1 The next night I did not sleep well.
2 Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears.
3 So we went on in the quiet, and the twilight deepened into night.
4 As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing.
5 It must have been the night before her rescue that I was awakened about dawn.
6 The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.
7 The night came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment came to-morrow.
8 To-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still.
9 Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here.
10 The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.
11 I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
12 I was very tired, too, after the excitements of the day; so I decided that I would not face it, but would pass the night upon the open hill.
13 So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks, but it was yet early in the night, and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come.
14 With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realizing to what creatures night by night I lay exposed.
15 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.
16 It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm.
17 I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moon-lit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness.
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