Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas …”

“How do you do, Captain,” she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficult…”

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in t…”

“Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superio…”