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08 - The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells · Classic Science Fiction Books

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  Speaker 3: Eight. The Crying of the Puma. Montgomery interrupted my tangle
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  Speaker 3: of mystification and suspicion about one o'clock and his grotesque
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  Speaker 3: at Tintont followed him with the tray bearing bread, some herbs,
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  Speaker 3: and other eatables, a flask of whiskey, a jug of water,
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  Speaker 3: and three glasses and knives. I glanced to skance at
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  Speaker 3: this strange creature and found him watching me with his queer,
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  Speaker 3: restless eyes. Montgomery said he would lunch with me, but
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  Speaker 3: that Moreau was too preoccupied with some work to come.
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  Speaker 3: Moreau said, I I know that name the devil you do?
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  Speaker 3: Said he? What an ath I was to mention it
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  Speaker 3: to you? I might have thought, anyhow, it will give
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  Speaker 3: you an inkling of our myth to wreath with gi
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  Speaker 3: no thanks. I'm an abstainer, I with I had been,
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  Speaker 3: But it's no use locking the door after the steedth dolen.
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  Speaker 3: It was that infernal stuff which led to my coming here,
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  Speaker 3: that and a foggy night, I thought myself in luck
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  Speaker 3: at the time when Moreau offered to get me off.
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  Speaker 3: It's queer, Montgomery said I suddenly, as the outer door closed.
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  Speaker 3: Why has your man pointed ears? Damn, he said, over
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  Speaker 3: his first mouth full of food. He stared at me
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  Speaker 3: for a moment, and then repeated pointed earth little points
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  Speaker 3: to them, said I, as calmly as possible, with a
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  Speaker 3: catch in my breath and a fine black fur at
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  Speaker 3: the edges. He helped himself to whiskey and water with
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  Speaker 3: great deliberation. I was under the impression that his hair
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  Speaker 3: covered his earth. I saw them as he stooped by
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  Speaker 3: me to put that coffee assent to me on the table,
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  Speaker 3: and his eyes shine in the dark. By this time
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  Speaker 3: Montgomery had recovered from the surprise of my question. I
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  Speaker 3: always thought, he said, deliberately, with a certain accentuation of
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  Speaker 3: his flavoring of lisp, that there was something the matter
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  Speaker 3: with the earth. From the way he covered them, what
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  Speaker 3: were they like? I was persuaded from his manner that
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  Speaker 3: this ignorance was a pretense. Still, I could hardly tell
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  Speaker 3: the man that I thought him a liar, pointed, I said,
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  Speaker 3: rather small and furry, distinctly furry. But the whole man
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  Speaker 3: is one of the strangest beings I ever set eyes on.
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  Speaker 3: A sharp, hoarse cry of animal pain came from the
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  Speaker 3: enclosure behind us. Its depth and volume testified to the puma.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Montgomery WinCE. Yes, he said, where did you
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  Speaker 3: pick up the creature than Francisco Heath an ugly brute,
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  Speaker 3: I admit, half witted you you know, can't remember where
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  Speaker 3: he came from. But I'm youth to him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we both are. How doth he strike you? He's unnatural?
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  Speaker 3: I said, there's something about him. Don't think me fanciful,
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  Speaker 3: but it gives me a nasty little sensation, a tightening
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  Speaker 3: of my muscles when he comes near me. It's a
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  Speaker 3: touch of the diabolical. In fact, Montgomery had stopped eating
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  Speaker 3: while I told him this rum. He said, I can't
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  Speaker 3: see it. He resumed his meal. I had no idea
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  Speaker 3: of it. He said, and masticated. The crew of the
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  Speaker 3: schooner must have felt it. The fame made a dead
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  Speaker 3: fete at the poor devil, you saw the captain. Suddenly
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  Speaker 3: the puma howled again, this time more painfully. Montgomery swore
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  Speaker 3: under his breath. I had half a mind to attack
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  Speaker 3: him about the men on the beach, and the poor
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  Speaker 3: brute within gave vent to a series of short, sharp cries.
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  Speaker 3: Your men on the beach, said I, what race are they?
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  Speaker 3: Excellent fellows? Th a'n't they said, he absent mindedly, knitting
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  Speaker 3: his brows. As the animal yelled out sharply, I said
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  Speaker 3: no more. There was another outcry, worse than the former.
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  Speaker 3: He looked at me with his dull gray eyes, and
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  Speaker 3: then took some more whiskey. He tried to draw me
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  Speaker 3: into a discussion about alcohol, professing to have saved my
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  Speaker 3: life with it. He seemed anxious to lay stress on
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  Speaker 3: the fact that I owed my life to him. I
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  Speaker 3: answered him distractedly. Presently our meal came to an end.
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  Speaker 3: The shape and monster, with the point of years, cleared
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  Speaker 3: the remains away, and Montgomery left me alone in the
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  Speaker 3: room again. All the time he had been in a
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  Speaker 3: state of ill concealed irritation at the noise of the
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  Speaker 3: vivisected puma. He had spoken of his odd want of
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  Speaker 3: nerve and left me to the obvious application. I found
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  Speaker 3: myself that the cries were singularly irritating, and it grew
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  Speaker 3: in depth and intensity as the afternoon wore on. They
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  Speaker 3: were painful at first, but their constant resurgence at last
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  Speaker 3: altogether upset my balance. I flung aside a crib of
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  Speaker 3: horrors I had been reading, and began to clinch my fists,
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  Speaker 3: to bite my lips, and to pace the room. Presently
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  Speaker 3: I got to stopping my ears with my fingers. The
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  Speaker 3: emotional appeal of those yells grew upon me steadily, grew
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  Speaker 3: at last to such an exquisite expression of suffering that
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  Speaker 3: I could stand it in that confined room no longer.
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  Speaker 3: I stepped out of the door into the slumber's heat
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  Speaker 3: of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance,
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  Speaker 3: locked again, I noticed turned the corner of the wall
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  Speaker 3: the crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was
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  Speaker 3: as if all the pain in the world had found
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  Speaker 3: a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in
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  Speaker 3: the next room, and had it been dumb. I believe
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  Speaker 3: nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in
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