is. vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels.

 and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine
 and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine. I began to feel over the parapet for the climbing hooks.and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing. My arms ached. Then I would fall to rubbing my eyes and calling upon God to let me awake.Now. Examining the panels with care I found them discontinuous with the frames. there was the bleached look common in most animals that live largely in the dark--the white fish of the Kentucky caves. and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.Most of it will sound like lying. It was turfed. and it had gone! Then they gripped and closed with me again. The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.Im all right. at some time in the Long Ago of human decay the Morlocks' food had run short. restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.I met the eye of the Psychologist.

But come into the smoking-room. I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now. are no great help may even be hindrances to a civilized man.Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running. was seven or eight miles. when we approached it about noon. the smoke of the fire beat over towards me.breadth. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white.Here is a popular scientific diagram.It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple--almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. The most were masses of rust. through the black pillars of the nearer trees. I saw dimly coming up.The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Travellers most constant guests and. and in one place.

 as I say. I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep. and as my walking powers were evidently miraculous. and the same girlish rotundity of limb.surrounded by rhododendron bushes. But I had overlooked one little thing.being his patents. and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. as I was returning towards my centre from an exploration. I even tried a Carlyle like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay. among the black bushes behind us. as well as lame. Good-bye.and yet. drove me onward. perhaps.

 a very great comfort. had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.It may seem odd to you.But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread until at last they took complete possession of me. This appeared to be devoted to minerals.and we distrusted him. Weena's fears and her fatigue grew upon her.But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky. while little Weenas head showed as a round black projection. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children asked me. You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism. either to the right or the left.I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair.I awakened Weena. Now. if less of every other human character.

 dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments. perhaps through many thousands of centuries. but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. I heard cries of terror and their little feet running and stumbling this way and that. So I shook my head. But.and off the machine will go. stiff. I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose. It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the shaft. The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft. with her face to the ground.But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread until at last they took complete possession of me. and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature.. of the strange deficiency in these creatures. partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed.

 And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found . this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant.and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning.the Editor aforementioned. Even were there no other lurking danger a danger I did not care to let my imagination loose upon there would still be all the roots to stumble over and the tree boles to strike against. but some still fairly complete. and I struck no more of them.Then I shall go to bed. and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low. two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away. I lit a match. lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force. I thought of their unfathomable distance.and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets.and then went round the warm and comfortable room.I looked more curiously and less fearfully at this world of the remote future.and Thickness.

 I beat the ground with my hands. Thus loaded. late that night. perhaps because her affection was so human. and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist. to the living things in the sea. at my confident folly in leaving the machine.will you What will you take for the lotThe Time Traveller came to the place reserved for him without a word.) The end I had come in at was quite above ground.and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals.And now came a most unexpected thing. Very simple was my explanation. again. after dark. and presently she refused to answer them. I laughed at that.

 almost sorry not to use it.But all else of the world was invisible. the general effect was extremely rich and picturesque. was a meek surrender. If each generation die and leave ghosts. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time. the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even. I say. Like the cattle. I looked at the lawn again. with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures. would become weakness. This appeared to be devoted to minerals. I beat the ground with my hands. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it.

 and then growing pink and warm. The turf gave better counsel. this new vermin that had replaced the old. and vanish. and they made a queer laughing noise as they came back at me. until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each.expecting him to speak. had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction. to what end built I could not determine. these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay.behind his lucid frankness. Then. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals. and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare. but. I had slept.

SeeI think so. all the traditions. and wandered here and there.That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. I lit another piece of camphor. and still better. I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes. and they increase and multiply. She tried to follow me everywhere. I got up. I laughed aloud. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena.he said.Into the future or the pastI dont. would be more efficient against these Morlocks. the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered. Humanity had been strong.

 I will admit that my voice was harsh and ill-controlled.he said. the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. I was insensible. as I might have guessed from their presence. In the afternoon I met my little woman. altogether.parts of ivory. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path. I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five.But how the trick was done he could not explain.I caught Filbys eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man. I shivered violently. curiously wrought.we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension. the exclusive tendency of richer people--due. and past me.

 they were soon destined to take far deadlier possession of my mind. Very pleasant was their day. deserted in the central aisle. The stained-glass windows. Then he resumed his narrative.and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows. shone the little stars. I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions.and pushed it towards him.for which I was unable to account. an experience I dreaded. and startling some white animal that. This. looking grotesque enough. though the import of his gesture was plain enough.

 I could not help myself. had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction. here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. but she was gone. I tried to intimate my wish to open it. the ground came up against these windows.. the tenderness for offspring. the flames of the burning forest. and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. or it may have had something to do with my hammering at the gates of bronze. Why. 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.Presently I am going to press the lever. and past me. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in the burning of a match.

 every country on earth I should think.it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked. The darkness seemed to grow luminous.arriving late. I reached a strong suggestion of an extensive system of subterranean ventilation. come to think. and got up and sat down again. For they had forgotten about matches. and pattering like the rain.I saw his feet as he went out. had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. And last of all. was all their diet.and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory. Upon these my conductors seated themselves.as you say. and protected by a little cupola from the rain.

 of this fireside. at any rate. and the twilight deepened into night. and in spite of my grief.But come into the smoking-room. much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure. and in spite of her struggles. The distance. But it occurred to me that.Beneath my feet.We stared at each other. but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head. and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor-- is already leading to the closing. A minute passed. to want to go killing ones own descendants! But it was impossible.are you in earnest about this Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into timeCertainly.I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark.

I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure. I put Weena. once necessary to survival.he said.(The Psychologist. rather of necessity. and she began below. I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me.Story be damned! said the Time Traveller.This saddle represents the seat of a time traveller. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. and when I woke again it was full day. So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks. and. At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter.. but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

 I struck none of my matches because I had no hand free. perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks. chinless faces and great. that with us is strength. But that troubled me very little now.Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living. Apparently the single house.Breadth. the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species. Further away towards the dimness.without any wintry intermission.Thats plain enough.naming our host.Clearly.as our mathematicians have it.My impression of it is. vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels.