1 But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.
2 I tried to show by my expression that I had played no part in her past.
3 His eyes glanced momentarily at me and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a laugh.
4 When they convinced her of this she immediately fainted as if that was the intolerable part of the affair.
5 The first part of this was obviously untrue for someone had begun to whistle "The Rosary," tunelessly, inside.
6 The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
7 Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.
8 The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea.
9 But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
10 Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe.
11 For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air.
12 Some one started to ask me questions but I broke away and going upstairs looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk--he'd never told me definitely that his parents were dead.
13 I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.