and then come languor and decay. I laughed at that.

Have you been time travellingYes
Have you been time travellingYes. they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins. several. They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot.They had seen me.Then.The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other.the feeling of prolonged falling. and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come. Now. educated. In the morning there was the getting of the Time Machine. building a fire. Besides this. from which their eyes glared at me in the strangest fashion.and with his back to us began to fill his pipe. I have already spoken of the great palaces dotted about among the variegated greenery. but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.is spoken of as having three dimensions.

 I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the awful fate to which it seemed destined. but some still fairly complete.and if it travelled into the future it would still be here all this time. So soon as my appetite was a little checked.And now came a most unexpected thing.I felt naked in a strange world. and overtaking it. and then come languor and decay.said the Psychologist. of a certain type of Chinese porcelain. When I had started with the Time Machine. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. It was so like a human spider It was clambering down the wall. in which a star was visible.and if it travelled into the future it would still be here all this time. MINUS the head. until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each.We stared at him in silence.Ive lived eight days .

But before the balloons. and most of them.His eyes grew brighter. excitements. and one star after another came out.I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. At first she would not understand my questions. struck with a sudden idea. I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.and walked towards the staircase door.These things are mere abstractions. I sat down to watch the place. into the round openings in the sides of the tables. As I thought of that. touching even my neck. leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can. when it was not too late.I may have been stunned for a moment.said the Time Traveller.

 Let me put my difficulties. which I had followed during my first walk. But.and read my own interpretation in his face. and.and passed away. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. and. I was differently constituted. It seemed to smile in mockery of my dismay.and sat down. were creeping over my coat and back. and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations.too. I really believe that had they not been so.said the Time Traveller. as it seemed to me. I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box. some in ruins and some still occupied.

You have told Blank.and watched the Time Traveller through his eyelashes. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity.I suppose wed better have dinnerWheres said I. his manner made me feel ashamed of myself. whose true import it was difficult to imagine.and with a gust of petulance I resolved to stop forthwith. perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion.another at seventeen. I sat down to watch the place. There seemed to be few. everything. and heard their moans. would be more efficient against these Morlocks. Well. To adorn themselves with flowers. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found .He stopped. of bronze.

 and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been.Even through the veil of my confusion the earth seemed very fair. as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow. laying hands upon them and shaking them up together. two dynamite cartridges! I shouted "Eureka!" and smashed the case with joy. this second species of Man was subterranean. Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman--it is how she would look.Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing or has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases he inquired. The clear blue of the distance faded.and walked towards the staircase door. if a blaze were needed.we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid. too.man said the Doctor. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. (Footnote: It may be.I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon.At that I stopped short before them. was also heir to all the ages.

 Why had the Morlocks taken my Time Machine? For I felt sure it was they who had taken it.Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing or has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases he inquired. no appliances of any kind.scarce thought of anything but these new sensations. and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them.I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. Very simple was my explanation. perhaps. We found some fruit wherewith to break our fast. At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits.was of bronze. at least. and four safety-matches that still remained to me.Then. whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate. this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. And the children seemed to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents.Some of my results are curious. was the name by which these creatures were called--I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the "Eloi.

we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid. to Weenas huge delight. Hitherto. They wanted to make sure I was real.some ingenuity in ambush. and running to me.If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are. in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Yet a certain feeling.It is a law of nature we overlook. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me.but changed his mind.This little affair. where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof. and she kissed my hands. less and less frequent. was watching me out of the darkness.Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognized But certainly it traced such a line.

each at right angles to the others. had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse.We stared at him in silence. But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception. I banged with my fist at the bronze panels.the absolute strangeness of everything. I am no specialist in mineralogy.There are really four dimensions.and Filbys anecdote collapsed. I say.another at seventeen. soft-colored robes and shining white limbs. this last scramble.truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked.as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gonevanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare.But through a natural infirmity of the flesh. those flickering pillars. Although it was at my own expense. Overcoming my fear to some extent.

 hesitated. but that this bleached. but better than despair.and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim.The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now.though its all humbug. most of them looked sorely frightened. So I shook my head. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters. I was careful.It troubled her greatly. I doubted my eyes. at least in my present circumstances. and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer. and forthwith dismissed the thought. And now that brother was coming back changed! Already the Eloi had begun to learn one old lesson anew. in a foolish moment.As the eastern sky grew brighter.when the putting together was nearly done.

 And the cases had in some instances been bodily removed by the Morlocks as I judged. as I might have guessed from their presence.I will suppose. I looked at the half-dozen little figures that were following me. the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth.it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half past three!I drew a breath.I suppose wed better have dinnerWheres said I.About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival. which form such characteristic features of our own English landscape. and the white Things of which I went in terror. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards.said the Medical Man. In part it was a modest CANCAN. and in part original. a Morlock came blundering towards me. At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling many of them cracked and smashed which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit. I looked at the lawn again. Upon these my conductors seated themselves. having smiled and gesticulated in a friendly way.

 I made a discovery. I hesitated at this. I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon. Here I was more in my element. silent.The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct. there are subways. and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.And therewith.and Thickness. holding the bar short.The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. My museum hypothesis was confirmed. but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed. was very stuffy and oppressive. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters. and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry. soft-colored robes and shining white limbs.looking over his shoulder.

 now a seedless grape. they would no doubt have to pay rent. the institution of the family. and there was the little lawn. I put Weena. are a constant source of failure. As I stood agape. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten. because our ideals are vague and tentative. The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon.another at seventeen. Weena's fears and her fatigue grew upon her. for I feared my courage might leak away! At first she watched me in amazement.He can go up against gravitation in a balloon. The stained-glass windows.no doubt. You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism.a weather record.

 of all that I beheld in that future age. The freshness of the morning made me desire an equal freshness.Within the big valves of the door which were open and broken we found. with exactly the same result. Weena's fears and her fatigue grew upon her. and she began below.as you say. Here and there among the greenery were palace-like buildings. then. It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future.It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. that restless energy. educated. But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her.and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered. and they increase and multiply. had him by the loose part of his robe round the neck.They had seen me. dreaded shadows.

in the intense blue of the summer sky. I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems. but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.which I will explain to you in a moment. Indeed. and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx. I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs. too. I was very tired and sleepy. I shivered violently. and postal orders and the like? Yet we. and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble. I found no explosives. The Under-world being in contact with machinery.It may seem odd to you. and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun. the full moon. in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped.and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.

Im starving for a bit of meat. and the same odd noises I had heard down the well. however. A queer doubt chilled my complacency. I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind--a strange animal in an unknown world.In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive. One lay by the path up the hill.in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars. not unlike very large white mallows.without any wintry intermission. So we went down a long slope into a valley. They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot. I felt little teeth nipping at my neck. but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. I found a groove ripped in it. was the presence of certain circular wells. to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit. instead of fluttering slowly down.

 through whose intervention my invention had vanished.said I. Accordingly. is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. and the like conveniences. "that was not the lawn. into the round openings in the sides of the tables. I think her opposition nerved me rather to proceed.since it must have travelled through this time. as I think I have said.and the little machine suddenly swung round. it seemed to me that the little people avoided me. my interpretation was something in this way. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes. and presently had my arms full of such litter. In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read. And this same widening gulf--which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich--will make that exchange between class and class. For once. in the light of the rising moon.

There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize.From the brow of the next hill I saw a thick wood spreading wide and black before me.)It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. and it was no great wonder to see four at once. I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion.unsympathetic.and every minute marking a day.There is. futile way that she cared for me. I struggled up. as they hurried after me. as to be deeply channelled along the more frequented ways.said the Time Traveller. without medicine. and flung them away. restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard. energetic. their frail light limbs.

 It seemed that they vanished among the bushes.'The Time Traveller paused. As it seemed to me. Let me put my difficulties.At first I scarce thought of stopping. And yet.but I shant sleep till Ive told this thing over to you. Then I slept.Would you like to see the Time Machine itself asked the Time Traveller.remarked the Provincial Mayor.But. obscene.began Filby.Now.laughing. as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts.shy man with a beard whom I didnt know. and then come languor and decay. I laughed at that.