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1  We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "Don't talk so much, old sport," commanded Gatsby.
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3  "I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment.
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4  I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.
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5  We talked for a moment about some wet, grey little villages in France.
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6  We talked like that for a while and then abruptly we weren't talking any longer.
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7  But I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him an hour.
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8  I think that he would have acknowledged anything, now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy.
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9  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.
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10  About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed--he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car.
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11  It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made.
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12  Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.
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13  He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
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14  All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.
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15  Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea"--we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny.
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16  Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.
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17  Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
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