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The Time Machineyour voices and the clatter of plates. I hesitated—I felt sosick and weak. Then I sniffed good wholesome meat, andopened the door on you. You know the rest. I washed,and dined, and now I am telling you the story.‘I know,’ he said, after a pause, ‘that all this will beabsolutely incredible to you. To me the one incrediblething is that I am here to-night in this old familiar roomlooking into your friendly faces and telling you thesestrange adventures.’He looked at the Medical Man. ‘No. I cannot expectyou to believe it. Take it as a lie—or a prophecy. Say Idreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have beenspeculating upon the destinies of our race until I havehatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as amere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as astory, what do you think of it?’He took up his pipe, and began, in his old accustomedmanner, to tap with it nervously upon the bars of thegrate. There was a momentary stillness. Then chairs beganto creak and shoes to scrape upon the carpet. I took myeyes off the Time Traveller’s face, and looked round at hisaudience. They were in the dark, and little spots of colourswam before them. The Medical Man seemed absorbed inthe contemplation of our host. The Editor was looking140 of 148
The Time Machinehard at the end of his cigar—the sixth. The Journalistfumbled for his watch. The others, as far as I remember,were motionless.The Editor stood up with a sigh. ‘What a pity it isyou’re not a writer of stories!’ he said, putting his hand onthe Time Traveller’s shoulder.‘You don’t believe it?’‘Well——’‘I thought not.’The Time Traveller turned to us. ‘Where are thematches?’ he said. He lit one and spoke over his pipe,puffing. ‘To tell you the truth … I hardly believe itmyself…. And yet …’His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the witheredwhite flowers upon the little table. Then he turned overthe hand holding his pipe, and I saw he was looking atsome half-healed scars on his knuckles.The Medical Man rose, came to the lamp, andexamined the flowers. ‘The gynaeceum’s odd,’ he said.The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out hishand for a specimen.‘I’m hanged if it isn’t a quarter to one,’ said theJournalist. ‘How shall we get home?’‘Plenty of cabs at the station,’ said the Psychologist.141 of 148
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