[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 1 26/59
Yes, I'll dance. (So she dances around the room to a tune from down-stairs, her arms outstretched to an imaginary partner, the cigarette waving in her hand.) ***** SEVERAL HOURS LATER The corner of a den down-stairs, filled by a very comfortable leather lounge.
A small light is on each side above, and in the middle, over the couch hangs a painting of a very old, very dignified gentleman, period 1860.
Outside the music is heard in a fox-trot. ROSALIND is seated on the lounge and on her left is HOWARD GILLESPIE, a vapid youth of about twenty-four.
He is obviously very unhappy, and she is quite bored. GILLESPIE: (Feebly) What do you mean I've changed.
I feel the same toward you. ROSALIND: But you don't look the same to me. GILLESPIE: Three weeks ago you used to say that you liked me because I was so blase, so indifferent--I still am. ROSALIND: But not about me.
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