DAISY in Classic Quotes

1  "Don't look at me," Daisy retorted.

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2  "Of course you will," confirmed Daisy.

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3  Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college.

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4  "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.

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5  "We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

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6  As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.

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7  "You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret.

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8  Daisy took her face in her hands, as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.

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9  "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.

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10  I am, and you are and you are and---- After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod and she winked at me again.

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11  Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.

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12  When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.

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13  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.

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14  The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.

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15  I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.

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16  This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

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17  Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.

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