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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
The bell rang, and the Savage, who was
impatiently hoping that Helmholtz would come that
afternoon (for having at last made up his mind to
talk to Helmholtz about Lenina, he could not bear to
postpone his confidences a moment longer), jumped
up and ran to the door.
"I had a premonition it was you, Helmholtz,"
he shouted as he opened.
On the threshold, in a white acetate-satin
sailor suit, and with a round white cap rakishly tilted
over her left ear, stood Lenina.
"Oh!" said the Savage, as though some one
had struck him a heavy blow.
Half a gramme had been enough to make
Lenina forget her fears and her embarrassments.
"Hullo, John," she said, smiling, and walked past
him into the room. Automatically he closed the door
and followed her. Lenina sat down. There was a
long silence.
"You don't seem very glad to see me, John,"
she said at last.
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