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    What a Handsome Pair !
    What a Handsome Pair !
    What a Handsome Pair !
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    What a Handsome Pair !

    By Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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    What a Handsome Pair ! was written in the year 1932 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

    This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9789635220847
    What a Handsome Pair !
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    Francis Scott Fitzgerald

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Agea term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

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      What a Handsome Pair ! - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

      978-963-522-084-7

      Chapter 1

      At four o'clock on a November afternoon in 1902, Teddy Van Beck got out of a hansom cab in front of a brownstone house on Murray Hill. He was a tall, round-shouldered young man with a beaked nose and soft brown eyes in a sensitive face. In his veins quarreled the blood of colonial governors and celebrated robber barons; in him the synthesis had produced, for that time and place, something different and something new.

      His cousin, Helen Van Beck, waited in the drawing-room. Her eyes were red from weeping, but she was young enough for it not to detract from her glossy beauty—a beauty that had reached the point where it seemed to contain in itself the secret of its own growth, as if it would go on increasing forever. She was nineteen and, contrary to the evidence, she was extremely happy.

      Teddy put his arm around her and kissed her cheek, and found it changing into her ear as she turned her face away. He held her for a moment, his own enthusiasm chilling; then he said:

      You don't seem very glad to see me.

      Helen had a premonition that this was going to be one of the memorable scenes of her life, and with unconscious cruelty she set about extracting from it its full dramatic value. She sat in a corner of the couch, facing an easy-chair.

      Sit there, she commanded, in what was then admired as a regal manner, and then, as Teddy straddled the piano stool: No, don't sit there. I can't talk to you if you're going to revolve around.

      Sit on my lap, he suggested.

      No.

      Playing a one-handed flourish on the piano, he said, I can listen better here.

      Helen gave up hopes of beginning on the sad and quiet note.

      This is a serious matter, Teddy. Don't think I've decided it without a lot of consideration. I've got to ask you—to ask you to release me from our understanding.

      What? Teddy's face paled with shock and dismay.

      "I'll have to tell you from the beginning. I've realized for a long time that we have nothing in

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