The Island of Dr. Moreau

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Though it was faint and low, it moved me more profoundly than all that I had hitherto heard of the abominations behind the wall.†

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"That's better," said Moreau, without affectation.†

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Then began a curious three-cornered altercation.†

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"None escape," said the Beast People, looking askance at one another.†

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One perhaps was ursine chiefly, another feline chiefly, another bovine chiefly; but each was tainted with other creatures,—a kind of generalised animalism appearing through the specific dispositions.†

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I am an extremely unhandy man (my schooling was over before the days of Slojd); but most of the requirements of a raft I met at last in some clumsy, circuitous way or other, and this time I took care of the strength.†

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...dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gesticulating monstrosities,—some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the denizens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.†

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Then another voice, telling some "Heaven-forsaken idiot" to desist.†

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It was about May when I first distinctly perceived a growing difference in their speech and carriage, a growing coarseness of articulation, a growing disinclination to talk.†

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In the course of about an hour I had really convinced several of the Beast Folk of the truth of my assertions, and talked most of the others into a dubious state.†

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I did not, however, mean to die, and an incident occurred that warned me unmistakably of the folly of letting the days pass so,—for each fresh day was fraught with increasing danger from the Beast People.†

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Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.†

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I saw the latter take a step forward, and interposed.†

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He said that was so, and proceeded to point out that the possibility of vivisection does not stop at a mere physical metamorphosis.†

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"The man's drunk," said I, perhaps officiously; "you'll do no good."†

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These animals without courage, these fear-haunted, pain-driven things, without a spark of pugnacious energy to face torment,—they are no good for man-making.†

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I've been thinking we might make the brushwood into a pyre and burn his body—and those other things.†

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It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.†

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Then I recalled the eyes of Montgomery's ungainly attendant.†

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{2} It was volcanic in origin, and was now fringed on three sides by coral reefs; some fumaroles to the northward, and a hot spring, were the only vestiges of the forces that had long since originated it.†