RAIN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The day agreed upon was pouring rain.
2 We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars.
3 The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
4 One of the papers said they thought the rain would stop about four.
5 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
6 Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.
7 The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.
8 But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
9 All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York.
10 The rain poured down his thick glasses and he took them off and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave.
11 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
12 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.
13 Dimly I heard someone murmur "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on," and then the owl-eyed man said "Amen to that," in a brave voice.
14 And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously and he spoke of the rain in a worried uncertain way.
15 I walked out the back way--just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before--and ran for a huge black knotted tree whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.
16 When we were on a house-party together up in Warwick, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it--and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night at Daisy's.
17 After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers--but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.
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