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    One Trip Abroad
    One Trip Abroad
    One Trip Abroad
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    One Trip Abroad

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    "One Trip Abroad" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story first appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post" on October 11, 1930. Some of the story's content was later re-used by Fitzgerald in his novel "Tender Is the Night" (1934).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoD E-Short
    Release dateJun 25, 2015
    ISBN9783738617849
    One Trip Abroad
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.

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      One Trip Abroad - F. Scott Fitzgerald

      Table Of Contents

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      Copyright

      I

      In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs. The locusts were coming north, eating everything in their path, which was not so much in that part of the world; they were flying silently and in straight lines, flakes of black snow. But none struck the windshield or tumbled into the car, and presently humorists began holding out their hands, trying to catch some. After ten minutes the cloud thinned out, passed, and the women emerged from the blankets, disheveled and feeling silly. And everyone talked together.

      Everyone talked; it would have been absurd not to talk after having been through a swarm of locusts on the edge of the Sahara. The Smyrna-American talked to the British widow going down to Biskra to have one last fling with an as-yet-unencountered sheik. The member of the San Francisco Stock Exchange talked shyly to the author. Aren't you an author? he said. The father and daughter from Wilmington talked to the cockney airman who was going to fly to Timbuctoo. Even the French chauffeur turned about and explained in a loud, clear voice: Bumblebees, which sent the trained nurse from New York into shriek after shriek of hysterical laughter.

      Amongst the unsubtle rushing together of the travelers there was one interchange more carefully considered. Mr. and Mrs. Liddell Miles, turning as one person, smiled and spoke to the young American couple in the seat behind:

      Didn't catch any in your hair?

      The young couple smiled back politely.

      No. We survived that plague.

      They were in their twenties, and there was still a pleasant touch of bride and groom upon them. A handsome couple; the man rather intense and sensitive, the girl arrestingly light of hue in eyes and hair, her face without shadows, its living freshness modulated by a lovely confident calm. Mr. and Mrs. Miles did not fail to notice their air of good breeding, of a specifically swell background, expressed both by their unsophistication and by their ingrained reticence that was not stiffness. If they held aloof, it was because they were sufficient to each other, while Mr. and Mrs. Miles' aloofness toward the other passengers was a conscious mask, a social attitude, quite as public an affair in its essence as the ubiquitous advances of the Smyrna-American, who was snubbed by all.

      The Mileses had, in fact, decided that the young

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