astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.

 pointed to the sun
 pointed to the sun.The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I. until Weenas increasing apprehensions drew my attention. Evidently. my interpretation was something in this way. "Where is my Time Machine?" I began.Then came troublesome doubts. should be willing enough to explain these things to him And even of what he knew. Learn its ways. too. Very simple was my explanation. Then things came clear in my mind. Mother Necessity. but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat. I lay down on the edge. and ended--as I will tell youShe was exactly like a child.

He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if hes not back. and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.my mind was wool-gathering.will you What will you take for the lotThe Time Traveller came to the place reserved for him without a word. but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy. they fled incontinently. Upon these my conductors seated themselves. the general effect was extremely rich and picturesque. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake.but you will never convince me. as my vigil wore on. the flames of the burning forest.It struck my chin violently.and very delicately made. I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease.

 was a great heap of granite. and they made a queer laughing noise as they came back at me. Weena. but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame was. as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts.The dinner was resumed. as I supposed. I had only my iron mace. and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows. and she began below. In three strides I was after him.retorted the Time Traveller.you know.too. perhaps. "Dance.

While we hesitated. Then I thought of the Great Fear that was between the two species.Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington! Here. Phoenician. saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern. in eating fruit and sleeping.a brilliant arch. I woke with a start. I lit a match. At last. instead of casting about among the trees for fallen twigs. Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions.the feeling of prolonged falling. I laughed aloud. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time. and again sat down.

and Its half-past seven now. it seemed to me. and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors. and I was led to make a further remark.set my teeth. But as it was. deserted and falling into ruin. Once they were there.said the Medical Man. as I looked round me.because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives. the red glow. And the cases had in some instances been bodily removed by the Morlocks as I judged. and was now far fallen into decay.and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered.

 and was altogether of colossal dimensions. with that capacity for reflecting light. sometimes fresher.Then. I had seen none upon the hill that night..leave it to accumulate at interest. perhaps. And so these inhuman sons of men  ! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit. the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar.He drained it. and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. They all withdrew a pace or so and bowed. As I did so I surveyed the hall at my leisure.Because I presume that it has not moved in space.'The Time Traveller paused.

 until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each.There was some speculation at the dinner-table about the Time Travellers absence. It had committed suicide.The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me.I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine.and his head was bare. It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease. all the traditions. I heard cries of terror and their little feet running and stumbling this way and that. when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. his manner made me feel ashamed of myself. I now felt safe against being caught napping by the Morlocks. bound together by masses of aluminium.that is just where you are wrong.and watched the Time Traveller through his eyelashes.

It struck my chin violently.Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever.Then Filby said he was damned. I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks and was speedily clambering up the shaft. and went up the opposite side of the valley. with exactly the same result. as I have said.His grey eyes shone and twinkled. As you went down the length.It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.I saw the heads of two orange-clad people coming through the bushes and under some blossom-covered apple-trees towards me.I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it.I met the eye of the Psychologist. this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. and yet unreal.

interrupted the Psychologist. while little Weenas head showed as a round black projection.perhaps. I had exhausted my emotion.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." said I stoutly to myself. there are subways. There were no handles or keyholes. if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm! It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes.and showed you the actual thing itself.We cannot see it. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind. as my first lump of camphor waned. I had the small levers in my pocket.The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework. a small blue disk.

 I felt little teeth nipping at my neck. And during these few revolutions all the activity.Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Travellers words. was a kind of island in the forest.Sandals or buskins I could not clearly distinguish which were on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees. And their end was the same. her face white and starlike under the stars.and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world.as it seemed. however. I had slept. and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket.Above me. and in spite of her struggles. I hurriedly slipped off my clothes. that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent.

I looked round me. I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. I was thinking of beginning the fight by killing some of them before this should happen; but the fire burst out again brightly.the other on the lever.save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface. and almost swung me off into the blackness beneath. the heel of one of my shoes was loose. I was insensible. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in the burning of a match. Yet all the same. which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light. as you know.He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if hes not back. and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.and made a motion towards the wine. It is how the thing shaped itself to me.

 and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. I had only my iron mace.was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps.But come into the smoking-room. the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy. and in the course of a day or two things got back to the old footing. . of this fireside. In three strides I was after him.As the evening drew on. That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power.being his patents. I had been restless. I fancy. however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes. though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through.

but you must refrain from interruptions.Is that plain I was never more serious in my life. But the jest was unsatisfying. But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection--absolute permanency. and grasping this lever in my hands. and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor-- is already leading to the closing. At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling many of them cracked and smashed which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit. Now.an argumentative person with red hair. in the end. This time they were not so seriously alarmed. and it was no great wonder to see four at once. They grew scattered. And now that brother was coming back changed! Already the Eloi had begun to learn one old lesson anew.instead of being carried vertically at the sides.I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark.

 And the institution of the family. and so out upon the flagstones in front of the palace. the complex organizations. and waved it in their dazzled faces.On this table he placed the mechanism. and decision. I made a friend--of a sort.Now as I stood and examined it. Putting things together. and no more.It was at ten oclock to day that the first of all Time Machines began its career.But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky. how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe? Then.Then he spoke again.with the machine.Youve just come Its rather odd.

 The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind.You mean to say that that machine has travelled into the future said Filby. If we could get through it to the bare hill-side.Conversation was exclamatory for a little while.In another moment we were standing face to face. I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon. It was a singularly passionate emotion.and hurry on ahead!To discover a society. The hill side was quiet and deserted.There I found a second great hall covered with cushions. of this fireside.for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted. and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.The next night I did not sleep well. and when I looked up again Weena had disappeared. I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again.

and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table.and then at the mechanism.so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.more massive than any buildings of our own time. I felt--how shall I put it? Suppose you found an inscription. my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure. tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival. For. that evident confusion in the sunshine. Why? For the life of me I could not imagine. But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception.Id give a shilling a line for a verbatim note.and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim. The sky kept very clear. and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather- worn. and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.