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H. G. Wells
· The Time Machine
· Project Gutenberg
man, what’s the matter?” cried the Medical Man, who saw him next. His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer—either with dust and dirt or because its colour had actually faded. His face was ghastly pale; his chin had a brown cut on it—a cut half-healed; his expression was haggard and drawn, as by intense suffering.
The man's coat, marked by dust and green smears, immediately signals a recent ordeal or prolonged exposure to harsh conditions. His disordered, possibly greying hair and the half-healed cut on his chin together map a physical history of hardship, while his gha...