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1  "All right, old sport," called Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Next day Gatsby called me on the phone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  "Hello Jordan," she called unexpectedly.
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4  "Good night," called Miss Baker from the stairs.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  I called up Daisy from the office next morning and invited her to come to tea.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation.
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8  That was my fault--Gatsby had been called to the phone and I'd enjoyed these same people only two weeks before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  That night an obviously frightened person called up and demanded to know who I was before he would give his name.
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10  The butler gave me his office address on Broadway and I called Information, but by the time I had the number it was long after five and no one answered the phone.
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11  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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12  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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13  The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean--then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
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14  The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend.
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15  It was the first time he had called on me though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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16  It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way.
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17  Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.
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