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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

mean to say that you wanted to be hit with that

whip?"

Still averted from her, the young man made

a sign of affirmation. "For the sake of the pueblo–to

make the rain come and the corn grow. And to

please Pookong and Jesus. And then to show that I

can bear pain without crying out. Yes," and his voice

suddenly took on a new resonance, he turned with a

proud squaring of the shoulders, a proud, defiant

lifting of the chin "to show that I'm a man Oh!" He

gave a gasp and was silent, gaping. He had seen,

for the first time in his life, the face of a girl whose

cheeks were not the colour of chocolate or dogskin,

whose hair was auburn and permanentlywaved, and

whose expression (amazing novelty!) was one of

benevolent interest. Lenina was smiling at him; such

a nice-looking boy, she was thinking, and a really

beautiful body. The blood rushed up into the young

man's face; he dropped his eyes, raised them again

for a moment only to find her still smiling at him,

and was so much overcome that he had to turn

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