1 For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path.
2 I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were.
3 'Certainly,' said the Time Traveller, stooping to light a spill at the fire.
4 Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire.
5 Now, the smoke of the fire beat over towards me, and it must have made me heavy of a sudden.
6 Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.
7 The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other.
8 It seemed to me that the best thing we could do would be to pass the night in the open, protected by a fire.
9 My plan was to go as far as possible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in the protection of its glare.
10 I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace.
11 I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon, and that I had still no weapon, no refuge, and no means of making a fire.
12 He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug.
13 The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.
14 Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
15 In the next place, I hoped to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be more efficient against these Morlocks.
16 It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty.
17 Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill.
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