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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

attentions paid her by conspicuous individuals. The

Resident World Controller's Second Secretary had

asked her to dinner and breakfast. She had spent

one week-end with the Ford Chief-Justice, and

another with the Arch-Community-Songster of

Canterbury. The President of the Internal and

External Secretions Corporation was perpetually on

the phone, and she had been to Deauville with the

Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Europe.

"It's wonderful, of course. And yet in a way,"

she had confessed to Fanny, "I feel as though I were

getting something on false pretences. Because, of

course, the first thing they all want to know is what

it's like to make love to a Savage. And I have to say

I don't know." She shook her head. "Most of the

men don't believe me, of course. But it's true. I wish

it weren't," she added sadly and sighed. "He's

terribly good-looking; don't you think so?"

"But doesn't he like you?" asked Fanny.

"Sometimes I think he does and sometimes

I think he doesn't. He always does his best to avoid

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