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1 For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.
2 Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found.
3 It was nine o'clock--almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten.
4 I rushed out and found her mother's maid and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath.
5 One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
6 I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say.
7 Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to someone before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by.
8 People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
9 I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey.
10 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
11 Wild rumors were circulating about her--how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas.
12 It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
13 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.
14 We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead.
15 The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
16 This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
17 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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