textrazor/demo.js

TextRazor SDK for node.js

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* @Author: zyc
* @Date:   2016-02-18 14:39:14
* @Last Modified by:   zyc
* @Last Modified time: 2016-03-14 19:44:58
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'use strict'

const TextRazor = require('./index')

const textRazor = new TextRazor('<YOUR API KEY>')

// const content = 'The Federal Reserve is the enemy of Ron Paul.'
// const content = `Apple order: White House says San Bernardino request is limited
// 17 February 2016
//  From the section US & Canada
// A man tests a mobile phone, an iPhone 6 by Apple in a shop in Munich, Germany, 27 January 2016.Image copyrightReuters
// The White House says a court ruling asking Apple to help the FBI access data on a phone belonging to the San Bernardino gunman does not mean asking for a "back door" to the device.
// Spokesman Josh Earnest said the FBI was asking for access to a single device.
// Republican frontrunner Donald Trump slammed Apple for contesting the court order, saying "we should open it up".
// Apple chief Tim Cook says circumventing security software on the iPhone risks the security of all its customers.
// In a statement, he said the court order was "an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers" that "has implications far beyond the legal case at hand".
// The court had ordered the technology company to alter Farook's iPhone so that the FBI could make unlimited attempts at the passcode without the risk of erasing the data - Apple has provided default encryption on its devices since 2014, allowing only users with knowledge of the passcode to access its contents.
// 'One device'
// It also wants Apple to develop a way to help speed up investigators trying different passcode combinations to gain access.
// White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the FBI request for access did not mean they were asking for a "back door" - or unauthorised access - into the company's device or for it to be redesigned.
// "They are simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device," he told reporters on Wednesday.
// Jump media playerMedia player helpOut of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.
// Media captionEXPLAINER: What is encryption?
// Presidential candidates on both sides - Democrat and Republican - have yet to weigh in on the latest development, but most have been supportive of the FBI stance in the past.
// "I agree 100% with the courts...Who do they think they are? They have to open it up," Donald Trump told Fox news on Wednesday, referring to Apple's decision to fight a court order to help the FBI unlock Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone, which had been encrypted.
// "I think security, overall, we have to open it up and we have to use our heads. We have to use common sense," he added.
// Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign event on 16 February 2016 in Beaufort, South CarolinaImage copyrightGetty Images
// Image caption
// Republican Donald Trump voiced his support for the court ruling on Wednesday
// Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who like Mr Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for president, described it as a "tough issue" that requires the technology industry to work closer with the government to reach a solution.
// "Ultimately, I think being a good corporate citizen is important," he said, during a campaign stop in South Carolina ahead of the Republican presidential primary there on Saturday.
// 'Out of criminals' hands'
// Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton has previously called for a "Manhattan-like Project" to address the issue of encryption, in reference to top-secret efforts by the US in developing nuclear weapons during World War Two.
// She said in December she hoped law enforcement agencies would work together in partnership with technology companies to provide access to encrypted technology used by terrorists.
// FBI director James Comey has been critical of Google and Apple in recent months for creating new encryption technology that allows "terrorists to go dark".
// Hillary Clinton speaking in New York on 16 February 2016Image copyrightAP
// Image caption
// Hillary Clinton has spoken out in support of greater cooperation between the FBI and technology companies in recent months
// But Jonathan Godfrey, vice president of the App Association which represents companies in the mobile app community, highlights the importance of maintaining "the strongest security to keep our most sensitive, private data safe" as smartphone and tablet consumers increasingly expect access to their most important data through the cloud.
// "The FBI's demands would substantially undermine our best means of keeping critical data out of the hands of criminals and bad actors," he told BBC News.
// The question is not so clear cut according to Daniel Castro, vice-president of the non-partisan think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He suggests there are some cases where "it would be prudent to allow law enforcement to have this access - at least in the short term".
// However, he says the short term benefits of doing this need to be weighed up against any harmful unintended consequences.
// Apple's Tim Cook said on Wednesday the FBI's demands set "a dangerous precedent".
// "The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation."`

const contents = ["The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比", "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.", " \"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\"", " He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", " In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.", " The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.", " Most of the confidences were unsought frequently.", " I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hos by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.", " Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.", " I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.", " And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.", " Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.", " When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.", " Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction Gatsby, who represente deverything for which I have an unaffected scorn.", " If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.", " This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the \"creative temperament.\"", "\u0014it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.", " No\u0014Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short−winded elations of men.", " My family have been prominent, well−to−do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.", " The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty−one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.", " I never saw this great−uncle, but I'm supposed to look like him\u0014with special reference to the rather hard−boiled painting that hangs in father's office I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.", " I enjoyed the counter−raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.", " Instead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe\u0014so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.", " Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.", " All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me, and finally said, \"Why\u0014ye−es,\" with very grave, hesitant faces.", " Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty−two.", " The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea.", " He found the house, a weather−beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone.", " I had a dog\u0014at least I had him for a few days until he ran away\u0014and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.", " It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.", " \"How do you get to West Egg village?\"", " he asked helplessly.", " I told him.", " And as I walked on I was lonely no longer.", " I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.", " He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.", " And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.", " There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath−giving air.", " I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.", " And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides.", " I was rather literary in college\u0014one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the \"Yale News.\"", "\u0014and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the \"well−rounded man.\"", " This isn't just an epigram life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.", " It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.", " It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York\u0014and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.", " Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. they are not perfect ovals\u0014like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end\u0014but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. to the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.", " I lived at West Egg, the\u0014well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. my house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard\u0014it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. it was Gatsby's mansion.", " Or, rather, as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name.", " My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires\u0014all for eighty dollars a month.", " Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.", " Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I'd known Tom in college.", " And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.", " Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven\u0014a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.", " His family were enormously wealthy\u0014even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach\u0014but now he'd left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. it was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do That.", " Why they came East I don't know.", " They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.", " This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it -- I had no sight into Daisy's heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football Game.", " And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.", " Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red−and−white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay.", " The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun−dials and brick walks and burning gardens\u0014finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.", " The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.", " He had changed since his New Haven years.", " Now he was a sturdy straw−haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.", " Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.", " Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body\u0014he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.", " It was a body capable of enormous leverage a cruel body.", " His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.", " There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked\u0014and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.", " \"Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final,\" he seemed to say, \"just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.\"", " We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.", " We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.", " \"I've got a nice place here,\" he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.", " Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub−nosed motor−boat that bumped the tide offshore.", " \"It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.\"", " He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.", " \"We'll go inside.\"", " We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy−colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.", " The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.", " A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding−cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine−colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.", " The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.", " They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.", " I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.", " Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.", " The younger of the two was a stranger to me.", " She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.", " If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it\u0014indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.", " The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise\u0014she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression\u0014then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.", " \"I'm p−paralyzed with happiness.\"", " She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.", " That was a way she had.", " She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.", " (I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.)", " At any rate, Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly, and then quickly tipped her head back again\u0014the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.", " Again a sort of apology arose to my lips.", " Almost any exhibition of complete self−sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.", " I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.", " It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", " Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered \"Listen,\" a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.", " I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way East, and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.", " \"Do they miss me?\"", " she cried ecstatically.", " \"The whole town is desolate.", " All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there's a persistent wail all night along the north shore.\"", " \"How gorgeous!", " Let's go back, Tom.", " To−morrow!\"", " Then she added irrelevantly: \"You ought to see the baby.\"", " \"I'd like to.\"", " \"She's asleep.", " She's three years old.", " Haven't you ever seen her?\"", " \"Never.\"", " \"Well, you ought to see her.", " She's\u0014−.\"", " Tom Buchanan, who had been hovering restlessly about the room, stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.", " \"What you doing, Nick?\"", " \"I'm a bond man.\"", " \"Who with?\"", " I told him.", " \"Never heard of them,\" he remarked decisively.", " This annoyed me.", " \"You will,\" I answered shortly.", " \"You will if you stay in the East.\"", " \"Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry,\" he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.", " \"I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.\"", " At this point Miss Baker said: \"Absolutely!\"", " with such suddenness that I started\u0014it was the first word she uttered since I came into the room.", " Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.", " \"I'm stiff,\" she complained, \"I've been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember.\"", " \"Don't look at me,\" Daisy retorted, \"I've been trying to get you to New York all afternoon.\"", " \"No, thanks,\" said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, \"I'm absolutely in training.\"", " Her host looked at her incredulously.", " \"You are!\"", " He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.", " \"How you ever get anything done is beyond me.\"", " I looked at Miss Baker, wondering what it was she \"got done.\"", " I enjoyed looking at her.", " She was a slender, small−breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.", " Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face.", " It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.", " \"You live in West Egg,\" she remarked contemptuously.", " \"I know somebody there.\"", " \"I don't know a single.\"", " \"You must know Gatsby.\"", " \"Gatsby?\"", " demanded Daisy.", " \"What Gatsby?\"", " Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.", " Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy−colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.", " \"Why candles?\"", " objected Daisy, frowning.", " She snapped them out with her fingers.", " \"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.\"", " She looked at us all radiantly.", " \"Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?", " I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.\"", " \"We ought to plan something,\" yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.", " \"All right,\" said Daisy.", " \"What'll we plan?\"", " She turned to me helplessly: \"What do people plan?\"", " Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.", " \"Look!\"", " she complained; \"I hurt it.\"", " We all looked\u0014the knuckle was black and blue.", " \"You did it, Tom,\" she said accusingly.", " \"I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it.", " That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a-\" \"I hate that word hulking,\" objected Tom crossly, \"even in kidding.\"", " \"Hulking,\" insisted Daisy.", " Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.", " They were here, and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.", " They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.", " It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.", " \"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy,\" I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret.", " \"Can't you talk about crops or something?\"", " I meant nothing in particular by this remark, but it was taken up in an unexpected way.", " \"Civilization's going to pieces,\" broke out Tom violently.", " \"I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.", " Have you read 'The Rise of the Colored Empires' by this man Goddard?\"", " \"Why, no,\" I answered, rather surprised by his tone.", " \"Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.", " The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be\u0014will be utterly submerged.", " It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.\"", " \"Tom's getting very profound,\" said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.", " \"He reads deep books with long words in them.", " What was that word we --.\"", " \"Well, these books are all scientific,\" insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.", " \"This fellow has worked out the whole thing.", " It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.\"", " \"We've got to beat them down,\" whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.", " \"You ought to live in California\" began Miss Baker, but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.", " \"This idea is that we're Nordics.", " I am, and you are, and you are, and\" After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod, and she winked at me again.", " \"And we've produced all the things that go to make civilization − oh, science and art, and all that.", " Do you see?\"", " There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.", " When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.", " \"I'll tell you a family secret,\" she whispered enthusiastically.", " \"It's about the butler's nose.", " Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?\"", " \"That's why I came over to−night.\"", " \"Well, he wasn't always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people.", " He had to polish it from morning till night, until finally it began to affect his nose\" \"Things went from bad to worse,\" suggested Miss Baker.", " \"Yes.", " Things went from bad to worse, until finally he had to give up his position.\"", " For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened\u0014then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.", " The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear, whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair, and without a word went inside.", " As if his absence quickened something within her, Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.", " \"I love to see you at my table, Nick.", " You remind me of a\u0014of a rose, an absolute rose.", " Doesn't he?\"", " She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: \"An absolute rose?\"", " This was untrue.", " I am not even faintly like a rose.", " She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.", " Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself and went into the house.", " Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.", " I was about to speak when she sat up alertly and said \"Sh!\"", " in a warning voice.", " A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond, and Miss Baker leaned forward unashamed, trying to hear.", " The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.", " \"This Mr. Gatsby you spoke of is my neighbor.\"", " I said.", " \"Don't talk.", " I want to hear what happens.\"", " \"Is something happening?\"", " I inquired innocently.", " \"You mean to say you don't know?\"", " said Miss Baker, honestly surprised.", " \"I thought everybody knew.\"", " \"I don't.\"", " \"Why.\"", " she said hesitantly, \"Tom's got some woman in New York.\"", " \"Got some woman?\"", " I repeated blankly.", " Miss Baker nodded.", " \"She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time.", " Don't you think?\"", " Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots, and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.", " \"It couldn't be helped!\"", " cried Daisy with tense gayety.", " She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me, and continued: \"I looked outdoors for a minute, and it's very romantic outdoors.", " There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line.", " He's singing away.\"", " Her voice sang: \"It's romantic, isn't it, Tom?\"", " \"Very romantic,\" he said, and then miserably to me: \"If it's light enough after dinner, I want to take you down to the stables.\"", " The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.", " Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes.", " I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking, but I doubt if even Miss Baker, who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy scepticism, was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.", " To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing\u0014my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.", " The horses, needless to say, were not mentioned again.", " Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them, strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while, trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf, I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.", " In its deep gloom we sat down side by side on a wicker settee.", " Daisy took her face in her hands as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.", " I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.", " \"We don't know each other very well, Nick,\" she said suddenly.", " \"Even if we are cousins.", " You didn't come to my wedding.\"", " \"I wasn't back from the war.\"", " \"That's true.\"", " She hesitated.", " \"Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.\"", " Evidently she had reason to be.", " I waited but she didn't say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.", " \"I suppose she talks, and\u0014eats, and everything.\"", " \"Oh, yes.\"", " She looked at me absently.", " \"Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.", " Would you like to hear?\"", " \"Very much.\"", " \"It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about things.", " Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.", " I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.", " She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.", " 'all right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl.", " And I hope she'll be a fool hat's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.", "' \"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow,\" she went on in a convinced way.", " \"Everybody thinks so\u0014the most advanced people.", " And I know.", " I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.\"", " Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.", " \"Sophisticated God, I'm sophisticated!\"", " The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.", " It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me.", " I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.", " Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light.", " Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the \"Saturday Evening Post.\"", "\u0014the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.", " The lamp−light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn−leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.", " When we came in she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand.", " \"To be continued,\" she said, tossing the magazine on the table, \"in our very next issue.\"", " Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.", " \"Ten o'clock,\" she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling.", " \"Time for this good girl to go to bed.\"", " \"Jordan's going to play in the tournament to−morrow,\" explained Daisy, \"over at Westchester.\"", " \"Oh you're *Jordan Baker.\"", " I knew now why her face was familiar its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.", " I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.", " \"Good night,\" she said softly.", " \"Wake me at eight, won't you.\"", " \"If you'll get up.\"", " \"I will.", " Good night, Mr. Carraway.", " See you anon.\"", " \"Of course you will,\" confirmed Daisy.", " \"In fact I think I'll arrange a marriage.", " Come over often, Nick, and I'll sort of oh fling you together.", " You know\u0014lock you up accidentally in linen closets and push you out to sea in a boat, and all that sort of thing.\"", " \"Good night,\" called Miss Baker from the stairs.", " \"I haven't heard a word.\"", " \"She's a nice girl,\" said Tom after a moment.", " \"They oughtn't to let her run around the country this way.\"", " \"Who oughtn't to?\"", " inquired Daisy coldly.", " \"Her family.\"", " \"Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.", " Besides, Nick's going to look after her, aren't you, Nick?", " She's going to spend lots of week−ends out here this summer.", " I think the home influence will be very good for her.\"", " Daisy and Tom looked at each other for a moment in silence.", " \"Is she from New York?\"", " I asked quickly.", " \"From Louisville.", " Our white girlhood was passed together there.", " Our beautiful white.\"", " \"Did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda?\"", " demanded Tom suddenly.", " \"Did I?\"", " She looked at me.", " \"I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.", " Yes, I'm sure we did.", " It sort of crept up on us and first thing you know.\"", " \"Don't believe everything you hear, Nick,\" he advised me.", " I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.", " They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light.", " As I started my motor Daisy peremptorily called: \"Wait!", " \"I forgot to ask you something, and it's important.", " We heard you were engaged to a girl out West.\"", " \"That's right,\" corroborated Tom kindly.", " \"We heard that you were engaged.\"", " \"It's libel.", " I'm too poor.\"", " \"But we heard it,\" insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower−like way.", " \"We heard it from three people, so it must be true.\"", " Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.", " The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come East.", " You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.", " Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.", " It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.", " As for Tom, the fact that he \"had some woman in New York.\"", " was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.", " Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.", " Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas−pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.", " The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.", " The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.", " Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.", " I decided to call to him.", " Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction.", " But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.", " Involuntarily I glanced seaward\u0014and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.", " When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.", "ABOUT half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.", " This is a valley of ashes a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", " Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash−gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.", "\"Beauty and the Beast .", " .", " .", " Loneliness .", " .", " .", " Old Grocery Horse .", " .", " .", " Brook'n Bridge .", " .", " .", " .\"", " then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning Tribune, and waiting for the four o'clock train.", "THERE was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.", " In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.", " At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor−boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.", " On week−ends his Rolls−Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.", " And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing−brushes and hammers and garden−shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.", "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.", "ON Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.", "\"She's not to know about it.", " Gatsby doesn't want her to know.", " You're just supposed to invite her to tea.\"", " We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty−ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park.", " Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.", " Her wan, scornful mouth smiled, and so I drew her up again closer, this time to my face.", "WHEN I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire.", "Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.", "ABOUT this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby's door and asked him if he had anything to say.", "IT was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night\u0014and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.", " Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.", " Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out\u0014an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door.", "\"I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed.", " Good night, old sport.\"", " He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil.", " So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight watching over nothing.", "I COULDN'T sleep all night; a fog−horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half−sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams.", " Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby's drive, and immediately I jumped out of bed and began to dress I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about, and morning would be too late.", "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.", "AFTER two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's front door.", " A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open−mouthed about the pool.", " Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression \"madman.\"", " as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.", " Most of those reports were a nightmare\u0014grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue.", " When Michaelis's testimony at the inquest brought to light Wilson's suspicions of his wife I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade\u0014but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.", " She showed a surprising amount of character about it too\u0014looked at the coroner with determined eyes under that corrected brow of hers, and swore that her sister had never seen Gatsby, that her sister was completely happy with her husband, that her sister had been into no mischief whatever.", " She convinced herself of it, and cried into her handkerchief, as if the very suggestion was more than she could endure.", " So Wilson was reduced to a man \"deranged by grief.\"", " in order that the case might remain in its simplist form.", " And it rested there.", " But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.", " I found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone.", " From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.", " At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested − interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.", " I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation.", " But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.", " \"Left no address?\"", " \"No.\"", " \"Say when they'd be back?\"", " \"No.\"", " \"Any idea where they are?", " How I could reach them?\"", " \"I don't know.", " Can't say.\"", " I wanted to get somebody for him.", " I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him: \"I'll get somebody for you, Gatsby.", " Don't worry.", " Just trust me and I'll get somebody for you.\"", " Meyer Wolfshiem's name wasn't in the phone book.", " The butler gave me his office address on Broadway, and I called Information, but by the time I had the number it was long after five, and no one answered the phone.", " \"Will you ring again?\"", " \"I've rung them three times.\"", " \"It's very important.\"", " \"Sorry.", " I'm afraid no one's there.\"", " I went back to the drawing−room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it.", " But, as they drew back the sheet and looked at Gatsby with unmoved eyes, his protest continued in my brain: \"Look here, old sport, you've got to get somebody for me.", " You've got to try hard.", " I can't go through this alone.\"", " Some one started to ask me questions, but I broke away and going up−stairs looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk\u0014he'd never told me definitely that his parents were dead.", " But there was nothing only the picture of Dan Cody, a token of forgotten violence, staring down from the wall.", " Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem, which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train.", " That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it.", " I was sure he'd start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire from Daisy before noon\u0014but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived; no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.", " When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.", " Dear Mr. Carraway.", " This has been one of the most terrible shocks of my life to me I hardly can believe it that it is true at all.", " Such a mad act as that man did should make us all think.", " I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing now.", " If there is anything I can do a little later let me know in a letter by Edgar.", " I hardly know where I am when I hear about a thing like this and am completely knocked down and out.", " Yours truly MEYER WOLFSHIEM and then hasty addenda beneath: Let me know about the funeral etc do not know his family at all.", " When the phone rang that afternoon and Long Distance said Chicago was calling I thought this would be Daisy at last.", " But the connection came through as a man's voice, very thin and far away.", " \"This is Slagle speaking .", " .", " .", " \" \"Yes?\"", " The name was unfamiliar.", " \"Hell of a note, isn't it?", " Get my wire?\"", " \"There haven't been any wires.\"", " \"Young Parke's in trouble,\" he said rapidly.", " \"They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter.", " They got a circular from New York giving 'em the num