Gatsby 4 Flashcards
‘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 the nephew
To Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil
It was a rich cream colour, 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 there
Wasn’t something a little sinister about him after all
To my astonishment
The thing had an authentic look
Then it was all true. I saw 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 waved it before the man’s eyes
I was able to do the
Commissioner a favour once
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 tiny eyes
In the half darkness
There was the smile again
But this time I held out against it
‘Finest specimens of human molars’
He informed me
I turned toward Mr Gatsby
But he was no longer there
Her white roadster
Was beside the curb