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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

rump and potato finger "

"John."

He would not answer. "Fat rump and potato

finger."

"John."

"What is it?" he asked gruffly.

"I wonder if you'd mind giving me my

Malthusian belt."

Lenina sat, listening to the footsteps in the

other room, wondering, as she listened, how long he

was likely to go tramping up and down like that;

whether she would have to wait until he left the flat;

or if it would be safe, after allowing his madness a

reasonable time to subside, to open the bathroom

door and make a dash for it.

She was interrupted in the midst of these

uneasy speculations by the sound of the telephone

bell ringing in the other room. Abruptly the

tramping ceased. She heard the voice of the Savage

parleying with silence.

"Hullo."

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