The Island of Doctor Moreau

by H.G. Wells

It would be impossible for me to describe these Beast People in detail; my eye has had no training in details, and unhappily I cannot sketch.

in the details

But from that night until the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness. So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one cardinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half-humanised brutes.

brevity

I cannot pursue this disagreeable subject.

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