1 We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
2 "Ten o'clock," she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling.
3 Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself and went into the house.
4 The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
5 There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line.
6 It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
7 Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
8 I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
9 You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
10 The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
11 I went up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and taking hold of my elbow literally forced me from the car.
12 And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
13 Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
14 Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
15 The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
16 A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
17 Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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