Chapter

 1 I    |      that pit had been sunk, it being now abandoned, as were the
 2 I    |    himself, Simon Ford’s letter being now without object.”~No
 3 II   |  appears the anthracite, which, being almost destitute of volatile
 4 III  |        vomited out smoke, after being fed from the mine itself;
 5 III  |       silent abyss. It was like being at the mouth of some extinct
 6 III  |      volcano.~When the mine was being worked, ingenious machines
 7 V    |       opening to permit a human being to evade his pursuit!~Twice
 8 V    |      The presence of an unknown being in the mine seems impossible,
 9 V    |     that certainly some strange being prowled about in the pit.
10 VI   |      explosion occurred without being fatal, and, by often renewing
11 VI   |     young man, “that mysterious being who haunts our domain, for
12 VI   |         a hundred times without being able to get at him—the author,
13 VIII |        the hand of a mysterious being in this last accident? Could
14 IX   |      him, excusing himself from being present at the next meeting
15 IX   |        to warn men who, without being aware of it, were going
16 IX   |       imprisoned, an impalpable being can’t be handcuffed. It
17 IX   |       seemed to be carried by a being of small size, but singular
18 IX   |        to do with an impalpable being. Just then it seemed as
19 IX   | fatigued, or did this invisible being wish to entice Sir William
20 IX   |        here was no supernatural being. Then, springing forward,—~“
21 IX   |         No doubt the charitable being to whom they owed their
22 X    |     line of railway, the wagons being moved by hydraulic power,
23 X    |        cottage. He was, besides being a jovial companion, a good
24 X    |        an hour, that we owe our being found still alive in the
25 X    |         to be seen whether this being was as supernatural as you
26 X    |       of finding the mysterious being whose intervention, strictly
27 XI   |   persuaded that this malignant being, whoever he is, has by no
28 XI   |       Ah, yes, believe me, some being hitherto invisible, but
29 XI   |         complete. If any living being whatever had sought refuge
30 XII  |       to them.~As this singular being reclined on Madge’s bed
31 XII  |       entrance to this gallery, being completely concealed by
32 XII  |         was discovered—no human being emerged from the opening.
33 XII  |          But now, circumstances being altered, it became difficult
34 XII  |       for a kind and charitable being—an angel perhaps—sent by
35 XIII |         mean just this—that, it being certain Nell has never been
36 XIII |      and, the labors of the day being over, the electric lights
37 XIII |          Why should the strange being, with eyes flashing through
38 XVI  |          Mining operations were being carried on with the greatest
39 XVI  |     greatest activity; coal was being piled incessantly into the
40 XVI  |         could be refilled, care being of course taken, in the
41 XVI  |         the most depraved human being could, single-handed, carry
42 XVI  |        interest could any human being have in the destruction
43 XVII |       see this strange solitary being, prowling about the mine,
44 XVII |       Silfax was the mysterious being so long vainly sought for
45 XVII |      imagined that the spiteful being we have so long sought for
46 XVII |          and so, at the risk of being detected, I succeeded in
47 XVIII|       account of himself. There being no fear of treason among
48 XVIII|         malignant and invisible being rendered the engineer— outwardly
49 XVIII|     Davy safety lamp, the flame being protected by the metallic