Paraphrase: He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement.
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Paraphrase:The occasion called for some show of recognition on my part.
Paraphrase:As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come.
Paraphrase:It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it.
Paraphrase:I had at first doubted their claim, as I knew for a fact that the center was located somewhere else in New England.