WOLFSHIEM in Classic Quotes
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1 Meyer Wolfshiem's name wasn't in the phone book.
2 "The old Metropole," brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily.
3 Mr. Wolfshiem raised his hand in a sort of benediction.
4 They're some people Wolfshiem wanted to do something for.
5 "He has to telephone," said Mr. Wolfshiem, following him with his eyes.
6 In a moment Meyer Wolfshiem stood solemnly in the doorway, holding out both hands.
7 "This is a nice restaurant here," said Mr. Wolfshiem looking at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling.
8 Suddenly he looked at his watch, jumped up and hurried from the room leaving me with Mr. Wolfshiem at the table.
9 The morning of the funeral I went up to New York to see Meyer Wolfshiem; I couldn't seem to reach him any other way.
10 He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.
11 When the subject of this instinctive trust returned to the table and sat down Mr. Wolfshiem drank his coffee with a jerk and got to his feet.
12 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.
13 A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.
14 When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.
15 For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery.
16 Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
17 I was sure he'd start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire from Daisy before noon--but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived, no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.