JORDAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidentially.
2 Jordan looked at him alertly, cheerfully without answering.
3 As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.
4 Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
5 For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.
6 It was on the tip of my tongue to ask his name when Jordan looked around and smiled.
7 "Let's get out," whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half hour.
8 With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.
9 Jordan's party were calling impatiently to her from the porch but she lingered for a moment to shake hands.
10 "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.
11 As I waited for my hat in the hall the door of the library opened and Jordan Baker and Gatsby came out together.
12 Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.
13 Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
14 The first supper--there would be another one after midnight--was now being served, and Jordan invited me to join her own party who were spread around a table on the other side of the garden.
15 "You've dyed your hair since then," remarked Jordan, and I started but the girls had moved casually on and her remark was addressed to the premature moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer's basket.
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.
17 There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.
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