WILSON in Classic Quotes

1  Mrs. Wilson was first concerned with the dog.

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2  "I don't mean that," explained Wilson quickly.

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3  "I can't complain," answered Wilson unconvincingly.

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4  "I think it's cute," said Mrs. Wilson enthusiastically.

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5  Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain.

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6  "Hello, Wilson, old man," said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder.

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7  "Ask Myrtle," said Tom, breaking into a short shout of laughter as Mrs. Wilson entered with a tray.

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8  She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door.

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9  "Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls.

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10  We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile.

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11  So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York--or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car.

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12  Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

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13  Just as Tom and Myrtle--after the first drink Mrs. Wilson and I called each other by our first names--reappeared, company commenced to arrive at the apartment door.

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14  Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner.

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15  Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.

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16  He informed me that he was in the "artistic game" and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.

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17  The airedale--undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white--changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.

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