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1  He was probably bumming his way home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "You two start on home, Daisy," said Tom.
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3  The reluctance to go home was not confined to wayward men.
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4  Finally he got up and informed me in an uncertain voice that he was going home.
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5  "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby.
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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  When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire.
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8  Of course we was broke up when he run off from home but I see now there was a reason for it.
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9  The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.
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10  After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
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11  A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"--I doubt if he had any other home.
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12  He waited a moment longer, hoping I'd begin a conversation, but I was too absorbed to be responsive, so he went unwillingly home.
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13  All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York.
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14  Wilson was quieter now and Michaelis went home to sleep; when he awoke four hours later and hurried back to the garage Wilson was gone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
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16  But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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17  His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before.
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