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1  I have been glancing into some of the rooms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
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3  We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
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9  Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
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11  The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  And inside as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music rooms and Restoration salons I felt that there were guests concealed behind every couch and table, under orders to be breathlessly silent until we had passed through.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
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15  The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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16  We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths--intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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17  He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride.
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