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

I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them

So Wilson was reduced to a man «deranged by grief» in order that the case might remain in its simplest form. And it rested there.

Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.

After we started carrying Gatsby toward the house the gardener saw

There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end drove its way toward the drain at the other. The laden mattress moved down the pool

I drove from the station directly to Gatsby’s house and rushed up the front steps

If that was true, maybe he felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared

stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress , and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.

At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing-suit and told the butler to let him know if any one phoned