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1  "Well, other people are," she said lightly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
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3  Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness.
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4  The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
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5  At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
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6  Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
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