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Now, looking at them, I saw that I was moving at a speed of a year a minute.
As I was moving further and further into the future, I felt more and more curiosity. What should I see when I stopped? How had humanity changed? What wonderful progress had been achieved? I saw splendid architecture passing before my eyes, and I noticed that the climate had changed as there were no more winters.
The desire to stop was growing more and more, and finally I pressed the stopping lever. The stop was so sudden, that the Machine overturned and I was thrown out of it on the grass.
I looked round me. I was in a beautiful garden. In the distance I saw huge buildings with columns. Before me stood a stone Sphinx on a bronze pedestal.
Then I saw some men and one of them approached me. He was small and looked very handsome, but very frail. Then he turned to two others and spoke to them in a language which I did not understand. They talked to me and touched me with their little hands.
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I felt more and more curiosity. — Цікавість моя все зростала.
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