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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

absolutely true about the alcohol. Some one I know

knew some one who was working in the Embryo

Store at the time. She said to my friend, and my

friend said to me "

"Too bad, too bad," said Henry Foster,

sympathizing with the Arch-Community-Songster.

"It may interest you to knowthat our ex-Director

was on the point of transferring him to Iceland."

Pierced by every word that was spoken, the

tight balloon of Bernard's happy self-confidence was

leaking from a thousand wounds. Pale, distraught,

abject and agitated, he moved among his guests,

stammering incoherent apologies, assuring them

that next time the Savage would certainly be there,

begging them to sit down and take a carotene

sandwich, a slice of vitamin A pâté, a glass of

champagne-surrogate. They duly ate, but ignored

him; drank and were eitherrude to his face or talked

to one another about him, loudly and offensively, as

though he had not been there.

"And now, my friends," said the Arch-

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