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1  I had the small levers in my pocket.
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2  I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
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3  But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over.
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4  Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever.
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5  I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever.
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6  Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.
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7  I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever.
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8  In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.
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9  One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again.
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10  I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
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11  Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
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12  I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
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13  Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box.
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14  Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.
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15  I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.
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16  Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in my pocket.
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17  Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: 'Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.'
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