Chapter 5 Alice stood under a tree playing with a squirrel which was running helter-skelter. All of a sudden, she heard some footsteps.The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole […]
Chapter 4 Alice ran a little way into the wood and stopped under a large tree. She saw somebody’s shawl. She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner. In another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were
Chapter 3 Alice ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks.‘Tickets, please!’ said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage.‘Now then! Show
Chapter 2 Wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, Alice did what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.‘It’s no use talking about it,’ Alice said, looking up at the
Chapter 1 One day, Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the white kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till
Chapter 8 If Lord John’s behavior at this time was strange, that of Challenger was more so. I may say that he seemed to possess an extraordinary fascination for the Indian women, and that he always carried a large spreading palm branch with which he beat them off as if they were flies, when their
Chapter 7 The victory of the Indians and the annihilation of the ape-men, marked the turning point of our fortunes. From then onwards, we were in truth masters of the plateau, for the natives looked upon us with a mixture of fear and gratitude, since by our strange powers we had aided them to destroy
Chapter 6 We had imagined that our pursuers, the ape-men, knew nothing of our brush-wood hiding-place, but we were soon to find out our mistake. There was no sound in the woods—not a leaf moved upon the trees, and all was peace around us—but we should have been warned by our first experience how cunningly
Chapter 5 Just as the sun was setting upon that melancholy night I saw the lonely figure of the Indian upon the vast plain beneath me, and I watched him, our one faint hope of salvation, until he disappeared in the rising mists of evening which lay, rose-tinted from the setting sun, between the far-off
Chapter 4 The most wonderful things have happened and are continually happening to us. All the paper that I possess consists of five old note-books and a lot of scraps, and I have only the one stylographic pencil; but so long as I can move my hand I will continue to set down our experiences
Chapter 3 Our friends at home may well rejoice with us, for we are at our goal, and up to a point, at least, we have shown that the statement of Professor Challenger can be verified. We have not, it is true, ascended the plateau, but it lies before us, and even Professor Summerlee is
Chapter 2 Professor challenger was a perfectly impossible person on earth. What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second, I was a somewhat demoralized journalist by the time I found myself in Enmore Park once more. In my aching head the one
Chapter 1 Mr. Hungerton was a perfectly good-natured person. He was self-centred. Being my father-in-law, I am convinced that he really believed in his heart of hearts that I came round to the chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company.For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous
Chapter 10 Next morning we all made our escape towards the mountains. All day long, we could not get into the waters of the ocean as the storm raged in fury. We found shelter in a cave that night. On the following night the storm abated somewhat. In the morning we went inside the village
Chapter 9 When we returned to the shore, and related to our friend what had passed, he was greatly distressed, and groaned in spirit; but we had not sat long in conversation, when we were interrupted by the arrival of Tararo on the beach, accompanied by a number of followers bearing baskets of vegetables and