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6. The Encounter At Stonehenge | H. G. [Herbert George] Wells | |
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"You are well beneath the marble here." She assented cheerfully.
"A thousand years before it." "But even this place isn't the beginning of things here. Carnac was older than this. And older still is Avebury. Have you heard in America of Avebury? It may have predated this place, they think, by another thousand years." "Avebury?" said the lady who was called Belinda. "But what is this Avebury?" asked V.V. "I've never heard of the place." "I thought it was a lord," said Belinda. Sir Richmond, with occasional appeals to Dr. Martineau, embarked upon an account of the glory and wonder of Avebury. Possibly he exaggerated Avebury. . . . It was Dr. Martineau who presently brought this disquisition upon Avebury to a stop by a very remarkable gesture. He looked at his watch. He drew it out ostentatiously, a thick, respectable gold watch, for the doctor was not the sort of man to wear his watch upon his wrist. He clicked it open and looked at it. Thereby he would have proclaimed his belief this encounter was an entirely unnecessary interruption of his healing duologue with Sir Richmond, which must now be resumed. |
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