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ked St. Edmund’s Terrace (I
waded breast-high across a torrent of water that was rushing down from the
waterworks towards the Albert Road)and emerged upon the grass before
the rising of the sun. Great mounds had been heaped about the crest of the
hillmaking a huge redoubt of it—it was the final and largest place the
Martians had made—and from behind these heaps there rose a thin smoke
against the sky. Against the sky line an eager dog ran and disappeared. The
thought that had flashed into my mind grew realgrew credible. I felt no
fearonly a wildtrembling exultationas I ran up the hill towards the
motionless monster. Out of the hood hung lank shreds of brownat which the
hungry birds pecked and tore.
In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood
upon its crestand the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space
it waswith gigantic machines here and there within ithuge mounds of
material and strange shelter places. And scattered about itsome in their
overturned war-machinessome in the now rigid handling-machinesand a
dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a rowwere the Martians—
DEAD [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!—slain by the putrefactive and diseasebacteria against which their
systems wereyilai:
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