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"How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?"

"None! You knoell as I do None!"

Faber hung up

Montag put down the phone None A thing he knew of course fros But somehow he had wanted to hear it from Faber himself

In the hall Mildred's face was suffused with excite over!"

Montag showed her a book "This is the Old and New Testament, and"

"Don't start that again!"

"It ht be the last copy in this part of the world"

"You've got to hand it back tonight, don't you? Captain Beatty knows you got it, doesn't he?"

"I don't think he knohich book I stole But how do I choose a substitute? Do I turn in Mr Jefferson? Mr Thoreau? Which is least valuable? If I pick a substitute and Beatty does knohich book I stole, he'll guess we've an entire library here!"

Mildred's ? You'll ruin us! Who'sto shriek now, sitting there like a wax dollin its own heat

He could hear Beatty's voice "Sit down, Montag

Watch Delicately, like the petals of a flower Light the first page, light the second page Each becoe, fro, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the secondhand notions and tiently, the floor littered with swarle storm

Mildred stopped screa "There's only one thing to do," he said "Soot to have a duplicate made"

"You'll be here for the White Clown tonight, and the ladies co over?" cried Mildred