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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The War Of The Worlds: Book II

Book II

Chapter 1 Underfoot

While my brother made his way to the coast and had finally gotten off
across the Channel, the curate and I had secreted ourselves in a deserted
house in Halliford where we had fled from the Black Smoke. I was concerned
about my wife and the fact that she must surely have given up hope, but I was
constantly returned to the immediacy of our situation by the woeful
ejaculations and selfish despair of the curate. The Black Smoke had drifted
our way, and for a time we were trapped. However, a Martian had ...

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