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IN THE STORM
The War of the Worlds
|H.G Wells
Author - H.G. Wells
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Leatherhead is about twelve miles from Maybury Hill. The scent of hay was in the air through the lush meadows(1) beyond Pyrford, and the hedges on either side were sweet and gay with multitudes of dog-roses. The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly(2) as it began, leaving the evening very peaceful and still. We got to Leatherhead without misadventure about nine o’clock, and the horse had an hour’s rest while I took supper with my cousins and commended my wife to their care.
My wife was curiously silent throughout the drive, and seemed oppressed with forebodings(3) of evil. I talked to her reassuringly, pointing out that the Martians were tied to the pit by sheer heaviness, and at the utmost could but crawl a little out of it; but she answered only in monosyllables. Had it not been for my promise to the innkeeper, she would, I think, have urged me to stay in Leatherhead that night. Would that I had! Her face, I remember, was very white as we parted.
For my own part, I had been feverishly(4) excited all day. Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got into my blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury that night. I was even afraid that that last fusillade(5) I had heard might mean the extermination of our invaders from Mars. I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death.
(1). meadows: a piece of grassland, especially one used for hay (2). abruptly: suddenly and unexpectedly (3). forebodings: a feeling that something bad will happen (4). feverishly: very actively or with great excitement (5). fusillade: series of shots fired at same time
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