The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

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so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.

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“Good night.” He smiled—and suddenly there seemed to be a pleasant significance in having been among the last to go, as if he had desired it all the time.

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“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”

“When I said you were a particular friend of Tom’s, he started to abandon the whole idea. He doesn’t know very much about Tom, though he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name.”

“We haven’t met for many years,” said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. “Five years next November.”

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he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

“I know your wife,” continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.

Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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