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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: watching us.
"Prendick," said Montgomery, turning his dull eyes to me.
"He's dead, evidently."
I had been standing behind him during this colloquy.
I began to see how things lay with them. I suddenly stepped in front
of Montgomery and lifted up my voice:--"Children of the Law,"
I said, "he is not dead!" M'ling turned his sharp eyes on me.
"He has changed his shape; he has changed his body," I went on.
"For a time you will not see him. He is--there," I pointed upward,
"where he can watch you. You cannot see him, but he can see you.
Fear the Law!"
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
