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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley


            and with a sharp quick movement flung the door


            wide open. There was, of course, nobody there.


                           "I'm sorry," said Bernard, feeling and


            looking uncomfortably foolish. "I suppose I've got


            things on my nerves a bit.  When people are


            suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with



            them."


                           He passed his hand across his eyes, he


            sighed, his voice became plaintive. He was justifying


            himself. "If you knew  what I'd had to put up with


            recently," he said almost tearfully–and the uprush of


            his self-pity was like a fountain suddenlyreleased. "If


            you only knew!"


                           Helmholtz Watson listened with a certain


            sense of discomfort. "Poor little Bernard!" he said to


            himself. But at the same  time he felt rather


            ashamed for his friend. He wished Bernard would



            show a little more pride.


















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