| | 1 | Author: | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Time Machine  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of
him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone
and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.
The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the
incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles
that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his
patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat
upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when
thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And
he put it to us in this way — marking the points with a lean
forefinger — as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over
this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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