EN266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dark Blood
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That unfamiliar yet recognizable look was back again in. He looked, as if he had killed a man. for a moment the set of his face could be described in just that fantastic way. Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away. As we passed over the bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat"s shoulder 144. So we drove on toward death through the cool twilight. He was his wife"s man and not his own 145. The death car as the newspapers called it, didn"t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. Myrtle wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with dust. I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face 148. The god damned coward he didn"t even stop his car .
