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Tonight I will be continuing the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for you.

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Gatsby.

Chapter 3.

There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.

In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings in the

champagne and the stars.

At high tide in the afternoon, I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft,

or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the

sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls Royce became an

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

while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays,

eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with

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