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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

cleaners; then it's knots. You're driving me crazy."

She jumped up and, as though afraid that he might

run away from her physically, as well as with his

mind, caught him by the wrist. "Answer me this

question: do you really like me, or don't you?"

There was a moment's silence; then, in a

very low voice, "I love you more than anything in

the world," he said.

"Then why on earth didn't you say so?" she

cried, and so intense was her exasperation that she

drove her sharp nails into the skin of his wrist.

"Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum

cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for

weeks and weeks."

She released his hand and flung it angrily

away from her.

"If I didn't like you so much," she said, "I'd

be furious with you."

And suddenly her arms were round his neck;

he felt her lips soft against his own. So deliciously

soft, so warm andelectric that inevitably he found

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