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We
got
into
the
car
without
another
word
.
Lord
John
backed
her
round
and
turned
her
to
the
south
To
us
the
chapter
seemed
closed
.
Little
did
we
foresee
the
strange
new
chapter
which
was
to
open
.
And
now
I
come
to
the
end
of
this
extraordinary
incident
,
so
overshadowing
in
its
importance
,
not
only
in
our
own
small
,
individual
lives
,
but
in
the
general
history
of
the
human
race
.
As
I
said
when
I
began
my
narrative
,
when
that
history
comes
to
be
written
,
this
occurrence
will
surely
stand
out
among
all
other
events
like
a
mountain
towering
among
its
foothills
.
Our
generation
has
been
reserved
for
a
very
special
fate
since
it
has
been
chosen
to
experience
so
wonderful
a
thing
.
How
long
its
effect
may
last
—
how
long
mankind
may
preserve
the
humility
and
reverence
which
this
great
shock
has
taught
it
—
can
only
be
shown
by
the
future
.
I
think
it
is
safe
to
say
that
things
can
never
be
quite
the
same
again
.
Never
can
one
realize
how
powerless
and
ignorant
one
is
,
and
how
one
is
upheld
by
an
unseen
hand
,
until
for
an
instant
that
hand
has
seemed
to
close
and
to
crush
.
Death
has
been
imminent
upon
us
.
We
know
that
at
any
moment
it
may
be
again
.
That
grim
presence
shadows
our
lives
,
but
who
can
deny
that
in
that
shadow
the
sense
of
duty
,
the
feeling
of
sobriety
and
responsibility
,
the
appreciation
of
the
gravity
and
of
the
objects
of
life
,
the
earnest
desire
to
develop
and
improve
,
have
grown
and
become
real
with
us
to
a
degree
that
has
leavened
our
whole
society
from
end
to
end
?
It
is
something
beyond
sects
and
beyond
dogmas
.
It
is
rather
an
alteration
of
perspective
,
a
shifting
of
our
sense
of
proportion
,
a
vivid
realization
that
we
are
insignificant
and
evanescent
creatures
,
existing
on
sufferance
and
at
the
mercy
of
the
first
chill
wind
from
the
unknown
.
But
if
the
world
has
grown
graver
with
this
knowledge
it
is
not
,
I
think
,
a
sadder
place
in
consequence
.
Surely
we
are
agreed
that
the
more
sober
and
restrained
pleasures
of
the
present
are
deeper
as
well
as
wiser
than
the
noisy
,
foolish
hustle
which
passed
so
often
for
enjoyment
in
the
days
of
old
—
days
so
recent
and
yet
already
so
inconceivable
.
Those
empty
lives
which
were
wasted
in
aimless
visiting
and
being
visited
,
in
the
worry
of
great
and
unnecessary
households
,
in
the
arranging
and
eating
of
elaborate
and
tedious
meals
,
have
now
found
rest
and
health
in
the
reading
,
the
music
,
the
gentle
family
communion
which
comes
from
a
simpler
and
saner
division
of
their
time
.
With
greater
health
and
greater
pleasure
they
are
richer
than
before
,
even
after
they
have
paid
those
increased
contributions
to
the
common
fund
which
have
so
raised
the
standard
of
life
in
these
islands
.
There
is
some
clash
of
opinion
as
to
the
exact
hour
of
the
great
awakening
.
It
is
generally
agreed
that
,
apart
from
the
difference
of
clocks
,
there
may
have
been
local
causes
which
influenced
the
action
of
the
poison
.
Certainly
,
in
each
separate
district
the
resurrection
was
practically
simultaneous
.
There
are
numerous
witnesses
that
Big
Ben
pointed
to
ten
minutes
past
six
at
the
moment
.
The
Astronomer
Royal
has
fixed
the
Greenwich
time
at
twelve
past
six
.
On
the
other
hand
,
Laird
Johnson
,
a
very
capable
East
Anglia
observer
,
has
recorded
six
-
twenty
as
the
hour
.
In
the
Hebrides
it
was
as
late
as
seven
.
In
our
own
case
there
can
be
no
doubt
whatever
,
for
I
was
seated
in
Challenger
’
s
study
with
his
carefully
tested
chronometer
in
front
of
me
at
the
moment
.
The
hour
was
a
quarter
-
past
six
.
An
enormous
depression
was
weighing
upon
my
spirits
.
The
cumulative
effect
of
all
the
dreadful
sights
which
we
had
seen
upon
our
journey
was
heavy
upon
my
soul
.
With
my
abounding
animal
health
and
great
physical
energy
any
kind
of
mental
clouding
was
a
rare
event
.
I
had
the
Irish
faculty
of
seeing
some
gleam
of
humor
in
every
darkness
.
But
now
the
obscurity
was
appalling
and
unrelieved
.
The
others
were
downstairs
making
their
plans
for
the
future
.
I
sat
by
the
open
window
,
my
chin
resting
upon
my
hand
and
my
mind
absorbed
in
the
misery
of
our
situation
.
Could
we
continue
to
live
?
That
was
the
question
which
I
had
begun
to
ask
myself
.
Was
it
possible
to
exist
upon
a
dead
world
?
Just
as
in
physics
the
greater
body
draws
to
itself
the
lesser
,
would
we
not
feel
an
overpowering
attraction
from
that
vast
body
of
humanity
which
had
passed
into
the
unknown
?
How
would
the
end
come
?
Would
it
be
from
a
return
of
the
poison
?
Or
would
the
earth
be
uninhabitable
from
the
mephitic
products
of
universal
decay
?
Or
,
finally
,
might
our
awful
situation
prey
upon
and
unbalance
our
minds
?
A
group
of
insane
folk
upon
a
dead
world
!
My
mind
was
brooding
upon
this
last
dreadful
idea
when
some
slight
noise
caused
me
to
look
down
upon
the
road
beneath
me
.
The
old
cab
horse
was
coming
up
the
hill
!
I
was
conscious
at
the
same
instant
of
the
twittering
of
birds
,
of
someone
coughing
in
the
yard
below
,
and
of
a
background
of
movement
in
the
landscape
.
And
yet
I
remember
that
it
was
that
absurd
,
emaciated
,
superannuated
cab
-
horse
which
held
my
gaze
.
Slowly
and
wheezily
it
was
climbing
the
slope
.
Then
my
eye
traveled
to
the
driver
sitting
hunched
up
upon
the
box
and
finally
to
the
young
man
who
was
leaning
out
of
the
window
in
some
excitement
and
shouting
a
direction
.
They
were
all
indubitably
,
aggressively
alive
!
Everybody
was
alive
once
more
!
Had
it
all
been
a
delusion
?
Was
it
conceivable
that
this
whole
poison
belt
incident
had
been
an
elaborate
dream
?
For
an
instant
my
startled
brain
was
really
ready
to
believe
it
.
Then
I
looked
down
,
and
there
was
the
rising
blister
on
my
hand
where
it
was
frayed
by
the
rope
of
the
city
bell
.
It
had
really
been
so
,
then
.
And
yet
here
was
the
world
resuscitated
—
here
was
life
come
back
in
an
instant
full
tide
to
the
planet
.
Now
,
as
my
eyes
wandered
all
over
the
great
landscape
,
I
saw
it
in
every
direction
—
and
moving
,
to
my
amazement
,
in
the
very
same
groove
in
which
it
had
halted
.
There
were
the
golfers
.
Was
it
possible
that
they
were
going
on
with
their
game
?
Yes
,
there
was
a
fellow
driving
off
from
a
tee
,
and
that
other
group
upon
the
green
were
surely
putting
for
the
hole
.
The
reapers
were
slowly
trooping
back
to
their
work
.
The
nurse
-
girl
slapped
one
of
her
charges
and
then
began
to
push
the
perambulator
up
the
hill
.
Everyone
had
unconcernedly
taken
up
the
thread
at
the
very
point
where
they
had
dropped
it
.
