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1  But she didn't say another word.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  I know you didn't mean to but you did do it.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away.
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5  Or rather, as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  I waited but she didn't say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my--you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years--even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
16  Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know--though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
17  This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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