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

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  Speaker 4: Bottom ten. The crying of the man. As I drew
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  Speaker 4: near the house, I saw that the light shone from
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  Speaker 4: the open door of my room. And then I heard,
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  Speaker 4: coming from out of the darkness at the side of
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  Speaker 4: that orange oblong of light, the voice of Montgomery shouting prendick.
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  Speaker 4: I continued running. Presently I heard him again. I replied
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  Speaker 4: by a feeble hello, and in another moment had staggered
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  Speaker 4: up to him. Where have you been, said he, holding
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  Speaker 4: me at arm's length, so that the light from the
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  Speaker 4: door fell on my face. We have both been so
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  Speaker 4: busy that we forgot you until about half an hour ago.
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  Speaker 4: He led me into the room and sat me down
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  Speaker 4: in the deck chair. For a while I was blinded
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  Speaker 4: by the light. We did not think you had thought
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  Speaker 4: to explore the island of ours without telling us, he said,
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  Speaker 4: And then I was afraid. But what hallo? My last
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  Speaker 4: remaining strength slipped from me, and my head fell forward
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  Speaker 4: on my chest. I think he found a certain satisfaction
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  Speaker 4: in giving me brandy for God's sake, said I fasten
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  Speaker 4: the door. You've been meeting some of our curiosity, they
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  Speaker 4: said he. He locked the door and turned to me again.
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  Speaker 4: He asked me no questions, but gave me some more
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  Speaker 4: brandy and water and pressed me to eat. I was
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  Speaker 4: in a state of collapse. He said something vague about
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  Speaker 4: forgetting to warn me, and asked me briefly when I
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  Speaker 4: left the house and what I had seen. I answered
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  Speaker 4: him as briefly, in fragmentary sentences. Tell me what it
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  Speaker 4: all means, said I, in a state bordering on hysterics.
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  Speaker 4: It's nothing so dreadful, said he. But I think you
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  Speaker 4: have had but enough for one day. The puma suddenly
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  Speaker 4: gave a sharp yell of pain. At that, he swore
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  Speaker 4: under his breath. I'm damned, said he. If it plaitheth
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  Speaker 4: not a baddeth Gareth dreat with its cat. Montgomery said I,
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  Speaker 4: what was that thing that came after me? Was it
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  Speaker 4: a beast or was it a man? If you don't
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  Speaker 4: sleep to night, he said, you'll be off your head
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  Speaker 4: to morrow. I stood up in front of him. What
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  Speaker 4: was that thing that came after me? I asked. He
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  Speaker 4: looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew.
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  Speaker 4: His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went
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  Speaker 4: dull from your account, said he. I'm thinking it was
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  Speaker 4: a bogul. I felt a gust of intense irritation, which
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  Speaker 4: passed as quickly as it came. I flung myself into
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  Speaker 4: the chair again and pressed my hands on my forehead.
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  Speaker 4: The puma began once more. Montgomery came round behind me
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  Speaker 4: and put his hand on my shoulder. Look here, Prendick,
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  Speaker 4: he said, I had no bithness to let you drift
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  Speaker 4: out into the thilly island of our earth. But it's
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  Speaker 4: not so bad as you feel. Man your nerve. I'll
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  Speaker 4: work to rags. Let me give you something that will
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  Speaker 4: make you sleep, that will keep on for hours. Yet
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  Speaker 4: you must simply get to sleep, or I won't answer
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  Speaker 4: for it. I did not reply. I bowed forward and
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  Speaker 4: covered my face with my hands. Presently he returned with
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  Speaker 4: a small measure containing a dark liquid. This he gave me.
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  Speaker 4: I took it unresistingly, and he helped me into the hammock.
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  Speaker 4: When I awoke, it was broad day. For a little
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  Speaker 4: while I lay flat, staring at the roof above me
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  Speaker 4: the rafters. I observed were made out of the timbers
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  Speaker 4: of a ship. Then I turned my head and saw
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  Speaker 4: a meal prepared for me on the table. I perceived
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  Speaker 4: that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of
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  Speaker 4: the hammock, which, very politely, anticipating my intention, twisted round
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  Speaker 4: and deposited me upon all falls on the floor. I
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  Speaker 4: got up and sat down before the food. I had
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  Speaker 4: a heavy feeling in my head, and only the vaguest
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  Speaker 4: memory at first of the things that happened over night.
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  Speaker 4: The morning breeze blew very pleasantly through the unglazed window,
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  Speaker 4: and that in the food contributed to the sense of
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  Speaker 4: animal comfort which I experienced presently. The door behind me,
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  Speaker 4: the door inward towards the yard at the enclosure opened.
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  Speaker 4: I turned and saw Montgomery's face all right, said he
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  Speaker 4: I'm frightfully busy, and he shut the door. Afterwards, I
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  Speaker 4: discovered that he forgot to relock it. Then I recalled
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  Speaker 4: the expression of his face the previous night, and with
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  Speaker 4: that the memory of all I had experienced reconstructed itself
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  Speaker 4: before me. Even as that fear came back to me,
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  Speaker 4: came a cry from within, But this time it was
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  Speaker 4: not the cry of a puma. I put down the
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  Speaker 4: mouthful that hesitated upon my lips and listened silence, save
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  Speaker 4: for the whisper of the morning breeze. I began to
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  Speaker 4: think my ears had deceived me. After a long pause,
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  Speaker 4: I resumed my meal, but with my ears still vigilant.
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  Speaker 4: Presently I heard something else, very faint and low. I
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  Speaker 4: sat as if frozen in my attitude. Though it was
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  Speaker 4: faint and low, it moved me more profoundly than all
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  Speaker 4: that I had hitherto heard of the abominations behind the wall.
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  Speaker 4: There was no mistake this time in the quality of
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  Speaker 4: the dim broken sounds, no doubt at all of their source,
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  Speaker 4: for it was groaning, broken by sobs and gasps of anguish.
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  Speaker 4: It was no brute this time, it was a human
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  Speaker 4: being in torment. As I realized this, I rose, and
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  Speaker 4: in three steps had crossed the room, seized the handle
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  Speaker 4: of the door into the yard, and flung it open
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  Speaker 4: before me. Prindic man stop, cried, Montgomery, intervening, A startled
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  Speaker 4: deer hound yelped and snarled. There was blood I saw
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  Speaker 4: in the sink, brown and some scarlet, and I smelt
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  Speaker 4: the peculiar smell of carbolic acid. Then threw an an
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  Speaker 4: open doorway beyond, in the dim light of the shadow,
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  Speaker 4: I saw something bound painfully upon a framework, scarred red
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  Speaker 4: and bandaged. And then, blotting this out, appeared the face
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  Speaker 4: of old Moreau, white and terrible. In a moment, he
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  Speaker 4: had gripped me by the shoulder with a hand that
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  Speaker 4: was smeared red, had twisted me off my feet and
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  Speaker 4: flung me headlong back into my own room. He lifted
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  Speaker 4: me as though I was a little child. I fell
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  Speaker 4: at full length upon the floor, and the door slammed
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  Speaker 4: and shut out the passionate intensity of his face. Then
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  Speaker 4: I heard the key turn in the lock, and Montgomery's
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  Speaker 4: voice in expostulation, ruin the work of a lifetime. I
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  Speaker 4: heard Moreau say he doth not understand, said Montgomery, and
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  Speaker 4: other things that were inaudible. I can't s the time yet,
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  Speaker 4: said Moreau. The rest I did not hear. I picked
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  Speaker 4: myself up and stood trembling, my mind a chaos of
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  Speaker 4: the most horrible misgivings. Could it be possible? I thought,
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  Speaker 4: that's such a thing as vivisection of men was carried
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  Speaker 4: on here? The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky.
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  Speaker 4: And suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into
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  Speaker 4: a vivid realization of my own danger.
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