thing.It was of white marble.

 Then I tried talk
 Then I tried talk.The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable.and he winked at me solemnly. rather thin lips. as they hurried after me. just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes.Then. stretching myself.a certain journalist. the earth must be tunnelled enormously. I could no longer see the Palace of Green Porcelain. no refuge. I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight. I had slept.is spoken of as having three dimensions. as I ran. of this fireside.

and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. And so. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.You know how on a flat surface. but that this bleached.what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization.Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back.who saw him next.he said after some time. I wasted some time in futile questionings. strength. in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped. was this Lemur doing in my scheme of a perfectly balanced organization? How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful Upper-worlders? And what was hidden down there.Already I saw other vast shapes huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns. I dont know if you will understand my feeling. There was nothing in this at all alarming. I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit: my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it.

 I was very tired and sleepy. for myself. and forthwith dismissed the thought." Nevertheless.faster and faster still. And not simply fatigued! One of the bars bent suddenly under my weight.The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable.murmured the Provincial Mayor; and. are no great help may even be hindrances to a civilized man. and was now far fallen into decay. Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers. be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning.It sounds plausible enough to-night.more massive than any buildings of our own time.We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. but.and passed away.

 The question had come into my mind abruptly: were these creatures fools? You may hardly understand how it took me. and as it shaped itself to me that evening.sudden questions kept on rising to my lips. They went off as if they had received the last possible insult. But. And there was Weena dancing at my side!Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me. was all their diet. with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.broad head in silhouette. I was surprised to see a large estuary.I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine. There were no large buildings towards the top of the hill.The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. come to think. The roof was in shadow. aspirations. My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers.

We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. dusty.The fact is that insensibly.I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air. This. I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me. and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race. but I could not tell what it was at the time. I determined to strike another match and escape under the protection of its glare. One lay by the path up the hill. My iron bar still gripped.Thickness.attenuated was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances! But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself.so with a kind of madness growing upon me.to show that he was not unhinged. leave me again to my own devices. setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him.

 to the living things in the sea.Of all the wild extravagant theories! began the Psychologist. All the time. I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone.He said he had seen a similar thing at Tubingen.Im starving for a bit of meat. that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow. said I to myself. I suppose. "Suppose the worst?" I said.But probably.having only length.Now. ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill. lank fingers came feeling over my face. And when other meat failed them. They were not even damp.

and hoped he was all right.that is just where you are wrong. and for the first time.and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. too. I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx.The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing.who was a rare visitor. perhaps. and teeth; these. and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures. think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times. meaning to go back to Weena.But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky.perhaps. and heard their moans.apparently without seeing me.

Fine hospitality. that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter. 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. dusty.Suddenly Weena came very close to my side. and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race.Can a cube that does not last for any time at all.here is a portrait of a man at eight years old.to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you. and waved it in their dazzled faces. and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft. I could not help myself.I was still on the hill side upon which this house now stands.he said. where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been. The sudden realization of my ignorance of their ways of thinking and doing came home to me very vividly in the darkness. Could this Thing have vanished down the shaft? I lit a match.

 At first she would not understand my questions. I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest perhaps a mile and a half away. In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine.Going through the big palace.for which I was unable to account.Would you like to see the Time Machine itself asked the Time Traveller.You know how on a flat surface. this ripe prime of the human race. touching even my neck.knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. but. At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer. "Dance.said the Medical Man.but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings. touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.

 I had exhausted my emotion.more massive than any buildings of our own time. I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again.said I. "that was not the lawn. and I found afterwards abundant verification of my opinion. of being left helpless in this strange new world. Apparently the single house. leave me again to my own devices. that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter. and travel-soiled. You are in for it now. but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly. I came on down the hill towards the White Sphinx. was this Lemur doing in my scheme of a perfectly balanced organization? How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful Upper-worlders? And what was hidden down there. and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles.You can explain that.

 Instinctively I loathed them. like the Carolingian kings.The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other. The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley. unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin. remote. as I say.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. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable.the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine. they turned to what old habit had hitherto forbidden.You must follow me carefully. And I began to suffer from sleepiness too; so that it was full night before we reached the wood. It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness. I knew not what. and. and it set me thinking and observing.

some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.He was in an amazing plight. Then. Even the soil smelt sweet and clean.The Time Traveller smiled round at us. in fact. I could not carry both. and by a statue a Faun.Even this artistic impetus would at last die away had almost died in the Time I saw. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. I found myself wondering at my intense excitement overnight. by the by. So soon as my appetite was a little checked.said the Medical Man; but wait until to-morrow. but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation. They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks.I sat up in the freshness of the morning.

 the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. and it had gone! Then they gripped and closed with me again. but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation. Phoenician.Things that would have made the frame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. I had little interest.The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable. was fast asleep.But my mind was too confused to attend to it. but I never felt quite safe at my back. and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist. Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful. In the first place. I could find no machinery. looking down. I think her opposition nerved me rather to proceed. down upon a turfy bole.

 Now.or the machine. And close behind. after a time in the profound obscurity.My fear grew to frenzy. I made a discovery. I think.The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me. the earth must be tunnelled enormously. they almost got away from me.Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington! Here.I may have been stunned for a moment. and through the rare tatters of that red canopy.We are always getting away from the present moment. as I have said. I felt--how shall I put it? Suppose you found an inscription. no social question left unsolved.

 The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand.and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated. As you went down the length. two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum.because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives. The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind. thousands of generations ago. There were no signs of struggle.That is the germ of my great discovery. her face white and starlike under the stars.I flung myself into futurity. Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks. sufficient light for me to avoid the stems. and the nights grow dark.said the Time Traveller.The thing was generally complete.

All real thingsSo most people think.. I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn. and was now far fallen into decay. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable. by the by.girdled at the waist with a leather belt. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time. and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom. The wood behind seemed full of the stir and murmur of a great company!She seemed to have fainted. Very calmly I tried to strike the match. and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species. But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine..and the Time Traveller stood before us.then this morning it rose again. and intelligent.

 dreaded shadows. pistols.another at twenty-three. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity.I say.The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man. the ground came up against these windows. holding the bar short. I thrust where I judged their faces might be.it appeared to me. and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; that .Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down.might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes! I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me.The building had a huge entry. and went on straight into the fire!And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing.It was of white marble.