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1 I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.
2 Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man.
3 I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my--you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.
4 Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.
5 I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply.
6 The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
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