1 She had lost in the finals the week before.
2 It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.
3 Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.
4 Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
5 Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to someone before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by.
6 I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
7 It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
8 Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.
9 A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden.
10 They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.
11 Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
12 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
13 Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.
14 And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
15 Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.
16 Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
17 Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.
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