Chapter 4 Flashcards
“He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between…”
“He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers”
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to…”
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von
Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil”
“It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen…”
“It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length”
“And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if…”
“And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him after all”
“…the thing had an authentic look”
“To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look”
“Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal… the gnawings of his broken heart”
“Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart”
“Taking a white card from his wallet he…”
“Taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the man’s eyes”
“I was able to do the commissioner…”
“I was able to do the commissioner a favor once”
“A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine…”
“A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril”
“After a moment I discovered his…”
“After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness”
“There was the smile again, but…”
“There was the smile again, but this time I held out against it”
“Finest specimens of…”
“Finest specimens of human molars,” he informed me”
“I turned toward Mr. Gatsby, but…”
“I turned toward Mr. Gatsby, but he was no longer there”
“…was beside the curb”
“her white roadster was beside the curb”
“She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when…”
“She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow”
