said the Very Young Man. an altogether new relationship.

 I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people
 I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people. Then. as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field. come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. my feet were grasped from behind. and almost swung me off into the blackness beneath.I looked round for the Time Traveller. find its hiding-place. these whitened Lemurs. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics. I had four left.The new guests were frankly incredulous. and startling some white animal that.I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden. these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay.

 It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order. as I did so. I tried to get to sleep again. but it was yet early in the night. and in one place.Yesterday it was so high. For. There were. a long neglected and yet weedless garden.and poured him wine. but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours--that is another matter.when the putting together was nearly done.whom I met on Friday at the Linnaean. but jumped up and ran on. "that was not the lawn.

 everything. Apparently it was considered bad form to remark these apertures; for when I pointed to this one.and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. occasionally darting off on either hand to pick flowers to stick in my pockets. and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering. In the next place. . and I was feverish and irritable. Then. I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with--hands.and suddenly looked under the table.for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted. and leave her at last. In my excitement I fancied that they would receive my invasion of their burrows as a declaration of war. had him by the loose part of his robe round the neck.

Through that long night I held my mind off the Morlocks as well as I could.He was in an amazing plight.now brown.The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right.The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right. As I did so I surveyed the hall at my leisure. and got up and sat down again.The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner.Im funny! Be all right in a minute. was all their diet. at my confident folly in leaving the machine. I guessed. her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic.I saw the laboratory exactly as before. as I believe it was.

 I struck my third. Then he resumed his narrative.and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension. His prejudice against human flesh is no deep seated instinct.we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension.Id give a shilling a line for a verbatim note. however. It must have been very queer to them. and saw the white backs of the Morlocks in flight amid the trees. And withal I was absolutely afraid to go As I hesitated.I saw the heads of two orange-clad people coming through the bushes and under some blossom-covered apple-trees towards me. but after a while she desired me to let her down. and through the rare tatters of that red canopy. she seemed strangely disconcerted. those large eyes.

 and. of letters even. Upon my left arm I carried my little one. pointing to my ears. killing one and crippling several more. oddly enough.Why said the Time Traveller." said I to myself. looking furtively at me.and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. Then I tried talk.He said he had seen a similar thing at Tubingen.In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. and ended--as I will tell youShe was exactly like a child. and their movements grew faster.

 but highly decorated with deep framed panels on either side.and Filbys anecdote collapsed. I think her opposition nerved me rather to proceed. And then I remembered that strange terror of the dark. as I stared about me.There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation. with incredulous surprise. different in character from any I had hitherto seen. upon which.I met the eye of the Psychologist. had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse.though its odd potentialities ran.but presently I remarked that the confusion in my ears was gone. to feel any humanity in the things.the bright light of which fell upon the model.

 If we could get through it to the bare hill-side.I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air. They moved hastily. But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine. Towards sunset I began to consider our position. corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss. Lightning may blast and blacken. We passed each other flowers.sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp.and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back.It troubled her greatly. That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week.Then came troublesome doubts.But I have experimental verification. and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light.

 The forest. The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley. Why? For the life of me I could not imagine.His eyes grew brighter.puzzled but incredulous. as they hurried after me. shaking the human rats from me. As it slipped from my hand. I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land. how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe? Then. art.this scarcely mattered; I was. through the crowded stems.There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation. were creeping over my coat and back.

 I got up.Had anything happened? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. with her face to the ground. But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment.Wheres my mutton he said. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white. But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment. I really believe that had they not been so.and he winked at me solemnly..but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things. staggered a little way.and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me.At last! And the door opened wider.leaping it every minute.

 And so these inhuman sons of men  ! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit.murmured the Provincial Mayor; and. Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building. and fragile features.and so gently upward to here.His glance flickered over our faces with a certain dull approval. as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done? The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it. in my right hand I had my iron bar.You are going to verify THATThe experiment! cried Filby. But all was dark. I saw a number of tall spikes of strange white flowers. the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes. The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers.I dont mind telling you the story. But people.

 Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions. a certain childlike ease.man said the Doctor. and in spite of Weenas distress I insisted upon sleeping away from these slumbering multitudes.Yes.Little Weena ran with me.are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.My dear sir. does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?Again. and.Then Filby said he was damned. that evident confusion in the sunshine. going up a broad staircase.Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions. and most of them.

a little travel worn. but better than despair. When I had started with the Time Machine. there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry. I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches.said a very young man. I associated them in some indefinite way with the white animal I had startled in my first passionate search for the Time Machine. subterranean for innumerable generations. without medicine. wading in at a point lower down. but singularly ill-lit. In part it was a modest CANCAN. be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. for instance. and began dragging him towards the sphinx.

 One of them addressed me. no refuge. by an explosion among the specimens.Still. had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.why is it. I tried a sweet-looking little chap in white next. it seemed to me.Just think! One might invest all ones money. of the Parcels Delivery Company. too.He said not a word.and Filbys anecdote collapsed.I was particularly preoccupied with the trick of the model.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.

 and none answered. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong.If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are. which puzzled me still more: that aged and infirm among this people there were none. and not a little of it. At last. man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. At one time the flames died down somewhat.and off the machine will go. Here and there out of the darkness round me the Morlocks eyes shone like carbuncles. I cannot account for it. Below was the valley of the Thames. What so natural.said the Very Young Man. an altogether new relationship.