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El Gran Gatsby
Capítulo 5, Página 19
And
inside,
as
we
wandered
through
Marie
Antoinette
music-rooms
and
Restoration
Salons,
I
felt
that
there
were
guests
concealed
behind
every
couch
and
table,
under
orders
to
be
breathlessly
silent
until
we
had
passed
through.
As
Gatsby
closed
the
door
of
“the
Merton
College
Library”
I
could
have
sworn
I
heard
the
owl-eyed
man
break
into
ghostly
laughter.
We
went
upstairs,
through
period
bedrooms
swathed
in
rose
and
lavender
silk
and
vivid
with
new
flowers,
through
dressing-rooms
and
poolrooms,
and
bathrooms
with
sunken
baths—intruding
into
one
chamber
where
a
dishevelled
man
in
pyjamas
was
doing
liver
exercises
on
the
floor.
It
was
Mr.
Klipspringer,
the
“boarder.”
I
had
seen
him
wandering
hungrily
about
the
beach
that
morning.
Finally
we
came
to
Gatsby’s
own
apartment,
a
bedroom
and
a
bath,
and
an
Adam’s
study,
where
we
sat
down
and
drank
a
glass
of
some
Chartreuse
he
took
from
a
cupboard
in
the
wall.
He
hadn’t
once
ceased
looking
at
Daisy,
and
I
think
he
revalued
everything
in
his
house
according
to
the
measure
of
response
it
drew
from
her
well-loved
eyes.
Sometimes
too,
he
stared
around
at
his
possessions
in
a
dazed
way,
as
though
in
her
actual
and
astounding
presence
none
of
it
was
any
longer
real.
Once
he
nearly
toppled
down
a
flight
of
stairs.
His
bedroom
was
the
simplest
room
of
all—except
where
the
dresser
was
garnished
with
a
toilet
set
of
pure
dull
gold.
Daisy
took
the
brush
with
delight,
and
smoothed
her
hair,
whereupon
Gatsby
sat
down
and
shaded
his
eyes
and
began
to
laugh.
“It’s
the
funniest
thing,
old
sport,”
he
said
hilariously.
“I
can’t—When
I
try
to—”
He
had
passed
visibly
through
two
states
and
was
entering
upon
a
third.
After
his
embarrassment
and
his
unreasoning
joy
he
was
consumed
with
wonder
at
her
presence.
He
had
been
full
of
the
idea
so
long,
dreamed
it
right
through
to
the
end,
waited
with
his
teeth
set,
so
to
speak,
at
an
inconceivable
pitch
of
intensity.
Now,
in
the
reaction,
he
was
running
down
like
an
over-wound
clock.
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