![]() ![]() ![]() There was a full-page picture of the most extraordinary creature that I had ever seen. I turned it over, and gave an exclamation of surprise. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye." ~ The Lost World ![]() ![]() I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named. You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it. "Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me." ~ The Lost World But who-who in all this wide world could ever have imagined the incredible shape which that deed was to take, or the strange steps by which I was led to the doing of it? ~ The Lost World ~ The Lost WorldĪnd so it was that I found myself that foggy November evening pursuing the Camberwell tram with my heart glowing within me, and with the eager determination that not another day should elapse before I should find some deed which was worthy of my lady. Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand. My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. ![]()
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