“ I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. ”
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895). copy citation
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Source | The Time Machine |
| Topic | romance futility flirtation vanity |
| Date | 1895 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html |
Context
“She tried to follow me everywhere, and on my next journey out and about it went to my heart to tire her down, and leave her at last, exhausted and calling after me rather plaintively. But the problems of the world had to be mastered. I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. Yet her distress when I left her was very great, her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic, and I think, altogether, I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. Nevertheless she was, somehow, a very great comfort.”
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