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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Chapter Thirteen

HENRY FOSTER loomed up through the

twilight of the Embryo Store.

"Like to come to a feely this evening?"

Lenina shook her head without speaking.

"Going out with some one else?" It

interested him to know which of his friends was

being had by which other. "Is it Benito?" he

questioned.

She shook her head again.

Henry detected the weariness in those

purple eyes, the pallor beneath that glaze of lupus,

the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson

mouth. "You're not feeling ill, are you?" he asked, a

trifle anxiously, afraid that she might be suffering

from one of the few remaining infectious diseases.

Yet once more Lenina shook her head.

"Anyhow, you ought to go and see the

doctor," said Henry. "A doctor a day keeps the jim-

jams away," he added heartily, driving home his

hypnopædic adage with a clap on the shoulder.

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