The passage down which [the servant] led them was softly carpeted, with cream-paperedwalls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean . . . Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies.The whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, the richness and spaciousness ofeverything, the unfamiliar smells of good food and good tobacco, the silent and incrediblyrapid lifts sliding up and down . . . everything was intimidating."

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