akorn - Mighty Old Tales Retold
Fiction
The Time Machine - Ch V
H G Wells
As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.
'I looked for the building I knew. Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter. I could see the silver birch against it. There was the tangle of rhododendron bushes, black in the pale light, and there was the little lawn. I looked at the lawn again. A queer doubt chilled my complacency. "No," said I stoutly to myself, "that was not the lawn."
'But it was the lawn. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone!
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 16 and 17
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 14 and 15
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 12 and 13
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 10 and 11
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapter 8 and 9
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 6 and 7
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapter 5
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapter 4
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Chapters 1, 2, 3
Up From Slavery - Chapter 17 - THE END
Up From Slavery - Chapter 16
Up From Slavery - Chapter 15
Up From Slavery - Chapter 14
Up From Slavery - Chapter 13
Up From Slavery - Chapter 12
Up From Slavery - Chapter 11
Up From Slavery - Chapter 10
Up From Slavery - Chapter 9
Up From Slavery - Chapter 8
Up From Slavery - Chapter 7
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