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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"Why was he so strange the other night,

after the feelies? So queer. And yet I'm absolutely

sure he really does rather like me. I'm sure "

It was at this moment that Bernard had

made his announcement; the Savage wasn't coming

to the party.

Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations

normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent

Passion Surrogatetreatment–a sense of dreadful

emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea.

Her heart seemed to stop beating.

"Perhaps it's because he doesn't like me,"

she said to herself. And at once this possibility

became an established certainty: John had refused

to come because he didn't like her. He didn't like

her.

"It really is a bit too thick," the Head

Mistress of Eton was saying to the Director of

Crematoria and Phosphorus Reclamation. "When I

think that I actually "

"Yes," came the voice of Fanny Crowne, "it's

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