![]() ![]() ![]() On the domed ceiling of the hall, the colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical sunset. The air seemed hot and somehow breathless with the scent of ambergris and sandalwood. “CALVIN STOPES AND HIS SIXTEEN SEXOPHONISTS.” From the façade of the new Abbey the giant letters invitingly glared. The electric sky-signs effectively shut off the outer darkness. It was a night almost without clouds, moonless and starry but of this on the whole depressing fact Lenina and Henry were fortunately unaware. At twenty past nine they walked across the street to the newly opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret. Lenina took two half-gramme tablets and Henry three. There, in a loud and cheerful company, they ate an excellent meal. ![]() Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining-hall. ![]()
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