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At that same house party we had a strange talk about driving . It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our car touched a button on one man’s coat . “ You’re a rotten driver , ” I said . “ Either you ought to be more careful , or you oughtn’t to drive at all . ” “ I am careful . ” “ No , you’re not . ” “ Well , other people are , ” she said lightly . “ They’ll keep out of my way . It takes two to make an accident . ” “ Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself . ” “ I hope I never will , ” she answered . “ I hate careless people . That’s why I like you . ” For a moment I thought I loved her . But I am slow - thinking and full of inner rules that hold back my wishes . I knew that first I had to get free of that tangle back home . I was still writing letters once a week to a certain girl there and signing them “ Love , Nick ” . Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the great virtues , and this is mine : I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known . VI . Gatsby’s Story At nine o’clock one morning late in July , Gatsby’s gorgeous car came up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of music from its three - noted horn . “ Good morning , old sport . You’re having lunch with me today , and I thought we’d ride up together . ” By then I had been to two of his parties and flown in his seaplane , but to my disappointment I had found that he had little to say . We sat down in his long cream - coloured car and started for the city . We hadn’t reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished . “ Look here , old sport , ” he said suddenly , “ what’s your opinion of me , anyhow ? I don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear . I’ll tell you God’s truth . I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West , all dead now . I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford , because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years . It is a family tradition . ” He looked at me sideways , and I knew why Jordan had thought he was lying . He hurried the words “ educated at Oxford ” , or swallowed them , as if they had bothered him before . “ What part of the Middle West ? ” I asked . “ San Francisco . ” “ I see , ” I said . San Francisco , of course , is on the Pacific coast , about two thousand miles from the Middle West . “ My family all died and I came into a good deal of money . After that I lived like a young prince in all the capitals of Europe : Paris , Venice , Rome . I collected jewels , chiefly rubies , hunted big game , painted a little , and tried to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago . ”
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