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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"Yes, but let me get on with my distribution,

won't you? There's a good fellow." With the cautious

tenderness of one who strokes a notoriously vicious

animal, he patted the Savage's arm. "Just let me "

"Never!" cried the Savage.

"But look here, old man "

"Throw it all away, that horrible poison."

The words "Throw it all away" pierced

through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to

the quick of the Delta's consciousness. An angry

murmur went up from the crowd.

"I come to bring you freedom," said the

Savage, turning back towards the twins. "I come "

The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he

had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up

a number in the telephone book.

"Not in his own rooms," Bernard summed

up. "Not in mine, not in yours. Not at the

Aphroditaum; not at the Centre or the College.

Where can he have got to?"

Helmholtz shrugged his shoulders. They had

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