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1  We all turned and looked around for Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
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3  His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.
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4  As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.
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5  It was on the tip of my tongue to ask his name when Jordan looked around and smiled.
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6  Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.
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7  There were generally a few rioters around but they never came into the library so it was a good place to work.
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8  She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
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9  Rather ashamed that on my first appearance I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby's guests who were clustered around him.
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10  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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11  They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
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12  The first supper--there would be another one after midnight--was now being served, and Jordan invited me to join her own party who were spread around a table on the other side of the garden.
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13  Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
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14  Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.
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15  Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know--though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.
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16  Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.
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17  When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
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