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1 I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began.
2 Moved by an irresistible impulse, Gatsby turned to Tom who had accepted the introduction as a stranger.
3 They were here--and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.
4 His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.
5 I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York.
6 Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
7 But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
8 Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.