The Time Machine - International World History Project

The Time MachineIX‘We emerged from the palace while the sun was still inpart above the horizon. I was determined to reach theWhite Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk Ipurposed pushing through the woods that had stopped meon the previous journey. My plan was to go as far aspossible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in theprotection of its glare. Accordingly, as we went along Igathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently hadmy arms full of such litter. Thus loaded, our progress wasslower than I had anticipated, and besides Weena wastired. And I began to suffer from sleepiness too; so that itwas full night before we reached the wood. Upon theshrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped,fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense ofimpending calamity, that should indeed have served me asa warning, drove me onward. I had been without sleep fora night and two days, and I was feverish and irritable. I feltsleep coming upon me, and the Morlocks with it.‘While we hesitated, among the black bushes behindus, and dim against their blackness, I saw three crouchingfigures. There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I114 of 148