Which sentence in this excerpt from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells indicates that the narrator has little hope for the Time Tra
veller’s return? I felt an unreasonable amazement. I knew that something strange had happened, and for the moment could not distinguish what the strange thing might be. As I stood staring, the door into the garden opened, and the man-servant appeared. We looked at each other. Then ideas began to come. "Has Mr. —— gone out that way?" said I. "No, sir. No one has come out this way. I was expecting to find him here." At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveller vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned. A- I knew that something strange had happened, and for the moment could not distinguish what the strange thing might be. B-We looked at each other. Then ideas began to come. C-At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. D- But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime E-The Time Traveller vanished three years ago.
The speech to the Second Virginia Convention was actually a
speech that was given by Patrick Henry.
And, this speech was given at time just before the American
Revolution. There is one statement from
the speech that has great historical significance and is actually the statement
by which the speech has come to be known—“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
This is where Lennie has gone back to that place by the river after he has killed Curley’s wife. Lennie expects that George will give him hell. he asks George if George is not going to do it. George says that he will not, but Lennie really wants him to.
