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1 We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you.
2 I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.
3 "Ten o'clock," she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling.
4 My dear," she told her sister in a high mincing shout, "most of these fellas will cheat you every time.
5 Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
6 One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
7 For some time confused and intriguing sounds had issued from a long many-windowed room which overhung the terrace.
8 The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly.
9 He smiled--and suddenly there seemed to be a pleasant significance in having been among the last to go, as if he had desired it all the time.
10 Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
11 It was the first time he had called on me though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach.
12 He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn't keep my eyes off him but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head.
13 However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.
14 Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
15 I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
16 I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
17 At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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