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every meal she would beseech him not to be selfish and to remember that his
little sister was sick and also needed food, but it was no use. He would
cry out with rage when she stopped ladling, he would try to wrench the
saucepan and spoon out of her hands, he would grab bits from his sister's
plate. He knew that he was starving the other two, but he could not help
it; he even felt that he had a right to do it. The clamorous hunger in his
belly seemed to justify him. Between meals, if his mother did not stand
guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the
shelf.
One day a chocolate-ration was issued. There had been no such issue
for weeks or months past. He remembered quite clearly that precious little
morsel of chocolate. It was a two-ounce slab (they still talked about
ounces in those days) between the three of them. It was obvious that it
ought to be divided into three equal parts. Suddenly, as though he were
listening to somebody else, Winston heard himself demanding in a loud
booming voice that he should be given the whole piece. His mother told him
not to be greedy. There was a long, nagging argument that went round and
round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings. His tiny
sister, clinging to her mother with both hands, exactly like a baby monkey,
sat looking over her shoulder at him with large, mournful eyes. In the end
his mother broke off three-quarters of the chocolate and gave it to
Winston, giving the other quarter to his sister. The little girl took hold
of it and looked at it dully, perhaps not knowing what it was. Winston
stood watching her for a moment. Then with a sudden swift spring he had
snatched the piece of chocolate out of his sister's hand and was fleeing
for the door.
'Winston, Winston!' his mother called after him. 'Come back! Gi


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