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El Gran Gatsby
Capítulo 4, Página 1
On
Sunday
morning,
as
church
bells
rang
in
the
villages
along
the
shore,
the
world
and
its
mistress
returned
to
Gatsby’s
house,
filling
his
lawn
with
laughter
and
light.
"He’s
a
bootlegger,"
said
the
young
ladies,
moving
between
his
cocktails
and
flowers.
"Once,
he
killed
a
man
who
discovered
he
was
Von
Hindenburg’s
nephew
and
the
devil’s
second
cousin.
Pass
me
a
rose,
darling,
and
pour
me
the
last
drop
into
that
crystal
glass."
Once,
I
wrote
on
the
empty
spaces
of
a
timetable
the
names
of
those
who
visited
Gatsby’s
house
that
summer.
It's
an
old
timetable
now,
falling
apart
at
the
folds,
marked
"This
schedule
in
effect
July
5th,
1922."
But
I
can
still
read
the
faded
names,
and
they
give
a
better
picture
than
my
general
descriptions
of
those
who
enjoyed
Gatsby’s
hospitality
while
knowing
nothing
about
him.
From
East
Egg
came
the
Chester
Beckers
and
the
Leeches,
and
a
man
named
Bunsen,
whom
I
knew
at
Yale,
and
Doctor
Webster
Civet,
who
drowned
last
summer
in
Maine.
And
the
Hornbeams
and
the
Willie
Voltaires,
and
a
whole
family
named
Blackbuck,
who
always
gathered
in
a
corner
and
turned
up
their
noses
at
anyone
who
came
near.
And
the
Ismays
and
the
Chrysties
(or
rather
Hubert
Auerbach
and
Mr.
Chrystie’s
wife),
and
Edgar
Beaver,
whose
hair,
they
say,
turned
white
one
winter
afternoon
for
no
apparent
reason.
Clarence
Endive
was
from
East
Egg,
as
I
recall.
He
came
only
once,
wearing
white
knickerbockers,
and
had
a
fight
with
a
bum
named
Etty
in
the
garden.
From
farther
out
on
the
Island
came
the
Cheadles
and
the
O.
R.
P.
Schraeders,
and
the
Stonewall
Jackson
Abrams
of
Georgia,
and
the
Fishguards
and
the
Ripley
Snells.
Snell
was
there
three
days
before
he
went
to
prison,
so
drunk
on
the
gravel
drive
that
Mrs.
Ulysses
Swett’s
car
ran
over
his
right
hand.
The
Dancies
came,
too,
and
S.
B.
Whitebait,
who
was
well
over
sixty,
and
Maurice
A.
Flink,
and
the
Hammerheads,
and
Beluga
the
tobacco
importer,
and
Beluga’s
girls.
From
West
Egg
came
the
Poles
and
the
Mulreadys
and
Cecil
Roebuck
and
Cecil
Schoen
and
Gulick
the
State
senator
and
Newton
Orchid,
who
controlled
Films
Par
Excellence,
and
Eckhaust
and
Clyde
Cohen
and
Don
S.
Schwartz
(the
son)
and
Arthur
McCarty,
all
connected
with
the
movies
in
one
way
or
another.
And
the
Catlips
and
the
Bembergs
and
G.
Earl
Muldoon,
brother
to
that
Muldoon
who
later
strangled
his
wife.
Da
Fontano
the
promoter
came
there,
and
Ed
Legros
and
James
B.
(“Rot-Gut”)
Ferret
and
the
De
Jongs
and
Ernest
Lilly—they
came
to
gamble,
and
when
Ferret
wandered
into
the
garden,
it
meant
he
was
broke
and
Associated
Traction
would
have
to
fluctuate
profitably
the
next
day.
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