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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

And I was so ashamed. Just think of it: me, a Beta–

having a baby: put yourself in my place." (The mere

suggestion made Lenina shudder.) "Though it wasn't

my fault, I swear; because I still don't know how it

happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian Drill–

you know, by numbers,One, two, three, four,

always, I swear it; but all the same it happened, and

of course there wasn't anything like an Abortion

Centre here. Is it still down in Chelsea, by the way?"

she asked. Lenina nodded. "And still floodlighted on

Tuesdays and Fridays?" Lenina nodded again. "That

lovely pink glass tower!" Poor Linda lifted her face

and with closed eyes ecstatically contemplated the

bright remembered image. "And the river at night,"

she whispered. Great tears oozed slowly out from

behind her tight-shut eyelids. "And flying back in the

evening from Stoke Poges. And then a hot bath and

vibro-vacuum massage But there." She drew a

deep breath, shook her head, opened her eyes

again, sniffed once or twice, then blew her nose on

her fingers and wiped them on the skirt of her tunic.

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