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 A New Leaf 
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
Published:
1931
Type(s):
Short Fiction
Source:
http://gutenberg.net.au
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 About Fitzgerald:
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "LostGeneration," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I.He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short storiesthat treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
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The Beautiful and the Damned
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 Babylon Revisited
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Winter Dreams
(1922)
Copyright:
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It was the first day warm enough to eat outdoors in the Bois de Boulogne,while chestnut blossoms slanted down across the tables and dropped impudentlyinto the butter and the wine. Julia Ross ate a few with her bread and listened tothe big goldfish rippling in the pool and the sparrows whirring about an aban-doned table. You could see everybody again—the waiters with their professionalfaces, the watchful Frenchwomen all heels and eyes, Phil Hoffman opposite herwith his heart balanced on his fork, and the extraordinarily handsome man justcoming out on the terrace.
 —the purple noon's transparent might.The breath of the moist air is light Around each unexpanded bud— 
Julia trembled discreetly; she controlled herself; she didn't spring up and call,"Yi-yi-yi-yi! Isn't this grand?" and push the maître d'hôtel into the lily pond. Shesat there, a well-behaved woman of twenty-one, and discreetly trembled.Phil was rising, napkin in hand. "Hi there, Dick!""Hi, Phil!"It was the handsome man; Phil took a few steps forward and they talked apartfrom the table."—seen Carter and Kitty in Spain—""—poured on to the Bremen—""—so I was going to—"The man went on, following the head waiter, and Phil sat down."Who is that?" she demanded."A friend of mine—Dick Ragland.""He's without doubt the handsomest man I ever saw in my life.""Yes, he's handsome," he agreed without enthusiasm."Handsome! He's an archangel, he's a mountain lion, he's something to eat.Just why didn't you introduce him?""Because he's got the worst reputation of any American in Paris.""Nonsense; he must be maligned. It's all a dirty frame-up—a lot of jealous hus-bands whose wives got one look at him. Why, that man's never done anything inhis life except lead cavalry charges and save children from drowning."
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