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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.
2 Half an hour later Daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find that I was coming.
3 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
4 When they met again two days later it was Gatsby who was breathless, who was somehow betrayed.
5 Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men.
6 I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in and then they came back to Chicago to settle down.
7 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
8 A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
9 An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in.
10 A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over.
11 It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
12 On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.
13 He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true.
14 Just as the latter was getting uneasy some workmen came past the door bound for his restaurant and Michaelis took the opportunity to get away, intending to come back later.
15 He informed me that he was in the "artistic game" and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.
16 We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back into her dress and half an hour later when we walked out of the room the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over.
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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