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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

you've forgotten me. Don't you remember? Don't

you remember, Tomakin? Your Linda." She stood

looking at him, her head on one side, still smiling,

but with a smilethat became progressively, in face of

the Director's expression of petrified disgust, less

and less self-confident, thatwavered and finally went

out. "Don't you remember, Tomakin?" she repeated

in a voice that trembled. Her eyes were anxious,

agonized. The blotched and sagging face twisted

grotesquely into the grimace of extreme grief.

"Tomakin!" She held out her arms. Some one began

to titter.

"What's the meaning," began the Director,

"of this monstrous "

"Tomakin!" She ran forward, her blanket

trailing behind her, threw her arms round his neck,

hid her face on his chest.

A howl of laughter went up irrepressibly.

" this monstrous practical joke," the

Director shouted.

Red in the face, he tried to disengage

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