6. How many hours, months, years, have I spent worrying about weight ….. (H. Fielding)
7. “Mum, I’ve told you. I don’t need to be fixed up with...” (H. Fielding)
8. “She made a bargain with me up there, on the side of the precipice,” he said. “I’ll run your house for you,” she told me, “I’ll look after your precious Manderley for you, make it the most famous show-place in all the country, if you like. And people will visit us, and envy us, and talk about us; they’ll say we are the luckiest, happiest, handsomest couple in all England. What a leg-pull, Max,” she said, “what a God-damn triumph!” She sat there on the hillside, laughing, tearing a flower to bits in her hands. (D. du Maurier)
9. No one must read this bit as is shameful. Was so excited about him saying the L-word so early on in the relationship that accidentally rang up Jude and Shaz and left messages telling them. But realize now this was shallow and wrong. (H. Fielding)
10. “Daniel,” she exploded. “You selfish, self-indulgent, manipulative, emotional blackmailer. It was you – for God’s sake – who chucked her. So you can just bloody well put up with it.” (H. Fielding)
11. Surely it is not normal to be treating my answer phone like an old-fashioned human partner: rushing home to it from work to see what mood it is in, whether it will tinklingly confirm that I am lovable and an accepted member of society or be empty and distant, like now for example. (H. Fielding)
12. I had turned quite cold all over at the sight of her, and at first I could not find my voice. (D. du Maurier)
13. I could not bear their moon faces staring at me again. (D. du Maurier)
14. “You know I envy you this car – what a beaut!” (J.H. Chase)
15. “You see? He’s coming out of it already. Gimme the rope.” (J.H. Chase)
Test III
1. “Sorry. I got lost.”
“Lost? Durr! What are we going to do with you? Come on in!”
(H. Fielding)
2. She did what she liked, she lived as she liked. (D. du Maurier)
3. Mr Sloane wanted nothing. A lemonade? No, thanks. A little champagne? Nothing at all, thanks … I’m sorry -
“Did you have a nice ride?”
“Very good roads around here.”
“I suppose the automobiles –”
“Yeah.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. “I’m being honest with you – I don’t know. I’d help Starling if I could. Why wouldn’t I? I kind of liked her and she was getting me expunged. Look in her reports or notes or –”
“I have. I want you to understand something, Barney.” (Th. Harris)
5. He thought he was magnanimous; he was only vain. (W.S. Maugham)
6. Massive relief to be back in own home where am adult lord of castle instead of pawn in other people’s games. (H. Fielding)
7. An additional two miles of manicured roadway brought her to the farm. (Th. Harris)
8. That’s why women are foolish to make a song and dance if their husbands have an occasional flutter when the time and the place are propitious. (W.S. Maugham)
9. You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. (W.S. Maugham)
10. A virtue is like a city set upon a hill – it cannot be hid. We can conceal our vices if we care to – for a time at least – but a virtue will out.
(O. Wilde)
11. Oh, God, I hate it when Tom is happy, confident and getting on well with Jerome, much preferring it when he is miserable, insecure and neurotic. As he himself never tires of saying, “It’s always so nice when things go badly for other people.” (H. Fielding)
12. “Well, I’ll leave you two young people together,” said Una. “Durr! I expect you’re sick to death of us old fuddy-duddies.” (H. Fielding)
13. “But someone was saying he was the best barman in town. I just wondered what was so special about him.”
“I bet a lady told you that,” Slim said, his face registering contempt. “The best barman in town! That’s rich. Why, he’s just an amateur. The martinis he throws together would make a cat puke. I’ll tell you what he’s got: looks.” (J.H. Chase)
14. She was no longer young nor fresh nor beautiful. She looked older, defeated and trapped. (J.H. Chase)
15. They both looked hard, tough and ruthless, and they both looked very, very lethal. (J.H. Chase)
Test IV
1. “I didn’t want to think it over,” I said, “There was no other choice. You don’t understand, Maxim. When one loves a person…” (D. du Maurier)
2. “Now you’re being co-dependent, darling,” said Giles, putting his hand towards her waist.
“I’m not!” said Rebecca, brushing his hand away crossly, then putting back the smile. “Mark!” she cried. She looked at him as if she thought the crowd had parted, time had stopped still and the Glen Miller Band was going to strike up with ‘It Had to be You’. (H. Fielding)
3. “I keep telling you nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.”
(H. Fielding)
4. Oh God, feel guilty with Jude and Sharon now I have boyfriend, almost like traitorous double-crossing side-switching guerrilla. (H. Fielding)
5. Kelly froze in mid-step and then collapsed back onto the bed, groaning. What on earth had she done? She would have to telephone Dee straight away and tell her that she had changed her mind, that there was totally, absolutely, completely and utterly no way she could go through with the ludicrous plan she had agreed to last night. (P. Jordan)
6. Left a message for Mum yesterday to tell her all about my scoop so when she rang tonight I assumed it would be to congratulate me, but no, she was just going on about the party… Temptation to tell her what happened almost overwhelming but managed to control myself by envisaging consequences: screaming ecstasy at the making of the date and brutal murder of only daughter when she heard the actual outcome. (H. Fielding)
7. “Now if you had said he had broken his neck…” Joe began, then broke off to gape. “You kidding?” (J.H. Chase)
8. I was astonished a week later when I went to lunch with one of my neighbours to find him there. Dressed for a party, he looked like death. (W.S. Maugham)
9. Rachel: “That’s nice” she said, also crying now. “You woke the baby up too. Thanks for a nice, quiet, stressless Sunday morning.” (S. King)
10. I could not bear him. He was blatant and loud. I hated his fluent conversation in perfect but foreign English; I hated the extravagant compliments he paid Rosie; I hated the heartiness with which he treated her friends. (W.S. Maugham)
11. “Listen, bud, this is going to be one of the major sensations of the year. This is going to be something that could get the whole of our beautiful Administration tossed out on its fat neck.” (J.H. Chase)
12. “Fetch Alphonse,” Pop said. “I daresay he wouldn’t say no to a brandy. I want one too.” (H.E. Bates)
13. “Shouldn’t wonder,” Pop said. “She said summat about it.” (H.E. Bates)
14. Percy’s mouth was a half-moon of scorn. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. “Your eyes are like your mother’s,” she said. “I used to have a scrap-book full of pictures of her.”
“Your eyes are like your own and not a bit like any other eyes,” he answered. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test V
1. He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression.
“I feel far away from her,” he said. “It’s hard to make her understand.”
“You mean about the dance?”
“The dance?” He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. “Old sport, the dance is unimportant.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. “Bridget, what’s the matter? It’s only a game. Even I can see that. When you called me during the match I was so caught up in my own feelings that … But it’s only a game.” (H. Fielding)
3. He never spoke to me. He never touched me. (D. du Maurier)
4. “How’s Mum?”
“She’s going to Kenya. With Una.”
“Are you going too?”
“No. Your mother would argue that she is a person in her own right, that our money is her money, and she should be allowed to freely explore the world and her own personality at a whim.” (H. Fielding)
5. People who mean well always do badly. They are like the ladies who wear clothes that don’t fit them in order to show their piety. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. (O. Wilde)
6. Her dressing room was like the cabin of a ship. The world seemed a long way off, and she relished her seclusion. She felt an enchanting freedom. (W.S. Maugham)
7. The mood abruptly changed. We all fell silent, trying to absorb this violent, shocking and unthinkable thought. (H. Fielding)
8. “He has a little shack out on Palm Boulevard,” Joe said with a cynical smile. “A twenty-four bedroom job with a lounge big enough to serve as a bus garage; just a throw away: a weekend cabin.” (J.H. Chase)
9. “How is he?”
“As comfortable as can be expected, sir,” he told me in a voice a mortician would have envied. (J.H. Chase)
10. It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. (O. Wilde)
11. I was thinking, oh my God, life is over, Daniel is a mad alcoholic and will kill me then chuck me when he finds out. (H. Fielding)
12. “Poor lamb,” she said to herself, “he’s such a hell of a gentleman he doesn’t know what to do about it.” (W.S. Maugham)
13. “I thought you had seen me. Isn’t that Jack Seaborne’s car?”
“Yes, I’ve borrowed it while mine’s in dock.”
“You Chester Scott?” “That’s right.” (J.H. Chase)
14. She was wearing a gold lame dress that fitted her like a second skin, and she looked pretty good as she stood there under a white spotlight.
(J.H. Chase)
15. A big, broad-shouldered man got out of the car just ahead of us. As the cop came up to his car, the big man said in an explosion of rage: “What the hell is this? I’m trying to get to Palm Bay. Can’t you guys keep this goddamn road clear?”
The cop sent his beam over him.
“You can come down to the station and make a complaint if that’s the way you feel about it,” he said in a voice that could have peeled rust off the keel of a ship. “You’ll go when we’re good and ready for you to go, and not before.”
The big man seemed to lose some of his size. (J.H. Chase)
Test VI
1. “All you have to do is let him think that you’re interested in him,” Dee had soothed her. “All we need is for him to show himself in his true colours so that we can….” (P. Jordan)
2. “Oh, pleeeeeease. I’ve never had a career all my life and now I’m in the autumn of my days and I need something for myself,” she gabbled, as if reading from a cue card. (H. Fielding)
3. Most of those reports were a nightmare – grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. Pleasant reveries sauntered through her mind like lovers wandering in a green wood. (W.S. Maugham)
5. Just as we’d cleared away the plates the phone rang again.
“Leave it,” said Mark. “Please – in the name of God and all his cherubim, seraphim, saints, archangels, cloud attendants and beard trimmers – leave it.” (H. Fielding)
6. Am just off to work looking like Ivana bloody Trump wearing a suit and lip gloss. (H. Fielding)
7. Parties, parties, parties! Plus Matt from the office just rang asking if I’m going to the Christmas lunch on Tuesday. He can’t fancy me – I’m old enough to be his great-aunt – but then why did he ring me in the evening? And why did he ask me what I was wearing? (H. Fielding)
8. One of the things you learn about being married is that you don’t have to continue every fight to the death. You can take a little break.(C. Bushnell)
9. There is a witchy beauty about Muscrat farm, the Verger family’s mansion near the Susquehanna River in northern Maryland. (Th. Harris)
10. During the afternoon I had a long, lonely session with my thoughts.
(J.H. Chase)
11. “The Little Tavern? Isn’t that where Dolores Lane sings?”
“That’s the joint.” Slim picked up a cloth and began to polish the bar. “You ain’t missed a thing by not going there. She’s nothing to lose sleep over either.” (J.H. Chase)
12. Do me a favour, will you? Will you take your frustrations, your interests and your difficulties out if here? Will you remove your sex appeal, your little-girl attitude and your attractive body out of my sight and temptation? I’ll admit I fell for you when you were displaying yourself in your nice little nightie. I also fell for you when I found you waiting for me in my car. I fell again when you lay on the sand and seemed to be offering yourself to me, free, gratis and for nothing, but since those moments I have got wise to myself. I’m no longer interested. (J.H. Chase)
13. “Oh?” he said. “Thought she looked a little bit below par yesterday. Anythink I ought to know about?” (H.E. Bates)
14. Then we left our napkins and empty glasses and a little of the past on the table, and hand in hand went out into the moonlight itself. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. Mrs. Piper’s mouth forming the words was a vivid rose petal.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test VII
1. I mover around her, giving her one of my boyish smiles, but for the impression it made on her, I might be offering a beggar the time of day. (J.H. Chase)
2. “I heard this Lane dish is worth catching.” (J.H. Chase)
3. After a while the waiter brought my chicken sandwich and my drink. The rye bread was a little dry and the chicken looked as if it had had a sharp attack of jaundice departing this earth. (J.H. Chase)
4. “The only thing in this world that means anything, that has any importance, is money. Don’t let anyone kid you otherwise. They say health and religion are good things to have: but I’ll settle for money. If you haven’t got it, you might as well buy a razor and slit your throat. Without money you’re nothing. You can’t get a decent job; you can’t go anywhere worth going to; you can’t live in a place worth living in; you can’t mix with the people who are worth mixing with. Without money, you’re just one of a crowd, and that’s the lowest form of life to my thinking – being one of a crowd.” (J.H. Chase)
5. However, the one thing in her favour is she does what I tell her to do, and so does her oaf of a brother, Ross. (J.H. Chase)
6. She dropped half mushrooms into the saucepan, where they at once started hissing at an intruding lump of butter as big as a tennis ball, cooking fragrantly.
“Mariette not down?” Pop said. “Kids off to school? Going to be a beautiful day. Perfick. Mushrooms smell good.” (H.E. Bates)
7. “Leave it to Charley,” Mariette said. “He’ll arrange everything. Not the clothes though. Ma, I’ll need masses. I’ll need a million new frocks.” (H.E. Bates)
8. Driven by ravenous hunger and thirst to the bar, Pop had found it furnished with a solitary stool, a yard of dusty counter, a dozing grey cat, and a vase of last year’s heather. (H.E. Bates)
9. “I will see that your things are moved. Please tell madame not to bother. And if there is something – ”
“Only the wevver,” Pop said. “The sun. That’s all we want.” (H.E. Bates)
10. “Get out!” she screamed, dark eyes blazing, little fists beating helplessly on his outstretched arm. “You did this! Get out of here – get out – get out! Get out! ” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. Mrs. Ahearn not ungracefully flounced the tobacco from her skirt to the floor, never once looking at it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. He couldn’t decide whether she was an imitation of an English lady or an English lady was an imitation of her. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. “Oh, Nurse, Nurse, Light of my Life, where is another stud?”
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. Then it happened – Caroline saw deep into him, and Michael knew that she saw. She saw through to his profound woundedness, and something quivered inside her, died out along the curve of her mouth and in her eyes. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. “And Yale is November, crisp and energetic,” finished Monsignor.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test VIII
1. Their upturned faced, lit with wrath, with malice, with despair, with cynical humor, were covered by long growths of beard, but with the exception of a few who had pined perceptibly away, they seemed to be a well-fed, healthy lot. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. “Maybe she’d like t’learna N’Yawk!” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
3. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly moustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents – punch-bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and cases… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. And then suddenly both of them were stiffened into marble at the sound of steps on the walk outside. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. I’ve been trying to tell you how much this reincarnation of myself in you has meant in the last few years … curiously alike we are … curiously alike. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. ROSALIND: Oh, nothing – only I want sentiment, real sentiment – and I never find it.
AMORY: I never find anything else in the world – and I loathe it.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. Sometimes, when he was particularly loquacious, she went to sleep in his arms, but he loved that Rosalind – all Rosalinds as he had never in the world loved anyone else. Intangibly fleeting, unrememberable hours.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. “’S a mental was’e,” he insisted with owl-like wisdom. “Two years my life spent inalleshual vacuity. Los’ idealism, got be physcal anmal,” he shook his fist expressively at Old King Cole, “got be Prussian ‘bout ev’thing, women ‘specially. Use’ be straight ‘bout women college. Now don’givadam.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. He clenched his teeth so that the tears streamed in a flood from his eyes.
“Oh … my baby girl, all I had, all I wanted!... Oh, my girl, come back, come back!... I need you … need you … we’re so pitiful … just misery brought each other … She’ll be shut away from me … I can’t see her; I can’t be her friend. It’s got to be my way – It’s got to be – ”
And then again:
“We’ve been so happy, so very happy …” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
10. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher – a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. It was one of those days that New York gets sometimes in May, when the air on Fifth Avenue is a soft, light wine. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. There were days when Amory listened. These were when Tom, wreathed in smoke, indulged in the slaughter of American literature.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. “Easter!” She turned up her nose. “Huh! Spring in corsets!”
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. “It was sorta crazy you takin’ all that blame. Is he pretty important? Kinda more important than you are?” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. Unfortunately the spiritually married man, as a by-product of his money chase, has garnered in the great newspaper, the popular magazine, the influential weekly – so that Mrs. Newspaper, Mrs. Magazine, Mrs. Weekly – can have a better limousine than those oil people across the street or those cement people’ round the corner. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test IX
1. He was bored by the same faces, the same idiotic small talk, the same dreary scandals, and he had gradually withdrawn from the set who ate, drank, and danced together day in and night out. (J.H. Chase)
2. “A situation has arisen: tricky and strictly confidential. A friend of mine may need a false passport.”
Blackie gave an imperceptible start but enough to puncture his gum with the sharp point of the toothpick.
“A passport?” he repeated as if he had never heard of the word.(J.H. Chase)
3. It was a look he had never seen in any other woman’s eyes: it said plainly: you are the centre of my universe, without you there would be no sun, no moon, no starts, no nothing. It was a look of complete and candid love. (J.H. Chase)
4. “Oh, Steve! I’m so frightened! If only you would go to the police! I’m sure …” (J.H. Chase)
5. The subject of the Inspector’s thoughts had had a siesta and now went back to his office to see what was happening to his brother. (J.H. Chase)
6. Well, I hope you’ll like living with yourself from now on. I hope you’ll have fun with all your money. I hope you’ll be able to get her out of your mind, but I don’t think you will. (J.H. Chase)
7. On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half-way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-coloured hotel. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. I had to dive and dive and dive all morning. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. “The day before you came, the married man, the one with the name that sounds like a substitute for gasoline or butter – ”
“McKisco?" (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
10. The chauffeur, a Russian Czar of the period of Ivan the Terrible, was self-appointed guide, and the resplendent names – Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo – began to glow through their torpid camouflage, whispering of old kings come here to dine and die, of rajahs tossing Buddha’s eyes to English ballerinas, of Russian princes turning the weeks into Baltic twilights in the lost caviare days. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. In her mother’s lap afterward Rosemary cried and cried. (F. Sc.Fitzgerald)
12. “I love him, Mother, I’m desperately in love with him – I never knew I could feel that way about anybody. And he’s married and I like her too – it’s just hopeless. Oh, I love him so!” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. I am going to save your reason – I’m going to give you a hat to wear on the beach. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. “Going home?”
“Home? I have no home. I’m going to a war.”
“What war?”
“What war? Any war. I haven’t seen a paper lately but I suppose there’s a war – there always is.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. They had been at table half an hour and a perceptible change had set in – person by person had given up something, a preoccupation, an anxiety, a suspicion, and now they were only their best selves and the Divers’ guests. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Text X
1. He tried breaking into other dialogue, but it was like continually shaking hands with a glove from which the hand had been withdrawn.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. Then Mary North with a face so merry that it was impossible not to smile back into the white mirrors of her teeth – the whole area around her parted lips with a lovely little circle of delight. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
3. A shutter opened suddenly in a room two storeys above and an English voice spat distinctly:
“Will you kaindlay stup tucking!”
Again the iron shutter parted above and the same British voice said: “Rilly, this must stup immejetely.”(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. “I’ve made lots of mistakes in my life – many of them. But I’ve been one of the most prominent – in some ways – ” He gave this up and puffed at a dead cigarette. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. We’ve been married twelve years, we had a little girl seven years old and she died and after that you know how it is. We both played around on the side a little, nothing serious but drifting apart – she called me a coward out there tonight. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. She resented his speaking of it as a circus, with McKisco as the tragic clown. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. There she was – the schoolgirl of a year ago, hair down her back and rippling out stiffly like the solid hair of a Tanagra figure; there she was – so young and innocent – the product of her mother’s loving care; there she was – embodying all the immaturity of the race, cutting a new cardboard paper doll to pass before its empty harlot’s mind. She remembered how she had felt in that dress, especially fresh and new under the fresh young silk. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. Daddy’s girl. Was it a ‘itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Ooo-ooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn’t she dest too tweet?’ (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. But the girl talking to her, in the starched blue shirt with the bright blue eyes and the red cheeks and the very grey suit, a poster of a girl, had begun to play up. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
10. Only after a hundred years did the train stop. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. He saw, not without panic, that the affair was sliding to rest; it could not stand still, it must go on or go back. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. “As a child she was a darling thing – everybody was crazy about her, everybody that came into contact with her. She was as smart as a whip and happy as the day is long. She liked to read or draw or dance or play the piano – anything. I’ve got an older girl too, and there was a boy that died, but Nicole was – Nicole was – Nicole – ”.
He broke off and Doctor Dohmler helped him. “She was a perfectly normal, bright, happy child.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. “Oh, yes,” said Doctor Dohmler, nodding his venerable head, as if, like Sherlock Holmes, he had expected a valet and only a valet to be introduced at this point. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. “Of course, I’ve read about women getting lonesome and thinking there’s a man under the bed and all that, but why should Nicole get such an idea? We were in Lake Forest – that’s a summer place near Chicago where we have a place – and she was out all day playing golf or tennis with boys. And some of them pretty gone on her at that.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. Across the bridge from it lies my ancestor Lavater, who would not be buried in any church. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test XI
1. Zurich is not unlike an American city. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. All the time Warren was speaking to the dried old package of Doctor Dohmler, one section of the latter’s mind kept thinking intermittently of Chicago. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
3. Dick dined with Franz and his bride and a small dog with a smell of burning rubber, in the cottage on the sedge of the grounds.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger’s pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. They were in America now, even Franz with his conception of Dick as an irresistible Lothario would never have guessed that they had gone so far. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. “I’ve got one more record,” she said. “ – Have you heard ‘So long, Letty?’ I suppose you have.’
“Honestly, you don’t understand – I haven’t heard a thing.”
Nor known, nor smelt, nor tasted, he might have added; only hot-cheeked girls in hot secret rooms. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. The professor, his face beautiful under the straight whiskers, like a vine-grown veranda of some fine old house, disarmed him. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. “You’ll be all right – everybody here believes in you. Why, Doctor Gregory is so proud of you that he’ll probably – ”
“I hate Doctor Gregory.”
“Well, you shouldn’t.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. Franz threw up his chin, his eyebrows, the transient wrinkles of his forehead, his hands, his elbows, his shoulders; he strained up the muscles of his legs, so that the cloth of his trousers bulged, pushed up his heart into his throat and his voice into the roof of his mouth. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
10. When one writes on psychiatry, one should have actual clinical contacts. Jung writes, Bleuler writes, Freud writes, Forel writes, Adler writes – also they are in constant contact with mental disorder. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. For those whose compasses were not depolarized there seemed many odd things in these houses. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. “To your vast surprise it was just like all battles,” he answered adopting her formal diction.
“Just like all battles.” She thought this over. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. A ‘schizophrene’ is well named as a split personality – Nicole was alternately a person to whom nothing need be explained and one to who nothing could be explained. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. ‘This is Prince Chillicheff – ‘ A battered, powder-grey Russian of fifty ‘ – and Mr McKibben – and Mr Hannan – ‘ the latter was a lively ball of black eyes and hair, a clown. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. His heart beat loud in contact with the unprobed, undissected, unanalyzed, unaccounted for. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Test XII
1. Yet, he had decided to remain another two years in Zurich, for he did not underestimate the value of toy-making, of infinite precision, of infinite patience. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. Was it an hour ago she had waited by the entrance, wearing her hope like a corsage at her belt? (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)