MICHAELIS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Michaelis opened the drawer nearest his hand.
2 Michaelis made a clumsy attempt to distract him.
3 "That's an advertisement," Michaelis assured him.
4 He began to rock again and Michaelis stood twisting the leash in his hand.
5 By six o'clock Michaelis was worn out and grateful for the sound of a car stopping outside.
6 Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color--he told the first policeman that it was light green.
7 Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men.
8 Michaelis had seen this too but it hadn't occurred to him that there was any special significance in it.
9 Michaelis advised him to go to bed but Wilson refused, saying that he'd miss a lot of business if he did.
10 The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the principal witness at the inquest.
11 Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash.
12 Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years and Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement.
13 Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee.
14 Just as the latter was getting uneasy some workmen came past the door bound for his restaurant and Michaelis took the opportunity to get away, intending to come back later.
15 The hard brown beetles kept thudding against the dull light and whenever Michaelis heard a car go tearing along the road outside it sounded to him like the car that hadn't stopped a few hours before.
16 So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson wouldn't say a word--instead he began to throw curious, suspicious glances at his visitor and ask him what he'd been doing at certain times on certain days.
17 Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.
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