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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Chapter Nine
LENINA felt herself entitled, after this day of
queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute
holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house,
she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay
down on her bed, and within ten minutes had
embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen
hours at the least before she was in time again.
Bernard meanwhile lay pensive and wide-
eyed in the dark. It was long after midnight before
he fell asleep. Long after midnight; but his insomnia
had not been fruitless; he had a plan.
Punctually, on the following morning, at ten
o'clock, the green-uniformed octoroon stepped out
of his helicopter. Bernard was waiting for him among
the agaves.
"Miss Crowne's gone on soma-holiday," he
explained. "Can hardly be back before five. Which
leaves us seven hours."
He could fly to Santa Fé, do all the business
he had to do, and be in Malpais again long before
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