The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: I took him into the pantry, where he looked a little reproachfully at the
Finn. Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen
shop.
"Will they do?" I asked.
"Of course, of course! They're fine!" and he added hollowly, ". . .old
sport."
The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist, through which
occasional thin drops swam like dew. Gatsby looked with vacant eyes
through a copy of Clay's ECONOMICS, starting at the Finnish tread that
shook the kitchen floor, and peering toward the bleared windows from time
to time as if a series of invisible but alarming happenings were taking
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