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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

elation, Lenina walked after him, out of the room.

The other guests followed at a respectful interval.

The last of them slammed the door. Bernard was all

alone.

Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into

a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began

to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought

better of it and took four tablets of soma.

Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading

Romeo and Juliet.

Lenina and the Arch-Community-Songster

stepped out on to the roof of Lambeth Palace.

"Hurry up, my young friend–I mean, Lenina," called

the Arch-Songster impatiently from the lift gates.

Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at

the moon, dropped her eyes and came hurrying

across the roof to rejoin him.

"A New Theory of Biology" was the title of

the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished

reading. He sat for some time, meditatively

frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across

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