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1  Why they came east I don't know.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  "I don't like mysteries," I answered.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  "No, you don't," interposed Tom quickly.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  "I don't think so," she said innocently.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  "Please don't hurry," Gatsby urged them.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  "I don't mean that," explained Wilson quickly.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  "You don't understand," explained the criminal.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  Myrtle'll be hurt if you don't come up to the apartment.
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9  "We don't know each other very well, Nick," she said suddenly.
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10  And I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged.
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12  He looked out the window at it, but judging from his expression I don't believe he saw a thing.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
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14  I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
16  You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
17  The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--and one day I found what it was.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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