Time Machine and The Invisible Man (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (41 page)

Important street in London.

Reputation.

Speculators who build cheap structures.

X rays, discovered by W. K. Roentgen (Röntgen) in 1895.

Generators.

Rain barrel.

Trundle bed; low bed on casters.

Put it out of the house.

Mounted cavalry, symbolizing old-fashioned warfare.

High point with a wide view of London.

kemp thinks strychnine releases the savage inside us.

Silver-white alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel. of personality, fatigue, and the drug

Griffin is paranoic, stemming from a combination of personality, fatigue, and the drug strychnine.

Eviction notice.

Clenched my teeth.

The door bolts are fastened to the wooden door with U-shaped staples.

A patois is a special dialect; here the word describes the combination of English and Yiddish spoken by the landlord and his sons.

Grill to control heat flow.

Seller of fruit and vegetables.

Freedom from punishment.

Cloth and dry goods shop.

Uncontrollably.

Pub or tavern.

Two-wheeled carriage; Griffin is struck by the shaft to which the horses are harnessed.

Baby carriage.

Susceptible.

Mudie’s Select Library, where people paid a small fee to borrow books; the yellow label was a Mudie’s trademark.

The British Museum.

Covered entry passage.

Made going back impossible.

Tools, equipment.

An imaginary emporium; an arcade or group of shops.

Mattresses filled with wool or cotton.

A line of clerks ushering late shoppers out of the building.

Cry given by hunters when the fox is spotted.

Decorative ceramic pots.

Hardware.

Ravages.

Not just mist but smoke from coal and wood fires.

Soot.

Covered with flyspecks, seedy.

Masquerade costume.

Full-length mirror.

Costume vest in the style of Louis XIV of France (1638-1715).

Cleaning fluid.

cotton fabric.

Treacherous things.

Partially blind or lacking insight.

Catch his scent.

Knowledge.

Closed.

Griffin sends his death threat to Kemp with postage due.

Griffin against the world (Latin).

Casualness of Adye’s position.

Celebrated nineteenth-century landscape painter.

Decorative shrub with yellow flowers.

Desolate.

Very end.

Construction workers.

Showed a full range of emotion—concern for their children, fear, and curiosity about Griffin.

Useless counterpunch.

Faking.

Red semiprecious stones.

Found treasure becomes government property.

One pound and one shilling.

Except one—that is, where Griffin’s books are.

Like algae.

Once I figure them out.