Join Host Bree Carlile as she reads the fifteenth chapter of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
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Wherever you listen to podcasts today, we will be continuing the Time Machine by H.
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Wells 15 The Time Travelers Return So I came back for a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine.
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The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed.
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The sun got golden again.
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The sky blew.
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I breathed with greater freedom.
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The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.
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The hands spun backward upon the dials.
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At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
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These two changed and past and others came.
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Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed.
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I began to recognize our own pretty and familiar architecture.
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The thousands hand ran back to the starting point.
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The night and day flapped slower and slower.
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Then the old walls of the laboratory came around me very gently.
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Now I slowed the mechanism down.
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I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me.
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I think I've told you that when I set out before my velocity became very high, Mrs.
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Watchet had walked across the room, traveling as it seemed to me like a rocket.
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As I returned.
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I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory.
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But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones.
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The door at the lower end opened and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and disappeared behind the door by which she had previously entered.
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Just before that I seemed to see Hillier for a moment, but he passed like a flash.
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Then I stopped the machine and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them.
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I got off the thing very shakily and sat down upon my bench.
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For several minutes I trembled violently.
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Then I became calmer.
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Around me was my old workshop again, exactly as it had been.
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I might have slept there, and the whole thing have been a dream.
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And yet not exactly.
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The thing had started from the Southeast corner of the laboratory it had come to rest again in the northwest against the wall where you saw it.
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That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the white Sphinx into which the more locks had carried by machine for a time My brain went stagnant Presently I got up and came through the passage here limping because my heel was still painful and feeling sorely begrimmed I saw the Palmer Gazette on the table by the door I found the date was indeed today and looking at the timepiece saw the hour was almost 08:00 I heard your voices in the clatter of plates I hesitated I felt so sick and weak Then I sniffed good wholesome meat and opened the door on you you know the rest I washed and dined and now I am telling you the story thank you for joining Byte At A Time Books today while we read A Bite of one of your favorite classics.
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