[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 1 15/59
(She crosses to the bureau.) See, here's my rouge--eye pencils. HE: I didn't know you were that way. SHE: What did you expect? HE: I thought you'd be sort of--sort of--sexless, you know, swim and play golf. SHE: Oh, I do--but not in business hours. HE: Business? SHE: Six to two--strictly. HE: I'd like to have some stock in the corporation. SHE: Oh, it's not a corporation--it's just "Rosalind, Unlimited." Fifty-one shares, name, good-will, and everything goes at $25,000 a year. HE: (Disapprovingly) Sort of a chilly proposition. SHE: Well, Amory, you don't mind--do you? When I meet a man that doesn't bore me to death after two weeks, perhaps it'll be different. HE: Odd, you have the same point of view on men that I have on women. SHE: I'm not really feminine, you know--in my mind. HE: (Interested) Go on. SHE: No, you--you go on--you've made me talk about myself.
That's against the rules. HE: Rules? SHE: My own rules--but you--Oh, Amory, I hear you're brilliant.
The family expects _so_ much of you. HE: How encouraging! SHE: Alec said you'd taught him to think.
Did you? I didn't believe any one could. HE: No.
I'm really quite dull. (He evidently doesn't intend this to be taken seriously.) SHE: Liar. HE: I'm--I'm religious--I'm literary.
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