Цитаты из книги автора Gerbert Wells The Invisible Man

and two and two were put together

He was wrapped up from head to foot

I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The current cant required my attendance at his funeral, but it was really not my affair.

door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it. Then the cabman collared something. “I got him,” said the cabman. The barman’s red hands came clawing at the unseen. “Here he is!” said the barman.

It’s bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books.

The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief

but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished;

It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended.

“But they take long enough to get well, don’t they?… There was my sister’s son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the ’ayfield, and, bless me! he was three months tied up sir. You’d hardly believe it. It’s regular given me a dread of a scythe, sir.”

But they take long enough to get well, don’t they?… There was my sister’s son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the ’ayfield, and, bless me! he was three months tied up sir. You’d hardly believe it. It’s regular given me a dread of a scythe, sir.”