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1"My sensations would be hard to describe. As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly.
2It was very large, for a silver birch-tree touched its shoulder. It was of white marble, in shape something like a
3winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
4The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris. It chanced that the face was towards me;
5the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips. It was greatly weather-worn,
6and that imparted an unpleasant suggestion of disease. I stood looking at it for a little space--half a minute, perhaps,
7or half an hour. It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner. At last I tore my
8eyes from it for a moment, and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the
9promise of the sun. "I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly
10upon me. What might appear when that hazy curtain was altogether withdrawn? What might not have happened to men? What if
11cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed
12into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the
13more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness--a foul creature to be incontinently slain. "Already I saw other
14vast shapes--huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hillside dimly creeping in upon me
15through the lessening storm. I was seized with a panic fear. I turned frantically to the Time Machine, and strove hard
16to readjust it. As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm. The grey downpour was swept aside and
17vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost. Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds
18of cloud whirled into nothingness. The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of
19the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses. I felt naked in a
20strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. My fear
21grew to frenzy. I took a breathing space, set my teeth, and again grappled fiercely, wrist and knee, with the machine.
22It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. It struck my chin violently. One hand on the saddle, the other on the
23lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again. "But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage
24recovered. I looked more curiously and less fearfully at this world of the remote future. In a circular opening, high up
25in the wall of the nearer house, I saw a group of figures clad in rich soft robes. They had seen me, and their faces
26were directed towards me. "Then I heard voices approaching me. Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the
27heads and shoulders of men running. One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I
28stood with my machine. He was a slight creature--perhaps four feet high--clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist
29with a leather belt. Sandals or buskins--I could not clearly distinguish which--were on his feet; his legs were bare to
30the knees, and his head was bare. Noticing that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was. "He struck me as
31being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more
32beautiful kind of consumptive--that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. At the sight of him I suddenly
33regained confidence. I took my hands from the machine.
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