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This Side of Paradise

CHAPTER 2
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A dark-haired beauty dances by and there is a half-gasping sound as the ripple surges forward and some one sleeker than the rest darts out and cuts in.

Then when the six-foot girl (brought by Kaye in your class, and to whom he has been trying to introduce you all evening) gallops by, the line surges back and the groups face about and become intent on far corners of the hall, for Kaye, anxious and perspiring, appears elbowing through the crowd in search of familiar faces.
"I say, old man, I've got an awfully nice--" "Sorry, Kaye, but I'm set for this one.

I've got to cut in on a fella." "Well, the next one ?" "What--ah--er--I swear I've got to go cut in--look me up when she's got a dance free." It delighted Amory when Isabelle suggested that they leave for a while and drive around in her car.

For a delicious hour that passed too soon they glided the silent roads about Princeton and talked from the surface of their hearts in shy excitement.

Amory felt strangely ingenuous and made no attempt to kiss her.
Next day they rode up through the Jersey country, had luncheon in New York, and in the afternoon went to see a problem play at which Isabelle wept all through the second act, rather to Amory's embarrassment--though it filled him with tenderness to watch her.


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