Цитаты из книги «The Lost World / Затерянный мир»

I have had some experience of him in other moods, so I can say it is impossible to be at your ease[46] and to be dull in his company, for one is always in a state of doubt as to what sudden turn his temper may take.

Lord Roxton was a born leader. His love of danger, his

thought it was the end of us, but that is what happened.

In the jungle I crept forward, stopping with a beating

We rushed to the brushwood, and even as we reached

if he ever answers you. He is a dangerous character. Perhaps it would be best for you if you never heard from the fellow at all.”

and there was such a howl that he saw it wouldn’t do

a thin, dry, leathery creature, who was full of kindly humanity.

She could refuse me, but better be a refused lover than an accepted brother.

But chances are all around you. Remember that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon. The wind blew him fifteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and he fell in the middle of Russia. That was the kind of man I mean. Think of the woman he loved, and how other women must have envied her! That’s what I should like to be… envied for my man.