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H. G. Wells (Herbert George)

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I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.
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Chapter 20: At the House In Great Portland Street

 
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