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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

himself thinking of the embraces in Three Weeks in

a Helicopter. Ooh! ooh! the stereoscopic blonde and

anh! the more than real blackamoor. Horror, horror,

horror he fired to disengage himself; but Lenina

tightened her embrace.

"Why didn't you say so?" she whispered,

drawing back her face to look at him. Her eyes were

tenderly reproachful.

"The murkiest den, the most opportune

place" (the voice of conscience thundered

poetically), "the strongest suggestion our worser

genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust.

Never, never!" he resolved.

"You silly boy!" she was saying. "I wanted

you so much. And if you wanted me too, why didn't

you? "

"But, Lenina " he began protesting; and as

she immediately untwined her arms, as she stepped

away from him, he thought, for a moment, that she

had taken his unspoken hint. But when she

unbuckled her white patent cartridge belt and hung

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