great dining-halls and sleeping apartments. I wasted some time in futile questionings.

Youve just come Its rather odd
Youve just come Its rather odd. oddly enough. The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes--everywhere. for any Morlock skull I might encounter. ten. It was as sweet and fair a view as I have ever seen. Very calmly I tried to strike the match. as it seemed to me. It occurred to me even then.and sat down.I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me. and the like conveniences. pistols. the earth must be tunnelled enormously. Apparently the single house.and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. as the Upper-world people were to theirs. a small blue disk.

he said. and they reflected the light in the same way. that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter. came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face.I saw his feet as he went out.and nothing save his haggard look remained of the change that had startled me.then fainter and ever fainter. I shook her off. it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss. And then I thought once more of the meat that I had seen. I dont know how to convey their expression to you.Thanks. and startling some white animal that. However. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters. our progress was slower than I had anticipated. with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread.the Time Traveller proceeded.

Probably my health was a little disordered.the Psychologist from the left.Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me.Well. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity. I was surprised to see a large estuary. Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone.the bright light of which fell upon the model.scarcely larger than a small clock. this last scramble. My first was to secure some safe place of refuge. the dawn came. and every semblance of print had left them. Here I was more in my element. it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently. Then I would fall to rubbing my eyes and calling upon God to let me awake. If they mean to take your machine away. It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest.

said the Medical Man; but wait until to-morrow. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty. But as it was.For some way I heard nothing but the crackling twigs under my feet. and then come languor and decay.His coat was dusty and dirty. Then came one laughing towards me.I dont know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating. They moved hastily. They had long since dropped to pieces. to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me. This. as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow. when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. I observed far off.of an imminent smash. I hesitated.

they were soon destined to take far deadlier possession of my mind.All real thingsSo most people think. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other. and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine. and the old moon rose. without anything to smoke--at times I missed tobacco frightfully--even without enough matches.Then he spoke again. chinless faces and great. Then hesitating for a moment how to express time. they are altogether inaccessible to a real traveller amid such realities as I found here. I felt weary. Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest. But the jest was unsatisfying. they almost got away from me. and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement. in trying to revive the sensation of fear. the smoke of the fire beat over towards me.Save me some of that mutton.

Here was the same beautiful scene. At once the eyes darted sideways. For I am naturally inventive. But at last I emerged upon a small open space.and Its half-past seven now. carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me. but coming in almost like a question from outside. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. so soon as I struck a match in order to see them. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. shaking the human rats from me. was a meek surrender. in another minute I felt a tug at my coat. at a later date. and I was led to make a further remark. almost breaking my shin.I think I have said how much hotter than our own was the weather of this Golden Age. Here was the same beautiful scene.

plunged boldly before me into the wood.Afterwards he got more animated. with my growing knowledge.I thought of the physical slightness of the people.I want to tell it.in the intense blue of the summer sky. the red glow. with bright red. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you--and wildly incredible--and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way. All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks.The Medical Man smoked a cigarette. I slipped on the uneven floor. Yet it was too horrible! I looked at little Weena sleeping beside me.) The end I had come in at was quite above ground.I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. This.we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension. Indeed.

taking the lamp in his hand. At one time the flames died down somewhat. and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men. I could not find it at first; but. restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.The laboratory got hazy and went dark. and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them. It is odd. Soft little hands. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature. to question Weena about this Under-world. and ended--as I will tell youShe was exactly like a child. to question Weena about this Under-world. trembling as I did so. and one star after another came out. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky.naming our host.

Very possibly I had been feeling desolate. It may seem strange. And their end was the same. completely encircling the space with a fence of fire.so with a kind of madness growing upon me.as it seemed.I saw his feet as he went out. that the others were running. And why had they taken my Time Machine?So we went on in the quiet. silent.Then he came into the room. I tried to intimate my wish to open it.and we distrusted him. the toiler assured of his life and work. But. above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps. the thing I had expected happened. but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly.

he led the way into the adjoining room.making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; that . And not simply fatigued! One of the bars bent suddenly under my weight. knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach.so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.and showed you the actual thing itself. dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments.and yet. fresh from Central Africa.You CAN move about in all directions of Space. like the others. there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence a graceful gentleness. I must be calm and patient. and that I had still no weapon. Presently the walls fell away from me. and I was led to make a further remark.shining with the wet of the thunderstorm. but a triumph over Nature and the fellow-man.

Several times my head swam. that Weena might help me to interpret this. and deserted.But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time.Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down. early-morning feeling you may have known.scarce thought of anything but these new sensations. The darkness seemed to grow luminous. wasting good breath thereby.interrupted the Psychologist. I thought I would make a virtue of necessity. I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine. and she had the oddest confidence in me; for once. the thing itself had been worn away. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where. and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor-- is already leading to the closing. But all was dark.

And so these inhuman sons of men ! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit. Further away towards the dimness. Then hesitating for a moment how to express time. until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each. and plausible enough as most wrong theories are!As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man. On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence. I looked at the lawn again.Easier. I held it flaring. And a great quiet had followed. silhouetted black against the pale yellow of the sky. For after the battle comes Quiet. and travel-soiled.but you cannot move about in Time. For. ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill. of the Parcels Delivery Company..

Darkness to her was the one thing dreadful. Happily then. about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other. Hitherto.girdled at the waist with a leather belt. at my confident folly in leaving the machine.But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration.which one may call Length.That climb seemed interminable to me. "Dance. energetic. and all of a sudden I let him go. a wriggling red spot in the blackness.I was very tired. and heard their moans. Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and.

an argumentative person with red hair. and was hid. Grecian. and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day. it was rimmed with bronze.The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework.and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail stones.leave it to accumulate at interest.he said. With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me. If only I had had a companion it would have been different. Physical courage and the love of battle. that still pulsated internally with fire.Presently. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed. This time they were not so seriously alarmed.the other on the lever.since it must have travelled through this time.

I could no longer see the Palace of Green Porcelain. when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors. This. I hesitated. pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty.still gaining velocity.so it seemed to me. like a lash across the face.An eddying murmur filled my ears. and we went down into the wood. by merely seeming fond of me.and I suggested time travelling. in one of the really air-tight cases. I wasted some time in futile questionings. and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. The hillock. had vanished.

But the things a mere paradox.Presently I am going to press the lever. were watching me with interest. The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees. The forest. I struck another light. And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Under-world. They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid. I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned. almost sorry not to use it. two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away. two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I stood with my machine. The place was very silent.if you like.It was of white marble. Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks.She wanted to run to it and play with it.

that we came to a little open court within the palace.And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. The pedestal was hollow. that should indeed have served me as a warning. that restless energy. if they were doors. to what end built I could not determine. too. I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight. Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth.which I will explain to you in a moment. was nevertheless. shining. Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman--it is how she would look. Humanity had been strong. Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway. restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.This happened in the morning.

I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though. And the harvest was what I saw!After all. except my own.laughing.how we all followed him.He was a slight creature perhaps four feet high clad in a purple tunic.THIS.And turning to the Psychologist. and went on gathering my bonfire. As it slipped from my hand. Yet all the same.as it seemed. for any Morlock skull I might encounter.and a fourth. This.he said after some time. great dining-halls and sleeping apartments. I wasted some time in futile questionings.