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E-book Title: The Invisible Man
Author: Herbert George Wells
Book Description: Chapter 1
The Strange Man's Arrival
The alien came early in Feb one wintry day, through a biting
wind and a drive snow, the last snow of the year, over the
down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and
carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gauntleted
hand. He
was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat
hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow
had heaped itself against his shoulders and chest, and accessorial a white
crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the Coach and
Horses, more dead than alive as it seemed, and flung his portmanteau
down. "A fire," he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and
a fire!" He sealed
and barrel the snow from off himself in the bar,
and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain.
And with that more introduction, that and a available acquiescence to
terms and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his
quarters in the inn.
Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there piece she went to prepare
him a meal with her own hands. A guest to finish at Iping in the
winter-time was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who
was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her
nice fortune. As shortly as the bacon was well under way, and Millie,
her liquid body substance aid, had been brisked up a bit by a few dexterously chosen
expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses
into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost clat.
Though the fire was burning up briskly, she was amazed to see
that her visitant still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back
to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard.
His gauntleted
hands were clasped behind him, and he seemed to be lost in
thought. She detected
that the dissolved snow that still besprent his
shoulders dripped upon her carpet. "Can I take your hat and coat,
sir," she said, "and give them a nice dry in the kitchen?"
"No," he aforesaid without turning.
She was not sure she had detected
him, and was just about to repeat her
question.
He turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder. "I prefer to
support them on," he aforesaid with emphasis, and she detected
that he wore
big blue spectacles with side-lights and had a bushy side-whisker
over his coat-collar that wholly hid his face.
"Very well, sir," she said. "As you like. In a bit the room wish be
warmer."
He ready-made no answer and had turned his face away from her again; and
Mrs. Hall, feeling that her colloquial advances were ill- timed,
set the rest of the table things in a quick abrupt and whisked out
of the room. Once
she returned he was still standing there like a
man of stone, his back hunched, his collar turned up, his dripping
hat-brim turned down, concealment his face and ears completely. She put
down the eggs and bacon with appreciable emphasis, and called rather
than aforesaid to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
"Thank you," he aforesaid at the same time, and did not stir until she was
closing the door. Then he swung round and approached the table.
As she went behind the bar to the room
she detected
a sound perennial
at regular intervals. Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a
spoon being quickly whisked round a basin. "That girl!" she said.
"There! I clear forgot it. It's her being so long!" And piece she
herself finished mix the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal
stabs for her excessive slowness. She had au gratin the ham and eggs,
set the table, and done everything, piece Millie (help indeed!) had
only succeeded in delaying the mustard. And him a new guest and
wanting to stay! Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putt it
with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it
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