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and cried aloud when I thought of how I was cut off from
herof all that might happen to her in my absence. My cousin I knew was
brave enough for any emergencybut he was not the sort of man to realise
danger quicklyto rise promptly. What was needed now was not braverybut
circumspection. My only consolation was to believe that the Martians were
moving Londonward and away from her. Such vague anxieties keep the
mind sensitive and painful. I grew very weary and irritable with the curate’s
perpetual ejaculations; I tired of the sight of his selfish despair. After some
ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from himstaying in a room—
evidently a children’s schoolroom—containing globesformsand
copybooks. When he followed me thitherI went to a box room at the top of
the house andin order to be alone with my aching miserieslocked myself
in.
We were hopelessly hemmed in by the Black Smoke all that day and the
morning of the next. There were signs of people in the next house on Sunday
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