Цитаты из книги «The Great Gatsby. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень B1»

found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say.

Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay»

she was one of the maids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.

That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him go

I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband

Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan and started off on a three months’ trip to the South Seas.

half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over.

we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. She didn’t want to let go of the letter.

She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. «Take them downstairs and give them back to Tom. Tell them all Daisy’s changed her mind. Say: ‘Daisy’s changed her mind!’»

as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of wine in one hand and a letter in the other.