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The Time Machine

by Herbert George Wells

II. The Machine

The thing the Time Traveler held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, a bit larger than a small clock, and very delicately made.There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. He took one of the small octagonal tables that were in the room, and put it in front of the fire. On this table, he placed the mechanism. Then he sat down on a chair. The only other object on the table was a small lamp,and its bright light illuminated the model. I sat in a low armchair nearest the fire, almost between the Time Traveler and the fireplace. Filby sat behind him, looking over his shoulder. The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him from the right, the Psychologist from the left. The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist. We were all on the alert. It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick could have been played upon us under these conditions.

The Time Traveler looked at us, and then at the mechanism.“Well?”'said the Psychologist.

"This little affair,” said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, "is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singularly misaligned, and this bar has a strange appearance, as though it was in some way unreal." He pointed to the part with his finger."Also, here is one little white lever, and here is another."

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