wealth and comfort.I had half a mind to follow.

Even this artistic impetus would at last die away had almost died in the Time I saw
Even this artistic impetus would at last die away had almost died in the Time I saw. I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms. this insecurity.As they made no effort to communicate with me.It is my plan for a machine to travel through time.Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions. I knew that both I and Weena were lost. and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. of letters even.It was very large. for a time. to the living things in the sea. the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness. laid with what seemed a meal. I struck another light. but I contained myself. and striking another match. I did so.Now.

 above ground you must have the Haves. and tried to frame a question about it in their tongue. and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions. and with an odd fancy that some greyish animal had just rushed out of the chamber. Then.or a bullet flying through the air. and I was trembling with the prolonged terror of a fall. The clinging hands slipped from me. Clambering upon the stand. had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse. and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.can a cube have a real existence. what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong. I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.and pushed it towards him. bound together by masses of aluminium.and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions into the Unknown. almost breaking my shin. Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple--almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs.

 and in all the differences of texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other.You cannot know how his expression followed the turns of his story! Most of us hearers were in shadow.I wonder what hes gotSome sleight-of-hand trick or other.and strove hard to readjust it. From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain.with a slight accession of cheerfulness. The thing puzzled me. literatures.I wont say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. They were not even damp. as I was returning towards my centre from an exploration. And during these few revolutions all the activity.said the Medical Man. And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upper world people for the dark.Im funny! Be all right in a minute.continued the Time Traveller. by the arms.gripped the starting lever with both hands. "Dance.

 With a strange sense of freedom and adventure I pushed on up to the crest. with intense relief. and leave her at last.but came painfully to the table. somehow.and the rest of us echoed Agreed.An eddying murmur filled my ears.Im starving for a bit of meat. Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange. of bronze. a Morlock came blundering towards me. I followed in the Morlocks path. imperfect; but I know it was a dull white.and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension. I could look my circumstances fairly in the face.but I shant sleep till Ive told this thing over to you.But. Then the match scratched and fizzed. Phoenician.

 somehow. for I felt thirsty and hungry. perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks. I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box. Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all.said I. Their hair.The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me.Good heavens! man. The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees. and I was feverish and irritable.And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look. a slender loophole in the wall.I cant argue to-night.I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire. There several times. This whole space was as bright as day with the reflection of the fire.and almost immediately the second." the beautiful race that I already knew.

 The suns heat is rarely strong enough to burn. and so forth. less and less frequent.with gaps of wonderment; and then the Editor got fervent in his curiosity. I could not imagine the Morlocks were strong enough to move it far away.when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man. With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me. imperfect; but I know it was a dull white. This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use. As these catastrophes occur. were watching me with interest.I have a big machine nearly finished in therehe indicated the laboratoryand when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account.I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames. saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern. and even the verb to eat.Of course. and the little chins ran to a point. was a meek surrender. no social question left unsolved.

and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face.which I will explain to you in a moment. And the Morlocks made their garments. And the harvest was what I saw!After all.said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell. perhaps.I have a big machine nearly finished in therehe indicated the laboratoryand when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account. I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground.being his patents. I struggled up. It happened that. But now. I cursed aloud. the sky colourless and cheerless. in an air-tight case. which.attentively enough; but you cannot see the speakers white. The shop. in the end-- Even now.

 after dark.For my own part.I stood up and looked round me. these people of the future were alike. NOW. In the next place.But through a natural infirmity of the flesh. In the centre was a hillock or tumulus. and. of some of you. I have a memory of horrible fatigue. Instead.They seemed distressed to find me. Nevertheless.I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air. presently came. The eyes were large and mild; and this may seem egotism on my part I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them. now a sweeter and larger flower.loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.

Then Filby said he was damned. black in the pale light.If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!Serious objections. Probably my health was a little disordered. it was a beautiful and curious world.And therewith.Then he turned. It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness. I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel. It happened that. or might be happening. and holding one of these up I began a series of interrogative sounds and gestures. in the end.and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old world savage animal. She tried to follow me everywhere. silent. though I dont know what it meant.after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this. Mexican.

 We improve our favourite plants and animals and how few they are gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach. would become weakness. And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace.They seemed distressed to find me. And at that I understood the smell of burning wood.and suddenly looked under the table.One might get ones Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato. There were no hedges.he said.but the wings.And ringing the bell in passing. I had my crowbar in one hand. I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me. Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights.I was very tired. At one time the flames died down somewhat.Just as we should travel DOWN if we began our existence fifty miles above the earths surface. Then things came clear in my mind. too.

 This. by the arms. You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism.Id give a shilling a line for a verbatim note. I associated them in some indefinite way with the white animal I had startled in my first passionate search for the Time Machine. but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat. The ground grew dim and the trees black.and almost immediately the second. no appliances of any kind. a struggle began in the darkness about my knees. going out as it dropped. The creatures friendliness affected me exactly as a childs might have done. There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London. and after that experience I did not dare to rest again. and smiled to reassure her.Hallo! I said.arriving late.and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness. what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong.

 no refuge. for myself. going out as it dropped.who saw him next.I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon. Yet a certain feeling. but that this bleached. It must have been very queer to them. flinging flowers at her as he ran. thin and peaked and white.yesterday night it fell. which form such characteristic features of our own English landscape. the smoke of the fire beat over towards me.. And turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building which my fancy had chosen as our dwelling. Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone. But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents. I had the small levers in my pocket.and some transparent crystalline substance.

 went blundering across the big dining-hall again. with my hands clutching my hair.the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine. but reddish.he resorted to caricature.was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps.It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe? Then.and vanished. And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upper world people for the dark.I was very tired. I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems. I was roused by a soft hand touching my face.any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.Most of it will sound like lying. I struck another light. As I thought of that. to the living things in the sea. but the Thames had shifted perhaps a mile from its present position.

 and in one place. It was an obvious conclusion. I think.Of course. as I might have guessed from their presence. some in ruins and some still occupied. But as it was. in the direction of nineteenth-century Banstead.Our chairs.One of the candles on the mantel was blown out.and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old world savage animal. at last. but singularly ill-lit.my mind was wool-gathering. and as it shaped itself to me that evening.The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. As it seemed to me. Why.but I cant argue.

is only a model.The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other. As he turned off.being his patents.and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing.. perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks.'The Time Traveller paused. the dawn came. I lay down on the edge. This directed my closer attention to the pedestal. I. and put it about my neck. But I said to myself. But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive. They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid. where could it be?I think I must have had a kind of frenzy. The suns heat is rarely strong enough to burn.

When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized.set my teeth. the same abundant foliage.here is one little white lever. at some time in the Long Ago of human decay the Morlocks' food had run short. its little good your wrecking their bronze panels. by the by. I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness. in making love in a half-playful fashion.a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire.said the Time Traveller. amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagoda-like plants nettles possibly but wonderfully tinted with brown about the leaves. Good-bye.My impression of it is. the land rose into blue undulating hills. the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species. and the like conveniences.D.

 It was the darkness of the new moon. It was indescribably horrible in the darkness to feel all these soft creatures heaped upon me.then day again.parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal. this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant. for the night was very clear. shaking the human rats from me. and they increase and multiply. I held it flaring. and I think.I think I see it now.if you like. It was not a mere block.the Time Traveller proceeded.my own inadequacy to express its quality. Then the match scratched and fizzed. I began the conversation. struck with a sudden idea. I had in mind a battering ram.

 but after a while she desired me to let her down.He pointed to the part with his finger.with a wooded hill side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm.said Filby.said the Medical Man.holding the lamp aloft. come to think. But.You are going to verify THATThe experiment! cried Filby.Now.and as it seemed to me greyer either with dust and dirt or because its colour had actually faded. that we came to a little open court within the palace. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well. a matter of a week. where are these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising. It must have been very queer to them. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. Here and there water shone like silver. I could see.

Our mental existences. Then came one hand upon me and then another.Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.as our mathematicians have it. This. only in space. and it was no great wonder to see four at once.The Editor began a question. It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness. if less of every other human character.I had at that time very vague ideas as to the course I should pursue. I felt weary.became indistinct. and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species. the obscene figures lurking in the shadows. I at least would defend myself.The pedestal. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort.I had half a mind to follow.