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.

He staggered into the Coarch and Horses, more dead than alive as it seemed, and flung his portmanteau down.

r conversational advances were ill-timed,

, and he seemed to be lost in thought.

"And I'd thank you kindly, sir, if you'd keep your swearing to yourself, sir," said Mrs. Hall.

"The weather—" he began.
"Why don't you finish and go?"

ransack his larder

shabby top hat