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1  Then I turned back to Gatsby--and was startled at his expression.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I tried to show by my expression that I had played no part in her past.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  He looked out the window at it, but judging from his expression I don't believe he saw a thing.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  But evidently he was not addressing me for he dropped my hand and covered Gatsby with his expressive nose.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  She must have seen something of this in my expression for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Daisy looked at Tom frowning and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby's face.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression "mad man" as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  Her expression was curiously familiar--it was an expression I had often seen on women's faces but on Myrtle Wilson's face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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