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outside. Surely
there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary? Julia woke
up, rubbed her eyes, and raised herself on her elbow to look at the
oilstove.
'Half that water's boiled away,' she said. 'I'll get up and make some
coffee in another moment. We've got an hour. What time do they cut the
lights off at your flats?'
'Twenty-three thirty.'
'It's twenty-three at the hostel. But you have to get in earlier than
that, because -- Hi! Get out, you filthy brute!'
She suddenly twisted herself over in the bed, seized a shoe from the
floor, and sent it hurtling into the corner with a boyish jerk of her arm,
exactly as he had seen her fling the dictionary at Goldstein, that morning
during the Two Minutes Hate.
'What was it?' he said in surprise.
'A rat. I saw him stick his beastly nose out of the wainscoting.
There's a hole down there. I gave him a good fright, anyway.'
'Rats!' murmured Winston. 'In this room!'
'They're all over the place,' said Julia indifferently as she lay down
again. 'We've even got them in the kitchen at the hostel. Some parts of
London are swarming with them. Did you know they attack children? Yes, they
do. In some of these streets a woman daren't leave a baby alone for two
minutes. It's the great huge brown ones that do it. And the nasty thing is
that the brutes always--'
'Don't go on!' said Winston, with his eyes tightly shut.
'Dearest! You've gone quite pale. What's the matter? Do they make you
feel sick?'
'Of all horrors in the world -- a rat!'
She pressed herself against him and wound her limbs round hi


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