Chapter 1
"A fire," he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain...
Chapter 2
"[...] but, as a rule, I like to be alone and undisturbed." (2.13)
Chapter 3
A couple of minutes after, he rejoined the little group that had formed outside the "Coach and Horses." There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall...
Chapter 4
Communication with the world beyond the village he had none. (4.2)
Chapter 5
Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle. (5.14)
Chapter 6
"'Tas sperits," said Mrs. Hall. "I know 'tas sperits. I've read in papers of en. Tables and chairs leaping and dancing." (6.13)
Chapter 7
It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars, d...
Chapter 9
"They are—charity boots," said Mr. Thomas Marvel. (9.4)
Chapter 10
But people, sceptics and believers alike, were remarkably sociable all that day. (10.1)
Chapter 12
But his temper, at no time very good, seems to have gone completely at some chance blow, and forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing, for the mere satisfaction of hurting. (12.48)
Chapter 14
As he had approached Mr. Marvel he had heard a sound like the dropping of coins into a pocket. He was struck by the contrast of Mr. Marvel's appearance with this suggestion of opulence. (14.6)
Chapter 15
[T]he work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it. (15.1)
Chapter 16
"Draw the bolts," said the man with the black beard, "and if he comes—" He showed a revolver in his hand. "That won't do," said the policeman; "that's murder." (16.17-8)
Chapter 17
Dr. Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man (17.10)
Chapter 18
"He is invisible!" he said. "And it reads like rage growing to mania! The things he may do! The things he may do! And he's upstairs free as the air. What on earth ought I to do?" (18.30)
Chapter 19
"I was alone…In all my great moments I have been alone." (19.37)
Chapter 20
"What was I doing? Why was I always alone and secretive? Was it legal? Was it dangerous?" (20.37)
Chapter 21
"[...] a footprint as isolated and incomprehensible to them as Crusoe's solitary discovery." (21.15)
Chapter 22
"I turned down one of the roads leading from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road, and found myself outside Omniums, the big establishment where everything is to be bought—you know the place: mea...
Chapter 23
"By this time I knew he was alone in the house, and so I made no more ado, but knocked him on the head." (23.20)
Chapter 24
"Blundering into your house, Kemp," he said, "changes all my plans. For you are a man that can understand. In spite of all that has happened, in spite of this publicity, of the loss of my books, of...
Chapter 25
"He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head." (25.18)
Chapter 26
Kemp's proclamation—signed indeed by Adye—was posted over almost the whole district by four or five o'clock in the afternoon. (26.4)
Chapter 27
He glanced away from the barrel of the revolver and saw the sea far off very blue and dark under the midday sun, the smooth green down, the white cliff of the Head, and the multitudinous town, and...
Chapter 28
Down went the heap of struggling men again and rolled over. There was, I am afraid, some savage kicking. Then suddenly a wild scream of "Mercy! Mercy!" that died down swiftly to a sound like chokin...
Epilogue
His brows are knit and his lips move painfully. "Hex, little two up in the air, cross and a fiddle-de-dee. Lord! what a one he was for intellect!" (Epilogue.7)