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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.
2 Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
3 It was dark here in front: only the bright door sent ten square feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.
4 After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
5 He was on the point of collapse so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat.
6 I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
7 He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when I sent down word that we weren't in he tried to force his way upstairs.
8 Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train.
9 At eleven o'clock a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower tapped at my front door and said that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass.
10 I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower.
11 Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago.
12 The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.