...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished ! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. The Psychologist recovered from his...

...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished ! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. The Psychologist recovered from his...

...future, and the other reversed the motion. The Time Traveller pressed the first lever and the model suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen...an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory, and then it was gone, vanished! The large machine was a copy of the model. Parts were of nickel, parts...

...demonstration and part conjuring trick. The actual disappearance of the model is minutely observed: 'One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and...glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone — vanished' (ch. 2). The Time Traveller then leads his guests down a corridor to see the full-size machine, which...

...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy...

...the body. As the Traveller's little experimental machine "swung round," set in motion on a table, it "became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second...glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone — vanished!" (Complete Short Stories, p. 15). In Stoker's seemingly very different narrative, the case is the same:...

...nothing, and when Gertrude was gone, she lay down on the floor under the boy's cot. Stx " 'The lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...— vanished! Save for the lamp, the table was bare. . . .'" Joette paused; then, seeing that Georgie had fallen asleep, she laid the purple ribbon across...

...circle of friends and witnesses, the inventor turns the demo on, torn free, free of the time flow, and the "little machine suddenly swung round, became...indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps — and it was gone — vanished!" (199). In fact, the friends protest, this may be just too much,...

...turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...gone— vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Every one was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned. ting up, he went to the tobacco jar...

...attending a seance rather than a scientific demonstration: There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown...little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, [and] was seen as a ghost for a second . . .' (7'M, 8). Of course, the relationship between ghosts...