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1  I thought you knew, old sport.
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2  He thought you might be offended.
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3  I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard.
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4  I thought for a moment he was going to shake hands.
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5  "I thought you might be here," she responded absently as I came up.
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6  One of the papers said they thought the rain would stop about four.
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7  "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally.
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8  Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge," I thought; "anything at all.
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9  I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband.
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10  Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.
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11  I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
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12  Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
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13  I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my--you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.
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14  Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.
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15  I'm going to make a big request of you today," he said, pocketing his souvenirs with satisfaction, "so I thought you ought to know something about me.
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16  At first I thought it was another party, a wild rout that had resolved itself into "hide-and-go-seek" or "sardines-in-the-box" with all the house thrown open to the game.
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17  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
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