The Stolen Bacillus: And Other Incidents |
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Page 4 - He stopped abruptly. He had been told rhetoric was his weakness. "But he is quite safe here, you know — quite safe.
Page 184 - He was able to get up and steer himself about, feed himself once more, read, smoke, and behave like an ordinary citizen again. At first it was very confusing to him to have these two pictures overlapping each other like the changing views of a lantern, but in a little while he began to distinguish the real from the illusory. At first he was unfeignedly glad, and seemed only too anxious to complete his cure by taking exercise and tonics. But as that odd island of his began to fade away from him, he...
Page 16 - You see, that man came to my house to see me, and he is an Anarchist. No — don't faint, or I cannot possibly tell you the rest. And I wanted to astonish him, not knowing he was an Anarchist, and took up a cultivation of that new species of Bacterium I was telling you of, that infest, and I think cause, the blue patches upon various monkeys ; and like a fool, I said it was Asiatic cholera. And he ran away with it to poison the water of London, and he certainly might have made things look blue for...
Page 188 - Wade has thrown out. But his explanation invokes the Fourth Dimension, and a dissertation on theoretical kinds of space. To talk of there being " a kink in space " seems mere nonsense to me ; it may be because I am no mathematician. When I said that nothing would alter the fact that the place is eight thousand miles away, he answered that two points might be a yard away on a sheet of paper and yet be brought together by bending the paper round. The reader may grasp his argument, but I certainly do...
Page 5 - Just a minute, dear,' whispered his wife. When he re-entered the laboratory his visitor was looking at his watch. 'I had no idea I had wasted an hour of your time,' he said. Twelve minutes to four. I ought to have left here by half-past three. But your things were really too interesting. No, positively 1 cannot stop a moment longer. 1 have an engagement at four.
Page 10 - She's a goer, she is!' said the ostler boy. 'Strike me giddy!' cried old Tootles. 'Here! I'm a-goin' to begin in a minute. Here's another comin'. If all the kebs in Hampstead ain't gone mad this morning!' 'It's a fieldmale this time,' said the ostler boy. 'She's a followin' him,' said old Tootles. 'Usually the other way about.' 'What's she got in her 'and?' 'Looks like a 'igh 'at.' 'What a bloomin' lark it is! Three to one on old George/ said the ostler boy.
Page 3 - sa deadly thing to have in your possession," he said, devouring the little tube with his eyes. The Bacteriologist watched the morbid pleasure in his visitor's expression. This man, who had visited him that afternoon with a note of introduction from an old friend, interested him from the very contrast of their dispositions. The lank black hair and deep grey eyes, the haggard expression and nervous manner, the fitful yet keen interest of his visitor were a novel change from the phlegmatic deliberations...