The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It grew to a climax, diminished again, and died away in the distance, going as it seemed to him in the direction of Adderdean. It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning’s occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.
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The Invisible Man
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- Griffin
- A scientist who has made himself invisible and cannot undo it.
- Mrs. Hall
- The landlady of the Coach and Horses inn at Iping.
- Mr. Hall
- Her husband.
- Teddy Henfrey
- A clock-jobber in Iping.
- Mr. Cuss
- The village doctor.
- Mr. Bunting
- The vicar.
- Thomas Marvel
- A tramp the Invisible Man forces to help him.
- Dr. Kemp
- A scientist in Burdock, Griffin's old fellow student.
- Colonel Adye
- The chief of police in Burdock.
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