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The Great Gatsby- Chapter One

  • "She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she would so much wanted to see."
  • "Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming."
  • "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as of each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
  • "A promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since then and that there were gay,exciting things hovering in the next hour."
  • "Sometimes she and Miss.Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes of all desire."
  • "In fact, i'll arrange a marriage.".... "Goodnight called Miss.Baker from the stairs. "I haven't heard a word."
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