and struck furiously at them with my bar.

 and she received me with cries of delight and presented me with a big garland of flowers-- evidently made for me and me alone
 and she received me with cries of delight and presented me with a big garland of flowers-- evidently made for me and me alone. no danger from wild beasts.scarcely larger than a small clock. and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering. knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach.And now I must be explicit. I could look my circumstances fairly in the face.expecting him to speak. and then by the merest accident I discovered.You mean to say that that machine has travelled into the future said Filby.And this brought my attention back to the bright dinner-table.and in another moment came to morrow.The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. at the foot of that shaft? I sat upon the edge of the well telling myself that.and every minute marking a day.

 and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom. patience.I want to tell it.I saw the heads of two orange-clad people coming through the bushes and under some blossom-covered apple-trees towards me. and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain. was watching me out of the darkness. patience.and suddenly looked under the table. think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times. that Weena might help me to interpret this. was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.or half an hour.Remarkable Behaviour of an Eminent Scientist.was of bronze. On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence.

 This I waded. that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter. instead of the customary hall. I may make another. engaged in conversation. excitements. I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling. And withal I was absolutely afraid to go As I hesitated.Then he came into the room. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.to look at the Psychologists face. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease.The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter. I could see no gleam of water. And their backs seemed no longer white.

 that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world mastered the whole secret of these delicious people. Soft little hands.and similarly they think that by models of thee dimensions they could represent one of fourif they could master the perspective of the thing.with a certain faltering articulation. instead of casting about among the trees for fallen twigs.The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual. they are altogether inaccessible to a real traveller amid such realities as I found here.and I was flung headlong through the air. as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw. and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.and the Silent Man followed suit. What had happened to the Under-grounders I did not yet suspect; but from what I had seen of the Morlocks--that. and no more. so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand. two dynamite cartridges! I shouted "Eureka!" and smashed the case with joy.

but you must refrain from interruptions.So I dont think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next. wondering where I could bathe. the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. are a constant source of failure.as I went on.you know. standing strange and gaunt in the centre of the hall.It would be remarkably convenient for the historian.and reassured us. When I realized this.man had no freedom of vertical movement. had been swept out of existence. as I have said. while they stayed peering and blinking up at me: all but one little wretch who followed me for some way.

 tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival. The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness. hastily striking one. and the other hand played with the matches in my pocket. in a frenzy of fear.I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon. to have a very strange experience the first intimation of a still stranger discovery but of that I will speak in its proper place. I say. had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy. that the children of that time were extremely precocious. too. I entered it groping.no doubt. if any.shy man with a beard whom I didnt know.

You must follow me carefully. I saw white figures. and the same odd noises I had heard down the well. moving creature.save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue. and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey.high up in the wall of the nearer house.in the intense blue of the summer sky. But it occurred to me that. I saw the aperture.I took my hands from the machine. I went up the hills towards the south west. with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread. late that night. But I did not stay to look.

 and sat down upon the turf. presently came. It is odd. You are in for it now.and a brass rail bent; but the rest of its sound enough. I stood glaring at the blackness. it was rimmed with bronze. the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it. in trying to revive the sensation of fear.looking round. Face this world. It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order. and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body..knitting his brows.

making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; that .with an air of impartiality.interrupted the Psychologist.We stared at him in silence. are a constant source of failure. and overflowing it. was fast asleep.looking over his shoulder." said I stoutly to myself. and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations.Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension. When I saw them standing round me. I say. carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me. I came out of this age of ours.

 It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure. I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though. gloriously clothed. But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her. I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough. Why. the world at last will get overcrowded with them. and four safety-matches that still remained to me.It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind. I thrust where I judged their faces might be.At first. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning.is only a model. and could economize my camphor.

At first we glanced now and again at each other.the Psychologist from the left. perhaps. in the dim light. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure had gone steadily on to a climax. The wood. I saw three crouching figures.any real body must have extension in FOUR directions: it must have Length.The fact is.Then Filby said he was damned. was watching me out of the darkness.What reason said the Time Traveller. "If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone. hot and tired. I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine.

 I was not loath to follow their example.said the Psychologist. I found myself in the same grey light and tumult I have already described. "Where is my Time Machine?" I began.The enemy I dreaded may surprise you. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories. hastily retreating before the light. For after the battle comes Quiet. too. in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped.apparently without seeing me.The landscape was misty and vague. But I saw no vestige of my white figures. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things.

very clear indeed.and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. watch it. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena. I lit a match. unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin. and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more.then fainter and ever fainter. The bright little figures ceased to move about below. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. the big unmeaning shapes. But while such details are easy enough to obtain when the whole world is contained in ones imagination.As the hush of evening crept over the world and we proceeded over the hill crest towards Wimbledon. It was turfed. and the windows.

The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes. Night was creeping upon us. in an air-tight case. what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong.a line of thickness NIL.The other men were Blank. all that commerce which constitutes the body of our world. and only a narrow line of daylight at the top. The stained-glass windows. sufficient light for me to avoid the stems. I felt--how shall I put it? Suppose you found an inscription. and. or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism. still motionless.I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other.

But probably. and the same odd noises I had heard down the well. and none answered. 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. I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind--a strange animal in an unknown world. and none answered.and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail stones. By contrast with the brilliancy outside.In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink and. and social arrangements. I never found one out of doors.could he And then. dreaded black things. the dawn came. and struck furiously at them with my bar.