This Side of Paradise

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The aggrieved virtue of the burly man made him want to laugh.†

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Another dawn flung itself across the river, a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face white from a night's carouse.†

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Scurrying back to Minneapolis to see a girl he had known as a child seemed the interesting and romantic thing to do, so without compunction he wired his mother not to expect him.... sat in the train, and thought about himself for thirty-six hours.†

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"You mean that purple zebra!" shrieked Axia facetiously.†

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But the Popular Daughter becomes engaged every six months between sixteen and twenty-two, when she arranges a match with young Hambell, of Cambell & Hambell, who fatuously considers himself her first love, and between engagements the P. D. (she is selected by the cut-in system at dances, which favors the survival of the fittest) has other sentimental last kisses in the moonlight, or the firelight, or the outer darkness.†

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We have no Eton to create the self-consciousness of a governing class; we have, instead, clean, flaccid and innocuous preparatory schools.†

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with a furtive excitement

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His summoner received him gravely, and motioned him to a chair.

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Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism.

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[Amory:]  "I haven't had a drink to-day."

Wilson looked incredulous.

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Slowly and inevitably, yet with a sudden surge at the last, while Amory talked and dreamed, war rolled swiftly up the beach

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He possessed infinite courage,

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I loathed the army.

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"I am feeling very old to-day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's.†

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and through the shell of his undergraduate consciousness had broken a deep and reverent devotion to the gray walls and Gothic peaks and all they symbolized as warehouses of dead ages.

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Amory eyed him dumbly until Wilson grew embarrassed under the scrutiny.

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He heard from below the shrieks of laughter, and smelled the vapid odor of hot chocolate and tea-cakes as he silently followed mother and daughter down-stairs.†