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out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling
was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my
dream.
But the trouble was the blank incongruity of this serenity and the
swift death flying yonder, not two miles away. There was a noise of
business from the gasworks, and the electric lamps were all alight. I
stopped at the group of people.
"What news from the common?" said I.
There were two men and a woman at the gate.
"
"
"
"
Eh?" said one of the men, turning.
What news from the common?" I said.
'Ain't yer just been there?" asked the men.
People seem fair silly about the common," said the woman over the
gate. "What's it all abart?"
"Haven't you heard of the men from Mars?" said I; "the creatures
from Mars?"
"Quite enough," said the woman over the gate. "Thenks"; and all
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