1 It was the darkness of the new moon.
2 Then I saw that the gallery ran down at last into a thick darkness.
3 The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.
4 Besides this, the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes.
5 The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye.
6 But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.
7 A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
8 The sudden realization of my ignorance of their ways of thinking and doing came home to me very vividly in the darkness.
9 It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal.
10 Then, as the darkness grew deeper, she put her arms round my neck, and, closing her eyes, tightly pressed her face against my shoulder.
11 It was very black, and Weena clung to me convulsively, but there was still, as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, sufficient light for me to avoid the stems.
12 Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match.
13 I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.
14 Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward.
15 Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive, just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes, and they reflected the light in the same way.
16 Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and, hastily striking one, I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin, hastily retreating before the light.
17 Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.
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