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Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

of odds and ends in the flat wicker work basket supplied exactly one of those missing links of social development which are of such interest to the student It was the German who had brought them in and the Englishman s eyes were hungry as he looked at them I won t interfere with your treasure trove but I should very much like to hear about it he continued while Burger very deliberately lit a cigar It is evidently a discovery of the first importance These inscriptions will make a sensation throughout Europe For every one here there are a

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

and was going to America in a flaxen wig and whiskers and such a complete disguise as never you see in all your born days when the little woman being in Southampton met him walking along the street picked him out with her sharp eye in a moment ran betwixt his legs to upset him and held on to him like grim Death Excellent Miss Mowcher cried I You d have said so if you had seen her standing on a chair in the witness box at the trial as I did said my friend He cut her face right

Jane Austen

Persuasion

had found enough in her duties her friends and her children to attach her to life and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them Three girls the two eldest sixteen and fourteen was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath an awful charge rather to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited silly father She had however one very intimate friend a sensible deserving woman who had been brought by strong attachment to herself to settle close by her in the village of Kellynch and on her kindness

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

he mounted the steps and thrust the key into the key hole He stepped into the lighted hall shut the door softly behind him and stood there fixed in wonder No surprise of strangeness could equal the surprise of that complete familiarity There was the bust of Chalmers near the stair railings there was the clothes brush in the accustomed place and there on the hat stand hung hats and coats that must surely be the same as he remembered Ten years dropped from his life as a pin may slip between the fingers and the ocean and the mountains

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

and gave him what he asked He thanked me with a smiling nod measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders The mixture which was at first of a reddish hue began in proportion as the crystals melted to brighten in colour to effervesce audibly and to throw off small fumes of vapour Suddenly and at the same moment the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to a dark purple which faded again more slowly to a watery green My visitor who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye smiled set down

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

to London it has been a pretty business for me I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty guinea fee and what have I gained Experience said Holmes laughing Indirectly it may be of value you know you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence X THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR The Lord St Simon marriage and its curious termination have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves Fresh scandals have

Jane Austen

Persuasion

A n t I a good boy I know you love a play and there is room for us all It holds nine I have engaged Captain Wentworth Anne will not be sorry to join us I am sure We all like a play Have not I done well mother Mrs Musgrove was good humouredly beginning to express her perfect readiness for the play if Henrietta and all the others liked it when Mary eagerly interrupted her by exclaiming Good heavens Charles how can you think of such a thing Take a box for to morrow night Have you forgot

Jane Austen

Emma

Tan were bringing down and displaying on the counter he said But I beg your pardon Miss Woodhouse you were speaking to me you were saying something at the very moment of this burst of my _amor_ _patriae_ Do not let me lose it I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life I merely asked whether you had known much of Miss Fairfax and her party at Weymouth And now that I understand your question I must pronounce it to be a very unfair one

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twis

not been possessed of that very useful appendage a voice for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead rustled the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words Let me see the child and die The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire giving the palms of his hands a warm and a

Jane Austen

Persuasion

Elizabeth herself This though late and reluctant and ungracious was yet better than nothing and her spirits improved After talking however of the weather and Bath and the concert their conversation began to flag and so little was said at last that she was expecting him to go every moment but he did not he seemed in no hurry to leave her and presently with renewed spirit with a little smile a little glow he said I have hardly seen you since our day at Lyme I am afraid you must have suffered from the shock and the more from

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham s Why of course he is not the right sort of man Pip said my guardian comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man It seemed quite to put him into spirits to find that this particular post was not exceptionally held by the right sort of man and he listened in a satisfied manner while I told him what knowledge I had of Orlick Very good Pip he observed when I had concluded

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

and even looked at me before beginning to reply in a nervous manner We ve dressed him up like when my guardian blustered out What You WILL will you Spooney added the clerk again with another stir After some helpless casting about Mike brightened and began again He is dressed like a spectable pieman A sort of a pastry cook Is he here asked my guardian I left him said Mike a setting on some doorsteps round the corner Take him past that window and let me see him The window indicated was the office window We all three went

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

since the date of the first experiment began to run low I sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught the ebullition followed and the first change of colour not the second I drank it and it was without efficiency You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked it was in vain and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught About a week has passed and I am now finishing this statement under the influence of the last of

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

to me the one with the black velvet and the lace Ah you have a right to know about him That is the cause of all the mischief the wicked Hugo who started the Hound of the Baskervilles We re not likely to forget him I gazed with interest and some surprise upon the portrait Dear me said Holmes he seems a quiet meek mannered man enough but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes I had pictured him as a more robust and ruffianly person There s no doubt about the authenticity for the

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

it s Kirkman he broke out Thank Heaven I can explain all that I gave them to Kirkman to pay for me the night before I left fifteen hundred dollars and a letter to the manager What do they suppose I would steal fifteen hundred dollars for I m rich I struck it rich in stocks It s the silliest stuff I ever heard of All that s needful is to cable to the manager Kirkman has the fifteen hundred find Kirkman He was a fellow clerk of mine and a hard case but to do him justice I didn

Jane Austen

Persuasion

he loved and she had been hastily preparing to interest Anne s feelings as far as the observances due to Mr Elliot s character would allow when Anne s refutation of the supposed engagement changed the face of everything and while it took from her the new formed hope of succeeding in the object of her first anxiety left her at least the comfort of telling the whole story her own way After listening to this full description of Mr Elliot Anne could not but express some surprise at Mrs Smith s having spoken of him so favourably in the

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

the fogged windows he saw the blurred gas lamps dancing past with occasionally the broader glare of a shop front The rain was pelting and rattling upon the leathern top of the carriage and the wheels swashed as they rolled through puddle and mud Opposite to him the white headgear of his companion gleamed faintly through the obscurity The surgeon felt in his pockets and arranged his needles his ligatures and his safety pins that no time might be wasted when they arrived He chafed with impatience and drummed his foot upon the floor But the cab slowed down at

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

robe Nay Joan protested Dick tis not alone the robe But lass ye were disguised Here am I disguised and to the proof do I not cut a figure of fun a right fool s figure Ay Dick an that ye do she answered smiling Well then he returned triumphant So was it with you poor Matcham in the forest In sooth ye were a wench to laugh at But now So they ran on holding each other by both hands exchanging smiles and lovely looks and melting minutes into seconds and so they might have continued all night long

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

beat my hands on the wall with rage I turned down the gas again stepped out of the window on the cistern cover very softly lowered the sash and sat down secure and invisible but quivering with anger to watch events They split a panel I saw and in another moment they had broken away the staples of the bolts and stood in the open doorway It was the landlord and his two step sons sturdy young men of three or four and twenty Behind them fluttered the old hag of a woman from downstairs You may imagine their astonishment

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

own little room and I was pleased too for I felt that I had done rather a great thing in making the request When the shadows of evening were closing in I took an opportunity of getting into the garden with Biddy for a little talk Biddy said I I think you might have written to me about these sad matters Do you Mr Pip said Biddy I should have written if I had thought that Don t suppose that I mean to be unkind Biddy when I say I consider that you ought to have thought that Do you

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

in Tunstall hamlet a group of poor countryfolk stood wondering at the summons Tunstall hamlet at that period in the reign of old King Henry VI wore much the same appearance as it wears to day A score or so of houses heavily framed with oak stood scattered in a long green valley ascending from the river At the foot the road crossed a bridge and mounting on the other side disappeared into the fringes of the forest on its way to the Moat House and further forth to Holywood Abbey Half way up the village the church stood among

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

rattle of stones as they gave way under that giant tread They drew nearer They were close upon me I heard the crashing of the bushes round the entrance and then dimly through the darkness I was conscious of the loom of some enormous shape some monstrous inchoate creature passing swiftly and very silently out from the tunnel I was paralysed with fear and amazement Long as I had waited now that it had actually come I was unprepared for the shock I lay motionless and breathless whilst the great dark mass whisked by me and was swallowed up in

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

and on the immediate verge of the steep bank descending to the stream Chance had taken a sure aim with the stone Then came a clang of broken glass night fell upon them sounds alternately dull and ringing announced the bounding of the lantern down the bank and its occasional collision with the trees A stone or two which it had dislodged in its descent rattled behind it into the profundities of the glen and then silence like night resumed its sway and they might bend their hearing to its utmost pitch but naught was to be heard except the

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

he drank I leant forward to see him better and a piece of lava detached by my hand went pattering down the slope He looked up guiltily and his eyes met mine Forthwith he scrambled to his feet and stood wiping his clumsy hand across his mouth and regarding me His legs were scarcely half the length of his body So staring one another out of countenance we remained for perhaps the space of a minute Then stopping to look back once or twice he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me and I heard the swish

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

How demanded his lordship Come sound ashore There is then a question of it The ship laboureth the sea is grievous and contrary replied the lad and by what I can learn of my fellow that steereth us we shall do well indeed if we come dry shod to land Ha said the baron gloomily thus shall every terror attend upon the passage of my soul Sir pray rather to live hard that ye may die easy than to be fooled and fluted all through life as to the pipe and tabour and in the last hour be plunged among

Jane Austen

Persuasion

up the lodgers almost all gone scarcely any family but of the residents left and as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves the remarkable situation of the town the principal street almost hurrying into the water the walk to the Cobb skirting round the pleasant little bay which in the season is animated with bathing machines and company the Cobb itself its old wonders and new improvements with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town are what the stranger s eye will seek and a very strange stranger it must

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

he opened it and there was his bairn dead I am thinking to myself Mr Balfour that you and the man are very much alike Bag Do you mean you had no hand in it cried I sitting up I will tell you first of all Mr Balfour of Shaws as one friend to another said Alan that if I were going to kill a gentleman it would not be in my own country to bring trouble on my clan and I would not go wanting sword and gun and with a long fishing rod upon my back Well said

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

me but I got out and walked up I did indeed It might not be saving them much but it was something and I could not bear to sit at my ease and be dragged up at the expense of those noble animals I caught a dreadful cold but _that_ I did not regard My object was accomplished in the visit I hope we shall always think the acquaintance worth any trouble that might be taken to establish it There is nothing very striking in Mr Rushworth s manners but I was pleased last night with what appeared to be

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

cigar and cut the end But come into the smoking room It s too long a story to tell over greasy plates And ringing the bell in passing he led the way into the adjoining room You have told Blank and Dash and Chose about the machine he said to me leaning back in his easy chair and naming the three new guests But the thing s a mere paradox said the Editor I can t argue tonight I don t mind telling you the story but I can t argue I will he went on tell you the story

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

And the Admiral stood forth in a halo It was then that Dick entered He had been waiting in the porch for some time back and Esther had been listlessly standing by his side He had put out his hand to bar her entrance and she had submitted without surprise and though she seemed to listen she scarcely appeared to comprehend Dick on his part was as white as a sheet his eyes burned and his lips trembled with anger as he thrust the door suddenly open introduced Esther with ceremonious gallantry and stood forward and knocked his hat firmer

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

view of the house of Shaws Ten had been gone some time it was dark and mild with a pleasant rustling wind in the south west that covered the sound of our approach and as we drew near we saw no glimmer of light in any portion of the building It seemed my uncle was already in bed which was indeed the best thing for our arrangements We made our last whispered consultations some fifty yards away and then the lawyer and Torrance and I crept quietly up and crouched down beside the corner of the house and as soon

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

procuring I yet seek but therein lies the nerve of this discomfiture An t please you Sir Oliver said Bennet the axles are so hot in this country that I have long been smelling fire So did this poor sinner Appleyard And by your leave men s spirits are so foully inclined to all of us that it needs neither York nor Lancaster to spur them on Hear my plain thoughts You that are a clerk and Sir Daniel that sails on any wind ye have taken many men s goods and beaten and hanged not a few Y are

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

I should have been rather alarmed said coaxingly Master Davy how should you like to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother s at Yarmouth Wouldn t that be a treat Is your brother an agreeable man Peggotty I inquired provisionally Oh what an agreeable man he is cried Peggotty holding up her hands Then there s the sea and the boats and ships and the fishermen and the beach and Am to play with Peggotty meant her nephew Ham mentioned in my first chapter but she spoke of him as a morsel of English Grammar

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

and the crunching of his own feet upon the frozen snow the whole windless world of air hung over him entranced and the stillness weighed upon his mind with a horror of solitude Still calling at intervals but now with a moderated voice he made the hasty circuit of the garden and finding neither man nor trace of man in all its evergreen coverts turned at last to the house About the house the silence seemed to deepen strangely The door indeed stood open as before but the windows were still shuttered the chimneys breathed no stain into the bright

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it One other neighbour I have met since I wrote last This is Mr Frankland of Lafter Hall who lives some four miles to the south of us He is an elderly man red faced white haired and choleric His passion is for the British law and he has spent a large fortune in litigation He fights for the mere pleasure of fighting and is equally ready to take up either side of a question so that it is no wonder that he has found it a costly amusement Sometimes he

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

The people who had turned out were the girl s own family and pretty soon the doctor for whom she had been sent put in his appearance Well the child was not much the worse more frightened according to the sawbones and there you might have supposed would be an end to it But there was one curious circumstance I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight So had the child s family which was only natural But the doctor s case was what struck me He was the usual cut and dry apothecary of no particular

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

enough That is my name What do you want I see you are going in returned the lawyer I am an old friend of Dr Jekyll s Mr Utterson of Gaunt Street you must have heard of my name and meeting you so conveniently I thought you might admit me You will not find Dr Jekyll he is from home replied Mr Hyde blowing in the key And then suddenly but still without looking up How did you know me he asked On your side said Mr Utterson will you do me a favour With pleasure replied the other What

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

darkness when everything is colourless and clear cut and yet unreal I got up and went down into the great hall and so out upon the flagstones in front of the palace I thought I would make a virtue of necessity and see the sunrise The moon was setting and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly half light The bushes were inky black the ground a sombre grey the sky colourless and cheerless And up the hill I thought I could see ghosts Three several times as I scanned the slope I

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

desolate house to hurry from Your brother will find my ideas of time and his own very different to morrow After a short consideration Sir Thomas asked Crawford to join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone he should himself be of it and the readiness with which his invitation was accepted convinced him that the suspicions whence he must confess to himself this very ball had in great measure sprung were well founded Mr Crawford was in love with Fanny He had a pleasing anticipation of what would be His niece meanwhile did not thank

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

head on one side and not looking at me but looking in a listening way at the floor Told would seem to imply verbal communication You can t have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales you know I will say informed Mr Jaggers Good I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me That is the man said Mr Jaggers in New South Wales And only he said I And only he said Mr Jaggers I am not so unreasonable sir as to think you at

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

large fortune endowed besides with excellent parts inclined by nature to industry fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen and thus as might have been supposed with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition such as has made the happiness of many but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

and shaved him and gave him the news of the country of which he was immoderately greedy There was no end to his questions he put them as earnestly as a child and at some of the answers laughed out of all bounds of reason and would break out again laughing at the mere memory hours after the barber was gone To be sure there might have been a purpose in his questions for though he was thus sequestered and like the other landed gentlemen of Scotland stripped by the late Act of Parliament of legal powers he still exercised

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

if there s a sentry at one place ye just go by another And then the heather s a great help And everywhere there are friends houses and friends byres and haystacks And besides when folk talk of a country covered with troops it s but a kind of a byword at the best A soldier covers nae mair of it than his boot soles I have fished a water with a sentry on the other side of the brae and killed a fine trout and I have sat in a heather bush within six feet of another and learned

Jane Austen

Emma

a man of consequence and large fortune she may be a parlour boarder at Mrs Goddard s all the rest of her life or at least for Harriet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other till she grow desperate and is glad to catch at the old writing master s son We think so very differently on this point Mr Knightley that there can be no use in canvassing it We shall only be making each other more angry But as to my _letting_ her marry Robert Martin it is impossible she has refused him and so

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

and a monstrous bat which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west If its homing instinct led it upon the right line there can be no doubt that somewhere out in the wastes of the Atlantic the last European pterodactyl found its end And Gladys oh my Gladys Gladys of the mystic lake now to be re named the Central for never shall she have immortality through me Did I not always see some hard fiber in her nature Did I not even at the time when I was proud to obey her behest feel that it was

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

youthful days to leave them all it is such a shock With such expressions of sorrow Miss Petowker went on to enumerate the dear friends of her youthful days one by one and to call upon such of them as were present to come and embrace her This done she remembered that Mrs Crummles had been more than a mother to her and after that that Mr Crummles had been more than a father to her and after that that the Master Crummleses and Miss Ninetta Crummles had been more than brothers and sisters to her These various remembrances being

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

vague horror came upon our souls and we gazed round with frightened eyes at the dark shadows which lay around us in all of which some fearsome shape might be lurking How good it was when we were hailed by the voice of Zambo and going to the edge of the plateau saw him sitting grinning at us upon the top of the opposite pinnacle All well Massa Challenger all well he cried Me stay here No fear You always find me when you want His honest black face and the immense view before us which carried us half way

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

on my face We have both been so busy that we forgot you until about half an hour ago He led me into the room and sat me down in the deck chair For awhile I was blinded by the light We did not think you would start to explore this island of ours without telling us he said and then I was afraid But what Hullo My last remaining strength slipped from me and my head fell forward on my chest I think he found a certain satisfaction in giving me brandy For God s sake said I fasten

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

could add You ought to be in parliament or you should have gone into the army ten years ago _That_ is not much to the purpose now and as to my being in parliament I believe I must wait till there is an especial assembly for the representation of younger sons who have little to live on No Miss Crawford he added in a more serious tone there _are_ distinctions which I should be miserable if I thought myself without any chance absolutely without chance or possibility of obtaining but they are of a different character A look of consciousness

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

little uneasy a little fearful of my sister s happiness with him in marriage because I knew that his conduct had not been always quite right My father and mother knew nothing of that they only felt how imprudent a match it must be Kitty then owned with a very natural triumph on knowing more than the rest of us that in Lydia s last letter she had prepared her for such a step She had known it seems of their being in love with each other many weeks But not before they went to Brighton No I believe not

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

advances had been cruelly and publicly rebuffed As he drove therefore he counted his wrongs and thirsted for sympathy and drink Now it chanced he had a friend a publican in Queensferry Street from whom in view of the sacredness of the occasion he thought he might extract a dram Queensferry Street lies something off the direct road to Murrayfield But then there is the hilly cross road that passes by the valley of the Leith and the Dean Cemetery and Queensferry Street is on the way to that What was to hinder the cabman since his horse was dumb

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

by that he added This news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed Plainly the letter had come by the laboratory door possibly indeed it had been written in the cabinet and if that were so it must be differently judged and handled with the more caution The newsboys as he went were crying themselves hoarse along the footways Special edition Shocking murder of an M P That was the funeral oration of one friend and client and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

charcoal Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison I ll lock it up in my strong box now and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it Do you think that this man Horner is innocent I cannot tell Well then do you imagine that this other one Henry Baker had anything to do with the matter It is I think much more likely that Henry Baker is an absolutely innocent man who had no idea that the bird which he was carrying was of

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

were affected by it They were more disturbed more unequal than she had often seen them The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents about a twelvemonth ago was now brought forward again As soon as ever Mr Bingley comes my dear said Mrs Bennet you will wait on him of course No no You forced me into visiting him last year and promised if I went to see him he should marry one of my daughters But it ended in nothing and I will not be sent on a fool s errand again His wife represented

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

remembered its old habits I said after a pause This backbone has been bitten through He stood staring with his face white and his lip pulled askew I don t like this he said slowly I saw something of the same kind said I the first day I came here The devil you did What was it A rabbit with its head twisted off The day you came here The day I came here In the undergrowth at the back of the enclosure when I went out in the evening The head was completely wrung off He gave a long

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

it would be the signal for an inrush of creditors but it was Summers my lawyer who first took advantage of it I am very glad to see that your lordship is so much better said he I have been waiting a long time to offer my congratulations What do you mean Summers This is no time for joking I mean what I say he answered You have been Lord Southerton for the last six weeks but we feared that it would retard your recovery if you were to learn it Lord Southerton One of the richest peers in England

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world The red eastern sky the northward blackness the salt Dead Sea the stony beach crawling with these foul slow stirring monsters the uniform poisonous looking green of the lichenous plants the thin air that hurts one s lungs all contributed to an appalling effect I moved on a hundred years and there was the same red sun a little larger a little duller the same dying sea the same chill air and the same crowd of earthy crustacea creeping in and out among the green weed and the red rocks And

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

could put in the course of an hour you would never be able to prove that it was _not_ Thornton Lacey for such it certainly was You inquired then No I never inquire But I _told_ a man mending a hedge that it was Thornton Lacey and he agreed to it You have a good memory I had forgotten having ever told you half so much of the place Thornton Lacey was the name of his impending living as Miss Crawford well knew and her interest in a negotiation for William Price s knave increased Well continued Edmund and how

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

half the people seemed to be men in the red uniform The pale blue canvas that had been so abundant in the aisle of moving ways did not appear Invariably these men looked at him and saluted him and Howard as they passed He had a clear vision of entering a long corridor and there were a number of girls sitting on low seats as though in a class He saw no teacher but only a novel apparatus from which he fancied a voice proceeded The girls regarded him and his conductor he thought with curiosity and astonishment But he

Jane Austen

Emma

such a close Such an end of the doleful disappointment of five weeks back Such a heart such a Harriet Now there would be pleasure in her returning Every thing would be a pleasure It would be a great pleasure to know Robert Martin High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities was the reflection that all necessity of concealment from Mr Knightley would soon be over The disguise equivocation mystery so hateful to her to practise might soon be over She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

nodded his head very seriously and walked on once more in silence THE LAST NIGHT Mr Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole Bless me Poole what brings you here he cried and then taking a second look at him What ails you he added is the doctor ill Mr Utterson said the man there is something wrong Take a seat and here is a glass of wine for you said the lawyer Now take your time and tell me plainly what you want You know the

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

command He was the gaunt taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel Apparently he was in an evil temper with Montgomery He took not the slightest notice of either of us We dined with him in a sulky silence after a few ineffectual efforts on my part to talk It struck me too that the men regarded my companion and his animals in a singularly unfriendly manner I found Montgomery very reticent about his purpose with these creatures and about his destination and though I was sensible of a growing curiosity as to both I did not press him

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

his way home arrived at the conclusion that he had laid the foundation of a most agreeable and desirable acquaintance But it s a most extraordinary thing about that register office fellow thought Nicholas Is it likely that this nephew can know anything about that beautiful girl When Tim Linkinwater gave me to understand the other day that he was coming to take a share in the business here he said he had been superintending it in Germany for four years and that during the last six months he had been engaged in establishing an agency in the north of

Jane Austen

Persuasion

Yes I did not see them myself but I heard Mr Elliot say they were in the room The Ibbotsons were they there and the two new beauties with the tall Irish officer who is talked of for one of them I do not know I do not think they were Old Lady Mary Maclean I need not ask after her She never misses I know and you must have seen her She must have been in your own circle for as you went with Lady Dalrymple you were in the seats of grandeur round the orchestra of course No

H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau

While going through a leafy jungle on our road thither we heard a rabbit squealing We stopped and listened but we heard no more and presently we went on our way and the incident dropped out of our minds Montgomery called my attention to certain little pink animals with long hind legs that went leaping through the undergrowth He told me they were creatures made of the offspring of the Beast People that Moreau had invented He had fancied they might serve for meat but a rabbit like habit of devouring their young had defeated this intention I had already

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

could explain Did she in short want anything he could possibly get her or do for her For a long while no answer could be obtained beyond a no no not at all no thank you but he still persevered and no sooner had he begun to revert to her own home than her increased sobs explained to him where the grievance lay He tried to console her You are sorry to leave Mama my dear little Fanny said he which shows you to be a very good girl but you must remember that you are with relations and friends

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

don t beat me I have tried to learn sir but I can t learn while you and Miss Murdstone are by I can t indeed Can t you indeed David he said We ll try that He had my head as in a vice but I twined round him somehow and stopped him for a moment entreating him not to beat me It was only a moment that I stopped him for he cut me heavily an instant afterwards and in the same instant I caught the hand with which he held me in my mouth between my teeth

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

at the time it may be as well to state the facts as far as we have been able to ascertain them They are collated from the Liverpool papers of that date from the proceedings at the inquest upon John Slater the engine driver and from the records of the London and West Coast Railway Company which have been courteously put at my disposal Briefly they are as follows On the 3rd of June 1890 a gentleman who gave his name as Monsieur Louis Caratal desired an interview with Mr James Bland the superintendent of the London and West Coast

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

her own taste the how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude and the almost solitary ornament in her possession a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily was the greatest distress of all for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to and though she had worn it in that manner once would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in And yet not to wear it William had wanted

Jane Austen

Persuasion

like you do ashore for half a year together If a man had not a wife he soon wants to be afloat again But Captain Wentworth cried Louisa how vexed you must have been when you came to the Asp to see what an old thing they had given you I knew pretty well what she was before that day said he smiling I had no more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion and strength of any old pelisse which you had seen lent about among half your acquaintance ever since you could remember and

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

condemned and upbraided him her anger was turned against herself and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion His attachment excited gratitude his general character respect but she could not approve him nor could she for a moment repent her refusal or feel the slightest inclination ever to see him again In her own past behaviour there was a constant source of vexation and regret and in the unhappy defects of her family a subject of yet heavier chagrin They were hopeless of remedy Her father contented with laughing at them would never exert himself to restrain the wild

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

goggled eyes like some devil in a medieval picture Its comrades had flown higher at the sudden sound and were circling above our heads Now cried Lord John now for our lives We staggered through the brushwood and even as we reached the trees the harpies were on us again Summerlee was knocked down but we tore him up and rushed among the trunks Once there we were safe for those huge wings had no space for their sweep beneath the branches As we limped homewards sadly mauled and discomfited we saw them for a long time flying at a

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

besides which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass I was conscious of no repugnance rather of a leap of welcome This too was myself It seemed natural and human In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit it seemed more express and single than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine And in so far I was doubtless right I have observed that

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

you and me I was _décavé_ I borrowed fifty francs smuggled my valise past the concierge a work of considerable tact and here I am Yes said Dick and here you are He was quite idiotic Esther at this moment re entered the room Are you glad to see him she whispered in his ear the pleasure in her voice almost bursting through the whisper into song Oh yes said Dick very I knew you would be she replied I told him how you loved him Help yourself said the Admiral help yourself and let us drink to a new

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

perceive a cab a great way of and by much shouting and waving of his arm to catch the notice of the driver He counted it good fortune for the time was long to him till he should have done for ever with the Lodge and the further he must go to find a cab the greater the chance that the inevitable discovery had taken place and that he should return to find the garden full of angry neighbours Yet when the vehicle drew up he was sensibly chagrined to recognise the port wine cabman of the night before Here

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

My character has ever been celebrated for its sincerity and frankness and in a cause of such moment as this I shall certainly not depart from it A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago I was told that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married but that you that Miss Elizabeth Bennet would in all likelihood be soon afterwards united to my nephew my own nephew Mr Darcy Though I _know_ it must be a scandalous falsehood though I would not injure him so much as to suppose the

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

acquiescence Then I had a sudden happy thought Will you come to the meeting I asked Tarp Henry looked thoughtful He is not a popular person the genial Challenger said he A lot of people have accounts to settle with him I should say he is about the best hated man in London If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag I don t want to get into a bear garden You might at least do him the justice to hear him state his own case Well perhaps it s only fair All right

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

trees as the shining oak floor and the great beams in the ceiling It was a prettily furnished room with a piano and some lively furniture in red and green and some flowers It seemed to be all old nooks and corners and in every nook and corner there was some queer little table or cupboard or bookcase or seat or something or other that made me think there was not such another good corner in the room until I looked at the next one and found it equal to it if not better On everything there was the same

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

he said I don t understand it _Why_ But it is all _why_ I suppose they can fly and do all sorts of things Let me try and remember just how it began He was surprised at first to find how vague the memories of his first thirty years had become He remembered fragments for the most part trivial moments things of no great importance that he had observed His boyhood seemed the most accessible at first he recalled school books and certain lessons in mensuration Then he revived the more salient features of his life memories of the wife

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

shall it be Will you let me see your face asked the lawyer Mr Hyde appeared to hesitate and then as if upon some sudden reflection fronted about with an air of defiance and the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds Now I shall know you again said Mr Utterson It may be useful Yes returned Mr Hyde It is as well we have met and _à propos_ you should have my address And he gave a number of a street in Soho Good God thought Mr Utterson can he too have been thinking of

H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes

asked Very The world what you see of it seems strange to you I suppose I have to live in it strange as it seems I suppose so now In the first place hadn t I better have some clothes They said the thickset man and stopped and the flaxen bearded man met his eye and went away You will very speedily have clothes said the thickset man Is it true indeed that I have been asleep two hundred asked Graham They have told you that have they Two hundred and three as a matter of fact Graham accepted the

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

was myself I was addressing myself as Copperfield and saying Why did you try to smoke You might have known you couldn t do it Now somebody was unsteadily contemplating his features in the looking glass That was I too I was very pale in the looking glass my eyes had a vacant appearance and my hair only my hair nothing else looked drunk Somebody said to me Let us go to the theatre Copperfield There was no bedroom before me but again the jingling table covered with glasses the lamp Grainger on my right hand Markham on my left

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

years unhanged the old true blue English spirit will be dead Y are the shrewishest old dolt in Tunstall Forest returned Hatch visibly ruffled by these threats Get ye to your arms before Sir Oliver come and leave prating for one good while An ye had talked so much with Harry the Fift his ears would ha been richer than his pocket An arrow sang in the air like a huge hornet it struck old Appleyard between the shoulder blades and pierced him clean through and he fell forward on his face among the cabbages Hatch with a broken cry

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

spring out on to the line realized that murder had been done and sprang out himself in pursuit Why he has never been heard of since whether he met his own death in the pursuit or whether as is more likely he was made to realize that it was not a case for his interference is a detail which we have at present no means of explaining I acknowledge that there are some difficulties in the way At first sight it might seem improbable that at such a moment a murderer would burden himself in his flight with a brown

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

some interest in the usual occupations but whenever Lady Bertram _was_ fixed on the event she could see it only in one light as comprehending the loss of a daughter and a disgrace never to be wiped off Fanny learnt from her all the particulars which had yet transpired Her aunt was no very methodical narrator but with the help of some letters to and from Sir Thomas and what she already knew herself and could reasonably combine she was soon able to understand quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending the story Mrs Rushworth had gone

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

prayed it was plain that his mind was still divided and he kept ever an eye upon the corner of the wood from which the shot had come When he had done he got to his feet again drew off one of his mailed gauntlets and wiped his pale face which was all wet with terror Ay he said it ll be my turn next Who hath done this Bennet Richard asked still holding the arrow in his hand Nay the saints know said Hatch Here are a good two score Christian souls that we have hunted out of house

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

every semblance of print had left them But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough Had I been a literary man I might perhaps have moralised upon the futility of all ambition But as it was the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the _Philosophical Transactions_ and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics Then going up a broad staircase we came to what

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

snow covered plain that still divided them from Shoreby CHAPTER II THE BATTLE OF SHOREBY The whole distance to be crossed was not above a quarter of a mile But they had no sooner debouched beyond the cover of the trees than they were aware of people fleeing and screaming in the snowy meadows upon either hand Almost at the same moment a great rumour began to arise and spread and grow continually louder in the town and they were not yet half way to the nearest house before the bells began to ring backwards from the steeple The young

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow

write But here Dick is no honour to be won I lie in Kettley till I have sure tidings of the war and then ride to join me with the conqueror Cry not on cowardice it is but wisdom Dick for this poor realm so tosseth with rebellion and the king s name and custody so changeth hands that no man may be certain of the morrow Toss pot and Shuttle wit run in but my Lord Good Counsel sits o one side waiting With that Sir Daniel turning his back to Dick and quite at the farther end of

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

mind was already in revolution my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment I had now a clue to the import of these wells to the ventilating towers to the mystery of the ghosts to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me Here was the new view Plainly this second species of Man was subterranean There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll and Hyde

sake stay and do so but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic then in God s name go for I cannot bear it As soon as he got home Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll complaining of his exclusion from the house and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon and the next day brought him a long answer often very pathetically worded and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift The quarrel with Lanyon was incurable I do not blame our old friend Jekyll wrote but I share his view that we must never meet

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

said Joe passing the poker into his left hand that he might feel his whisker and I had no hope of him whenever he took to that placid occupation your sister s a master mind A master mind What s that I asked in some hope of bringing him to a stand But Joe was readier with his definition than I had expected and completely stopped me by arguing circularly and answering with a fixed look Her And I ain t a master mind Joe resumed when he had unfixed his look and got back to his whisker And last

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

favor of an interview as I feel strongly upon the subject and have certain suggestions which I could only elaborate in a personal conversation With your consent I trust to have the honor of calling at eleven o clock the day after to morrow Wednesday morning I remain Sir with assurances of profound respect yours very truly EDWARD D MALONE How s that I asked triumphantly Well if your conscience can stand it It has never failed me yet But what do you mean to do To get there Once I am in his room I may see some opening

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

we all cried There was nothin else to be done If he had got among us we should have shot each other in tryin to down him On the other hand if we had fired through the hedge and wounded him he would soon have been on the top of us to say nothin of giving ourselves away On the whole I think that we are jolly well out of it What was he then Our learned men looked at each other with some hesitation Personally I am unable to classify the creature with any certainty said Summerlee lighting his

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales and Fantasies

the old gentleman at last I cannot pretend not to be simply bowed down I rose this morning what the world calls a happy man happy at least in a son of whom I thought I could be reasonably proud But it was beyond human nature to endure this longer and John interrupted almost with a scream Oh wheest he cried that s not all that s not the worst of it it s nothing How could I tell you were proud of me Oh I wish I wish that I had known but you always said I was such

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hound of Baskervilles

this time Still looking for your boot Yes sir and mean to find it But surely you said that it was a new brown boot So it was sir And now it s an old black one What you don t mean to say That s just what I do mean to say I only had three pairs in the world the new brown the old black and the patent leathers which I am wearing Last night they took one of my brown ones and today they have sneaked one of the black Well have you got it Speak out

H.G. Wells

Time Machine

moon yellow and gibbous came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north east The bright little figures ceased to move about below a noiseless owl flitted by and I shivered with the chill of the night I determined to descend and find where I could sleep I looked for the building I knew Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter I could see the silver birch against it There was the tangle of rhododendron bushes

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

it No wonder that Mr Rushworth should think so at present said Mrs Grant to Mrs Norris with a smile but depend upon it Sotherton will have _every_ improvement in time which his heart can desire I must try to do something with it said Mr Rushworth but I do not know what I hope I shall have some good friend to help me Your best friend upon such an occasion said Miss Bertram calmly would be Mr Repton I imagine That is what I was thinking of As he has done so well by Smith I think I had

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

without a situation I advertised and I answered advertisements but without success At last the little money which I had saved began to run short and I was at my wit s end as to what I should do There is a well known agency for governesses in the West End called Westaway s and there I used to call about once a week in order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me Westaway was the name of the founder of the business but it is really managed by Miss Stoper She sits in her own

H.G. Wells

Invisible Man

cruelty my advances would evoke I made no plans in the street My sole object was to get shelter from the snow to get myself covered and warm then I might hope to plan But even to me an Invisible Man the rows of London houses stood latched barred and bolted impregnably Only one thing could I see clearly before me the cold exposure and misery of the snowstorm and the night And then I had a brilliant idea I turned down one of the roads leading from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road and found myself outside Omniums the