Цитаты из книги «Великий Гэтсби / The Great Gatsby»

she was drawing further and further into herself

absorbing object on the tip of her chin

he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe .

servants toiled all day with mops and brushes and hammers

And on Mondays eight servants toiled all day with mops and brushes and hammers, repairing the ravages of the night before.

servants toiled all day with mops and brushes and hammers, repairing the ravages of the night before. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York – every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.

became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight

“I made a mistake,” she declared vigorously.

It does her good to get away [2

a slender girl, with an erect carriage