Page 272 - BRAVE NEW WORLD By Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Songster kept repeating, "on me!"

As for the women, they indignantly felt that

they had been had on false pretences–had by a

wretched little man who had had alcohol poured into

his bottle by mistake–by a creature with a Gamma-

Minus physique. It was an outrage, and they said so,

more and more loudly. The Head Mistress of Eton

was particularly scathing.

Lenina alone said nothing. Pale, her blue

eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy, she sat

in a corner, cut off from those who surrounded her

by an emotion which they did not share. She had

come to the party filled with a strange feeling of

anxious exultation. "In a few minutes," she had said

to herself, as she entered the room, "I shall be

seeing him, talking to him, telling him" (for she had

come with her mind made up) "that I like him–more

than anybody I've ever known. And then perhaps

he'll say "

What would he say? The blood had rushed to

her cheeks.

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