The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church. . . . The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.

...on Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers...

The magnitude of the Party's power and the certainty of its eventual punishment of the thoughtcriminal enables it to permit an extensive variety of crimes, because the thoughtcriminal is always safely under the control of the ultimate privileged class.

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