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The Time Machine - International World History Project

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Time</strong> <strong>Machine</strong>IV‘In another moment we were standing face to face, Iand this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight upto me and laughed into my eyes. <strong>The</strong> absence from hisbearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. <strong>The</strong>n heturned to the two others who were following him andspoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquidtongue.‘<strong>The</strong>re were others coming, and presently a little groupof perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures wereabout me. One of them addressed me. It came into myhead, oddly enough, that my voice was too harsh anddeep for them. So I shook my head, and, pointing to myears, shook it again. He came a step forward, hesitated,and then touched my hand. <strong>The</strong>n I felt other soft littletentacles upon my back and shoulders. <strong>The</strong>y wanted tomake sure I was real. <strong>The</strong>re was nothing in this at allalarming. Indeed, there was something in these pretty littlepeople that inspired confidence—a graceful gentleness, acertain childlike ease. And besides, they looked so frail thatI could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of themabout like nine-pins. But I made a sudden motion to warn36 of 148

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