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The Time Machine - International World History Project

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Time</strong> <strong>Machine</strong>At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with agrunt, and the Silent Man followed suit. <strong>The</strong> dinner wasresumed. Conversation was exclamatory for a little while,with gaps of wonderment; and then the Editor got ferventin his curiosity. ‘Does our friend eke out his modestincome with a crossing? or has he his Nebuchadnezzarphases?’ he inquired. ‘I feel assured it’s this business of the<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Machine</strong>,’ I said, and took up the Psychologist’saccount of our previous meeting. <strong>The</strong> new guests werefrankly incredulous. <strong>The</strong> Editor raised objections. ‘WhatWAS this time travelling? A man couldn’t cover himselfwith dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?’ And then, asthe idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature.Hadn’t they any clothes-brushes in the Future? <strong>The</strong>Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joinedthe Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on thewhole thing. <strong>The</strong>y were both the new kind of journalist—very joyous, irreverent young men. ‘Our SpecialCorrespondent in the Day after To-morrow reports,’ theJournalist was saying—or rather shouting—when the<strong>Time</strong> Traveller came back. He was dressed in ordinaryevening clothes, and nothing save his haggard lookremained of the change that had startled me.22 of 148

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