The First Men In The Moon


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foreseen. The absentmindedness that had just escaped depopulating the  
terrestrial globe, might at any moment result in some other grave  
inconvenience. On the other hand I was young, my affairs were in a mess,  
and I was in just the mood for reckless adventure--with a chance of  
something good at the end of it. I had quite settled in my mind that I was  
to have half at least in that aspect of the affair. Fortunately I held my  
bungalow, as I have already explained, on a three-year agreement, without  
being responsible for repairs; and my furniture, such as there was of it,  
had been hastily purchased, was unpaid for, insured, and altogether devoid  
of associations. In the end I decided to keep on with him, and see the  
business through.  
Certainly the aspect of things had changed very greatly. I no longer  
doubted at all the enormous possibilities of the substance, but I began to  
have doubts about the gun-carriage and the patent boots. We set to work at  
once to reconstruct his laboratory and proceed with our experiments. Cavor  
talked more on my level than he had ever done before, when it came to the  
question of how we should make the stuff next.  
"Of course we must make it again," he said, with a sort of glee I had not  
expected in him, "of course we must make it again. We have caught a  
Tartar, perhaps, but we have left the theoretical behind us for good and  
all. If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we  
will. But--there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there  
always are. And here, as a practical man, you must come in. For my own  
part it seems to me we might make it edgeways, perhaps, and very thin. Yet  
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