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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 We shook hands and I started away.
2 The modesty of the demand shook me.
3 We shook hands with him gravely and went back outdoors.
4 As he shook hands and turned away his tragic nose was trembling.
5 The hair in his nostrils quivered slightly and as he shook his head his eyes filled with tears.
6 They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
7 For a moment I thought he was going to suggest a "gonnegtion" but he only nodded and shook my hand.
8 I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child.
9 She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.
10 The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.
11 Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.
12 Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
13 Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clay's "Economics," starting at the Finnish tread that shook the kitchen floor and peering toward the bleared windows from time to time as if a series of invisible but alarming happenings were taking place outside.