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1  "Never heard of them," he remarked decisively.
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2  "I've just heard the most amazing thing," she whispered.
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3  Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.
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4  Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years.
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5  "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
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6  I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
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7  "I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively.
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8  I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.
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9  It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.
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10  Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
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11  As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
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12  Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.
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13  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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14  When he came outside again a little after seven he was reminded of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson's voice, loud and scolding, downstairs in the garage.
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15  It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
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16  Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.
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17  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.
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