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1  No, we just went to Monte Carlo and back.
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2  People were not invited--they went there.
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3  "Things went from bad to worse," suggested Miss Baker.
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4  We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds.
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5  "You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
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6  Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself and went into the house.
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7  In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
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8  I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.
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9  "Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls.
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10  So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York--or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car.
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11  Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.
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12  The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
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13  Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
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14  Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner.
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15  He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
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16  I went up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and taking hold of my elbow literally forced me from the car.
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17  A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large hard dog biscuits--one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.
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