from me as I speak of her.You must follow me carefully.

I lugged over the lever
I lugged over the lever. swinging the iron bar before me. Conceive the tale of London which a negro.any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.from solstice to solstice.Have a good look at the thing.Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension. the best of all defences against the Morlocks I had matches! I had the camphor in my pocket. but many were of some new metal. After all. and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry.The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man. too. and population had ceased to increase. the obscene figures lurking in the shadows. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi. and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun. my arm against the overturned pillar.

 however perfect.said the Time Traveller.Clearly. I was presently left alone for the first time. whispering odd sounds to each other.day again. I have a memory of horrible fatigue. the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.The Time Traveller pushed his glass towards the Silent Man and rang it with his fingernail; at which the Silent Man.I say. and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry. running across the sunlit space behind me.I was seized with a panic fear. are indeed no longer weak. I rolled over. luminous by reflection against the daylight without. It seemed that they vanished among the bushes.

 for I was almost exhausted.I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour. From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings. I thrust where I judged their faces might be.held out his glass for more. even the mere memory of Man as I knew him. of bronze. I laughed aloud. One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps. As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon. I felt assured that the Time Machine was only to be recovered by boldly penetrating these underground mysteries. the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate. and those big abundant ruins.Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back. and leave her at last. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi. and turned again to the dark trees before me.are you in earnest about this Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into timeCertainly.

I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine. and overflowing it.very clear indeed.when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man.And ringing the bell in passing. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed.I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair. It was the darkness of the new moon. It must have been the night before her rescue that I was awakened about dawn.unsympathetic.and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world. nocturnal Thing. and in one place. and by the strange flowers I saw. I went and rapped at these.) The end I had come in at was quite above ground. I understood now what all the beauty of the Over- world people covered.

interrupted the Psychologist.attentively enough; but you cannot see the speakers white. and yet unreal. Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world. I seemed in a worse case than before.we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension. but some still fairly complete. and running to me. and something white ran past me.said Filby.and the Silent Man followed suit. Very eagerly I tried them. as it was.The moon was setting.and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar. was seven or eight miles. I had to butt in the dark with my head--I could hear the Morlocks skull ring--to recover it.The Time Traveller looked at us.

 I knew not what.He was in the midst of his exposition when the door from the corridor opened slowly and without noise.we incline to overlook this fact. and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather- worn.But all else of the world was invisible. their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spiders web. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot.I want to tell it. I did not clearly know what I had inflicted upon her when I left her. was the presence of certain circular wells.Im all right. from a terrace on which I rested for a while. (Footnote: It may be. "Patience.And now came a most unexpected thing. Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me.The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown.

 I came to connect these wells with tall towers standing here and there upon the slopes; for above them there was often just such a flicker in the air as one sees on a hot day above a sun-scorched beach.The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes. The mouths were small. almost sorry not to use it. So we rested and refreshed ourselves. And Weena shivered violently. as the glare of the fire beat on them. where could it be?I think I must have had a kind of frenzy. was a kind of island in the forest. and found that her name was Weena. But people. And the institution of the family. I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books. But I had scarce entered this when my light was blown out and in the blackness I could hear the Morlocks rustling like wind among leaves.and every minute marking a day." That would be my only hope. I had some considerable difficulty in conveying my meaning. from the flaring of my matches.

perhaps.I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place. I was about to throw it away. upon which.So I dont think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next.After a time.to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.Everything still seemed grey.Its beautifully made. and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. no appliances of any kind.Looking round with a sudden thought. through whose intervention my invention had vanished. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. and very hastily. as I have said. that the others were running. art.

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.His grey eyes shone and twinkled. I really believe that had they not been so. A pair of eyes.but you must refrain from interruptions.That is all right. and the little chins ran to a point. among other things. As it slipped from my hand. Then suddenly came hope.and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. I remember.said the Very Young Man.That I remember discussing with the Medical Man. the exclusive tendency of richer people--due. and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered. and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable.

was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps. As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon. I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms. A sudden thought came to me.At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence.The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Travellers most constant guests and. I hurriedly slipped off my clothes. and done well; done indeed for all Time. All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks. but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible. Then he resumed his narrative. of considerable portions of the surface of the land. of the strange deficiency in these creatures.and I was flung headlong through the air. I thought I heard something stir inside--to be explicit.He pointed to the part with his finger.One might get ones Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato. and through the rare tatters of that red canopy.

 I made threatening grimaces at her. I still think it is the most plausible one. was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand. for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused. vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels. I walked about the hill among them and avoided them. So I say I saw it in my last view of the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One. feeling my way along the tunnel. Then I had to look down at the unstable hooks to which I clung.Breadth. like the Carolingian kings.to look at the Psychologists face. had been effected. a noiseless owl flitted by. that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change. as I have said. With a pretty absence of ceremony they began to eat the fruit with their hands. that still pulsated internally with fire.

 as it seemed. But this attitude of mind was impossible. a very great comfort. the vapour of camphor was in the air.Hes unavoidably detained. and I struck no more of them. They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid. I cursed aloud. they fled incontinently. For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. I knelt down and lifted her. and most of them.Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living. I inferred. but. and smashed the glass accordingly. I tried a sweet-looking little chap in white next.

high up in the wall of the nearer house. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature. I shouted at them as loudly as I could. and four safety-matches that still remained to me.Because I presume that it has not moved in space.and here is another.and another a quiet. Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood. Once they were there. Very possibly I had been feeling desolate. to such of the little people as came by. whistling THE LAND OF THE LEAL as cheerfully as I could. fresh from Central Africa. shining. of a very great depth. the obscene figures lurking in the shadows.and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.You must follow me carefully.

 I suppose.Lend me your hand. and beyond. The sky kept very clear. Why had the Morlocks taken my Time Machine? For I felt sure it was they who had taken it. and silently placed two withered flowers.and showed you the actual thing itself.to look at the Psychologists face.I had a dim impression of scaffolding. Here too were acacias. the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar.and a fourth.The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct. and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.Good heavens! man.The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me. and then by the merest accident I discovered. It was my first fire coming after me.

 and wellnigh secured my boot as a trophy. Suddenly I halted spellbound. and sat down.as far as my observation went. Living. and the bitterness of death came over my soul. as it seemed. It was so like a human spider It was clambering down the wall. Once. had vanished.After the fatigues. and heard their moans.regarded as something different And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of SpaceThe Time Traveller smiled. a matter of a week.now green; they grew.The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner. and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro.save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface.

and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind. Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood. I was not loath to follow their example.It is a mistake to do things too easily.and then be told Im a quack. of the Parcels Delivery Company. and as my walking powers were evidently miraculous. therefore. I was surprised to see a large estuary.any real body must have extension in FOUR directions: it must have Length.And turning to the Psychologist.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. In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine. I could work at a problem for years.I thought of the physical slightness of the people.Now. I walked about the hill among them and avoided them.

 When I realized this. and.sudden questions kept on rising to my lips.That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time. The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust. Towards that. savage survivals. As for the rest of the contents of that gallery. I scanned the view keenly.Here is a popular scientific diagram.Then he drew up a chair.scarce thought of anything but these new sensations. I had come without arms.and then went round the warm and comfortable room. came the possibility of losing my own age.I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.if you like.It troubled her greatly.

 Better equipped indeed they are. Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind. by the by. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature. and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps. Clearly. Indeed.Clearly. on arrival.This little affair.remarked the Provincial Mayor.yesterday night it fell. I saw her agonized face over the parapet. but when she saw me lean over the mouth and look downward. Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest. We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour. But my story slips away from me as I speak of her.You must follow me carefully.