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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

stairs." And once more there was silence; and the

expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched

again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point.

The feet of the Greater Being–oh, they heard them,

they heard them, coming softly down the stairs,

coming nearer and nearer down the invisible stairs.

The feet of the Greater Being. And suddenly the

tearing point was reached. Her eyes staring, her lips

parted. Morgana Rothschild sprang to her feet.

"I hear him," she cried. "I hear him."

"He's coming," shouted Sarojini Engels.

"Yes, he's coming, I hear him." Fifi

Bradlaugh and Tom Kawaguchi rose simultaneously

to their feet.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Joanna inarticulately testified.

"He's coming!" yelled Jim Bokanovsky.

The President leaned forward and, with a

touch, released a delirium of cymbals and blown

brass, a fever of tom-tomming.

"Oh, he's coming!" screamed Clara

Deterding. "Aie!" and it was as though she were

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