BAKER in Classic Quotes

1  "Good night," called Miss Baker from the stairs.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "Things went from bad to worse," suggested Miss Baker.

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3  She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.

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4  Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.

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5  Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction.

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6  For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.

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7  "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.

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8  "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.

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9  As I waited for my hat in the hall the door of the library opened and Jordan Baker and Gatsby came out together.

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10  A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.

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11  She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."

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12  Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.

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13  I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.

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14  Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

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15  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.

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16  I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.

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17  Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.

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