G. Wells
Invisible Man
to them as Crusoe s solitary discovery This running warmed me to a certain extent and I went on with a better courage through the maze of less frequented roads that runs hereabouts My back had now become very stiff and sore my tonsils were painful from the cabman s fingers and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot I saw in time a blind man approaching me and fled limping for I feared his subtle intuitions Once or twice accidental
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
prevent its ever happening again took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers How it could occur a second time therefore was very odd Yet it did and even a third It seemed like wilful ill nature or a voluntary penance for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her He never said a great deal nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much but
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
my honour my reason depend upon you I would not have sacrificed my left hand to help you Lanyon my life my honour my reason are all at your mercy if you fail me to night I am lost You might suppose after this preface that I am going to ask you for something dishonourable to grant Judge for yourself I want you to postpone all other engagements for to night ay even if you were summoned to the bedside of an emperor to take a cab unless your carriage should be actually at the door and with this letter
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
present him to the living in question of which he trusted there could be little doubt as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for and I could not have forgotten my revered father s intentions You will hardly blame me for refusing to comply with this entreaty or for resisting every repetition to it His resentment was in proportion to the distress of his circumstances and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself After this period every appearance of acquaintance was dropped How
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
rows of faces of the familiar medical student type Apparently the great hospitals had each sent down their contingent The behavior of the audience at present was good humored but mischievous Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors Thus when old Doctor Meldrum with his well known curly brimmed opera hat appeared upon the platform there was such a universal query
Jane Austen
Emma
wonder who the friend was and who could be the young lady Do you think it is a good one Can it be woman And woman lovely woman reigns alone Can it be Neptune Behold him there the monarch of the seas Or a trident or a mermaid or a shark Oh no shark is only one syllable It must be very clever or he would not have brought it Oh Miss Woodhouse do you think we shall ever find it out Mermaids and sharks Nonsense My dear Harriet what are you thinking of Where would be the use of
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
his twin brother and singin in that rollin bass of his Ring out wild bells cause music of any kind seemed to put em in a good humor you d have smiled but we weren t in much mood for laughin as you can guess They were inclined within limits to let him do what he liked but they drew the line pretty sharply at us It was a mighty consolation to us all to know that you were runnin loose and had the archives in your keepin Well now young fellah I ll tell you what will surprise you
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
saw clearly enough in the yellow light of a mid London morning lying half shut on the bedclothes was lean corded knuckly of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair It was the hand of Edward Hyde I must have stared upon it for near half a minute sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals and bounding from my bed I rushed to the mirror At the sight that met my eyes my blood was changed
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of Baskervilles
then If you have heard anything of my unhappy history you will know that I made a rash marriage and had reason to regret it I have heard so much My life has been one incessant persecution from a husband whom I abhor The law is upon his side and every day I am faced by the possibility that he may force me to live with him At the time that I wrote this letter to Sir Charles I had learned that there was a prospect of my regaining my freedom if certain expenses could be met It meant everything