The Invisible Man

I made a mistake, Kemp, a huge mistake, in carrying this thing through alone. I have wasted strength, time, opportunities. Alone—it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end

I demonstrated conclusively this morning," began Kemp, "that invisibility—"
"Never mind what you've demonstrated!—I'm starving," said the Voice, "and the night is chilly to a man without clothes."

without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion.

The frantic gesticulations

"I have some luggage," he said, "at Bramblehurst station," and he asked her how he could have it sent.

"The poor soul's had an accident or an operation or something,"

Chapter 1 The Strange Man's Arrival

His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence. He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.

Hall thought, very fitfully.

chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously