Beyond the first flutter of surprise, the Martians had shown ugg boots on clearance no interestin the abrupt termination of the year's divinations. They melted away, atrifle more silently per- haps than usual, when I shattered the magic globe,but with their invariable indifference, and having handed the revivingHeru over to some women who led her away, apparently already halfforgetful of the things that had just happened, I was left alone on thepalace steps, not even An beside me, and only the shadow of a passerbynow and then to break the solitude. Whereon a great lone- liness tookhold upon me, and, pacing to and fro along the ancient terrace with benthead and folded arms, I bewailed my fate. To and fro I walked, heedlessand melancholy, thinking ugg boots clearance of the old world, that was so far and this nearworld so distant from me in everything making life worth living, thinking,as I strode gloomily here and there, how gladly I would exchange thesepoor puppets and the mockery of a town they dwelt in, for a sight of mycom- rades and a corner in the poorest wine-shop salon in New York or'Frisco; idly speculating why, and how, I came here, as I sauntered downamongst the glistening, shell-like fragments of the shattered globe, andfinding no answer. How could I? It was too fair, I thought, standing therein the open; there was a fatal sweetness in the air, a deadly sufficiency inthe beauty ugg boots clearance of everything around falling on the lax senses like some sleepydraught of pleasure. Not a leaf stirred, the wide purple roof of the skywas unbroken by the healthy promise of a cloud from rim to rim, thesplendid country, teeming with its spring-time richness, lay in rankperfection everywhere; and just as rank and sleek and passionless werethose who owned it.
     　　Why, even I, who yesterday was strong, began to come under the spellof it. But yesterday the spirit of the old world was still strong within me,yet how much things were now changing. The well-strung musclesloosening, the heart beating a slower measure, the busy mind drowsing offto listlessness. Was I, too, destined to chanel bags outlet become like these? Was the redstuff in my veins to be watered down to pallid Martian sap? Wasambition and hope to desert me, and idleness itself become laborious,  while life ran to seed in gilded uselessness? Little did I guess howunnecessary my fears were, or of the incredible fairy tale of adventure intowhich fate was going to plunge me.
     　　Still engrossed the next morning by these thoughts, I decided I wouldgo to Hath. Hath was a man--at least they said so--he might sympathiseeven though he could not help, and so, dressing finished, I went downtowards the innermost palace whence for an hour or two had come soundsof unwonted bustle. Asking for the chanel bags way occasion- ally from sleepy folklolling about the corridors, waiting as it seemed for their breakfasts tocome to them, and embarrassed by the new daylight, I wandered to and froin the labyrinths of that stony ant-heap until I chanced upon a curtaineddoorway which admitted to a long cham- ber, high-roofed, ample inproportions, with colonnades on either side separated from the main aisleby rows of flowery figures and emblematic scroll-work, meaning I knewnot what. Above those pillars ran a gallery with many windows lookingout over the ruined city. While at the further end of the chamber stoodthree broad steps leading to a dais. As I entered, the whole place was fullof bustling nike jordan heels girls, their yellow garments like a bed of flowers in the sunlighttrickling through the casements, and all intent on the spreading of a feaston long tables ranged up and down the hall. The morning light streamedin on the white cloths. It glittered on the glass and the gold they wereputting on the trestles, and gave resplendent depths of colour to the ribbonbands round the pillars. All were so busy no one noticed me standing inthe twilight by the door, but presently, laying a hand on a worker'sshoulder, I asked who they banqueted for, and why such unwontedpreparation?