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1 "You forget there's a lady present," said Jordan.
2 "She'll be all right tomorrow," he said presently.
3 The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.
4 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
5 However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders.
6 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.