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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

emergencies, it can't be helped." He sighed.

Bernard, meanwhile, had taken a strong

fancy to Miss Keate. "If you're free any Monday,

Wednesday, or Fridayevening," he was saying.

Jerking his thumb towards the Savage, "He's

curious, you know," Bernard added. "Quaint."

Miss Keate smiled (and her smile was really

charming, he thought); said Thank you; would be

delighted to come to one of his parties. The Provost

opened a door.

Five minutes in that Alpha Double Plus

classroom left John a trifle bewildered.

"What is elementary relativity?" he

whispered to Bernard. Bernard tried to explain, then

thought better of it and suggested that they should

go to some other classroom.

From behind a door in the corridor leading to

the Beta-Minus geography room, a ringing soprano

voice called, "One,two, three, four," and then, with a

weary impatience, "As you were."

"Malthusian Drill," explained the Head

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