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The Time Machine Chapter 4

In which the Time Traveller encounters a delicate and childlike race who greet him with innocence and gentle curiosity amidst the ruins of a once-great civilisation, their mannerisms and simple language a curious enigma to him. As he wanders the decayed splendour of their world beneath a golden sunset, he reflects on the quiet triumphs and inevitable decline of mankind’s vitality in an age of ease and unbroken security.

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