Project Gutenberg #5230
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
1897Wells's scientific romance about invisibility and social panic, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 8 — CHAPTER VIII. In Transit Central question How does Griffin escape once his secret is exposed? Main argument The escape is abrupt, hostile, and physically messy. Griffin sheds the last visible signs of...
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.