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"
’
All
night
delirious
excitement
throughout
Provence
.
Tumult
of
vine
growers
at
Nimes
.
Socialistic
upheaval
at
Toulon
.
Sudden
illness
attended
by
coma
attacked
population
this
morning
.
Peste
foudroyante
.
Great
numbers
of
dead
in
the
streets
.
Paralysis
of
business
and
universal
chaos
.
’
"
An
hour
later
came
the
following
,
from
the
same
source
:
—
"
’
We
are
threatened
with
utter
extermination
.
Cathedrals
and
churches
full
to
overflowing
.
The
dead
outnumber
the
living
.
It
is
inconceivable
and
horrible
.
Decease
seems
to
be
painless
,
but
swift
and
inevitable
.
’
"
There
is
a
similar
telegram
from
Paris
,
where
the
development
is
not
yet
as
acute
.
India
and
Persia
appear
to
be
utterly
wiped
out
.
The
Slavonic
population
of
Austria
is
down
,
while
the
Teutonic
has
hardly
been
affected
.
Speaking
generally
,
the
dwellers
upon
the
plains
and
upon
the
seashore
seem
,
so
far
as
my
limited
information
goes
,
to
have
felt
the
effects
more
rapidly
than
those
inland
or
on
the
heights
.
Even
a
little
elevation
makes
a
considerable
difference
,
and
perhaps
if
there
be
a
survivor
of
the
human
race
,
he
will
again
be
found
upon
the
summit
of
some
Ararat
.
Even
our
own
little
hill
may
presently
prove
to
be
a
temporary
island
amid
a
sea
of
disaster
.
But
at
the
present
rate
of
advance
a
few
short
hours
will
submerge
us
all
.
"
Lord
John
Roxton
wiped
his
brow
.
"
What
beats
me
,
"
said
he
,
"
is
how
you
could
sit
there
laughin
’
with
that
stack
of
telegrams
under
your
hand
.
I
’
ve
seen
death
as
often
as
most
folk
,
but
universal
death
—
it
’
s
awful
!
"
"
As
to
the
laughter
,
"
said
Challenger
,
"
you
will
bear
in
mind
that
,
like
yourselves
,
I
have
not
been
exempt
from
the
stimulating
cerebral
effects
of
the
etheric
poison
.
But
as
to
the
horror
with
which
universal
death
appears
to
inspire
you
,
I
would
put
it
to
you
that
it
is
somewhat
exaggerated
.
If
you
were
sent
to
sea
alone
in
an
open
boat
to
some
unknown
destination
,
your
heart
might
well
sink
within
you
.
The
isolation
,
the
uncertainty
,
would
oppress
you
.
But
if
your
voyage
were
made
in
a
goodly
ship
,
which
bore
within
it
all
your
relations
and
your
friends
,
you
would
feel
that
,
however
uncertain
your
destination
might
still
remain
,
you
would
at
least
have
one
common
and
simultaneous
experience
which
would
hold
you
to
the
end
in
the
same
close
communion
.
A
lonely
death
may
be
terrible
,
but
a
universal
one
,
as
painless
as
this
would
appear
to
be
,
is
not
,
in
my
judgment
,
a
matter
for
apprehension
.
Indeed
,
I
could
sympathize
with
the
person
who
took
the
view
that
the
horror
lay
in
the
idea
of
surviving
when
all
that
is
learned
,
famous
,
and
exalted
had
passed
away
.
"
"
What
,
then
,
do
you
propose
to
do
?
"
asked
Summerlee
,
who
had
for
once
nodded
his
assent
to
the
reasoning
of
his
brother
scientist
.
"
To
take
our
lunch
,
"
said
Challenger
as
the
boom
of
a
gong
sounded
through
the
house
.
"
We
have
a
cook
whose
omelettes
are
only
excelled
by
her
cutlets
.
We
can
but
trust
that
no
cosmic
disturbance
has
dulled
her
excellent
abilities
.
My
Scharzberger
of
’
96
must
also
be
rescued
,
so
far
as
our
earnest
and
united
efforts
can
do
it
,
from
what
would
be
a
deplorable
waste
of
a
great
vintage
.
"
He
levered
his
great
bulk
off
the
desk
,
upon
which
he
had
sat
while
he
announced
the
doom
of
the
planet
.
"
Come
,
"
said
he
.
"
If
there
is
little
time
left
,
there
is
the
more
need
that
we
should
spend
it
in
sober
and
reasonable
enjoyment
.
"
