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Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

a space he was silent Richard he said what brings you here I know not but I much misdoubt it to be evil Nevertheless for the kindness that was I would not willingly deliver you to harm Ye shall sit all night beside me in the stalls ye shall sit there till my Lord of Shoreby be married and the party gone safe home and if all goeth well and ye have planned no evil in the end ye shall go whither ye will But if your purpose be bloody it shall return upon your head Amen And the priest

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

poultry was very much in want of some variety at home The arrival therefore of a sister whom she had always loved and now hoped to retain with her as long as she remained single was highly agreeable and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to London Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions though they arose principally from doubts of her sister s style of living and tone of society and it was not till after she had tried in vain to persuade

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

this The policeman with becoming humility related how he had taken the charge how he had searched Oliver and found nothing on his person and how that was all he knew about it Are there any witnesses inquired Mr Fang None your worship replied the policeman Mr Fang sat silent for some minutes and then turning round to the prosecutor said in a towering passion Do you mean to state what your complaint against this boy is man or do you not You have been sworn Now if you stand there refusing to give evidence I ll punish you for

Jane Austen

Persuasion

capable of accommodating so many Anne had a moment s astonishment on the subject herself but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville to turn the actual space to the best account to supply the deficiencies of lodging house furniture and defend the windows and doors against the winter storms to be expected The varieties in the fitting up of the rooms where the common necessaries provided by the owner in the common indifferent plight were contrasted with some few articles of a

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

features He walked from the room and he walked on tiptoe The old woman was waiting outside Attend to your mistress when she awakes said Lord Sannox Then he went down to the street The cab was at the door and the driver raised his hand to his hat John said Lord Sannox you will take the doctor home first He will want leading downstairs I think Tell his butler that he has been taken ill at a case Very good sir Then you can take Lady Sannox home And how about yourself sir Oh my address for the next

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

eat and sleep for a night and day they work for a day and at the end of the day they go out again If they have worked well they have a penny or so enough for a theatre or a cheap dancing place or a kinematograph story or a dinner or a bet They wander about after that is spent Begging is prevented by the police of the ways Besides no one gives They come back again the next day or the day after brought back by the same incapacity that brought them first At last their proper clothing

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

month later they would meet on the same boulevard without surprise or embarrassment And in the meantime Dick learned more about his acquaintance on all sides heard of his yacht his chaise and four his brief season of celebrity amid a more confiding population his daughter of whom he loved to whimper in his cups his sponging parasitical nameless way of life and with each new detail something that was not merely interest nor yet altogether affection grew up in his mind towards this disreputable stepson of the arts Ere he left Paris Van Tromp was one of those whom

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

and came forward to inspect the post His face was as pale as linen but his eyes shone in his head like some strange jewel and his voice when he spoke was hoarse and broken with the exultation of battle and success He looked at the rampart which neither friend nor foe could now approach without precaution so fiercely did the horses struggle in the throes of death and at the sight of that great carnage he smiled upon one side Despatch these horses he said they keep you from your vantage Richard Shelton he added ye have pleased me

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

blankly at the vacant oily sea Then I realised that I was in that little hell of mine again now half swamped and looking back over the gunwale I saw the schooner standing away from me with the red haired captain mocking at me over the taffrail and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach Abruptly the cruelty of this desertion became clear to me I had no means of reaching the land unless I should chance to drift there I was still weak you must remember from my exposure in the boat

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

the following Tuesday which would exactly finish Jane s week could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before Her answer therefore was not propitious at least not to Elizabeth s wishes for she was impatient to get home Mrs Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday and in her postscript it was added that if Mr Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer she could spare them very well Against staying longer however Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked and fearful on

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

cartridges I shouted Eureka and smashed the case with joy Then came a doubt I hesitated Then selecting a little side gallery I made my essay I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five ten fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came Of course the things were dummies as I might have guessed from their presence I really believe that had they not been so I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx bronze doors and as it proved my chances of finding the Time Machine all together into non existence It was after

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

the coast day after day from New Quay It has only added muscular fatigue to the mental The cause of this unrest was overwork trouble There was something He stopped as if from sheer fatigue He rubbed his forehead with a lean hand He resumed speech like one who talks to himself I am a lone wolf a solitary man wandering through a world in which I have no part I am wifeless childless who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life I am wifeless childless I could find no duty to

Jane Austen

Persuasion

satisfied Elizabeth and when the invitation was given to the two present and promised for the absent Mary was as completely satisfied She was particularly asked to meet Mr Elliot and be introduced to Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret who were fortunately already engaged to come and she could not have received a more gratifying attention Miss Elliot was to have the honour of calling on Mrs Musgrove in the course of the morning and Anne walked off with Charles and Mary to go and see her and Henrietta directly Her plan of sitting with Lady Russell must give way

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

come here a moment my dear Mrs Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop and presented the form of a short then squeezed up woman with a vixenish countenance My dear said Mr Sowerberry deferentially this is the boy from the workhouse that I told you of Oliver bowed again Dear me said the undertaker s wife he s very small Why he _is_ rather small replied Mr Bumble looking at Oliver as if it were his fault that he was no bigger he is small There s no denying it But he ll grow Mrs Sowerberry he

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

rails to greet him Is any one up Nobody but me replied the child You musn t say you saw me Dick said Oliver I am running away They beat and ill use me Dick and I am going to seek my fortune some long way off I don t know where How pale you are I heard the doctor tell them I was dying replied the child with a faint smile I am very glad to see you dear but don t stop don t stop Yes yes I will to say good b ye to you replied Oliver

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

almost boiling I noticed too there was a thin sulphurous scum drifting upon its coiling water Almost immediately came a turn in the ravine and the indistinct blue horizon The nearer sea was flashing the sun from a myriad facets I saw my death before me but I was hot and panting with the warm blood oozing out on my face and running pleasantly through my veins I felt more than a touch of exultation too at having distanced my pursuers It was not in me then to go out and drown myself yet I stared back the way I

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

from any advanced by his companions It is worth remarking that after his own complete disappearance it was found that his private affairs were arranged with a precision which may show that he had a strong premonition of disaster With these essential explanations I will now give the narrative exactly as it stands beginning at page three of the blood soaked note book Nevertheless when I dined at Rheims with Coselli and Gustav Raymond I found that neither of them was aware of any particular danger in the higher layers of the atmosphere I did not actually say what was

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

moving shadows they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours They were both experienced in such affairs and powerful with the spade and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid At the same moment Macfarlane having hurt his hand upon a stone flung it carelessly above his head The grave in which they now stood almost to the shoulders was close to the edge of the plateau of the graveyard and the gig lamp had been propped the better to illuminate their labours against a tree

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

torn down and Dick and the spy were sprawling together in its folds Over and over they rolled grappling for each other s throat and still baffled by the arras and still silent in their deadly fury But Dick was by much the stronger and soon the spy lay prostrate under his knee and with a single stroke of the long poniard ceased to breathe CHAPTER III THE DEAD SPY Throughout this furious and rapid passage Lawless had looked on helplessly and even when all was over and Dick already re arisen to his feet was listening with the most

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

as that Fui non sum I was indeed your uncle s man of business but while you imberbis juvenis custode remoto were gallivanting in the west a good deal of water has run under the bridges and if your ears did not sing it was not for lack of being talked about On the very day of your sea disaster Mr Campbell stalked into my office demanding you from all the winds I had never heard of your existence but I had known your father and from matters in my competence to be touched upon hereafter I was disposed to

Jane Austen

Emma

them you could be in company with Mr Martin again without perceiving him to be a very inferior creature and rather wondering at yourself for having ever thought him at all agreeable before Do not you begin to feel that now Were not you struck I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner and the uncouthness of a voice which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here Certainly he is not like Mr Knightley He has not such a fine air and way of walking as Mr Knightley I see

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

and as soon as she would listen quietly could read his list of the families to be invited from whom he calculated with all necessary allowance for the shortness of the notice to collect young people enough to form twelve or fourteen couple and could detail the considerations which had induced him to fix on the 22nd as the most eligible day William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlier Mrs

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

putting questions it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment You start a question and it s like starting a stone You sit quietly on the top of a hill and away the stone goes starting others and presently some bland old bird the last you would have thought of is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name No sir I make it a rule of mine the more it looks like Queer Street the less I ask A very good rule too said the lawyer

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

an artist He laughed It s so damned amateurish But the other thing said the sleepless man irritably the other thing No man can keep sane if night after night Have you been walking along this coast alone Yes Silly sort of thing to do If you ll excuse my saying so Alone As you say body fag is no cure for brain fag Who told you to No wonder walking And the sun on your head heat fag solitude all the day long and then I suppose you go to bed and try very hard eh Isbister stopped short

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

tired of me Only a little tired of myself replied Estella disengaging her arm and moving to the great chimney piece where she stood looking down at the fire Speak the truth you ingrate cried Miss Havisham passionately striking her stick upon the floor you are tired of me Estella looked at her with perfect composure and again looked down at the fire Her graceful figure and her beautiful face expressed a self possessed indifference to the wild heat of the other that was almost cruel You stock and stone exclaimed Miss Havisham You cold cold heart What said Estella

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

Appleyard Yes But who ll shoot me a good shoot It s there the eye comes in and the head between your shoulders Now what might you call a long shoot Bennet Hatch Well said Bennet looking about him it would be a long shoot from here into the forest Ay it would be a longish shoot said the old fellow turning to look over his shoulder and then he put up his hand over his eyes and stood staring Why what are you looking at asked Bennet with a chuckle Do you see Harry the Fift The veteran continued

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

stations and prowled about inns and no doubt he read the proclamations and realised something of the nature of the campaign against him And as the evening advanced the fields became dotted here and there with groups of three or four men and noisy with the yelping of dogs These men hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another But he avoided them all We may understand something of his exasperation and it could have been none the less because he himself had supplied the information that was being

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

Just a drop more Janny said Hall Your nerves is all upset They sent Millie across the street through the golden five o clock sunshine to rouse up Mr Sandy Wadgers the blacksmith Mr Hall s compliments and the furniture upstairs was behaving most extraordinary Would Mr Wadgers come round He was a knowing man was Mr Wadgers and very resourceful He took quite a grave view of the case Arm darmed if thet ent witchcraft was the view of Mr Sandy Wadgers You warnt horseshoes for such gentry as he He came round greatly concerned They wanted him to

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

doubt already stopping there No I had been staying with a friend said the doctor There was no possible indication that we intended to go to this hotel Hum Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements Out of the envelope he took a half sheet of foolscap paper folded into four This he opened and spread flat upon the table Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it It ran As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor The word

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

know the red colouring matter of blood it can be made white colourless and remain with all the functions it has now Kemp gave a cry of incredulous amazement The Invisible Man rose and began pacing the little study You may well exclaim I remember that night It was late at night in the daytime one was bothered with the gaping silly students and I worked then sometimes till dawn It came suddenly splendid and complete in my mind I was alone the laboratory was still with the tall lights burning brightly and silently In all my great moments I

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

fear of being discovered as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled I pushed back into the bushes It was long before I grew bolder and dared to move freely My only idea for the moment was to get away from these foul beings and I scarcely noticed that I had emerged upon a faint pathway amidst the trees Then suddenly traversing a little glade I saw with an unpleasant start two clumsy legs among the trees walking with noiseless footsteps parallel with my course and perhaps thirty yards away from me The head and upper part of the body

Jane Austen

Persuasion

pardon but he had forgotten his gloves and instantly crossing the room to the writing table he drew out a letter from under the scattered paper placed it before Anne with eyes of glowing entreaty fixed on her for a time and hastily collecting his gloves was again out of the room almost before Mrs Musgrove was aware of his being in it the work of an instant The revolution which one instant had made in Anne was almost beyond expression The letter with a direction hardly legible to Miss A E was evidently the one which he had been

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

he stammered It is Selden the man who escaped from Princetown Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappointment He looked sharply from Holmes to me Dear me What a very shocking affair How did he die He appears to have broken his neck by falling over these rocks My friend and I were strolling on the moor when we heard a cry I heard a cry also That was what brought me out I was uneasy about Sir Henry Why about Sir Henry in particular I could

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Munro Oh tut tut sweating rank sweating he cried throwing his fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling passion How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with such attractions and accomplishments My accomplishments sir may be less than you imagine said I A little French a little German music and drawing Tut tut he cried This is all quite beside the question The point is have you or have you not the bearing and deportment of a lady There it is in a nutshell If you have not you

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

pair of ravens which croaked loudly from a tor behind us You are an educated man You don t believe such nonsense as that said I What do you think is the cause of so strange a sound Bogs make queer noises sometimes It s the mud settling or the water rising or something No no that was a living voice Well perhaps it was Did you ever hear a bittern booming No I never did It s a very rare bird practically extinct in England now but all things are possible upon the moor Yes I should not be

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

friendly to matrimonial happiness I exclude extremes of course and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extreme A counteraction gentle and continual is the best safeguard of manners and conduct Full well could Fanny guess where his thoughts were now Miss Crawford s power was all returning He had been speaking of her cheerfully from the hour of his coming home His avoiding her was quite at an end He had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding day After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes Fanny

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

the devil only the powers of numbers herbs and planets Ay ay said Pirret tis but white magic gossip There is no sin therein I do assure you But proceed good youth This spell in what should it consist Nay that I will incontinently show you answered Dick Have ye there the ring ye took from my finger Good Now hold it forth before you by the extreme finger ends at the arm s length and over against the shining of these embers Tis so exactly Thus then is the spell With a haggard glance Dick saw the coast was

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

ungainly Another point was the forward carriage of the head and the clumsy and inhuman curvature of the spine Even the Ape man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful Most had their shoulders hunched clumsily and their short forearms hung weakly at their sides Few of them were conspicuously hairy at least until the end of my time upon the island The next most obvious deformity was in their faces almost all of which were prognathous malformed about the ears with large and protuberant noses very furry or very bristly hair

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

of the Battle of Hastings for instance Don t you think you would attract attention said the Medical Man Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms One might get one s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato the Very Young Man thought In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little go The German scholars have improved Greek so much Then there is the future said the Very Young Man Just think One might invest all one s money leave it to accumulate at interest and hurry on ahead To discover a society said

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

the methods of my companion that Dr Mortimer is a successful elderly medical man well esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation Good said Holmes Excellent I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot Why so Because this stick though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it The thick iron ferrule is worn down so it is evident that he has done a great

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

encouragement Mrs Norris offered to contrive his dress Mr Yates assured him that Anhalt s last scene with the Baron admitted a good deal of action and emphasis and Mr Rushworth undertook to count his speeches Perhaps said Tom Fanny may be more disposed to oblige us now Perhaps you may persuade _her_ No she is quite determined She certainly will not act Oh very well And not another word was said but Fanny felt herself again in danger and her indifference to the danger was beginning to fail her already There were not fewer smiles at the Parsonage than

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

must apologize I had inadvertently omitted a considerable section of this audience tumult during which the Professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sympathetically as if he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd I have been selected to move a vote of thanks to Mr Waldron for the very picturesque and imaginative address to which we have just listened There are points in it with which I disagree and it has been my duty to indicate them as they arose but none the less Mr Waldron has accomplished his object well that object being

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

It was worth an effort to preserve it The daughter was of a good amiable disposition but affectionate and warm hearted in her ways so that it was evident that with her fair personal advantages and her little income she would not be allowed to remain single long Now her marriage would mean of course the loss of a hundred a year so what does her stepfather do to prevent it He takes the obvious course of keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of people of her own age But soon he found that that

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

see this matter out I do believe upon my conscience there is gold in it Nay if ye get again to drinking all is lost cried Tom Gossip Arblaster ye suffer your fellow to have too much liberty returned Master Pirret Would ye be led by a hired man Fy fy Peace fellow said Arblaster addressing Tom Will ye put your oar in Truly a fine pass when the crew is to correct the skipper Well then go your way said Tom I wash my hands of you Set him then upon his feet said Master Pirret I know a

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

when you were near it the other a gibbet with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate The man was limping on towards this latter as if he were the pirate come to life and come down and going back to hook himself up again It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him I wondered whether they thought so too I looked all round for the horrible young man and could see no signs of him But now I was frightened

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

hotel bill which interests me deeply There s nothing in it I looked at it before said Lestrade Oct 4th rooms 8_s_ breakfast 2_s_ 6_d_ cocktail 1_s_ lunch 2_s_ 6_d_ glass sherry 8_d_ I see nothing in that Very likely not It is most important all the same As to the note it is important also or at least the initials are so I congratulate you again I ve wasted time enough said Lestrade rising I believe in hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories Good day Mr Holmes and we shall see which gets

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Lord Linchmere And now Dr Hamilton if you will return with me to my room I will give you the explanation which my horror of scandal has perhaps caused me to delay too long Come what may you will never have cause to regret your share in this night s work The case may be made clear in a very few words he continued when we were alone My poor brother in law is one of the best fellows upon earth a loving husband and an estimable father but he comes from a stock which is deeply tainted with insanity

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

now and then faint flashes illuminated the bleak shadows At the first sight it seemed to Graham that an attack upon this isolated white building was in progress but then he perceived that the party of the revolt was not advancing but sheltered amidst the colossal wreckage that encircled this last ragged stronghold of the red garbed men was keeping up a fitful firing And not ten hours ago he had stood beneath the ventilating fans in a little chamber within that remote building wondering what was happening in the world Looking more attentively as this warlike episode moved silently

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

have one or two matters of importance to look into just at present Your Majesty will of course stay in London for the present Certainly You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Count Von Kramm Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress Pray do so I shall be all anxiety Then as to money You have _carte blanche_ Absolutely I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph And for present expenses The King took a heavy chamois leather

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

more sombre tint but everything that met Mr Nickleby s gaze wore so black and gloomy a hue that he would have been beyond description refreshed by the very reverse of the contrast At length after five years when Mrs Nickleby had presented her husband with a couple of sons and that embarrassed gentleman impressed with the necessity of making some provision for his family was seriously revolving in his mind a little commercial speculation of insuring his life next quarter day and then falling from the top of the Monument by accident there came one morning by the general

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

behind One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that although he wore some dark coat such as he had started to town in he had on neither collar nor necktie Convinced that something was amiss with him she rushed down the steps for the house was none other than the opium den in which you found me to night and running through the front room she attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor At the foot of the stairs however she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken who thrust her

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

in common but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them Jekyll who was composite now with the most sensitive apprehensions now with a greedy gusto projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit Jekyll had more than a father s interest Hyde had more than a son s indifference To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

by white men Besides The negroes are only an instrument But that is not the question I am the Master I mean to be the Master And I tell you these negroes shall not come The people I believe in the people Because you are an anachronism You are a man out of the Past an accident You are Owner perhaps of the world Nominally legally But you are not Master You do not know enough to be Master He glanced at Lincoln again I know now what you think I can guess something of what you mean to do

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

they assembled in their hundreds round the Blue John Gap As the Castleton Courier said It was useless for our correspondent or for any of the adventurous gentlemen who had come from Matlock Buxton and other parts to offer to descend to explore the cave to the end and to finally test the extraordinary narrative of Dr James Hardcastle The country people had taken the matter into their own hands and from an early hour of the morning they had worked hard in stopping up the entrance of the tunnel There is a sharp slope where the shaft begins and

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Colonel Forster say Had they no apprehension of anything before the elopement took place They must have seen them together for ever Colonel Forster did own that he had often suspected some partiality especially on Lydia s side but nothing to give him any alarm I am so grieved for him His behaviour was attentive and kind to the utmost He _was_ coming to us in order to assure us of his concern before he had any idea of their not being gone to Scotland when that apprehension first got abroad it hastened his journey And was Denny convinced that

Jane Austen

Emma

name a day said he till I have spoken to some others whom I would wish to meet you Oh leave all that to me Only give me a carte blanche I am Lady Patroness you know It is my party I will bring friends with me I hope you will bring Elton said he but I will not trouble you to give any other invitations Oh now you are looking very sly But consider you need not be afraid of delegating power to _me_ I am no young lady on her preferment Married women you know may be safely

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

human cheerfulness he fled like Cain wandered in the night unpiloted careless of whither he went fell and lay and then rose again and wandered further and at last like a transformation scene behold him in the lighted jaws of the city staring at a lamp which had already donned the tilted night cap of the snow It came thickly now a Feeding Storm and while he yet stood blinking at the lamp his feet were buried He remembered something like it in the past a street lamp crowned and caked upon the windward side with snow the wind uttering

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

me beyond measure Have you good authority for what you say The best possible Lord St Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his forehead What will the Duke say he murmured when he hears that one of the family has been subjected to such humiliation It is the purest accident I cannot allow that there is any humiliation Ah you look on these things from another standpoint I fail to see that anyone is to blame I can hardly see how the lady could have acted otherwise though her abrupt method of doing it was undoubtedly

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

a temporary confusion occasioned by the unexpected development of strong symptoms of inebriety in the conduct of Mrs Grudden To this act of desertion he was led not only by his own inclinations but by his anxiety on account of Smike who having to sustain the character of the Apothecary had been as yet wholly unable to get any more of the part into his head than the general idea that he was very hungry which perhaps from old recollections he had acquired with great aptitude I don t know what s to be done Smike said Nicholas laying down

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

escaped Sir Daniel convinced Lord Risingham and now fall helpless in the hands of this old drunken sailor and not merely helpless but as his conscience loudly told him when it was too late actually guilty actually the bankrupt debtor of the man whose ship he had stolen and lost Bring me him back into the alehouse till I see his face said Arblaster Nay nay returned Tom but let us first unload his wallet lest the other lads cry share But though he was searched from head to foot not a penny was found upon him nothing but Lord

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

No no said the old man don t repulse your father Dick when he has come here to save you Don t repulse me my boy Perhaps I have not been kind to you not quite considerate too harsh my boy it was not for want of love Think of old times I was kind to you then was I not When you were a child and your mother was with us Mr Naseby was interrupted by a sort of sob Dick stood looking at him in a maze Come away pursued the father in a whisper you need not

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

light Within we were seated round the cane table on which lay a sealed envelope Inscribed upon it in the jagged handwriting of Professor Challenger were the words Instructions to Lord John Roxton and party To be opened at Manaos upon July 15th at 12 o clock precisely Lord John had placed his watch upon the table beside him We have seven more minutes said he The old dear is very precise Professor Summerlee gave an acid smile as he picked up the envelope in his gaunt hand What can it possibly matter whether we open it now or in

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good nature It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready made from the hands of opportunity and that was the lawyer s way His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest his affections like ivy were the growth of time they implied no aptness in the object Hence no doubt the bond that united him to Mr Richard Enfield his distant kinsman the well known man about town It was a nut to crack for many what

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

it matters little to me but I should wish to spare Alice the shock And now I will make the thing clear to you it has been a long time in the acting but will not take me long to tell You didn t know this dead man McCarthy He was a devil incarnate I tell you that God keep you out of the clutches of such a man as he His grip has been upon me these twenty years and he has blasted my life I ll tell you first how I came to be in his power It

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

for the first time since the accident called up a smile to the faces of the crowd CHAPTER V EARL RISINGHAM Earl Risingham although by far the most important person then in Shoreby was poorly lodged in the house of a private gentleman upon the extreme outskirts of the town Nothing but the armed men at the doors and the mounted messengers that kept arriving and departing announced the temporary residence of a great lord Thus it was that from lack of space Dick and Lawless were clapped into the same apartment Well spoken Master Richard said the outlaw it

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

a hunting dog upon the scent inquired his way of every tree and studied out their path as though he were conning a ship among dangers About a mile into the forest they came to a place where several ways met under a grove of lofty and contorted oaks Even in the narrow horizon of the falling snow it was a spot that could not fail to be recognised and Lawless evidently recognised it with particular delight Now Master Richard said he an y are not too proud to be the guest of a man who is neither a gentleman

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

still more melancholy for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country Here its power was only a glare a stifling sickly glare serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept There was neither health nor gaiety in sunshine in a town She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat in a cloud of moving dust and her eyes could only wander from the walls marked by her father s head to the table cut and notched by her brothers where stood the tea board never thoroughly cleaned

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

give me your help in putting it together There are but three seams you may do them in a trice It would be lucky for me if I had nothing but the executive part to do _You_ are best off I can tell you but if nobody did more than _you_ we should not get on very fast Fanny took the work very quietly without attempting any defence but her kinder aunt Bertram observed on her behalf One cannot wonder sister that Fanny _should_ be delighted it is all new to her you know you and I used to be

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

you have a morbid sense of duty particularly for others strive against it my dear strive against it And as for the pigments well I ll use them some of these days and to show that I m in earnest I ll get Dick here to prepare a canvas Dick was put to this menial task forthwith the Admiral not even watching how he did but quite occupied with another grog and a pleasant vein of talk A little after Esther arose and making some pretext good or bad went off to bed Dick was left hobbled by the canvas

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay continent The last I think for O my poor old Harry Jekyll if ever I read Satan s signature upon a face it is on that of your new friend Round the corner from the by street there was a square of ancient handsome houses now for the most part decayed from their high estate and let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men map engravers architects shady lawyers and the agents of obscure enterprises One house however second from the corner was still occupied entire and at

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

whether they didn t smell fire at the present moment My narrative finished and their questions exhausted I then produced Miss Havisham s authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert Mr Jaggers s eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets but he presently handed them over to Wemmick with instructions to draw the check for his signature While that was in course of being done I looked on at Wemmick as he wrote and Mr Jaggers poising and swaying himself on his well polished boots looked on at me I am

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

with his preconceptions of nobility in their status and manners had jarred upon him and it was remarkable to him how soon that strangeness and the faint hostility that arose from it disappeared how soon he came to appreciate the true perspective of his position and see the old Victorian days remote and quaint He found himself particularly amused by the red haired daughter of the Manager of the European Piggeries On the second day after dinner he made the acquaintance of a latter day dancing girl and found her an astonishing artist And after that more hypnotic wonders On

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

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

of the workroom to join her mother at the street corner and walk home the more sadly from having to disguise her real feelings and feign to participate in all the sanguine visions of her companion Bless my soul Kate said Mrs Nickleby I ve been thinking all day what a delightful thing it would be for Madame Mantalini to take you into partnership such a likely thing too you know Why your poor dear papa s cousin s sister in law a Miss Browndock was taken into partnership by a lady that kept a school at Hammersmith and made

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

yes Thousands millions All the larvae all the little nauplii and tornarias all the microscopic things the jelly fish In the sea there are more things invisible than visible I never thought of that before And in the ponds too All those little pond life things specks of colourless translucent jelly But in air No It can t be But after all why not If a man was made of glass he would still be visible His meditation became profound The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

know where gurglings taking place in his throat stoppages in his nose and his mouth open like a post office He was so much worse in reality than in my distempered fancy that afterwards I was attracted to him in very repulsion and could not help wandering in and out every half hour or so and taking another look at him Still the long long night seemed heavy and hopeless as ever and no promise of day was in the murky sky When I saw him going downstairs early in the morning for thank Heaven he would not stay to

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

young she left me my dear little Alice Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the right path as nothing else had ever done In a word I turned over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past All was going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me I had gone up to town about an investment and I met him in Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot Here we are Jack says he touching me on

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night And then I thought once more of the meat that I had seen I felt assured now of what it was and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity Clearly at some time in the Long Ago of human decay the Morlocks food had run short Possibly they had lived on rats and such like vermin Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was far less than any monkey

Jane Austen

Persuasion

with Anne It would be well for the eldest sister if she were equally satisfied with her situation for a change is not very probable there She had soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw and no one of proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him The news of his cousin Anne s engagement burst on Mr Elliot most unexpectedly It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son in law s rights would have given But

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

certainly a very fine morning for a walk He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half Then still keeping a hundred yards behind we followed into Oxford Street and so down Regent Street Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop window upon which Holmes did the same An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction and following the direction of his eager eyes I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

it back again Would that be the right part for me to play Whatever I do you can see for yourself it must be hard upon a man of any pride It s rather hard on me too Mr Balfour said Cluny and ye give me very much the look of a man that has entrapped poor people to their hurt I wouldnae have my friends come to any house of mine to accept affronts no he cried with a sudden heat of anger nor yet to give them And so you see sir said I there is something to

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

the hollow on the left but in order to gain that after pursuing the track Oliver had pointed out the men must have made a circuit of open ground which it was impossible they could have accomplished in so short a time A thick wood skirted the meadow land in another direction but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason It must have been a dream Oliver said Harry Maylie Oh no indeed sir replied Oliver shuddering at the very recollection of the old wretch s countenance I saw him too plainly for that I saw

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

dearest Mary who make much of a little are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves Well done sister I honour your _esprit_ _du_ _corps_ When I am a wife I mean to be just as staunch myself and I wish my friends in general would be so too It would save me many a heartache You are as bad as your brother Mary but we will cure you both Mansfield shall cure you both and without any taking in Stay with us and we will cure you The Crawfords without wanting to be cured were very willing

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle Then he turned down the lamp and we were left in darkness How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil I could not hear a sound not even the drawing of a breath and yet I knew that my companion sat open eyed within a few feet of me in the same state of nervous tension in which I was myself The shutters cut off the least ray of light and we waited in absolute darkness From outside came the occasional cry of a night bird and once at

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

better and for Sir Daniel here lies his body But for the priest if I might anywise prevail I would have you let him go A flash came into the eyes of Ellis Duckworth Nay he said the devil is still strong within me But be at rest the Black Arrow flieth nevermore the fellowship is broken They that still live shall come to their quiet and ripe end in Heaven s good time for me and for yourself go where your better fortune calls you and think no more of Ellis CHAPTER VIII CONCLUSION About nine in the morning

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

needed no expert eye to tell that the man was still drunk Hullo said he stupidly and then with a light coming into his eyes Why it s Mister Mister Prendick said I Prendick be damned said he Shut up that s your name Mister Shut up It was no good answering the brute but I certainly did not expect his next move He held out his hand to the gangway by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey haired man in dirty blue flannels who had apparently just come aboard That way Mister Blasted Shut up that way

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

door Giles popped out his nightcap again preparatory to making some reply when he was suddenly pulled back by a young gentleman who occupied the other corner of the chaise and who eagerly demanded what was the news In a word cried the gentleman Better or worse Better much better replied Oliver hastily Thank Heaven exclaimed the gentleman You are sure Quite sir replied Oliver The change took place only a few hours ago and Mr Losberne says that all danger is at an end The gentleman said not another word but opening the chaise door leaped out and taking

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

had trod and the railings in which he had rattled his clachan as he went to school and all those thousand and one nameless particulars which the eye sees without noting which the memory keeps indeed yet without knowing and which taken one with another build up for us the aspect of the place that we call home all these besieged him as he went with both delight and sadness His first visit was for Houston who had a house on Regent Terrace kept for him in old days by an aunt The door was opened to his surprise upon

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Under such circumstances however he was not likely to be proof against the temptation of immediate relief They met several times for there was much to be discussed Wickham of course wanted more than he could get but at length was reduced to be reasonable Everything being settled between _them_ Mr Darcy s next step was to make your uncle acquainted with it and he first called in Gracechurch street the evening before I came home But Mr Gardiner could not be seen and Mr Darcy found on further inquiry that your father was still with him but would quit

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane had no intelligence to give The sanguine hope of good however which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yet deserted her she still expected that it would all end well and that every morning would bring some letter either from Lydia or her father to explain their proceedings and perhaps announce their marriage Mrs Bennet to whose apartment they all repaired after a few minutes conversation together received them exactly as might be expected with tears and lamentations of regret invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham and complaints of her own sufferings and ill usage blaming

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

all his heart and will love you as nearly for ever as possible If any man ever loved a woman for ever I think Henry will do as much for you Fanny could not avoid a faint smile but had nothing to say I cannot imagine Henry ever to have been happier continued Mary presently than when he had succeeded in getting your brother s commission She had made a sure push at Fanny s feelings here Oh yes How very very kind of him I know he must have exerted himself very much for I know the parties he

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground the waist of the coat below his haunches and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders Strange to relate this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter Rather as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me something seizing surprising and revolting this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it so that to my interest in the man s nature and character there was added a curiosity as to his origin his life

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

away to that box and drink it there and make haste for they ll want you to mind the shop D ye hear D ye hear Work us said Noah Claypole Lor Noah said Charlotte what a rum creature you are Why don t you let the boy alone Let him alone said Noah Why everybody lets him alone enough for the matter of that Neither his father nor his mother will ever interfere with him All his relations let him have his own way pretty well Eh Charlotte He he he Oh you queer soul said Charlotte bursting into

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

I really believe she was motionless and unable for the moment to dart out according to custom I seized the opportunity to inform her who it was and that the gentleman now coming near the offender for the way up was very steep and he had dropped behind was Mr Murdstone himself I don t care who it is cried my aunt still shaking her head and gesticulating anything but welcome from the bow window I won t be trespassed upon I won t allow it Go away Janet turn him round Lead him off and I saw from behind

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

known him to fail in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel I left him then still puffing at his black clay pipe with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

prefer not to explain But this is part of your duties My room is close by and you can return to your own before the servant calls you in the morning But why I asked Because I am nervous of being alone said he That s the reason since you must have a reason It seemed rank lunacy but the argument of those twenty pounds would overcome many objections I followed him to his room Well said I there s only room for one in that bed Only one shall occupy it said he And the other Must remain on

Jane Austen

Persuasion

when anything was the matter was indisposed and foreseeing that she should not have a day s health all the autumn entreated or rather required her for it was hardly entreaty to come to Uppercross Cottage and bear her company as long as she should want her instead of going to Bath I cannot possibly do without Anne was Mary s reasoning and Elizabeth s reply was Then I am sure Anne had better stay for nobody will want her in Bath To be claimed as a good though in an improper style is at least better than being rejected

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

ignorant of it Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad I never heard that it was And can you likewise declare that there is no _foundation_ for it I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship _You_ may ask questions which _I_ shall not choose to answer This is not to be borne Miss Bennet I insist on being satisfied Has he has my nephew made you an offer of marriage Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible It ought to be so it

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

shouting above me I rubbed my eyes and lay listening to the noise doubtful for a little while of my whereabouts Then came a sudden pattering of bare feet the sound of heavy objects being thrown about a violent creaking and the rattling of chains I heard the swish of the water as the ship was suddenly brought round and a foamy yellow green wave flew across the little round window and left it streaming I jumped into my clothes and went on deck As I came up the ladder I saw against the flushed sky for the sun was

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

should have been kept and at that his excitement burst out so that it was painful to witness He struck the lad repeatedly Are you gone gyte he cried Do you wish to hang your father and forgetful of my presence carried on at him a long time together in the Gaelic the young man answering nothing only the wife at the name of hanging throwing her apron over her face and sobbing out louder than before Mad This was all wretched for a stranger like myself to hear and see and I was right glad when Alan returned looking