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“ That climb seemed interminable to me . With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me . I had the greatest difficulty in keeping my hold . The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness . Several times my head swam , and I felt all the sensations of falling . At last , however , I got over the well - mouth somehow , and staggered out of the ruin into the blinding sunlight . I fell upon my face . Even the soil smelt sweet and clean . Then I remember Weena kissing my hands and ears , and the voices of others among the Eloi . Then , for a time , I was insensible . X . When Night Came “ Now , indeed , I seemed in a worse case than before . Hitherto , except during my night’s anguish at the loss of the Time Machine , I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape , but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries . Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people , and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome ; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks — a something inhuman and malign . Instinctively I loathed them . Before , I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit : my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it . Now I felt like a beast in a trap , whose enemy would come upon him soon . “ The enemy I dreaded may surprise you . It was the darkness of the new moon . Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights . It was not now such a very difficult problem to guess what the coming Dark Nights might mean . The moon was on the wane : each night there was a longer interval of darkness . And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upperworld people for the dark . I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon . I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong . The Upperworld people might once have been the favoured aristocracy , and the Morlocks their mechanical servants : but that had long since passed away . The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards , or had already arrived at , an altogether new relationship . The Eloi , like the Carlovignan kings , had decayed to a mere beautiful futility . They still possessed the earth on sufferance : since the Morlocks , subterranean for innumerable generations , had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable .
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