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As a pure romance set in perfectly natural surroundings, The Invisible Man is possibly the high-water mark of Mr Wells' achievement in this kind.
Was it possible that this was the reason, this country uncle? If so well, if so, here was a Heaven-sent opportunity for a little genteel and perfectly safe detective work. Mrs. Dunn creakingly crossed the room and spoke. "Mr. Warren," she said, "I feel guilty in keeping you out there. Won't you come into the library?" "Why, thank you, ma'am, I'm all right. Don't you trouble about me.
I am perfectly formed, my face is pretty enough, I have a magnificent voice, intellect, and I shall be, withal, a woman. Happy the man who will have me. He will possess the earthly Paradise! Provided that he knows how to appreciate me! I lack everything here, and yet I adore Nice. We always love what does not love. Sic factae sumus.
The sight of a seeking face could banish his most exhausting feeling of fatigue, and nothing so swiftly dispelled the depression, from which he so often and so severely suffered, as the sight of a heathen coming to be more perfectly instructed about 'the doctrine. Here are one or two such scenes: 'In the eighth month we had great pleasure in finding Mr.
I could perfectly understand the words, for these people spoke a dialect so akin to Zulu that by now it had no difficulty for me. "Their holy drink!" exclaimed the old fellow, starting back. "Man, it is hot red-water. Would these white wizards poison me with mwavi?"
These were Wilhelm's thoughts; and yet it was not perfectly clear to him that he loved with his whole soul, as one can only love once. The following forenoon he paid a visit to Professor Weyse. "You are going to Roeskelde, are you not?" asked Wilhelm. "I have heard you so often play the organ here in Our Lady's church, I should very much like to hear you there, in the cathedral.
"There is no need to guess," I said, "you have been perfectly clear." Gossip had it that my father always loved the theatre, though perhaps the Green Room better than the footlights. The marked passages in his library still attest his propensity. He now looked about him with a keen appreciation, as though my words were all that he required to round out his evening.
The poor woman will think more of my books than she has ever thought before. I don't think this is snobbish, because it is so perfectly instinctive and natural.
Chantry made himself comfortable. "You remember the time when Ferguson didn't go down on the Argentina?" "I do. Ferguson just wouldn't go down, you know. He'd turn up smiling, without even a chill, and meanwhile lots of good fellows would be at the bottom of the sea." "Prejudice again," barked Havelock. "Yet in point of fact, it's perfectly true. And you would have preferred him to drown."
"I assure you," he said to the Westminster Teachers, "I am not at all a harsh judge of myself; but I know perfectly well that there have been much better inspectors than I." Once, when a flood of compliments threatened to overwhelm him, he waved it off with the frank admission "Nobody can say I am a punctual Inspector." Why then do we call him the greatest Inspector that we ever had?
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