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1The Time Traveller's Return "So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking
2succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom.
3The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the
4dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently,
5when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I began to recognise our own pretty and familiar architecture, the
6thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower. Then the old walls of the
7laboratory came round me. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down. "I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me.
8I think I have told you that when I set out, before my velocity became very high, Mrs. Watchett had walked across the
9room, travelling, as it seemed to me, like a rocket. As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed
10the laboratory. But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones. The door at the lower
11end opened, and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and disappeared behind the door by which she had
12previously entered. Just before that I seemed to see Hillyer for a moment; but he passed like a flash. "Then I stopped
13the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them. I got
14off the thing very shakily, and sat down upon my bench. For several minutes I trembled violently. Then I became calmer.
15Around me was my old workshop again, exactly as it had been. I might have slept there, and the whole thing have been a
16dream. "And yet, not exactly! The thing had started from the south-east corner of the laboratory. It had come to rest
17again in the north-west, against the wall where you saw it. That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the
18pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine. "For a time my brain went stagnant.
19Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely
20begrimed. I saw the Pall Mall Gazette on the table by the door. I found the date was indeed today, and looking at the
21timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o'clock. I heard your voices and the clatter of plates. I hesitated--I felt so
22sick and weak. Then I sniffed good wholesome meat, and opened the door on you. You know the rest. I washed, and dined,
23and now I am telling you the story.
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