Question

was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it passed. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing sound. I myself heard nothing of that.

–The War of the Worlds,
H. G. Wells

Which quotation most clearly reveals the locations of both the object and the narrator?

". . . although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up . . . I saw nothing of it."
". . . for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky . . ."
"Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there . . ."

Answer 1

"Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there . . ."

Reason: it states the object "fell . . . to earth" and places the narrator "sitting there," giving both locations. The others refer only to the narrator's position or action.