AuthorChapter 7
Flight home and a false calm
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1 Horsell Common lies empty and on fire under a June night sky, seen from high above.
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2 The narrator flees alone across Horsell Common at night.
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3 The narrator runs in blind panic through the burning night on Horsell Common.
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4 The narrator sits up on the roadside verge by the gasworks, hatless, his collar burst loose.
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5 The dazed narrator on the canal bridge watches a firelit train fly over the Maybury arch
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6 At a gaslit Oriental Terrace gate, a woman and two men laugh at the narrator's Mars news
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7 Bareheaded, dusty and haggard, the narrator sways on his own lamplit doorstep
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8 The narrator's wife goes deadly white with fear, believing his story, and he breaks off
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9 The narrator looks across the lamplit dinner table at his wife.
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10 The narrator and his wife dine in a small rose-coloured pool of lamplight
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