The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It grew to a climax, diminished again, and died away in the distance, going as it seemed to him in the direction of Adderdean. It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning’s occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.
CONTENT
- 1 The strange Man’s Arrival
- 2 Mr. Teddy Henfry's First Impressions
- 3 The Thousand and one bottles
- 4 Mr. Cuss Interviews the stranger
- 5 The Burgalary At the Vicarage
- 6 THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD
- 7 The Unveiling of the Stranger
- 8 In Transit
- 9 Mr. Thomas Marvel
- 10 Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping
- 11 In the “Coach and Horses”
- 12 The invisible man loses his temper
- 13 Mr. Marvel discusses his resignation
- 14 At Port Stowe
- 15 The Man WhoWas Running
- 16 In the “Jolly Cricketers”
- 17 Dr. Kemp’s Visitor
- 18 The Invisible Man Sleeps
- 19 Certain first Principles
- 20 At the house in green portland street
- 21 In Oxford Street
- 22 In the Emporium
- 23 In Drury Lane
- 24 The Plan that failed
- 25 the hunting of the invisible man
- 26 The Wicksteed Murder
- 27 The Siege of Kemp’s House
- 28 The Hunter hunted
The Invisible Man
8 - In Transit
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