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Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray General Concordances © 2015 by Valerio Di Stefano a 1669 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 can translate into another manner or as the lowest form of criticism is corrupt without being charming. This is only beauty. There is no such thing as rage of Caliban seeing his own face in of Caliban not seeing his own face in mirrors. Diversity of opinion about in accord with himself. We can forgive We can forgive a man for making admire it. The only excuse for making and honey-coloured blossoms of hardly able to bear the burden of in front of the huge window, producing London was like the bourdon note of easel, stood the full-length portrait of he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, You do anything in the world to gain leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is expression begins. Intellect is in itself then in the Church they don't think. what he was told to say when he was when he was a boy of eighteen, and as I am telling you the truth. There is to any one. It is like surrendering I would lose all my pleasure. It is say, but somehow it seems to bring one charm of marriage is that it makes garden. "I believe that you are really an extraordinary fellow. You never say say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply simply a pose." "Being natural is simply together and ensconced themselves on bamboo seat that stood in the shade of white daisies were tremulous. After before I go, I insist on your answering portrait that is painted with feeling is smiled, and leaning down, plucked moved to and fro in the languid air. began to chirrup by the wall, and like by the wall, and like a blue thread some time. "Two months ago I went to not savages. With an evening coat and as you told me once, anybody, even anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain met, I felt that I was growing pale. to tell me that I was on the verge of of a terrible crisis in my life. I had conscience that made me do so: it was her curiously shrill voice?" "Yes; she is believe some picture of mine had made "I know she goes in for giving I remember her bringing me up to a new material his impression - THE PREFACE a mode of autobiography. - THE PREFACE a fault. Those who find - THE PREFACE a moral or an immoral book. - THE PREFACE a glass. The nineteenth - THE PREFACE a glass. The moral life of - THE PREFACE a work of art shows that the - THE PREFACE a man for making a useful - THE PREFACE a useful thing as long as he - THE PREFACE a useless thing is that one - THE PREFACE a laburnum, whose tremulous branches - CH. 1 a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and - CH. 1 a kind of momentary Japanese effect, - CH. 1 a distant organ. In the centre of the - CH. 1 a young man of extraordinary - CH. 1 a smile of pleasure passed across his - CH. 1 a reputation. As soon as you have - CH. 1 A portrait like this would set you far - CH. 1 a Narcissus, and you - well, of course - CH. 1 a mode of exaggeration, and destroys - CH. 1 A bishop keeps on saying at the age - CH. 1 a boy of eighteen, and as a natural - CH. 1 a natural consequence he always looks - CH. 1 a fatality about all physical and - CH. 1 a part of them. I have grown to love - CH. 1 a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it - CH. 1 a great deal of romance into one's life. - CH. 1 a life of deception absolutely necessary - CH. 1 a very good husband, but that you are - CH. 1 a moral thing, and you never do a - CH. 1 a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply - CH. 1 a pose." "Being natural is simply a pose, - CH. 1 a pose, and the most irritating pose I - CH. 1 a long bamboo seat that stood in the - CH. 1 a tall laurel bush. The sunlight slipped - CH. 1 a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his - CH. 1 a question I put to you some time ago. - CH. 1 a portrait of the artist, not of the - CH. 1 a pink-petalled daisy from the grass - CH. 1 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the - CH. 1 a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly - CH. 1 a long thin dragon-fly floated past on - CH. 1 a crush at Lady Brandon's. You know - CH. 1 a white tie, as you told me once, - CH. 1 a stock-broker, can gain a reputation - CH. 1 a reputation for being civilized. Well, - CH. 1 A curious sensation of terror came - CH. 1 a terrible crisis in my life. I had a - CH. 1 a strange feeling that fate had in store - CH. 1 a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to - CH. 1 a peacock in everything but beauty," - CH. 1 a great success at the time, at least - CH. 1 a rapid precis of all her guests. I - CH. 1 a truculent and red-faced old gentleman - CH. 1 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in "My dear fellow, she tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening friends at once." "Laughter is not at all is not at all a bad beginning for "Yes; horribly unjust of you. I make my enemies for their good intellects. his enemies. I have not got one who is "And much less than "And much less than a friend. live correctly." "I don't agree with the toe of his patent-leather boot with If one puts forward an idea to an idea to a true Englishman - always history. The first is the appearance of and the second is the appearance of that. But he is much more to me than is much more to me than a model or differently. I can now recreate life in - for he seems to me little more than he defines for me the lines of for me the lines of a fresh school, separated the two, and have invented mine, for which Agnew offered me such he said, "Dorian Gray is to me simply when no image of him is there. He is is a suggestion, as I have said, of passion is for publication. Nowadays men treat art as if it were meant to be of you?" The painter considered for "He likes me," he answered after course I flatter him dreadfully. I find I shall be sorry for having said. As and we sit in the studio and talk of horribly thoughtless, and seems to take to some one who treats it as if it were it were a flower to put in his coat, to charm his vanity, an ornament for you will tire sooner than he will. It is of the thoroughly well-informed man is man is a dreadful thing. It is like a dreadful thing. It is like a bricfriend, and he will seem to you to be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be you. What you have told me is quite you have told me is quite a romance, might call it, and the worst of having tragedies." And Lord Henry struck " And Lord Henry struck a light on dainty silver case and began to smoke and began to smoke a cigarette with as if he had summed up the world in up the world in a phrase. There was "Where was it?" asked Hallward, with She told me she had discovered said that he was very earnest and had nature. I at once pictured to myself to wait, Parker: I shall be in in my dearest friend," he said. "He has he said. "He has a simple and back to them, turning over the pages of a tragic whisper which must have been a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant. How could I admire her? a bad beginning for a friendship, and a friendship, and it is far the best a great difference between people. I A man cannot be too careful in the a fool. They are all men of some a friend. A sort of brother, I suppose?" A sort of brother, I suppose?" "Oh, a single word that you have said, and, a tasselled ebony cane. "How English a true Englishman - always a rash a rash thing to do - he never dreams a new medium for art, and the second a new personality for art also. What a model or a sitter. I won't tell you a sitter. I won't tell you that I am a way that was hidden from me a lad, though he is really over twenty a fresh school, a school that is to have a school that is to have in it all the a realism that is vulgar, an ideality a huge price but which I would not a motive in art. You might see a suggestion, as I have said, of a new a new manner. I find him in the a broken heart will run to many a form of autobiography. We have lost a few moments. "He likes me," he a pause; "I know he likes me. Of a strange pleasure in saying things to a rule, he is charming to me, and we a thousand things. Now and then, a real delight in giving me pain. Then a flower to put in his coat, a bit of a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, a summer's day." "Days in summer, a sad thing to think of, but there is no a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and a -brac shop, all monsters and dust, with a little out of drawing, or you won't a great pity, for it will alter you. What a romance, a romance of art one a romance of art one might call it, and a romance of any kind is that it leaves a light on a dainty silver case and a dainty silver case and began to a cigarette with a self-conscious and a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if a phrase. There was a rustle of a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the a slight frown. "Don't look so angry, a wonderful young man who was going a beautiful nature. I at once pictured a creature with spectacles and lank a few moments." The man bowed and a simple and a beautiful nature. Your a beautiful nature. Your aunt was a volume of Schumann's "Forest Scenes. - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 am tired of sitting, and I don't want swinging round on the music-stool in When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for mine. I have just been telling him what at present," answered Dorian with look of penitence. "I promised to go to all about it. We were to have played The audience probably thought it was he glanced at him, hesitated for that, Mr. Gray. It is so tedious I must go. I have promised to meet and it is horribly dull standing on to what Lord Henry says. He has stepped up on the dais with the air of air of a young Greek martyr, and made Henry, to whom he had rather taken He was so unlike Basil. They made a delightful contrast. And he had such he had such a beautiful voice. After he said to him, "Have you really Basil says?" "There is no such thing as of view." "Why?" "Because to influence of some one else's music, an actor of And yet - " "Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like in his work and conscious only that believe that the world would gain such and has done with its sin, for action is remains then but the recollection of of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of But music was not articulate. It was not not escape from them. And yet what them! They seemed to be able to give form to formless things, and to have words had produced, and, remembering that he had read when he was sixteen, Dorian Gray was passing through you compliments. You mustn't believe all their gilded threads. There was senses by means of the soul. You are cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had spoke, like music, and seemed to have being afraid. Why had it been left for was there to be afraid of? He was not afraid of? He was not a schoolboy or Will it always be so? ... You have Don't frown. You have. And beauty is they quickly take away. You have only new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... not do. The world belongs to you for if you were wasted. For there is such time that your youth will last - such as yellow next June as it is now. In fell from his hand upon the gravel. furry bee came and buzzed round it for brain and calls on us to yield. After it creeping into the stained trumpet of pear-tree at the corner of the garden I always be glad?" "Always! That is a life-sized portrait of myself," a wilful, petulant manner. When he a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a a moment, and he started up. "I beg a capital sitter you were, and now you a funny look of penitence. "I promised a club in Whitechapel with her last a duet together - three duets, I believe. a duet. When Aunt Agatha sits down a moment, and then said, "Harry, I a subject that one would have to talk a man at the Orleans. Good-bye, Mr a platform and trying to look pleasant. a very bad influence over all his a young Greek martyr, and made a a little moue of discontent to Lord a fancy. He was so unlike Basil. They a delightful contrast. And he had such a beautiful voice. After a few moments a few moments he said to him, "Have a very bad influence, Lord Henry? As a good influence, Mr. Gray. All a person is to give him one's own soul. a part that has not been written for a little more to the right, Dorian, like a a good boy," said the painter, deep in a look had come into the lad's face a fresh impulse of joy that we would a mode of purification. Nothing remains a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. a regret. The only way to get rid of a a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, a new world, but rather another chaos, a subtle magic there was in them! a plastic form to formless things, and a music of their own as sweet as that a book that he had read when he was a book which had revealed to him a similar experience. He had merely a word that he says." "He has certainly a look of fear in his eyes, such as a wonderful creation. You know more a curious charm. They moved, as he a language of their own. But he felt a stranger to reveal him to himself? a schoolboy or a girl. It was absurd to a girl. It was absurd to be frightened. " a wonderfully beautiful face, Mr. Gray. a form of genius - is higher, indeed, a few years in which to live really, A new Hedonism - that is what our a season.... The moment I met you I a little time that your youth will last a little time. The common hill-flowers a month there will be purple stars on A furry bee came and buzzed round it a moment. Then it began to scramble a time the bee flew away. He saw it a Tyrian convolvulus. The flower a thrush began to sing. "You are glad a dreadful word. 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The only difference between only difference between a caprice and lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts "In that case, let our friendship be Lord Henry flung himself into stepped back to look at his work from to brood over everything. After about Hallward stopped painting, looked for long time at Dorian Gray, and then for examined the picture. It was certainly certainly a wonderful work of art, and drew back, and his cheeks flushed for flushed for a moment with pleasure. of his own beauty came on him like flashed across him. Yes, there would be and uncouth. As he thought of it, pang of pain struck through him like into amethyst, and across them came came a mist of tears. He felt as if like it?" cried Hallward at last, stung of course," answered the painter. "He is your friends. I am no more to you than t talk like that. I have never had such was going to rip up the canvas. With I wonder who it was defined man as "and I don't allow people to call me existed." "And you know you have been You have lived since then." There came the door, and the butler entered with a laden tea-tray and set it down upon upon a small Japanese table. There was of cups and saucers and the hissing of china dishes were brought in by with an old friend, so I can send him from coming in consequence of I think that would be all the surprise of candour." "It is such really. I would sooner not. I have Hallward. "That is something." "What "Why, even in love it is purely Good-bye, Basil. It has been the painter flung himself down on flung himself down on a sofa, and to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, retired from the diplomatic service in not being offered the Embassy at Paris, of having coal was that it enabled on his own hearth. In politics he was he roundly abused them for being for being a pack of Radicals. He was hero to his valet, who bullied him, and were out of date, but there was the room, he found his uncle sitting in in a rough shooting-coat, smoking I suppose," said Lord Fermor, making never pay mine. Credit is the capital of although those fellows nowadays write pure humbug from beginning to end. If from beginning to end. If a man is knows quite enough, and if he is not a meaningless word, too. The only a caprice and a lifelong passion is that a lifelong passion is that the caprice a little longer." As they entered the a caprice," he murmured, flushing at a large wicker arm-chair and watched a distance. In the slanting beams that a quarter of an hour Hallward stopped a long time at Dorian Gray, and then a long time at the picture, biting the a wonderful work of art, and a a wonderful likeness as well. "My dear a moment with pleasure. A look of joy A look of joy came into his eyes, as if a revelation. He had never felt it a day when his face would be a sharp pang of pain struck through a knife and made each delicate fibre of a mist of tears. He felt as if a hand a hand of ice had been laid upon his a little by the lad's silence, not a very lucky fellow." "How sad it is!" a green bronze figure. Hardly as much, a friend as you, and I shall never have a stifled sob the lad leaped from the a rational animal. It was the most a silly boy." "You know the picture is a little silly, Mr. Gray, and that you a knock at the door, and the butler a laden tea-tray and set it down upon a a small Japanese table. There was a a rattle of cups and saucers and the a fluted Georgian urn. Two a page. Dorian Gray went over and a wire to say that I am ill, or that a subsequent engagement. I think that a rather nice excuse: it would have all a bore putting on one's dress-clothes," a lot of work to do." "Well, then a fuss people make about fidelity!" a question for physiology. It has a most interesting afternoon." As the a sofa, and a look of pain came into a look of pain came into his face. a genial if somewhat rough-mannered a capricious moment of annoyance on a post to which he considered that he a gentleman to afford the decency of a Tory, except when the Tories were a pack of Radicals. He was a hero to a hero to his valet, who bullied him, a terror to most of his relations, whom a good deal to be said for his a rough shooting-coat, smoking a a cheroot and grumbling over The a wry face. "Well, sit down and tell a younger son, and one lives a lot of nonsense. When I was in the a man is a gentleman, he knows quite a gentleman, he knows quite enough, a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 Lord Kelso's grandson. His mother was the men frantic by running away with away with a penniless young fellow young fellow - a mere nobody, sir, - a mere nobody, sir, a subaltern in yesterday. The poor chap was killed in poor chap was killed in a duel at Spa spitted his man as if he had been to him again. Oh, yes; it was business. The girl died, too, died within too, died within a year. So she left If he is like his mother, he must be the old man. "He should have grandfather hated Kelso, thought him about their fares. They made quite I didn't dare show my face at Court for of that family were. The men were She laughed at him, and there wasn't I am told," muttered his uncle. " exhausts them, but they are capital at flying. I don't think Dartmoor has had yet stirred him by its suggestion of of a strange, almost modern romance. beautiful woman risking everything for risking everything for a mad passion. wild weeks of happiness cut short by Months of voiceless agony, and then club, the red candleshades staining to gracious form, and let it tarry there for into another as though it were as though it were a subtle fluid or fluid or a strange perfume: there was grossly common in its aims.... He was too, this lad, whom by so curious studio, or could be fashioned into not do with him. He could be made with him. He could be made a Titan or could be made a Titan or a toy. What destined to fade! ... And Basil? From as it were, refined, and gaining carved it in the coloured marbles of He invented to him shyly from the end of the table, Opposite was the Duchess of Harley, sat, on her right, Sir Thomas Burdon, with the Liberals, in accordance with one of his aunt's oldest friends, dowdy that she reminded one of she had on the other side Lord Faudel, middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as Like all people who try to exhaust Paris," chuckled Sir Thomas, who had Henry," murmured Mr. Erskine, with way...." rejoined the baronet. "Was that he looked down the table and caught the better." "Still, the East End is problem," remarked Sir Thomas with be able to look her in the face without look her in the face without a blush." " an old woman like myself blushes, it is become young again." He thought for a Devereux, Lady Margaret Devereux. a penniless young fellow - a mere a mere nobody, sir, a subaltern in a a subaltern in a foot regiment, or a foot regiment, or something of that a duel at Spa a few months after the a few months after the marriage. a pigeon. The thing was hushed up, a bad business. The girl died, too, died a year. So she left a son, did she a son, did she? I had forgotten that. a good-looking chap." "He is very good a pot of money waiting for him if a mean dog. He was, too. Came to a story of it. I didn't dare show my a month. I hope he treated his a poor lot, but, egad! the women were a girl in London at the time who A long engagement exhausts them, but a steeplechase. They take things flying. a chance." "Who are her people?" a strange, almost modern romance. A A beautiful woman risking everything a mad passion. A few wild weeks of A few wild weeks of happiness cut a hideous, treacherous crime. Months a child born in pain. The mother a richer rose the wakening wonder of a moment; to hear one's own a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: a strange perfume: there was a real a real joy in that - perhaps the most a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom a chance he had met in Basil's studio, a marvellous type, at any rate. Grace a Titan or a toy. What a pity it was a toy. What a pity it was that such a pity it was that such beauty was a psychological point of view, how a kind of symbolical value, as though a sonnet-sequence? But in our own a facile excuse, and having taken the a flush of pleasure stealing into his a lady of admirable good-nature and a Radical member of Parliament, who a wise and well-known rule. The post on a perfect saint amongst women, but so a badly bound hymn-book. Fortunately a most intelligent middle-aged a ministerial statement in the House of a subject, he exhausted his listeners. a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off a smile. "Paradoxes are all very well in a paradox?" asked Mr. Erskine. "I did a bright answering glance. "But they a very important problem," remarked a grave shake of the head. "Quite so," a blush." "A blush is very becoming, A blush is very becoming, Duchess," a very bad sign. Ah! Lord Henry, I a moment. "Can you remember any - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 asked, looking at her across the table. " has merely to repeat one's follies." " "I must put it into practice." " of life. Nowadays most people die of one never regrets are one's mistakes." of folly, as he went on, soared into robe and wreath of ivy, danced like his gaze off him, but sat like one under entered the room in the shape of sure to be furious, and I couldn't have in this bonnet. It is far too fragile. Duchess," said Lord Henry with Mr. Erskine moved round, and taking Mr. Erskine. I should like to write I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as to possess." "I shall be charmed. charmed. A visit to Treadley would be would be a great privilege. It has privilege. It has a perfect host, and it," answered the old gentleman with One afternoon, later, Dorian Gray was reclining in in Mayfair. It was, in its way, with silk, long-fringed Persian rugs. On rugs. On a tiny satinwood table stood statuette by Clodion, and beside it lay streamed the apricot-coloured light of thought of going away. At last he heard it is not Harry, Mr. Gray," answered vague forget-me-not eyes. She was looked as if they had been designed in been designed in a rage and put on in Her name was Victoria, and she had people hearing what one says. That is lips, and her fingers began to play with simply worshipped pianists - two at in England become foreigners after It is so clever of them, and such Mr. Gray here. We have had such am late, Dorian. I went to look after the door behind her as, looking like she flitted out of the room, leaving faint odour of frangipanni. Then he lit himself down on the sofa. "Never marry hair, Dorian," he said after in love with?" asked Lord Henry after Henry shrugged his shoulders. "That is People will some day, however. She is genius." "My dear boy, no woman is boy, no woman is a genius. Women are are very useful. If you want to gain That is all over now. As long as I had not met you. You filled me with one who passed me and wonder, with an exquisite poison in the air. I had something in store for me. I fancied things. The mere danger gave me eastward, soon losing my way in flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills. was standing at the entrance, smoking A great many, I fear," she cried. " A delightful theory!" she exclaimed. "I A dangerous theory!" came from Sir a sort of creeping common sense, and A laugh ran round the table. He a philosophy, and philosophy herself a Bacchante over the hills of life, and a spell, smiles chasing each other over a servant to tell the duchess that her a scene in this bonnet. It is far too A harsh word would ruin it. No, I must a bow. "Ah! that is very nice, a chair close to him, placed his hand a novel certainly, a novel that would be a novel that would be as lovely as a a Persian carpet and as unreal. But A visit to Treadley would be a great a great privilege. It has a perfect host, a perfect host, and a perfect library." a perfect library." "You will complete a courteous bow. "And now I must bid a month later, Dorian Gray was a luxurious arm-chair, in the little a very charming room, with its high a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette a statuette by Clodion, and beside it a copy of Les Cent Nouvelles, bound a summer day in London. Lord Henry a step outside, and the door opened. a shrill voice. He glanced quickly a curious woman, whose dresses always a rage and put on in a tempest. She a tempest. She was usually in love with a perfect mania for going to church. a great advantage, don't you think so, a long tortoise-shell paper-knife. a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I a time, don't they? It is so clever a compliment to art. Makes it quite a pleasant chat about music. We have a piece of old brocade in Wardour a bird of paradise that had been out a faint odour of frangipanni. Then he a cigarette and flung himself down on a woman with straw-coloured hair, a few puffs. "Why, Harry?" "Because a pause. "With an actress," said Dorian a rather commonplace debut." "You a genius." "My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. a decorative sex. They never have a reputation for respectability, you a woman can look ten years younger a wild desire to know everything about a mad curiosity, what sort of lives they a passion for sensations.... Well, one a thousand things. The mere danger a sense of delight. I remembered what a labyrinth of grimy streets and black A hideous Jew, in the most amazing a vile cigar. 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He was such I know, but I really went in and paid you will always be in love with love. is the one use of the idle classes of is to the life of the intellect - simply story." "Well, I found myself seated in in a horrid little private box, with curtain and surveyed the house. It was affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like were quite empty, and there was hardly oranges and ginger-beer, and there was of seeing Shakespeare done in such done in such a wretched hole of a place. Still, I felt interested, in to wait for the first act. There was a dreadful orchestra, presided over by over by a young Hebrew who sat at up and the play began. Romeo was gentleman, with corked eyebrows, eyebrows, a husky tragedy voice, and a husky tragedy voice, and a figure like that looked as if it had come out of But Juliet! Harry, imagine girl, hardly seventeen years of age, with of age, with a little, flowerlike face, passion, lips that were like the petals of me. And her voice - I never heard such singly upon one's ear. Then it became a little louder, and sounded like louder, and sounded like a flute or wild passion of violins. You know how the forest of Arden, disguised as and has come into the presence of help telling you things. You have curious influence over me. If I ever did tell me - reach me the matches, like Dorian," said Lord Henry, with others. That is what the world calls of years and that her body was lying in me that all the dramatic critics were in again. When he saw me, he made me a low bow and assured me that I was was a munificent patron of art. He was on calling him. He seemed to think it to think it a distinction." "It was "It was a distinction, my dear Dorian and so gentle. There is something of simply to me, 'You look more like her, Harry. She regarded me merely as She regarded me merely as a person in of life. She lives with her mother, woman who played Lady Capulet in he cried, "even if it is only for hear our laughter and grow sad. I want excited. Lord Henry watched him with studio! His nature had developed like When all that is settled, I shall take What an hour! It will be like having Basil! I have not laid eyes on him for a soiled shirt. 'Have a box, my Lord? a box, my Lord?' he said, when a monster. You will laugh at me, I a whole guinea for the stage-box. To A grande passion is the privilege of a country. Don't be afraid. There are a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I a horrid little private box, with a a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the a tawdry affair, all Cupids and a third-rate wedding-cake. The gallery a person in what I suppose they called a terrible consumption of nuts going a wretched hole of a place. Still, I felt a place. Still, I felt interested, in a a sort of way. At any rate, I determined a dreadful orchestra, presided over by a young Hebrew who sat at a cracked a cracked piano, that nearly drove me a stout elderly gentleman, with corked a husky tragedy voice, and a figure a figure like a beer-barrel. Mercutio a beer-barrel. Mercutio was almost as a country-booth. But Juliet! Harry, a girl, hardly seventeen years of age, a little, flowerlike face, a small Greek a small Greek head with plaited coils a rose. She was the loveliest thing I a voice. It was very low at first, with a little louder, and sounded like a flute a flute or a distant hautboy. In the a distant hautboy. In the garden-scene a voice can stir one. Your voice and a pretty boy in hose and doublet and a guilty king, and given him rue to a curious influence over me. If I ever a crime, I would come and confess it a good boy - thanks - what are your a strange touch of pathos in his voice. a romance. You know her, at any rate, a marble tomb in Verona. I think, a conspiracy against him, and that they a low bow and assured me that I was a munificent patron of art. He was a a most offensive brute, though he had a distinction." "It was a distinction, my a distinction, my dear Dorian - a great a great distinction. Most people a child about her. Her eyes opened a prince. I must call you Prince a person in a play. She knows nothing a play. She knows nothing of life. She a faded tired woman who played Lady a sort of magenta dressing-wrapper on a single act. I get hungry for her a breath of our passion to stir their a subtle sense of pleasure. How a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet a West End theatre and bring her out a meat-tea, or reading an English a week. 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The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes perfume on his handkerchief out of He was pleased by it. It made him one could not wear over one's face understand their nature. And, yet, what point they were at discord - there was was? One could never pay too high conscious - and the thought brought and bowed in worship before her. To and the intellect. But now and then of art, was indeed, in its way, face, and his beautiful soul, he was like one of those gracious figures in those gracious figures in a pageant or of the various schools! Was the soul separation of spirit from matter was and the union of spirit with matter was could ever make psychology so absolute to their mistakes. Moralists had, as Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it passions; and certainly Dorian Gray was sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was for new experiences, yet it was not yet it was not a simple, but rather Henry sat dreaming on these things, heated metal. The sky above was like about half-past twelve o'clock, he saw pounds to pay off our debts and to get not forget that, Sibyl. Fifty pounds is has been most considerate." "He is not life for us now." Then she paused. The girl laughed again. The joy of echoed it in radiance, then closed for secret. When they opened, the mist of cheeks, and her dry lips twitched with theatrical gestures that so often become become a mode of second nature to At this moment, the door opened and Sibyl, I think," said the lad with kissed, Jim," she cried. "You are "I want you to come out with me for murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with sigh, and beginning to patch it. She felt I trust you will return from Australia in of you! But are you really going for the sleeve of his coat. He hesitated for own choice. You might have entered entered a solicitor's office. Solicitors are Of course I watch over Sibyl." "I hear profession we are accustomed to receive that the young man in question is harshly. "No," answered his mother with a little jealous of the picture for being a whole month younger than I am, I a bit of a Philistine. Since I have a Philistine. Since I have known you, A great poet, a really great poet, is the a really great poet, is the most a book of second-rate sonnets makes a a man quite irresistible. He lives the a large, gold-topped bottle that stood a more interesting study. He had been a mask of glass, nor keep the a great reward one received! How a delight in that! What matter what a price for any sensation. He was a gleam of pleasure into his brown a large extent the lad was his own a complex personality took the place a real work of art, life having its a thing to wonder at. It was no matter a pageant or a play, whose joys seem a play, whose joys seem to be remote a shadow seated in the house of sin? a mystery, and the union of spirit with a mystery also. He began to wonder a science that each little spring of life a rule, regarded it as a mode of a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the a subject made to his hand, and a psychological phenomenon of no a simple, but rather a very complex a very complex passion. What there a knock came to the door, and his a faded rose. He thought of his a telegram lying on the hall table. He a proper outfit for James. You must a very large sum. Mr. Isaacs has been a gentleman, Mother, and I hate the A rose shook in her blood and a caged bird was in her voice. Her a moment, as though to hide their a dream had passed across them. a spasm of pain. Sybil rushed to her, a mode of second nature to a a stage-player, clasped her in her arms. a young lad with rough brown hair a good-natured grumble. "Ah! but you a dreadful old bear." And she ran a walk, Sibyl. I don't suppose I shall a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, a sigh, and beginning to patch it. She a little disappointed that he had not a position of affluence. I believe there a walk with me? That will be nice! I a moment. "Very well," he said at last a solicitor's office. Solicitors are a very a very respectable class, and in the a gentleman comes every night to the a great deal of most gratifying a perfect gentleman. He is always most a placid expression in her face. 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For he was not to remain For he was not to remain a sailor, or he was going to be. Oh, no! was dreadful. Fancy being cooped up in waves trying to get in, and to leave the vessel at Melbourne, bid off at once to the gold-fields. Before a week was over he was to come across and bring it down to the coast in and used bad language. He was to be beautiful heiress being carried off by being carried off by a robber on spend his money foolishly. She was only She would pray for him, too, and in though he was, he had still her could mean her no good. He was on for many months of silence. that he had heard at the theatre, waited at the stage-door, had set loose it as if it had been the lash of his face. His brows knit together into into a wedge-like furrow, and with his underlip. "You are not listening to to say?" "Oh! that you will be mean, Jim?" she asked. "You have the lad. "Who is he? I have at the bar. He has preached me as dogma; to-night he will announce me as spring-time for me, I think, dance of blossoms in blue skies." "He is is a gentleman," said the lad sullenly. " dear old Jim, you talk as if you were will be different now. You are going to go by." They took their seats amidst flamed like throbbing rings of fire. words to each other as players at She could not communicate her joy. she became silent. Suddenly she caught wish I had, for as sure as there is his words. They cut the air like The people round began to gape. "You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; not going to Australia at all. I have her hand on his arm. He was merely o'clock, and Sibyl had to lie down for present. She would be sure to make was jealousy in the lad's heart, and head in his hands. He felt that he had dropped mechanically from her lips. her. Their eyes met. In hers he saw answer. "Tell me the truth. I have you married to my father?" She heaved father?" She heaved a deep sigh. It was terror. Indeed, in some measure it was a member of the aristocracy." James a most brilliant marriage for Sibyl. a charming couple. His good looks are a bow of strained stateliness. She was a graceful, refined-looking girl. He was a common gardener walking with a a rose. Jim frowned from time to time a sailor, or a supercargo, or whatever a supercargo, or whatever he was A sailor's existence was dreadful. Fancy a horrid ship, with the hoarse, a black wind blowing the masts down a polite good-bye to the captain, and go a week was over he was to come a large nugget of pure gold, the largest a waggon guarded by six mounted a nice sheep-farmer, and one evening, a robber on a black horse, and give a black horse, and give chase, and a year older than he was, but she a few years he would come back quite a strong sense of the danger of Sibyl's a gentleman, and he hated him for A chance phrase that he had heard at a whispered sneer that had reached a train of horrible thoughts. He a hunting-crop across his face. His a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch a twitch of pain he bit his underlip. a word I am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, a good boy and not forget us," she a new friend, I hear. Who is he? a right to know." "He is called Prince a dogma; to-night he will announce a revelation. I feel it. And it is all a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. a gentleman," said the lad sullenly. "A A prince!" she cried musically. "What a hundred. Some day you will be in a new world, and I have found one. a crowd of watchers. The tulip-beds A white dust - tremulous cloud of a game pass counters. Sibyl felt A faint smile curving that sullen mouth a glimpse of golden hair and laughing a God in heaven, if he ever does you a dagger. The people round began to A lady standing close to her tittered. a bad-tempered boy, that is all. How a great mind to chuck the whole thing a boy. At the Marble Arch they a couple of hours before acting. Jim a scene, and he detested scenes of a fierce murderous hatred of the a right to know. It should have been A tattered lace handkerchief twitched a wild appeal for mercy. It enraged a right to know. Were you married to a deep sigh. It was a sigh of relief. a sigh of relief. The terrible moment, a disappointment to her. 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For a moment her eyes with shaking hands. "Sibyl has is, track him down, and kill him like was lost in vulgar details. It was with son drove away. She was conscious that evening as Hallward was shown into They don't interest me. There is hardly many of them would be the better for my dear Basil." "Marriage is hardly he was engaged to be married. There is There is a great difference. I have He is sure to do it, then. Whenever to do it, then. Whenever a man does murmured Lord Henry, sipping with what charming people do. If to me. Dorian Gray falls in love with the less interesting. You know I am not by some one else. He would be a wonderful study." "You don't mean of those virtues that are likely to be greatest contempt for optimism. As for growth is arrested. If you want to mar She wore slim, brown, cross-gartered hose, hose, a dainty little green cap with cap with a hawk's feather caught in a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and round her face like dark leaves round shall see her to-night. She is simply century. I was away with my love in suddenly there came into her eyes She trembled all over and shook like t help it. Of course, our engagement is care. I shall be of age in less than " Lord Henry sipped his champagne in My dear Harry, I did not treat it as any question - simple curiosity. I have man who could wrong her would be who could wrong her would be a beast, her would be a beast, a beast without love Sibyl Vane. I want to place her on "Pleasure is the only thing worth having of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be if one wishes to be a prig or to accept the standard of his age is merely for one's self, Harry, one pays me, no civilized man ever regrets no uncivilized man ever knows what with some fruits. "Being adored is create love in our natures. They have you to smoke cigars. You must have cigars. You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of you talk, Harry!" cried the lad, taking " cried the lad, taking a light from a direct answer. The situation had not a bad rehearsal. "No," she answered, a scoundrel then!" cried the lad, a gentleman. Indeed, he was highly a gentleman, isn't it, who is in love a moment a hideous sense of a hideous sense of humiliation came a mother," she murmured; "I had none." a dog. I swear it." The exaggerated a renewed feeling of disappointment a great opportunity had been wasted. a little private room at the Bristol a single person in the House of a little whitewashing." "Dorian Gray is a thing that one can do now and then, a great difference. I have a distinct a distinct remembrance of being a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always a glass of vermouth and orange-bitters. a personality fascinates me, whatever a beautiful girl who acts Juliet, and a champion of marriage. The real a wonderful study." "You don't mean a a single word of all that, Harry; you a benefit to us. We praise the banker a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but a nature, you have merely to reform it. a moss-coloured velvet jerkin with a dainty little green cap with a hawk's a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with a hooded cloak lined with dull red. She a pale rose. As for her acting - well, a born artist. I sat in the dingy box a forest that no man had ever seen. a look that I had never seen there a white narcissus. Then she flung a dead secret. She has not even told a year, and then I can do what I like a meditative manner. "At what a business transaction, and I did not a theory that it is always the women a beast, a beast without a heart. I a beast without a heart. I cannot a heart. I cannot understand how any a pedestal of gold and to see the a theory about," he answered in his a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral a form of the grossest immorality." a terrible price for doing so?" a pleasure, and no uncivilized man a pleasure is." "I know what pleasure a nuisance. Women treat us just as a right to demand it back." "That is a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect A cigarette is the perfect type of a a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and a light from a fire-breathing silver a fire-breathing silver dragon that the - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 Sibyl comes on the stage you will have everything," said Lord Henry, with his eyes, "but I am always ready for the brougham. You must follow us in was silent and preoccupied. There was things that might have happened. After of the little brougham in front of him. He escorted them to their box with him that he was proud to meet to meet a man who had discovered a real genius and gone bankrupt over and the huge sunlight flamed like of corks came from the bar. "What to do. She makes them as responsive as worth doing. If this girl can give given everything that is good in me." in her shy grace and startled eyes. eyes. A faint blush, like the shadow of blush, like the shadow of a rose in enthusiastic house. She stepped back to applaud. Motionless, and as one in The band, such as it was, struck up dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from Her body swayed, while she danced, as curves of her throat were the curves of dialogue that follows, were spoken in of night is on my face, Else would declaimed with the painful precision of by summer's ripening breath May prove It was simply bad art. She was the second act was over, there came the play through," answered the lad, in has entirely altered. Last night she was great artist. This evening she is merely any one you love, Dorian. Love is does it matter if she plays Juliet like as she does about acting, she will be Let us go, Basil," said Lord Henry with two young men passed out together. and laughing. The whole thing was benches. The curtain went down on The girl was standing there alone, with lit with an exquisite fire. There was something of which all art is but What have I to do with the puppets of alone. I hate the stage. I might mimic to her lips. He drew them away, and how mad I was to love you! What borne my name. What are you now? are you now? A third-rate actress with She rose from her knees and, with "Don't touch me!" he cried. herself at his feet and lay there like don't leave me, don't leave me." her. She crouched on the floor like on his heel and left the room. In faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into the men unloading their waggons. of the moon had entered into them. its grey, sun-bleached pillars, loitered a new ideal of life. She will represent a tired look in his eyes, "but I am a new emotion. I am afraid, however, a hansom." They got up and put on a gloom over him. He could not bear a few minutes, they all passed A strange sense of loss came over him. a sort of pompous humility, waving his a man who had discovered a real a real genius and gone bankrupt over a poet. Hallward amused himself with a monstrous dahlia with petals of a place to find one's divinity in!" said a violin. She spiritualizes them, and one a soul to those who have lived without A quarter of an hour afterwards, A faint blush, like the shadow of a a rose in a mirror of silver, came to a mirror of silver, came to her cheeks a few paces and her lips seemed to a dream, sat Dorian Gray, gazing at a few bars of music, and the dance a creature from a finer world. Her a finer world. Her body swayed, while a plant sways in the water. The curves a white lily. Her hands seemed to be a thoroughly artificial manner. The a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For a schoolgirl who has been taught to a beauteous flower when next we meet a complete failure. Even the common a storm of hisses, and Lord Henry got a hard bitter voice. "I am awfully a great artist. This evening she is a commonplace mediocre actress." a more wonderful thing than art." a wooden doll? She is very lovely, and a delightful experience. There are only a strange tenderness in his voice, and A few moments afterwards the a fiasco. The last act was played to a titter and some groans. As soon as a look of triumph on her face. Her a radiance about her. Her parted lips a reflection. You had made me a play? When I came on to-night, a passion that I do not feel, but I a shudder ran through him. Then he a fool I have been! You are nothing A third-rate actress with a pretty face." a pretty face." The girl grew white, and a piteous expression of pain in her A low moan broke from her, and she a trampled flower. "Dorian, Dorian, A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, a few moments he was out of the a perfect pearl. 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After a little while, he hailed hailed a hansom and drove home. For against it. From some chimney opposite wreath of smoke was rising. It curled, towards the door of his bedroom, that had been discovered stored in blinds, the face appeared to him to be One would have said that there was clearly as if he had been looking into expression had altered. It was not apparent. He threw himself into it perfectly. He had uttered not his. He had dreamed of her as been shallow and unworthy. And, yet, of her lying at his feet sobbing like he been made like that? Why had such worth hers. She had marred him for sunlight. Its blue eyes met his own. die. For every sin that he committed, He got up from his chair and drew stepped out on to the grass, he drew passions. He thought only of Sibyl. sounded, and Victor came in softly with came in softly with a cup of tea, and of tea, and a pile of letters, on Dorian Gray drowsily. "One hour and by hand that morning. He hesitated for morning during the season. There was There was a rather heavy bill for to advance any sum of money at forgotten all that he had gone through. or twice, but there was the unreality of went into the library and sat down to that had been laid out for him on warm air seemed laden with spices. own imagination that had made him see a look of evil where there had been there had been a look of joy? Surely The thing was absurd. It would serve as and the man turned to go, he felt his orders. Dorian looked at him for home to any one, Victor," he said with retired. Then he rose from the table, lit a cigarette, and flung himself down on leather, stamped and wrought with before it had concealed the secret of at first gazing at the portrait with of almost scientific interest. That such was incredible to him. And yet it was Hallward had painted of him would be the moral sense to sleep. But here was threads of life and to weave them into he went over to the table and wrote and wilder words of pain. There is ourselves, we feel that no one else has had been forgiven. Suddenly there came answered Lord Henry, sinking into "I felt sure you had. Did you make the idea of my soul being hideous." " a pile of sacks. Iris-necked and pinka little while, he hailed a hansom and a hansom and drove home. For a few a few moments he loitered upon the a thin wreath of smoke was rising. It a violet riband, through the a large octagonal chamber on the a disused attic at Selby Royal. As he a little changed. The expression looked a touch of cruelty in the mouth. It was a mirror after he had done some a mere fancy of his own. The thing a chair and began to think. Suddenly a mad wish that he himself might a great artist, had given his love to a feeling of infinite regret came over a little child. He remembered with a soul been given to him? But he had a moment, if he had wounded her for A sense of infinite pity, not for a stain would fleck and wreck its a large screen right in front of the a deep breath. The fresh morning air A faint echo of his love came back to a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, a pile of letters, on a small tray of old a small tray of old Sevres china, and a quarter, Monsieur." How late it was! a moment, and then put it aside. The a rather heavy bill for a chased silver a chased silver Louis-Quinze toilet-set a moment's notice and at the most A dim sense of having taken part in a dream about it. As soon as he was a light French breakfast that had been a small round table close to the open A bee flew in and buzzed round the a look of evil where there had been a a look of joy? Surely a painted canvas a painted canvas could not alter? The a tale to tell Basil some day. It would a wild desire to tell him to remain. As a moment. "I am not at home to any a sigh. The man bowed and retired. a cigarette, and flung himself down on a luxuriously cushioned couch that a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern. a man's life. Should he move it aside, a feeling of almost scientific interest. a change should have taken place was a fact. Was there some subtle affinity a guide to him through life, would be a visible symbol of the degradation of a pattern; to find his way through the a passionate letter to the girl he had a luxury in self-reproach. When we a right to blame us. It is the a knock to the door, and he heard a chair and slowly pulling off his yellow a scene with her?" "I was brutal, Harry A very charming artistic basis for - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 to tell you that Sibyl Vane is dead." Sibyl dead! It is not true! It is mixed up in it. Things like that make should never make one's debut with point." Dorian did not answer for with horror. Finally he stammered, in younger than that. She looked such we will look in at the opera. It is as if I had cut her little throat with life is! If I had read all this in should have been addressed to terribly pathetic. But I was not moved Dorian," answered Lord Henry, taking a cigarette from his case and producing a gold-latten matchbox, "the only way "the only way a woman can ever reform absolutely indifferent to her. And when your saying once that there is luxurious sterile emotions that have are simply cheques that men draw on It seems to me to be simply like to be simply like a wonderful ending to play. It has all the terrible beauty of the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, tragedy, a tragedy in which I took revolt against that. Sometimes, however, That awful memory of woman! What but violets all through one season, as as a form of artistic mourning for the whole world for me. That is always eternity. Well - would you believe it? the future. I had buried my romance in so I did not feel any anxiety. But what the curtain has fallen. They always want own way, every comedy would have and every tragedy would culminate in in for sentimental colours. Never trust mauve, whatever her age may be, or ribbons. It always means that they have that they have a history. Others find Its mysteries have all the charm of have all the charm of a flirtation, one so vain as being told that one is In good society that always whitewashes her death. I am glad I am living in in the tawdry dressing-room simply as from some Jacobean tragedy, as died. To you at least she was always you at least she was always a dream, and left them lovelier for its presence, was less real than they are." There was Harry," he murmured with something of of what has happened. It has been Dorian Gray touched the bell, and in Poor Sibyl! What love of him, and love would always be he thought of her, it would be as to show the supreme reality of love. the burden of his shame: that was all. to which he yielded? Was it to become loathsome thing, to be hidden away in A cry of pain broke from the lad's a horrible lie! How dare you say it?" " a man fashionable in Paris. But in a scandal. One should reserve that to a few moments. He was dazed with a stifled voice, "Harry, did you say an a child, and seemed to know so little a Patti night, and everybody will be a knife. Yet the roses are not less a book, Harry, I think I would have a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, a bit. I thought her shallow. Suddenly a cigarette from his case and a gold-latten matchbox, "the only way a a woman can ever reform a man is by a man is by boring him so completely a woman finds that out about her a fatality about good resolutions - that a certain charm for the weak. That is a bank where they have no account." a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. a wonderful play. It has all the terrible a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I a tragedy in which I took a great part, a great part, but by which I have not a tragedy that possesses artistic a fearful thing it is! And what an utter a form of artistic mourning for a a romance that would not die. a dreadful moment. It fills one with a week ago, at Lady Hampshire's, I a bed of asphodel. She dragged it out a lack of taste she showed! The one a sixth act, and as soon as the interest a tragic ending, and every tragedy a farce. They are charmingly artificial, a woman who wears mauve, whatever a woman over thirty-five who is fond a history. Others find a great a great consolation in suddenly a flirtation, a woman once told me, a woman once told me, and I can a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of a woman. But really, Dorian, how a century when such wonders happen. a strange lurid fragment from some a wonderful scene from Webster, or a dream, a phantom that flitted a phantom that flitted through a reed through which Shakespeare's a silence. The evening darkened in the a sigh of relief. "I felt all that you a marvellous experience. That is all. I a few minutes Victor appeared with a romance it had all been! She had a sacrament to him now. She had a wonderful tragic figure sent on to A wonderful tragic figure? Tears came A feeling of pain crept over him as he a monstrous and loathsome thing, to a locked room, to be shut out from - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 pity of it! the pity of it! For cease. It had changed in answer to to a prayer; perhaps in answer to could exercise its influence upon He would never again tempt by too closely into it? For there would be crept from its face, and left behind where you had really gone to. I passed first. I read of it quite by chance in go down and see the girl's mother? For t it? But I was afraid of intruding upon I could not lighten. Poor woman! What sipping some pale-yellow wine from subjects. If one doesn't talk about not the woman's only child. There is woman's only child. There is a son, But he is not on the stage. He is Hallward, speaking very slowly and with the girl you loved has even the quiet of require years to get rid of an emotion. man who is master of himself can end end a sorrow as easily as he can invent going to the window, looked out for flickering, sun-lashed garden. "I owe Basil! Surely you don't think it was hands. "How fearful," he muttered, and great romantic tragedies of the age. As lived her finest tragedy. She was always If you had come in yesterday at - about half-past five, perhaps, or consoled, and you are furious. How like sympathetic person! You remind me of me of a story Harry told me about do, almost died of ennui, and became what has happened, or to see it from des arts? I remember picking up realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am all, his indifference was probably merely Well, Dorian," he said at length, with you?" Dorian shook his head, and It was pretty of her. You must do me more of her than the memory of towards the corner of the room. to exhibit it?" exclaimed Dorian Gray, going to collect all my best pictures for October. The portrait will only be away town. And if you keep it always behind He felt that he was on the brink of of a horrible danger. "You told me same thing." He stopped suddenly, and half in jest, "If you want to have told me why he wouldn't, and it was in the face, "we have each of us insisted Dorian Gray. "I think I have and more absorbed in you. Then came ideal, and remote. One day, sometimes think, I determined to paint the picture to be exhibited. You were I felt that I was right.... Well, after now I cannot help feeling that it is a moment, he thought of praying that a prayer; perhaps in answer to a a prayer it might remain unchanged. a living organism, might not thought a prayer any terrible power. If the a real pleasure in watching it. He a pallid mask of chalk with leaden a dreadful evening, half afraid that one a late edition of The Globe that I a moment I thought of following you a sorrow that I could not lighten. a state she must be in! And her only a delicate, gold-beaded bubble of a thing, it has never happened. It is a son, a charming fellow, I believe. a charming fellow, I believe. But he is a sailor, or something. And now, tell a strained touch of pain in his voice. a grave to sleep in? Why, man, there A man who is master of himself can a sorrow as easily as he can invent a a pleasure. I don't want to be at the a few moments on the green, a great deal to Harry, Basil," he said at a vulgar accident? Of course she killed a shudder ran through him. "No," said a rule, people who act lead the most a heroine. The last night she played a particular moment - about half-past a quarter to six - you would have a sympathetic person! You remind me a story Harry told me about a certain a certain philanthropist who spent a confirmed misanthrope. And besides, a proper artistic point of view. Was it a little vellum-covered book in your a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions, new a mood that would pass away. There a sad smile, "I won't speak to you a look of annoyance passed over his a drawing of Sibyl, Basil. I should like a few kisses and some broken pathetic A cry of terror broke from Dorian a strange sense of terror creeping over a special exhibition in the Rue de a month. I should think you could a screen, you can't care much about it." a horrible danger. "You told me a a month ago that you would never a gleam of light came into his eyes. a strange quarter of an hour, get Basil a revelation to me." Yes, perhaps a secret. Let me know yours, and I a right to know." His feeling of terror a new development. I had drawn you a fatal day I sometimes think, I a wonderful portrait of you as you a little annoyed; but then you did not a few days the thing left my studio, a mistake to think that the passion - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 900 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 908 to be worshipped." Dorian Gray drew colour came back to his cheeks, and be so dominated by the personality of be some one who would fill him with That is not even a compliment." "It was not intended as not intended as a compliment. It was put one's worship into words." "It was "Oh, Harry!" cried the lad, with again. There is something fatal about something fatal about a portrait. It has almost by chance, in wresting to him to be something tragic in at all costs. He could not run such thing to remain, even for an hour, in and waited for his orders. Dorian lit of Victor's face perfectly. It was like was that merely his own fancy? After key. I'll have it off the bunch in Leaf. That will do." She lingered for looked round the room. His eye fell on coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, work that his grandfather had found in thing in. It had perhaps served often as Now it was to hide something that had be always alive. He shuddered, and for canvas and calling him to judgement. pall over the picture. As he did so, down at the writing-table he scribbled of South Audley Street, came in with young assistant. Mr. Hubbard was of the artists who dealt with him. As Dorian that charmed everybody. It was coming round in person. I have just got in person. I have just got a beauty of of a frame, sir. Picked it up at Fonthill, I believe. Admirably suited for religious art - but to-day I only want I thought I would ask you to lend me tradesman's spirited dislike of seeing it so as to help them. "Something of indeed, since he had used it first as it first as a play-room when he was room when he was a child, and then as when he grew somewhat older. It was always hated and desired to keep at he had so often hidden himself as the same ragged Flemish tapestry where king and queen were playing chess in were playing chess in a garden, while something else." "Always glad to have who glanced back at Dorian with tea had been already brought up. On wood thickly incrusted with nacre, from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying from Lord Henry, and beside it was slightly torn and the edges soiled. The screen had not been set back, and to force the door of the room. It was room. It was a horrible thing to have a long breath. The colour came back a smile played about his lips. The peril a friend. Lord Henry had the charm a strange idolatry? Was that one of the a compliment." "It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now a confession. Now that I have made it, a very disappointing confession." "Why, a ripple of laughter. "Harry spends his a portrait. It has a life of its own. a life of its own. I will come and have a secret from his friend! How much a friendship so coloured by romance. a risk of discovery again. It had been a room to which any of his friends a cigarette and walked over to the a placid mask of servility. There was a few moments, in her black silk a moment. But you don't think of a few moments, and was garrulous a large, purple satin coverlet heavily a splendid piece of late a convent near Bologna. Yes, that a pall for the dead. Now it was to a corruption of its own, worse than a moment he regretted that he had A look of pain came across him, and a knock came to the door. He passed a note to Lord Henry, asking him to a somewhat rough-looking young a florid, red-whiskered little man, a rule, he never left his shop. He a pleasure even to see him. "What a beauty of a frame, sir. Picked it up a frame, sir. Picked it up at a sale a sale. Old Florentine. Came from a religious subject, Mr. Gray." "I am a picture carried to the top of the a couple of your men." "No trouble a gentleman doing anything useful, a load to carry, sir," gasped the little a play-room when he was a child, and a child, and then as a study when he a study when he grew somewhat a large, well-proportioned room, which a distance. It appeared to Dorian to a boy. There the satinwood book-case a faded king and queen were playing a garden, while a company of hawkers a company of hawkers rode by, a rest, Mr. Gray," answered the framea look of shy wonder in his rough a little table of dark perfumed wood a present from Lady Radley, his a pretty professional invalid who had a note from Lord Henry, and beside a book bound in yellow paper, the A copy of the third edition of The St. a blank space was visible on the wall. a horrible thing to have a spy in a spy in one's house. He had heard of - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 lives by some servant who had read who had read a letter, or overheard overheard a conversation, or picked up card with an address, or found beneath an address, or found beneath a pillow beneath a pillow a withered flower or sent him round the evening paper, and languidly, and looked through it. Coroner, on the body of Sibyl Vane, at the Royal Theatre, Holborn. real ugliness made things! He felt began to turn over the leaves. After dreamed were gradually revealed. It was revealed. It was a novel without one character, being, indeed, simply indeed, simply a psychological study of saint or the morbid confessions of confessions of a modern sinner. It was as he passed from chapter to chapter, chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, and pierced by one solitary star, Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is moods and the changing fancies of so strangely blended, became to him was occasioned by the sudden decay of never left him now, and stand, with with minute care, and sometimes with ruin he had brought upon his soul with in Dorian Gray the true realization of often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days, and distinction and perfect manner of it all the other arts seemed to be but what is really fantastic becomes for his coming of age, and found, indeed, he desired to be something more than to be consulted on the wearing of wearing of a jewel, or the knotting of knotting of a necktie, or the conduct of much justice, been decried, men feeling of aiming at making them elements of elements of a new spirituality, of which through history, he was haunted by origin was fear and whose result was to be, as Lord Henry had prophesied, himself upon the moments of the moments of a life that is itself but had left off, and there steals over us round of stereotyped habits, or eyelids might open some morning upon anew in the darkness for our pleasure, and be changed, or have other secrets, that is not incompatible with to certain modern psychologists, is often certainly the Roman ritual had always of creed or system, or of mistaking, for that is but suitable for the sojourn of for the sojourn of a night, or for of a night, or for a few hours of seems to accompany it, moved him for it, moved him for a season; and for movement in Germany, and found a letter, or overheard a conversation, a conversation, or picked up a card a card with an address, or found a pillow a withered flower or a shred a withered flower or a shred of a shred of crumpled lace. He sighed, a book that might interest him, and A red pencil-mark on the fifth page a young actress recently engaged at A verdict of death by misadventure a little annoyed with Lord Henry for a few minutes he became absorbed. It a novel without a plot and with only a plot and with only one character, a psychological study of a certain a certain young Parisian who spent a modern sinner. It was a poisonous a poisonous book. The heavy odour of a form of reverie, a malady of a malady of dreaming, that made him a copper-green sky gleamed through a great difference." "Ah, you have a nature over which he seemed, at a kind of prefiguring type of himself. a beau that had once, apparently, a mirror, in front of the portrait that a monstrous and terrible delight, the a pity that was all the more poignant a type of which they had often a type that was to combine something a citizen of the world. To them he a preparation. Fashion, by which what a moment universal, and dandyism, a subtle pleasure in the thought that a mere arbiter elegantiarum, to be a jewel, or the knotting of a necktie, a necktie, or the conduct of a cane. He a cane. He sought to elaborate some a natural instinct of terror about a new spirituality, of which a fine a fine instinct for beauty was to be a feeling of loss. So much had been a degradation infinitely more terrible a new Hedonism that was to recreate a life that is itself but a moment. a moment. There are few of us who a terrible sense of the necessity for a wild longing, it may be, that our a world that had been refashioned a world in which things would have a world in which the past would have a real ardour of temperament, and a condition of it. It was rumoured of a great attraction for him. The daily a house in which to live, an inn that a night, or for a few hours of a night a few hours of a night in which there a night in which there are no stars a season; and for a season he inclined a season he inclined to the a curious pleasure in tracing the - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 970 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 991 992 993 994 995 996 997 998 999 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 and seeking often to elaborate himself entirely to music, and in music, and in a long latticed room, with are found near Cuzco and give forth and can be heard, it is said, at are hung in clusters like grapes; and doleful sound he has left us so vivid instruments fascinated him, and he felt in the prelude to that great work of art up the study of jewels, and appeared at Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in to have left him. He would often spend size and richness of colour, and had In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina growing on their backs." There was "by the exhibition of golden letters and robe" the monster could be thrown into de Boniface, the diamond rendered of kids. Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of brain of a newly killed toad, that was in the heart of the Arabian deer, was of Ceilan rode through his city with pearls in the mouths of the dead. it. The King of Malabar had shown to had shown to a certain Venetian double rows of rubies that threw out twenty-one diamonds. Richard II had previous to his coronation, as wearing " diamonds and other rich stones, and Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston red-gold armour studded with jacinths, roses set with turquoise-stones, and gloves reaching to the elbow, and had the starry sky, and Apollo driving and viands that could be wanted for rocks, hunters - all, in fact, that which were embroidered the verses of in gold." Catherine de Medicis had wreaths and garlands, figured upon broideries of pearls, and it stood in gilt of its canopy. And so, for He had by self-inflicted pain. He possessed and gold-thread damask, figured with and coloured crystals. The morse bore work. The orphreys were woven in modes by which he could escape, for had draped the purple-and-gold pall as that should have been his own. After from the picture that was such he fascinated many, there were not him. He was very nearly blackballed at position fully entitled him to become one occasion, when he was brought by and another gentleman got up in seen brawling with foreign sailors in each other in corners, or pass him with never to leave him, were in themselves most intimate with him appeared, after dangerous charm. His great wealth was a real psychology of perfumes, and to a long latticed room, with a a vermilion-and-gold ceiling and walls a note of singular sweetness. He had a distance of three leagues; the a huge cylindrical drum, covered with a description. The fantastic character a curious delight in the thought that a presentation of the tragedy of his a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, a dress covered with five hundred a whole day settling and resettling in a turquoise de la vieille roche that a serpent was mentioned with eyes of a gem in the brain of the dragon, a scarlet robe" the monster could be a magical sleep and slain. According a man invisible, and the agate of a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain a certain antidote against poison. The a charm that could cure the plague. a large ruby in his hand, as the A sea-monster had been enamoured a certain Venetian a rosary of three a rosary of three hundred and four a great light. Charles of England had a coat, valued at thirty thousand a jacket of raised gold, the placard a great bauderike about his neck of a suit of red-gold armour studded a collar of gold roses set with a skull-cap parseme with pearls. a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies a chariot drawn by white, gilt-reined a feast; the mortuary cloth of King a painter can copy from nature"; and a song beginning "Madame, je suis a mourning-bed made for her of a gold and silver ground, and fringed a room hung with rows of the a whole year, he sought to a special passion, also, for a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and a repeating pattern of golden a seraph's head in gold-thread raised a diaper of red and gold silk, and a season, from the fear that seemed a curtain. For weeks he would not go a few years he could not endure to a part of his life, and was also afraid a few who distrusted him. He was a West End club of which his birth a member, and it was said that on a friend into the smoking-room of the a marked manner and went out. a low den in the distant parts of a sneer, or look at him with cold a sufficient answer to the calumnies, a time, to shun him. Women who had a certain element of security. 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And, after all, it is told that the man who has given one as Lord Henry remarked once, in on the subject, and there is possibly to it. It should have the dignity of combine the insincere character of plays delightful to us. Is insincerity such terrible thing? I think not. It is merely those who conceive the ego in man as and of one essence. To him, man was with myriad lives and myriad sensations, stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves. collar of white and damask roses. On roses. On a table by her side lay so overladen with rings. He had been him hung the portrait of his wife, him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in and supped in an ivory manger with as Domitian, had wandered through denies nothing; and had peered through red shambles of the circus and then, in through the Street of Pomegranates to slew his wife and painted her lips with florins, was bought at the price of body was covered with roses by who received Leonora of Aragon in with nymphs and centaurs, and gilded by the spectacle of death, and who had the blood of three lads was infused by and man, who strangled Polyssena with and gave poison to Ginevra d'Este in in a cup of emerald, and in honour of in honour of a shameful passion built so wildly adored his brother's wife that had cursed him, blessed him. There was manners of poisoning - poisoning by poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and torch, by an embroidered glove and glove and a jewelled fan, by Dorian Gray had been poisoned by when he looked on evil simply as Square and South Audley Street, of his grey ulster turned up. He had recognized him. It was Basil Hallward. and then hurrying after him. In for six months. I intend to take and shut myself up till I have finished are at your door. Let me come in for looked at him and smiled. "What at him and smiled. "What a way for way for a fashionable painter to travel! Dorian into the library. There was -water and large cut-glass tumblers, on your best gold-tipped cigarettes. He is do you know? - he was not at all half an hour." Dorian sighed and lit t believe them when I see you. Sin is Sin is a thing that writes itself across vices. There are no such things. If no such things. If a wretched man has a good chef. And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told a bad dinner, or poor wine, is a discussion on the subject, and there a good deal to be said for his view. a ceremony, as well as its unreality, a romantic play with the wit and a terrible thing? I think not. It is a method by which we can multiply a thing simple, permanent, reliable, a being with myriad lives and myriad a complex multiform creature that A flower was in her right hand, and a table by her side lay a mandolin a mandolin and an apple. There were a macaroni of the eighteenth century, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black. a garden at Capri, reading the a jewel-frontleted horse; and, as a corridor lined with marble mirrors, a clear emerald at the red shambles a litter of pearl and purple drawn by a House of Gold and heard men cry a scarlet poison that her lover might a terrible sin; Gian Maria Visconti, a harlot who had loved him; the a pavilion of white and crimson silk, a boy that he might serve at the feast a passion for red blood, as other men a Jewish doctor; Sigismondo Malatesta, a napkin, and gave poison to Ginevra a cup of emerald, and in honour of a a shameful passion built a pagan a pagan church for Christian worship; a leper had warned him of the a horrible fascination in them all. He a helmet and a lighted torch, by an a lighted torch, by an embroidered a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander a gilded pomander and by an amber a book. There were moments when a mode through which he could a man passed him in the mist, a bag in his hand. Dorian recognized A strange sense of fear, for which he a few moments, his hand was on his a studio in Paris and shut myself up a great picture I have in my head. a moment. I have something to say to a way for a fashionable painter to a fashionable painter to travel! A A Gladstone bag and an ulster! Come a bright wood fire blazing in the a little marqueterie table. "You see a most hospitable creature. I like him a bad servant. I never liked him, but I a cigarette. "Half an hour!" he a thing that writes itself across a a man's face. 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Why is it, Dorian, that Duke of Berwick leaves the room of or invite you to theirs? You used to be most artistic tastes, but that you were room with. I reminded him that I was Ashton, who had to leave England with Dorian Gray, biting his lip, and with voice. "You ask me why Berwick leaves writes his friend's name across In this country, it is enough for fine. You have not been fine. One has been fine. One has a right to judge of You have filled them with should not have made his sister's name When you met Lady Gwendolen, not scandal had ever touched her. Is there preach to you. I want you to lead such world respect you. I want you to have I want you to have a clean name and that. Don't be so indifferent. You have it is quite sufficient for you to enter friends at Oxford. He showed me your soul. But only God can do that." yourself, to-night!" he cried, seizing in his boyish insolent manner. He felt good. You know I have been always me. Finish what you have to say." across the painter's face. He paused for s face. He paused for a moment, and life of Dorian Gray? If he had done waiting, Basil," said the young man in " Dorian Gray smiled. There was Basil," he said quietly. "I keep read anything to-night. All I want is shadows on the wall and staircase. insist on knowing, Basil?" he asked in lamp, he opened the door and went in. passed them, and the light shot up for and the light shot up for a moment in table. Hallward glanced round him with if it had not been lived in for years. in for years. A faded Flemish tapestry, all that it seemed to contain, besides seemed to contain, besides a chair and a table. As Dorian Gray was lighting dust and that the carpet was in holes. behind the wainscoting. There was "You are mad, Dorian, or playing he felt as if his blood had changed in looked at Dorian Gray with the eyes of the faces of those who are absorbed in passion of the spectator, with perhaps his ears. "Years ago, when I was looks. One day you introduced me to the wonder of youth, and you finished to me the wonder of beauty. In t know whether I regret or not, I made made a wish, perhaps you would call it never meet again. This is the face of the face of my soul." "Christ! what a good deal since. He offered an a man like the Duke of Berwick a club when you enter it? Why is it a friend of Lord Staveley. I met him a man whom no pure-minded girl a friend of yours, and asked him a tarnished name. You and he were a note of infinite contempt in his a room when I enter it. It is because I a bill, am I his keeper? I know how a man to have distinction and brains a right to judge of a man by the a man by the effect he has over his a madness for pleasure. They have a by-word." "Take care, Basil. a breath of scandal had ever touched a single decent woman in London a life as will make the world respect a clean name and a fair record. I a fair record. I want you to get rid of a wonderful influence. Let it be for a house for shame of some kind to a letter that his wife had written to A bitter laugh of mockery broke from a lamp from the table. "Come: it is a terrible joy at the thought that a stanch friend to you." "Don't touch A twisted flash of pain shot across the a moment, and a wild feeling of pity a wild feeling of pity came over him. a tithe of what was rumoured about a hard clear voice. He turned round. a curl of contempt in his lips. "Come a diary of my life from day to day, a plain answer to my question." "That A rising wind made some of the a low voice. "Yes." "I am delighted A cold current of air passed them, a moment in a flame of murky a flame of murky orange. He a puzzled expression. The room A faded Flemish tapestry, a curtained a curtained picture, an old Italian a chair and a table. As Dorian Gray a table. As Dorian Gray was lighting a half-burned candle that was standing A mouse ran scuffling behind the a damp odour of mildew. "So you a part," muttered Hallward, frowning. a moment from fire to sluggish ice. a sick man. His mouth twitched, and a play when some great artist is a flicker of triumph in his eyes. He a boy," said Dorian Gray, crushing a friend of yours, who explained to a portrait of me that revealed to me a mad moment that, even now, I don't a wish, perhaps you would call it a a prayer...." "I remember it! Oh, how a satyr." "It is the face of my soul a thing I must have worshipped! 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The rotting of a corpse in his hands. "Good God, Dorian, what down and try if we cannot remember cannot remember a prayer. Isn't there grinning lips. The mad passions of it. He knew what it was. It was brought up, some days before, to cut stabbing again and again. There was to trickle on the floor. He waited for absolutely quiet. No one was about. For the fog away, and the sky was like the silent houses. The crimson spot of at the corner and then vanished. corner and then vanished. A woman in back. Once, she began to sing in to her. She stumbled away, laughing. Then he remembered the lamp. It was would be asked. He hesitated for the long hands looked! It was like hidden away somewhere. He unlocked secret press that was in the wainscoting, for what he had done. There had been could be destroyed long before then. He waited and held his breath. After table and passed into the library. For next morning his servant came in with came in with a cup of chocolate on underneath his cheek. He looked like he woke, and as he opened his eyes The sky was bright, and there was warmth in the air. It was almost like of all that he had suffered, and for the passions, and gave to the intellect But this was not one of them. It was even more than his usual care, giving his rings more than once. He spent times over and then tore up with in his face. "That awful thing, coffee, he wiped his lips slowly with As soon as he was alone, he lit lit a cigarette and began sketching upon every face that he drew seemed to have over to the book-case and took out was of citron-green leather, with of the pink and pearl city, seated in autumn that he had passed there, and wild over Tintoret. Poor Basil! What Poor Basil! What a horrible way for curious statue that Gautier compares to But after from his hand. He grew nervous, and for science. At Cambridge he had spent in the laboratory, and had taken to the study of chemistry, and had on his standing for Parliament and had Parliament and had a vague idea that had a vague idea that a chemist was and fascinating in life. Whether or not a devil." "Each of us has heaven and a wild gesture of despair. Hallward a corpse in a watery grave was not so a watery grave was not so fearful. His a lesson! What an awful lesson!" a prayer. Isn't there a verse a verse somewhere, 'Though your sins a hunted animal stirred within him, a knife that he had brought up, some a piece of cord, and had forgotten to a stifled groan and the horrible sound a moment, still pressing the head a few seconds he stood bending over a monstrous peacock's tail, starred a prowling hansom gleamed at the A woman in a fluttering shawl was a fluttering shawl was creeping slowly a hoarse voice. The policeman strolled A bitter blast swept across the square. a rather curious one of Moorish a moment, then he turned back and a dreadful wax image. Having locked a secret press that was in the a press in which he kept his own a madness of murder in the air. Some A sudden thought struck him. He put a few moments he drew back the a quarter of an hour he walked up a cup of chocolate on a tray and a tray and opened the shutters. a boy who had been tired out with a faint smile passed across his lips, as a genial warmth in the air. It was a morning in May. Gradually the a moment the same curious feeling of a quickened sense of joy, greater than a thing to be driven out of the mind, a good deal of attention to the choice a long time also over breakfast, a slight look of annoyance in his face. a woman's memory!" as Lord Henry a napkin, motioned to his servant to a cigarette and began sketching upon a piece of paper, drawing first a fantastic likeness to Basil Hallward. a volume at hazard. He was a design of gilt trellis-work and dotted a black gondola with silver prow and a wonderful love that had stirred him a horrible way for a man to die! He a man to die! He sighed, and took up a contralto voice, the "monstre a time the book fell from his hand. a horrible fit of terror came over him. a great deal of his time working in a good class in the Natural Science a laboratory of his own in which he a vague idea that a chemist was a a chemist was a person who made up a person who made up prescriptions. a quarrel had taken place between - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 1214 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227 1228 1229 1230 1231 1232 1233 1234 1235 1236 1237 1238 1239 1240 1241 1242 1243 1244 1245 1246 1247 1248 1249 1250 1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256 1257 1258 1259 1260 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273 1274 up and down the room, looking like by terror, twisted and distorted as pain, danced like some foul puppet on raced nimbly on in front, and dragged Mr. Campbell, sir," said the man. away. The man bowed and retired. In house again, Gray. But you said it was spoke with slow deliberation. There was he had been greeted. "Yes: it is one person. Sit down." Campbell took he was going to do was dreadful. After him he had sent for, "Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, to which nobody but myself has access, has access, a dead man is seated at is upstairs - to destroy it so that not everything that belongs to him, into - mad to imagine that I would raise you. Nothing will induce me to stir to be arrested. Nobody ever commits something to do with it. Wait, wait Alan. All I ask of you is to perform laboratory you found this man lying on admirable subject. You would not turn often done before. Indeed, to destroy Then he stretched out his hand, took pale and he fell back in his chair. you leave me no alternative. I have buried his face in his hands, and be done. Face it, and do it." hand upon his shoulder weighed like no choice. Don't delay." He hesitated " He hesitated a moment. "Is there in the room upstairs?" "Yes, there is must not leave the house. Write out on what you want and my servant will take things back to you." Campbell scrawled chimney-piece. He was shivering with minutes, neither of the men spoke. ticking of the clock was like the beat of "Your life? Good heavens! what " "Ah, Alan," murmured Dorian with Dorian with a sigh, "I wish you had no answer. After about ten minutes door, and the servant entered, carrying large mahogany chest of chemicals, with I don't want any white ones. It is a lovely day, Francis, and Richmond is your experiment take, Alan?" he said in calm indifferent voice. The presence of room. "Now, Alan, there is not it in the lock. Then he stopped, and rush forward, when he drew back with there, as he had left it. He heaved heaved a deep breath, opened the door of each other. "Leave me now," said and that Campbell was gazing into had left, he went upstairs. There was exquisitely dressed and wearing at one's ease as when one has to play believed that he had passed through a beautiful caged thing. He took long a living thing by pain, danced like a stand and grinned through moving a hideous future from its grave, and A sigh of relief broke from his a few moments, Alan Campbell a matter of life and death." His voice a look of contempt in the steady a matter of life and death, Alan, and a chair by the table, and Dorian sat a strained moment of silence, he a locked room at the top of this a room to which nobody but myself a dead man is seated at a table. He a table. He has been dead ten hours a vestige of it will be left. Nobody a handful of ashes that I may scatter a finger to help you, mad to make a step to help you. You have come a crime without doing something a moment; listen to me. Only listen, a certain scientific experiment. You go a leaden table with red gutters a hair. You would not believe that a body must be far less horrible than a piece of paper, and wrote A horrible sense of sickness came a letter written already. Here it is. a shudder passed through him. "Yes, A groan broke from Campbell's lips a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It a moment. "Is there a fire in the room a fire in the room upstairs?" "Yes, a gas-fire with asbestos." "I shall have a sheet of notepaper what you want a cab and bring the things back to a few lines, blotted them, and a kind of ague. For nearly twenty A fly buzzed noisily about the room, a hammer. As the chime struck one, a life that is! You have gone from a sigh, "I wish you had a thousandth a thousandth part of the pity for me a knock came to the door, and the a large mahogany chest of chemicals, a long coil of steel and platinum wire a lovely day, Francis, and Richmond a very pretty place - otherwise I a calm indifferent voice. The presence a third person in the room seemed a moment to be lost. How heavy this a troubled look came into his eyes. a shudder. What was that loathsome a deep breath, opened the door a a little wider, and with half-closed a stern voice behind him. He turned a glistening yellow face. As he was a horrible smell of nitric acid in the a large button-hole of Parma violets, a part. 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It was It was a small party, got up rather in a hurry by Lady Narborough, who was having buried her husband properly in raise the wind, that I never had even and there is no pleasure in taking in was, as she explained to Dorian, behind to think about. There has not been me and amuse me." Dorian murmured round the room. Yes: it was certainly overdressed woman of forty-seven, with Erlynne, Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with Alice Chapman, his hostess's daughter, never remembered; and her husband, smiling, "I have not been in love for she remembers you when you were his long fingers; "and when she is in she looks like an edition de luxe of you, Harry!" cried Dorian. "It is Lady Narborough." "I don't believe Henry. "You were far too happy. When she detested her first husband. When would ever be married. You would be it were fin du globe," said Dorian with said Dorian with a sigh. "Life is me that you have exhausted life. When - you look so good. I must find you Narborough," said Lord Henry with bow. "Well, we must look out for Debrett carefully to-night and draw out edited. But nothing must be done in it to be what The Morning Post calls marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " he does not love her." "Ah! what to meet, though. I want it to be gathering." "I like men who have have a future and women who have "Or do you think that would make it said, laughing, as she stood up. " mind, Lady Narborough. I smoke said Lord Henry. "Moderation is is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as meal. More than enough is as good as some afternoon, Lord Henry. It sounds Henry. Mr. Chapman began to talk in to be the proper bulwark for society. her. She is very clever, too clever for "I like him," said Lord Henry. " always absolutely over-educated. He is Monte Carlo with his father." "Ah! what thrust Basil Hallward's coat and bag. having lit some Algerian pastilles in he bathed his hands and forehead with Between two of the windows stood lapis. He watched it as though it were His breath quickened. A mad craving came over him. He lit a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips a moment felt keenly the terrible a double life. It was a small party, got a small party, got up rather in a a hurry by Lady Narborough, who a very clever woman with what Lord a marble mausoleum, which she had a flirtation with anybody. However, a husband who never sees anything." a very shabby fan, one of her married a scandal in the neighbourhood since a graceful compliment and looked a tedious party. Two of the people he a hooked nose, who was always trying a pushing nobody, with a delightful a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair; a dowdy dull girl, with one of those a red-cheeked, white-whiskered a whole week - not, in fact, since a little girl, Lady Narborough," said a very smart gown she looks like an a bad French novel. She is really a most romantic explanation," laughed a word of it." "Well, ask Mr. a woman marries again, it is because a man marries again, it is because he a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, a sigh. "Life is a great a great disappointment." "Ah, my a man says that one knows that life a nice wife. Lord Henry, don't you a bow. "Well, we must look out for a suitable match for him. I shall go a list of all the eligible young ladies." a hurry. I want it to be what The a suitable alliance, and I want you A man can be happy with any woman, a cynic you are!" cried the old lady, a delightful gathering." "I like men a future and women who have a past," a past," he answered. "Or do you think a petticoat party?" "I fear so," she said A thousand pardons, my dear Lady a great deal too much. I am going to a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a a meal. More than enough is as good a feast." Lady Ruxton glanced at him a fascinating theory," she murmured, a loud voice about the situation in A smile curved Lord Henry's lips, a woman. She lacks the indefinable A great many people don't, but I find a very modern type." "I don't know if a nuisance people's people are! Try A huge fire was blazing. He piled a pierced copper brazier, he bathed a cool musk-scented vinegar. Suddenly a large Florentine cabinet, made out a thing that could fascinate and make A mad craving came over him. 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Inside was He hesitated for some moments, with Gray, dressed commonly, and with of his house. In Bond Street he found Bond Street he found a hansom with with a good horse. He hailed it and in far for me," he muttered. "Here is The moon hung low in the sky like like a yellow skull. From time to time time a huge misshapen cloud stretched lost his way and had to drive back half way and had to drive back half a mile. of the hansom were clogged with as he had done? Who had made him their orange, fanlike tongues of fire. screamed. The horse stumbled in rut, then swerved aside and broke into He hated them. rage was in his heart. As they turned in his heart. As they turned a corner, men ran after the hansom for about is said that passion makes one think in free. Suddenly the man drew up with man drew up with a jerk at the top of direction of the quay. Here and there shook and splintered in the puddles. coaling. The slimy pavement looked like seven or eight minutes he reached In one of the top-windows stood stood a lamp. He stopped and gave and gave a peculiar knock. After quietly, and he went in without saying he passed. At the end of the hall hung street. He dragged it aside and entered which looked as if it had once been liquor. Some Malays were crouching by with his head buried in his arms, in his arms, a sailor sprawled over At the end of the room there was there was a little staircase, leading to odour of opium met him. He heaved with pleasure. When he entered, yellow hair, who was bending over who was bending over a lamp lighting pipe, looked up at him and nodded in either.... I don't care," he added with was prisoned in thought. Memory, like on to the other place," he said after and followed Dorian to the bar. to the bar. A half-caste, in A half-caste, in a ragged turban and turban and a shabby ulster, grinned grinned a hideous greeting as he thrust back on them and said something in in a low voice to Adrian Singleton. Adrian Singleton. A crooked smile, like me again." Two red sparks flashed for anything, won't you?" said Dorian, after A triangular drawer passed slowly out. a small Chinese box of black and a green paste, waxy in lustre, the a strangely immobile smile upon his a muffler wrapped round his throat, a hansom with a good horse. He a good horse. He hailed it and in a a low voice gave the driver an a sovereign for you," said Dorian. A cold rain began to fall, and the a yellow skull. From time to time a a huge misshapen cloud stretched a a long arm across and hid it. The gasa mile. A steam rose from the horse A steam rose from the horse as it a grey-flannel mist. "To cure the soul a judge over others? He had said A dog barked as they went by, and a rut, then swerved aside and broke a gallop. After some time they left A dull rage was in his heart. As they a corner, a woman yelled something a woman yelled something at them a hundred yards. The driver beat at a circle. Certainly with hideous a jerk at the top of a dark lane. Over a dark lane. Over the low roofs and a lantern gleamed at the stern of A red glare came from an a wet mackintosh. He hurried on a small shabby house that was a lamp. He stopped and gave a a peculiar knock. After a little time a little time he heard steps in the a word to the squat misshapen figure a tattered green curtain that swayed a long low room which looked as if it a third-rate dancing-saloon. Shrill a little charcoal stove, playing with a sailor sprawled over a table, and by a table, and by the tawdrily painted a little staircase, leading to a a darkened chamber. As Dorian a deep breath, and his nostrils a young man with smooth yellow hair, a lamp lighting a long thin pipe, a long thin pipe, looked up at him a hesitating manner. "You here, a sigh. "As long as one has this stuff a horrible malady, was eating his soul a pause. "On the wharf?" "Yes." A half-caste, in a ragged turban and a a ragged turban and a shabby ulster, a shabby ulster, grinned a hideous a hideous greeting as he thrust a a bottle of brandy and two tumblers a low voice to Adrian Singleton. A A crooked smile, like a Malay crease, a Malay crease, writhed across the a moment in the woman's sodden a pause. "Perhaps." 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As he drew the curtain aside, the devil's bargain!" she hiccoughed, in of insult. He bit his lip, and for pity was one had to pay so often for what the world calls sin, so dominates of evil, fell from heaven, it was as as he went, but as he darted aside into archway, that had served him often as was thrust back against the wall, with He struggled madly for life, and by wrenched the tightening fingers away. In away. In a second he heard the click of of a revolver, and saw the gleam of at his head, and the dusky form of Vane, you are going to die." There was he did not know what to do. Suddenly years," laughed Dorian Gray, with at my face!" James Vane hesitated for of youth. He seemed little more than have murdered you!" Dorian Gray drew have been on the brink of committing looking at him sternly. "Let this be muttered James Vane. "I was deceived. was trembling from head to foot. After from head to foot. After a little while, to him with stealthy footsteps. He felt laid on his arm and looked round with and I want no man's money. I want forty now. This one is little more than upon my hands." The woman gave gave a bitter laugh. "Little more than say he has sold himself to the devil for I have, though," she added, with of Monmouth, who with her husband, to her. Lord Henry was lying back in wicker chair, looking at them. On rechristening everything, Gladys. It is orchid, for my button-hole. It was as effective as the seven deadly sins. In what it was called. He told me it was something dreadful of that kind. It is in literature. The man who could call The man who could call a spade said Dorian. "I recognize him in of it," laughed Lord Henry, sinking into Henry, sinking into a chair. "From " "Royalties may not abdicate," fell as never tilt against beauty," he said, with seven deadly virtues, Gladys. You, as has emigrated to England and opened afraid. Our countrymen never recognize What of art?" she asked. "It is substitute for belief." "You are "To define is to limit." "Give me talk of some one else." "Our host is as the best specimen he could find of an enemy. To be popular one must be by it, Harry?" asked the duchess after a handkerchief. Dorian walked to the a look of pain in his face. As he drew a hideous laugh broke from the a hoarse voice. "Curse you!" he a few seconds his eyes grew sad. Yet, a single fault. One had to pay over a nature that every fibre of the body, a rebel that he fell. Callous, a dim archway, that had served him a short cut to the ill-famed place a brutal hand round his throat. He a terrible effort wrenched the a second he heard the click of a a revolver, and saw the gleam of a a polished barrel, pointing straight at a short, thick-set man facing him. " a horrible moment. Dorian did not a wild hope flashed across his brain. a touch of triumph in his voice. a moment, not understanding what a lad of twenty summers, hardly older, a long breath. "You have been on the a terrible crime, my man," he said, a warning to you not to take A chance word I heard in that a little while, a black shadow that a black shadow that had been a hand laid on his arm and looked a start. It was one of the women who a man's life. The man whose life I a boy. Thank God, I have not got his a bitter laugh. "Little more than a a boy!" she sneered. "Why, man, a pretty face. It's nigh on eighteen a sickly leer. "You swear this?" "I A week later Dorian Gray was sitting a jaded-looking man of sixty, was a silk-draped wicker chair, looking at a peach-coloured divan sat Lady a delightful idea." "But I don't want to a marvellous spotted thing, as a thoughtless moment I asked one of a fine specimen of Robinsoniana, or a sad truth, but we have lost the a spade a spade should be compelled a spade should be compelled to use a flash," exclaimed the duchess. "I a chair. "From a label there is no a label there is no escape! I refuse a warning from pretty lips. "You wish a wave of his hand. "That is your a good Tory, must not underrate them. a shop." "Is that yours, Harry?" " a description." "They are practical." a malady." "Love?" "An illusion." " a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the a clue." "Threads snap. You would a delightful topic. Years ago he was a modern butterfly." "Well, I hope he a mediocrity." "Not with women," said a pause. 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They fought for she answered. "You gallop with diary to-night." "What?" "That has passed from men to women. It is is a new experience for us." "You have not explained you." "Describe us as to his flowers, Gladys." "That would be that." "Women are not always allowed the far end of the conservatory came groan, followed by the dull sound of face downwards on the tiled floor in and laid upon one of the sofas. After came to himself and looked round with to his room and dressed. There was as he sat at table, but now and then the window of the conservatory, like of the time in his own room, sick with become suddenly colder. Oh! in what himself that he had been the victim of fears with something of pity and not sky was an inverted cup of blue metal. fascinated him and filled him with high indifference of joy. Suddenly from limbs throwing it forward, started it forward, started a hare. It bolted for There were two cries heard, the cry of in pain, which is dreadful, the cry of is worse. "Good heavens! I have hit called out at the top of his voice. " The head-keeper came running up with the lithe swinging branches aside. In a few moments they emerged, dragging through the boughs overhead. After like endless hours of pain - he felt looked at Lord Henry and said, with said, with a heavy sigh, "It is "It is a bad omen, Harry, It makes people think that one is matter." Dorian shook his head. "It is passing his hand over his eyes, with You have everything in the world that me. Good heavens! don't you see we get back to town." Dorian heaved The man touched his hat, glanced for for a moment at Lord Henry in a hesitating manner, and then produced qualities in them that I admire most. certainty," said Lord Henry, lighting I could love," cried Dorian Gray with myself. My own personality has become down here at all. I think I shall send Harvey to have the yacht got ready. On sadly. "And I dare say it is only accident has upset me. I have is the duchess, looking like Artemis in they told you about the man. It is to know some one who had committed It is the uncertainty that charms one. a curious expression in her eyes. a moment. Then he threw his head a woman." "They were defeated." a loose rein." "Pace gives life," was the a burnt child loves the fire." "I am a new experience for us." "You have a a rival." "Who?" He laughed. "Lady a sex," was her challenge. "Sphinxes a premature surrender." "Romantic art a choice," he answered, but hardly a stifled groan, followed by the dull a heavy fall. Everybody started up. a deathlike swoon. He was carried at a short time, he came to himself and a dazed expression. "What has a wild recklessness of gaiety in his a thrill of terror ran through him a white handkerchief, he had seen the a wild terror of dying, and yet a wild hour of madness he had killed a terror-stricken imagination, and a little of contempt. After breakfast, A thin film of ice bordered the flat, a sense of delightful freedom. He was a lumpy tussock of old grass some a hare. It bolted for a thicket of a thicket of alders. Sir Geoffrey put a hare in pain, which is dreadful, the a man in agony, which is worse. a beater!" exclaimed Sir Geoffrey. A man is hurt." The head-keeper a stick in his hand. "Where, sir? a few moments they emerged, a body after them into the sunlight. A great copper-breasted pheasant a few moments - that were to him, in a hand laid on his shoulder. He a heavy sigh, "It is a bad omen, a bad omen, Harry, a very bad omen." a very bad omen." "What is?" asked a wild shot. And Geoffrey is not; he a bad omen, Harry. I feel as if a gesture of pain. The elder man a man can want. There is no one a man moving behind the trees a sigh of relief as he saw the a moment at Lord Henry in a a hesitating manner, and then a letter, which he handed to his A woman will flirt with anybody in a cigarette. "You would sacrifice a deep note of pathos in his voice. a burden to me. I want to escape, to a wire to Harvey to have the yacht a yacht one is safe." "Safe from what, a fancy of mine. This unfortunate a horrible presentiment that a tailor-made gown. You see we have a hideous subject." "It is an annoying a real murder." "How horrid of you, A mist makes things wonderful." "One - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 1519 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 1569 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 said Lord Henry. "I will not part with Her teeth showed like white seeds in own room, Dorian Gray was lying on Life had suddenly become too hideous unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like at what Lord Henry had said in been spotted with blood. Then he wrote As he was putting it into the envelope, Dorian pulled his chequebook out of morning, Thornton?" he said, taking up sir. Never saw him before. Seems like heart had suddenly stopped beating. " sailor?" he cried out. "Did you say sir. He looks as if he had been "Some money, sir - not much, and There was no name of any kind. looking man, sir, but rough-like. we think." Dorian started to his feet. sort of thing in their houses. They say myself. It will save time." In less than his path. Once the mare swerved at to one of them. In the farthest stable upon the latch. There he paused for feeling that he was on the brink of thrust the door open and entered. On far corner was lying the dead body of the dead body of a man dressed in of a man dressed in a coarse shirt and shirt and a pair of blue trousers. had been placed over the face. over the face. A coarse candle, stuck in had done so, he stepped forward. Henry, dipping his white fingers into In the country, Harry. I was staying at ever be found together. For I have companion as he spilled into his plate of seeded strawberries and, through I can tell you, Harry. It is not own class, of course. She was simply of course. She was simply a girl in down and see her two or three times times a week. Yesterday she met me in of the emotion must have given you of mint and marigold." "And weep over she will be married some day to married some day to a rough carter or From of your great renunciation. Even as saw her white face at the window, like I have ever known, is really in Paris at all. I suppose in about to be seen at San Francisco. It must be her. Of course, married life is merely course, married life is merely a habit, was very popular, and always wore to have enemies. Of course, he had a wonderful genius for painting. But he told me, years ago, that he had very fond of Basil," said Dorian with dear fellow, that you were posing for It is not in you, Dorian, to commit a petal." "Monmouth has ears." "Old a scarlet fruit. Upstairs, in his own a sofa, with terror in every tingling a burden for him to bear. The a wild animal, had seemed to him to a chance mood of cynical jesting. At a note to Lord Henry, telling him that a knock came to the door, and his a drawer and spread it out before a pen. "Yes, sir," answered the a sailor, sir." The pen dropped from A sailor?" he cried out. "Did you say a sailor?" "Yes, sir. He looks as a sort of sailor; tattooed on both a six-shooter. There was no name of A decent-looking man, sir, but roughA sort of sailor we think." Dorian A terrible hope fluttered past him. a corpse brings bad luck." "The Home a quarter of an hour, Dorian Gray a white gate-post and nearly threw a light was glimmering. Something a moment, feeling that he was on the a discovery that would either make or a heap of sacking in the far corner a man dressed in a coarse shirt and a a coarse shirt and a pair of blue a pair of blue trousers. A spotted A spotted handkerchief had been A coarse candle, stuck in a bottle, a bottle, sputtered beside it. Dorian A cry of joy broke from his lips. The a red copper bowl filled with a little inn by myself." "My dear boy," a new ideal, Harry. I am going to a little crimson pyramid of seeded a perforated, shell-shaped spoon, a story I could tell to any one else. I a girl in a village. But I really loved a village. But I really loved her. I am a week. Yesterday she met me in a a little orchard. The apple-blossoms a thrill of real pleasure, Dorian," a faithless Florizel," said Lord Henry, a rough carter or a grinning a grinning ploughman. Well, the fact a moral point of view, I cannot say a beginning, it is poor. Besides, how a spray of jasmine. Don't let us talk a sort of sin. I want to be better. a fortnight we shall be told that he a delightful city, and possess all the a habit, a bad habit. But then one a bad habit. But then one regrets the a Waterbury watch. Why should he a wonderful genius for painting. But a a man can paint like Velasquez and a wild adoration for you and that you a note of sadness in his voice. "But a character that doesn't suit you. All a murder. 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Do you think, then, that that a man who has once committed t tell me that." "Oh! anything becomes fancy, however, that murder is always could believe that he had come to such gone off very much." Dorian heaved room and began to stroke the head of the head of a curious Java parrot, and tail, that was balancing itself upon to be great friends, he ceased to be If so, he never forgave you. It's the way. You never got it back? What it back? What a pity! it was really and good intentions that always entitles that always entitles a man to be called do they run? - "Like the painting of - "Like the painting of a sorrow, painting of a sorrow, A face without it was like." Lord Henry laughed. "If on the piano. "'Like the painting of '" he repeated, "'a face without "By the way, Dorian," he said after said after a pause, "'what does it profit close by the Marble Arch there stood rich in curious effects of that kind. A wet Sunday, an uncouth Christian in an uncouth Christian in a mackintosh, a ring of sickly white faces under broken roof of dripping umbrellas, and it was really very good in its way, quite of telling the prophet that art had "Don't, Harry. The soul is be poisoned, or made perfect. There is the soul. Play me something. Play me and, as you play, tell me, in It is marvellously romantic. What it by renunciations. At present you are governed by will or intention. Life is safe and think yourself strong. But strong. But a chance tone of colour in a chance tone of colour in a room or of colour in a room or a morning sky, and that brings subtle memories with it, subtle memories with it, a line from poem that you had come across again, had come across again, a cadence from have never done anything, never carved never carved a statue, or painted go to the club, then. It has been you." "I hope not," said Dorian with good," he answered, smiling. "I am be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with we will be. As for being poisoned by She is he reached the door, he hesitated for It was always very old and very ugly. What What a laugh she had! - just like that one could never change? He felt a method of procuring extraordinary A method of procuring sensations? a man who has once committed a a murder could possibly do the same a pleasure if one does it too often," a mistake. One should never do a really romantic end as you suggest, a sigh, and Lord Henry strolled a curious Java parrot, a large, a large, grey-plumaged bird with pink a bamboo perch. As his pointed a great artist. What was it separated a habit bores have. By the way, what a pity! it was really a masterpiece. I a masterpiece. I remember I wanted a man to be called a representative a representative British artist. Did a sorrow, A face without a heart." A face without a heart." Yes: that is a heart." Yes: that is what it was like a man treats life artistically, his brain a sorrow,'" he repeated, "'a face a heart.'" The elder man lay back and a pause, "'what does it profit a man if a man if he gain the whole world and a little crowd of shabby-looking A wet Sunday, an uncouth Christian a mackintosh, a ring of sickly white a ring of sickly white faces under a a broken roof of dripping umbrellas, a wonderful phrase flung into the air a suggestion. I thought of telling the a soul, but that man had not. I am a terrible reality. It can be bought, a soul in each one of us. I know it a nocturne, Dorian, and, as you play, a low voice, how you have kept your a blessing it is that there is one art a perfect type. Don't make yourself a question of nerves, and fibres, and a chance tone of colour in a room or a room or a morning sky, a particular a morning sky, a particular perfume a particular perfume that you had a line from a forgotten poem that a forgotten poem that you had come a cadence from a piece of music that a piece of music that you had ceased a statue, or painted a picture, or a picture, or produced anything a charming evening, and we must end a sad look in his eyes. "But I am a little changed already." "You cannot a book once. I should not forgive that. a book, there is no such thing as that. a charming woman, and wants to a moment, as if he had something a lovely night, so warm that he threw a laugh she had! - just like a thrush a thrush singing. 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A green, an unripe time, to think. James Vane was hidden in had been simply the madness of to do it. It was nothing to him. upstairs. As he unbarred the door, young-looking face and lingered for had hidden away would no longer be the purple hanging from the portrait. change, save that in the eyes there was his one good deed? Or the desire for mocking laugh? Or that passion to act had been? It seemed to have crept like to make public atonement. There was stabbed the picture with it. There was with it. There was a cry heard, and house. They walked on till they met but there was no answer. Except for windows, the house was all dark. After was as pale as death. After about they found hanging upon the wall and beauty. Lying on the floor was was a dead man, in evening dress, with a terrible joy in being so; and that of a monstrous moment of pride and a most just God. The curiously carved a mad letter, ending with these a mask, his youth but a mockery. a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of a time of shallow moods, and sickly a nameless grave in Selby churchyard. a moment. As for Alan Campbell, his A new life! That was what he wanted. a smile of joy flitted across his a moment about his lips. Yes, he a terror to him. He felt as if the load A cry of pain and indignation broke a look of cunning and in the mouth a new sensation, as Lord Henry had a part that sometimes makes us do a horrible disease over the wrinkled a God who called upon men to tell a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was a crash. The cry was so horrible in its a policeman and brought him back. a light in one of the top windows, the a time, he went away and stood in an a quarter of an hour, he got the a splendid portrait of their master as a dead man, in evening dress, with a a knife in his heart. He was withered, - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 abandon himself to their subtle - CH. 11 abdicate ," fell as a warning from - CH. 17 abandon 1 1 knew to be really alien to his nature, 1 I refuse the title." "Royalties may not 1 social mistake, which would have been 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 tremulous branches seemed hardly so many people that I have not been so many pictures that I have not been there was in them! They seemed to be the East End. For the future I shall be extraordinary good looks, will not be pleasure in watching it. He would be and of aloes, that are said to be attraction that Dorian seemed to be myself. You are the one man who is "I don't know if he will be you because I thought you might be if his life became pure, he would be abdicate 1 abject 1 abject - which, of course, I would not - CH. 8 able 13 able able able able able able able able able able able able able to bear the burden of a beauty so to see the pictures, which was to see the people, which was to give a plastic form to formless to look her in the face without a to do." "But suppose, Harry, I to follow his mind into its secret to expel melancholy from the to exercise whenever he wished to save me. I am forced to bring to come, Harry. He may have to to give me an answer. That is to expel every sign of evil - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 aborde 1 1 souleve un soupir d'amour. L'esquif 1 2 art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion passed across his face, and seemed aborde et me depose, Jetant son - CH. 14 about 223 about a work of art shows - THE PREFACE about to linger there. But he suddenly - CH. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked telling you the truth. There is a fatality I suppose you think me awfully foolish at me." "I hate the way you talk Well, after I had been in the room at the time, at least had been chattered entirely away, or tells one everything her? But tell me, what did she say else in the world. Tell me more to speak to him. He knows nothing about it. He shall never know anything whole conversation would have been hair, horribly freckled, and tramping hand. "My aunt has often spoken to me her last Tuesday, and I really forgot all you. And I don't think it really matters that one would have to talk seriously I beg you to stay." "But what don't think there will be any difficulty get up on the platform, and don't move that I felt I must tell you something seemed to brood over everything. After doing there? His fingers were straying something." "What a fuss people make "Well, sit down and tell me all Devereux. I want you to tell me the marriage. There was an ugly story of him. The Queen used to ask me was always quarrelling with the cabmen him. And by the way, Harry, talking is this humbug your father tells me I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing them ever quite escape. "We are talking men like to see things, not to read I assure you there is no nonsense unbearable. There is something unfair can make out what you are talking beauty, the joy of life. The less said I am sure I don't know what to say But I should like to talk to you tells me. I don't know what it is here. We have had such a pleasant chat into decent society. However, tell me that. How long have you known her?" " but you mustn't be unsympathetic with a wild desire to know everything for sensations.... Well, one evening evening when we first dined together, streets and black grassless squares. gorgeous servility. There was something called the dress-circle. Women went "I wish now I had not told you some other time. Now I want to know so gentle. There is something of a child greenroom, making elaborate speeches is always something infinitely mean " "Sibyl is the only thing I care Imogen is waiting for me. Don't forget the more dangerous. It was the passions about , and that is not being talked about . A portrait like this would set about all physical and intellectual about it?" "Not at all," answered Lord about your married life, Harry," said about ten minutes, talking to huge about in the penny newspapers, which about them except what one wants to about Mr. Dorian Gray?" "Oh, about Mr. Dorian Gray. How often do about it. He shall never know anything about it. But the world might guess it, about the feeding of the poor and the about on huge feet. I wish I had about you. You are one of her about it. We were to have played a about your not being there. The about it. But I certainly shall not run about my man at the Orleans?" The about that. Sit down again, Harry. And about too much, or pay any attention about yourself. I thought how tragic it about a quarter of an hour Hallward about among the litter of tin tubes about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. about it. Young people, nowadays, about his mother. What was she like? about it. They said Kelso got some about the English noble who was about their fares. They made quite a about silly marriages, what is this about Dartmoor wanting to marry an about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones." "Where are you about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry," about them. The Americans are an about the Americans." "How dreadful!" about its use. It is hitting below the about . Oh! Harry, I am quite vexed about life's sores, the better." "Still, about your views. You must come and about life. The generation into which I about them. Perhaps it is that they are about music. We have quite the same about your genius. How long have you About three weeks." "And where did about it. After all, it never would about life. For days after I met you, about seven o'clock, I determined to about the search for beauty being the About half-past eight I passed by an about him, Harry, that amused me. He about with oranges and ginger-beer, about Sibyl Vane." "You could not about the girl." "Sibyl? Oh, she was about her. Her eyes opened wide in about us both, while we stood looking about other people's tragedies." "Sibyl about . What is it to me where she about to-morrow. Good-bye." 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"You are speaking she did not talk of him, but prattled on the ship in which Jim was going to sail, about the gold he was certain to find, Who is he? Why have you not told me to trust him." "Sibyl, you are mad You don't know what you are talking he answered, "and I know what I am he said. Her eyes wandered vaguely sorry if I have pained you by asking the bowing waiter. "What is it? Nothing is beautiful, and he is not often wrong then you will tell us how it all came say in answer? Perhaps you forgot all kind we often forget to say anything to some salad. "Oh, your theories your theories about life, your theories your theories about love, your theories is the only thing worth having a theory one can flaunt one's moral views It is quite dreadful, but it only lasts for mediocre actress." "Don't talk like that is very lovely, and if she knows as little knows as little about life as she does an exquisite fire. There was a radiance There is always something ridiculous and pink-footed, the pigeons ran women were. Why should he trouble garden seemed to be telling the flowers most reasonable rates of interest. After but there was the unreality of a dream terrible. If it was not true, why trouble "But you must not think too much too much about it." "Do you mean are going to say. Something dreadful leaving the theatre with her mother, a child, and seemed to know so little One can always be kind to people her. And when a woman finds that out s husband has to pay for. I say nothing your saying once that there is a fatality is something to me quite beautiful him - life, and his own infinite curiosity And yet, who, that knew anything can't tell you how heart-broken I am her only child, too! What did she say and Patti sang divinely. Don't talk horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk sailor, or something. And now, tell me to his feet. "You must not tell me Good heavens! is there no doubt Dorian Gray, "there is nothing fearful art. There is something of the martyr in yesterday at a particular moment remind me of a story Harry told me Was it not Gautier who used to write smile, "I won't speak to you again about half-past twelve o'clock, he saw a about our father. But it only pains you about that. I should like to make about that?" "You are speaking about about things you don't understand, about the ship in which Jim was going about the gold he was certain to find, about the wonderful heiress whose life about him? He means you no good." about him." She laughed and took his about . You are simply jealous and about . Mother is no help to you. She about the room. She made no answer. about my father," he said, "but I could about politics, I hope! They don't about things of that kind. Your about ." "There is really not much to about it." "My dear Harry, I did not about marriage, and they always about life, your theories about love, about love, your theories about about pleasure. All your theories, in about ," he answered in his slow about them, but they are not one's about five minutes. Then the curtain about any one you love, Dorian. Love about life as she does about acting, she about acting, she will be a delightful about her. Her parted lips were about the emotions of people whom about picking up seeds. After a little about Sibyl Vane? She was nothing to about her. about ten minutes he got up, and about it. As soon as he was dressed, he about it? But what if, by some fate or about it." "Do you mean about Sibyl about Sibyl Vane?" asked the lad. "Yes, about marriage. Don't say it. Don't ever about half-past twelve or so, she said about acting. Dorian, you mustn't let about whom one cares nothing. But about her husband, she either becomes about the social mistake, which would about good resolutions - that they are about her death. I am glad I am living about life. Eternal youth, infinite about life, would surrender the chance about the whole thing. I know what about it all?" "My dear Basil, how do about horrid subjects. If one doesn't about a thing, it has never happened. about yourself and what you are about things. What is done is done. about that?" cried Hallward, looking up about it. It is one of the great about her. Her death has all the about half-past five, perhaps, or a about a certain philanthropist who about la consolation des arts? I about this horrible thing, after to-day. 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There is something fatal I quite understand what you feel rebuke, how shallow Basil's reproaches taken to. There was something sly of Dorian Gray. There was something heavy odour of incense seemed to cling and from time to time strange rumours such as these were rare. That curiosity men feeling a natural instinct of terror was rumoured of him once that he was He discovered wonderful stories, also, other rich stones, and a great bauderike out. Curious stories became current they termed them, that were circulated and the strange stories that were told afterwards. He was walking home I believe my house is somewhere here, but I don't feel at all certain have in my head. However, it wasn't You see, I shan't have any delay the house. And mind you don't talk him, but I had nothing to complain more difficult for me." "What is it all on the sofa. "I hope it is not should like to be somebody else." "It is " "I don't wish to know anything anything about them. I love scandals about other people, but scandals before, and had never heard anything that I was quite right in what I fancied things that people are whispering You and he were inseparable. What Singleton and his dreadful end? What broken with shame and sorrow. What him?" "Stop, Basil. You are talking enter it. It is because I know everything his life, not because he knows anything could his record be clean? You ask me their gross dinner-tables, and whisper now, and they make me shudder. What Dorian, you don't know what is said look at it? You can tell the world all than you do, though you will prate I tell you. You have chattered enough had done a tithe of what was rumoured who is entitled to know everything house was absolutely quiet. No one was In the various dishes, talking to his valet was determined that he would not think the pages, his eye fell on the poem Alan, you are scientific. You know I should have thought you knew more Wotton can't have taught you much were friends once, Alan." "Don't speak about everything of the kind. "They about it." Dorian Gray passed his about this. It would have been about it, laughed at me. But I did not about his lips. The peril was over. He about worship. It is foolish. You and I about a portrait. It has a life of its own about it." As he left the room, Dorian about Sibyl Vane had been! - how about him, and he had thoughtful, about Dorian that charmed everybody. about its pages and to trouble the about his mode of life crept through about life which Lord Henry had about passions and sensations that about to join the Roman Catholic about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis about his neck of large balasses." The about him after he had passed his about him. It was remarked, however, about her lovers. Had he something about eleven o'clock from Lord about here, but I don't feel at all about it. I am sorry you are going about myself I wanted to talk. Here about luggage, as I have sent on my about anything serious. Nothing is about . One often imagines things that about ?" cried Dorian in his petulant about myself. I am tired of myself about yourself," answered Hallward in about them. I love scandals about about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They about him at the time, though I have about him. His life is dreadful. But about you, I don't know what to say. about Adrian Singleton and his about Lord Kent's only son and his about the young Duke of Perth? about things of which you know about his life, not because he knows about mine. With such blood as he about Henry Ashton and young Perth. about what they call the profligacies about your country-house and the life about you. I won't tell you that I don' about it afterwards, if you choose. about it so tediously. Come, I tell you. about corruption. Now you shall look about him, how much he must have about me. You have had more to do about . For a few seconds he stood about five minutes his valet appeared, about some new liveries that he was about what had happened until it about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold about chemistry and things of that about people's characters. 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"It will take life, to hide the fatal canvas, and was because they have so little to think said, at last, "the way people go "What nonsense people talk Chapman began to talk in a loud voice I didn't go to the club. I walked and two men ran after the hansom for ghostly sails to the yards. "Somewhere then to see if he was being followed. In the next day. "What are you two talking cup down. "I hope Dorian has told you duchess. "What becomes of your simile what does she get annoyed with you straight. But there is no use talking it unless these fellows keep chattering come back, Duchess." "I have heard all things. But I am sorry they told you "I wish he had been." He glanced before him. "I suppose you have come I took the liberty of coming to you a spray of jasmine. Don't let us talk going to be better. Tell me something dear boy, they have only been talking arrived in Paris at all. I suppose in he is dead, I don't want to think never do anything that one cannot talk The things one feels absolutely certain Browning writes to me. You don't know everything to moralize. You will soon be going woman, and wants to consult you was pointed out, or stared at, or talked face and lingered for a moment Francis was as pale as death. After about the room, and the ticking of about ten minutes a knock came to about it." "No trouble, sir. At what about five hours," he answered. "It about to rush forward, when he drew about . There has not been a scandal about nowadays saying things against about happy marriages!" exclaimed about the situation in the House of about . I forget what I did.... How about a hundred yards. The driver about here, sir, ain't it?" he asked about seven or eight minutes he about ?" said Lord Henry, strolling about my plan for rechristening about the orchid?" "Ugliness is one about , Duchess?" "For the most trivial about the matter." Dorian shook his about this thing at dinner. I must tell about it, Mr. Gray," she answered. " about the man. It is a hideous subject. about as if in search of something. about the unfortunate accident of this about ." "Don't know who he is?" said about it any more, and don't try to about yourself. What is going on in about it for six weeks, and the British about a fortnight we shall be told about him. Death is the only thing about after dinner. But let us pass about are never true. That is the about that somewhere; but our own about me. I think that if you did, even about like the converted, and the about some tapestries she is thinking about . He was tired of hearing his about his lips. 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The sky 1 2 life, and was also afraid that during his asking him to entertain his guests in his 1 2 one of those mysterious and prolonged of their trade. His extraordinary 1 2 3 4 5 6 we could ever make psychology so the whole thing would have been an hurt us by their crude violence, their He looked at Dorian Gray in its own way, is an attempt to assert the delighting in the conception of the absence 2 absences 2 absolute 6 a science that each little failure." "I suppose it would," incoherence, their absurd want amazement. He had never modernity of beauty, had, of dependence of the spirit on absolutely 39 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 a natural consequence he always looks is that it makes a life of deception boy - poor dear mother and I I didn't see him every day. He is in his low languid voice that was to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is of the great aristocratic art of doing extremely interesting people. They are characteristic. Yes, Mr. Erskine, an her little head to her little feet, she is of all creatures. But inferior poets are of expression that personality selects is a born artist. I sat in the dingy box from the point of view of tone it was to him. She seemed to them to be so far from being nervous, she was really fascinating - people who know everything, and people who know have soon found out that you were origin is pure vanity. Their result is I have never seen you really and merely fanciful, but that I see now was exceed his disappointment. He had an extraordinary faculty of becoming the same as the canons of art. Form is an influence of which one was more you. If you tell me that they are out on the landing. The house was what had happened until it became "Of course I refuse. I will have is no good in prolonging this scene. I to enrage him. "You are infamous, back into the library. He was pale, but against one behind one's back that are somewhat overdressed by being always why people who live out of town are so be an illusion. The things one feels You were rather cheeky, very shy, and stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely delightful. Your mysterious necessary for both parties. I inseparable. Quite forget necessary to me." "How fascinating. His cool, white, nothing in the world but nothing. He had two large reasonable. I think that is reasonable people. I assure and entirely divine. Every fascinating. The worse their delightful to me. Dorian enthralled. I forgot that I false. It was wrong in colour. incompetent. They were self-contained. It was simply everything, and people who nothing. Good heavens, my indifferent to her. And nil. They give us, now and angry, but I can fancy how true, and it holds the key to nothing to do, almost died absorbed for the moment essential to it. It should conscious. There were times untrue from beginning to quiet. No one was about. necessary that he should do nothing to do with it. I refuse to do anything in infamous!" he muttered. calm. "I have done what and entirely true." "Isn't he over-educated. He is a very uncivilized. Civilization is certain about are never true. extraordinary. You have nothing. 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It was the strangest book absorbed for the moment in whatever absorbed in a play when some great absorbed in science that he had no - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 absorption in mere existence. Then, - CH. 11 abstract sense of beauty. Some day I - CH. 1 absorption 1 abstract 2 2 work one creates. Art is always more 1 at him, wondering at his silence and 1 I ought to know. The subject is not so abstract than we fancy. Form and - CH. 9 abstracted manner. From time to - CH. 15 abstruse as I thought it was. I find - CH. 4 abstracted 1 abstruse 1 absurd 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Duke's - we tell each other the most was not a schoolboy or a girl. It was t like scenes, except on the stage. What at the club, to take him to some About half-past eight I passed by an and position, and wealth. It would be or disapprove, of anything now. It is an scenery was dreadful and the Orlando canvas could not alter? The thing was their absolute incoherence, their window. "But, really, it seems rather explained to him! The painter's often imagines things that are quite I ever read. I told him that it was Youth! There is nothing like it. It's absurd stories with the most serious absurd to be frightened. "Let us go absurd fellows you are, both of you! I absurd meeting at Willis's Rooms, absurd little theatre, with great flaring absurd for him to marry so much absurd attitude to take towards life. absurd . But Sibyl! You should have absurd . It would serve as a tale to tell absurd want of meaning, their entire absurd that I shouldn't see my own absurd fits of jealousy, his wild absurd . He was really very devoted to absurd - that I knew you thoroughly absurd to talk of the ignorance of - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 19 absurdly artificial. She overemphasized absurdly melodramatic. Her tears and absurdly nervous you are, my dear - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 18 absurdly 3 1 2 3 as she went on. Her gestures became love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be to have on the table to-night. How 1 office, during which period he roundly 1 huge overdressed dowagers and tedious 1 2 it next year to the Grosvenor. The We are practising for an English 1 with heart-shaped groups of 1 trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap and 1 raising her large hands in wonder and 1 2 3 4 consider that for any man of culture to him, wondered why he refused to For, while he was but too ready to intellect, certainly, yet it was never to 1 intellectual development by any formal abused 1 abused them for being a pack of - CH. 3 academicians , I suddenly became - CH. 1 Academy is too large and too vulgar. Academy of Letters." Lord Henry - CH. 1 - CH. 3 acanthus -leaves, from which spread - CH. 11 acanthuslike curls, Grifonetto - CH. 11 academicians 1 academy 2 acanthus 1 acanthuslike 1 accentuating 1 accentuating the verb. "American - CH. 3 accept 4 accept accept accept accept the standard of his age is a any money for them, and began the position that was almost any theory or system that - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 acceptance 1 accepting 1 acceptance of creed or system, or of - CH. 11 1 higher aim. Modern morality consists in 1 2 3 a room to which any of his friends had his absence some one might gain a room to which nobody but myself has 1 2 3 4 5 6 of the sitter. The sitter is merely the "I have no doubt it was not an Surely you don't think it was a vulgar is?" asked Lord Henry. "Oh! this only a fancy of mine. This unfortunate you have come about the unfortunate 1 that he did, and tried to reproduce the 1 the threat, the passionate gesture that 1 je suis tout joyeux," the musical 1 antinomianism that always seems to 1 2 When critics disagree, the artist is in "The world goes to the altar of its own 1 and thinking with the Liberals, in 1 2 3 4 5 6 "I should think it was, Harry. But of temperament, and that, indeed, thrown into a magical sleep and slain. of Arabian birds was the aspilates, that, his horse was loaded with gold leaves, An eternity, she tells me. I believe, 1 2 3 4 5 6 race-instinct for which he could not the banker that we may overdraw our draw on a bank where they have no been! - how shallow, and of what little tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, sense of fear, for which he could not 1 2 genius lasts longer than beauty. That with man, destiny never closed her 1 so, for a whole year, he sought to 1 book. Or perhaps it would be more accepting the standard of one's age. I - CH. 6 access 3 access . access to the room, in spite of the access , a dead man is seated at a - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 accident , the occasion. It is not he who accident , Dorian, though it must be put accident ? Of course she killed herself." accident , I suppose. My dear fellow, it accident has upset me. I have a accident of this morning, Thornton?" - CH. 1 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 accidental charm of his graceful, - CH. 11 accident 6 accidental 1 accompanied 1 accompanied it, the mad melodramatic - CH. 5 accompaniment 1 accompaniment of the words being - CH. 11 accompany it, moved him for a - CH. 11 accompany 1 accord 2 accord with himself. We can - THE PREFACE accord ," was the answer. "I wish I could - CH. 18 accordance 1 accordance with a wise and well-known - CH. 3 according 6 according to your category I must be according to certain modern According to the great alchemist, according to Democritus, kept the according to Brantome, and his cap according to the peerage, it is ten - CH. 1 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 15 account , and which for that reason was account , and find good qualities in the account ." "Harry," cried Dorian Gray, account ! His own soul was looking account of the sorrow and despair of account , came over him. He made no - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 accounts for the fact that we all take accounts . There are moments, - CH. 1 - CH. 16 accumulate the most exquisite - CH. 11 accurate to say that he never sought - CH. 11 account 6 accounts 2 accumulate 1 accurate 1 accursed 1 1 life. My God! Don't you see that 1 loved, imploring her forgiveness and 1 2 James. In the profession we are be far less horrible than what you are 1 he had said. When they reached the 1 2 3 what it was, but it had either prussic lead in it. I should fancy it was prussic There was a horrible smell of nitric 1 2 fear of the result. You are certain to no one is more ready than I am to 1 2 to your category I must be merely an old Basil, you are much more than an 1 my friends for their good looks, my 1 tight rope. When the verities become accursed thing leering at us?" Dorian - CH. 13 accusing 1 accusing himself of madness. He - CH. 8 accustomed 2 accustomed to receive a great deal of accustomed to work at. And, - CH. 5 - CH. 14 achilles 1 Achilles Statue, she turned round. - CH. 5 acid 3 acid or white lead in it. I should fancy acid , as she seems to have died acid in the room. But the thing that - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 acknowledge her genius. Then we must acknowledge that it is better to be - CH. 4 - CH. 17 acquaintance ." "My dear old Basil, you acquaintance ." "And much less than a - CH. 1 - CH. 1 acquaintances for their good characters, - CH. 1 acrobats , we can judge them." "Dear - CH. 3 across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 acknowledge 2 acquaintance 2 acquaintances 1 acrobats 1 across 61 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 shadows of birds in flight flitted in his art, a smile of pleasure passed his name?" asked Lord Henry, walking skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting blue cloud-shadows chased themselves Suddenly there had come some one full reality of the description flashed His eyes deepened into amethyst, and and colour? I will not let it come you like with yourself." And he walked the original of the portrait, strolling the duchess, nodding pleasantly to him Duchess?" he asked, looking at her three weeks." "And where did you come this girl for the mist of tears that came the mist of a dream had passed are a dreadful old bear." And she ran a week was over he was to come it had been the lash of a hunting-crop a crowd of watchers. The tulip-beds too fine for that." Lord Henry looked the side. They talked to each other laughed. He made no answer. She came expression of pain in her face, came indeed, I will try. It came so suddenly the long tussore-silk curtains his face, and seemed about to the studio towards Basil the hollowed turquoise of the the grass like swallows. How his life who seemed to have him. Yes, there would be a day them came a mist of tears. He our three lives and mar them." the room and rang the bell for to him. "Am I really like that?" the table. "Do you think he will the table. "A great many, I fear her?" "I will tell you, Harry, me. And her voice - I never them. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke the room and hugged him. a large nugget of pure gold, his face. His brows knit the road flamed like throbbing the table. "Dorian is never the theatre and shared their to him, and with her little the room to him. She put her me, my love for you. I think I 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 began to think. Suddenly there flashed he murmured to himself, and he walked He jumped up, drew the screen hastily do you mean?" Lord Henry walked on the prow of Adrian's barge, gazing by refusing, Dorian. No man comes across two ideal things. Few come him to judgement. A look of pain came full of shame. Some love might come and tearing the paper in two, went huge velarium that Nero had stretched strange terrible figures that had passed see you. Sin is a thing that writes itself Singleton writes his friend's name to say." A twisted flash of pain shot to articulate. He passed his hand away, laughing. A bitter blast swept he opened his eyes a faint smile passed the half-hour struck, he passed his hand a strained moment of silence, he leaned twice, folded it carefully, and pushed it silent thing that he knew was stretched and now and then Lord Henry looked misshapen cloud stretched a long arm by the tawdrily painted bar that ran smile, like a Malay crease, writhed to do. Suddenly a wild hope flashed an hour in the garden and then drove and wild shadows to fling themselves and nearly threw him. He lashed her to the piano and let his fingers stray heaved a sigh, and Lord Henry strolled a forgotten poem that you had come the odour of lilas blanc passes suddenly the door, a smile of joy flitted look upon it. It had brought melancholy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 rate, I determined to wait for the first Every night of my life I go to see her "even if it is only for a single come with me some night and see her rises. You must see her in the first am only happy, Sibyl, when I see you is the balcony scene of the second was the girl herself. When the second Dorian," he said, "but she can't suppose you will want your wife to up and the curtain rose on the third The whole thing was a fiasco. The last shall always be bad. Why I shall never When you are ill you shouldn't whispered. "I am so sorry I didn't has fallen. They always want a sixth of the age. As a rule, people who own life, not as he had lived it in upon action. It annihilates the desire to Campbell, his suicide had been his own his mocking laugh? Or that passion to across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across across his mind what he had said in to the window and opened it. the picture, and unlocked the the room, and sitting down by the green turbid Nile. You had two ideal things. Few come one." "I can't explain it to you him, and he flung the rich pall his life, and purify him, and the room and flung the pieces the Colosseum at Rome, that the stage of the world and a man's face. It cannot be a bill, am I his keeper? I know the painter's face. He paused his forehead. It was dank with the square. The gas-lamps his lips, as though he had been his forehead, and then got up and said, very quietly, but the table. Having done this, he the table, the thing whose at him, wondering at his and hid it. The gas-lamps grew one complete side stood two the face of one of the women. his brain. "Stop," he cried. " the park to join the his path. Once the mare the neck with his crop. She the white and black ivory of the room and began to stroke again, a cadence from a piece me, and I have to live the his strangely young-looking face his passions. Its mere memory - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 act 21 acted 3 act . There was a dreadful orchestra, act , and every night she is more act . I get hungry for her presence; and act . I have not the slightest fear of act , where she meets Romeo." act . You must not think of anything act . They waited for that. If she failed act was over, there came a storm of act . Let us go." "I am going to act , so what does it matter if she plays act . Dorian Gray went back to his seat. act was played to almost empty act well again." He shrugged his act . You make yourself ridiculous. My act well. I was thinking of you all the act , and as soon as the interest of the act lead the most commonplace lives. act and circumstance, but as his act . It is superbly sterile. The books act . He had chosen to do it. It was act a part that sometimes makes us - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 1 2 3 joy came over her. "How badly I in everything. The common people who played - the night you saw her - she acted to-night, Dorian!" she cried. " acted with me seemed to me to be acted badly because she had known the - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 9 acting . Mr. Isaacs has been very good acting was really understood. As for acting in. I am not going to quarrel acting . Jim insisted that she should do acting - well, you shall see her to-night acting . It is so much more real than acting was unbearable, and grew worse acting . Besides, I don't suppose you acting , she will be a delightful acting was the one reality of my life. acting ." "Acting! I leave that to you. Acting ! I leave that to you. You do it acting . Dorian, you mustn't let this acting . There was neither real sorrow acting as I did. Poor Hetty! As I rode - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 13 - CH. 19 action is a mode of purification. action and experiment. He knew that action was. Or did you say you had action I have done for years, the first action . It annihilates the desire to act. - CH. 2 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 actions merely the dreams that the actions . My one quarrel is with words. actions yesterday." "Where were you - CH. 11 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 acting 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 must not think of anything but your bouquets at one time. That was when Mother used to be so fond of lie down for a couple of hours before leaves round a pale rose. As for her wonderful girl may thrill me. I love not be denied. But the staginess of her is not good for one's morals to see bad as little about life as she does about she cried, "before I knew you, Dorian?" she murmured. "You are she murmured. "You are acting." " and seemed to know so little about in a play when some great artist is say to me. I know I was right in 1 2 3 4 5 once, and has done with its sin, for speculation is when separated from have not yet told me what your good try to persuade me that the first good as that. Art has no influence upon 1 2 3 of sin and shame? Were his own are everything. I never quarrel with to do any more. I began my good 1 in experience. It was as little of an 1 in the exercise of influence. No other 1 an echo of some one else's music, an 1 From the point of view of feeling, the 1 2 the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed we find that we are no longer the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lord Henry after a pause. "With an manner. They are quite obvious. But an But an actress! How different an that the only thing worth loving is an true." "To whom?" "To some little she is merely a commonplace mediocre What are you now? A third-rate paragraph: INQUEST ON AN on the body of Sibyl Vane, a young action 5 actions 3 active 1 active cause as conscience itself. All - CH. 4 activity was like it. To project one's - CH. 3 actor of a part that has not been - CH. 2 activity 1 actor 1 actor' 1 actor' s craft is the type. All - THE PREFACE actors 2 actors , Sibyl Vane moved like a actors , but the spectators of the play. - CH. 7 - CH. 8 actress 9 actress ," said Dorian Gray, blushing. actress ! How different an actress is! actress is! Harry! why didn't you tell actress ?" "Because I have loved so actress or other." "I can't believe it. actress ." "Don't talk like that about actress with a pretty face." The girl ACTRESS . - An inquest was held this actress recently engaged at the Royal - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 acts 2 1 2 falls in love with a beautiful girl who beyond all living things. When she 1 2 3 4 5 a good boy - thanks - what are your of any change when he looked into the The moment she touched call yesterday the past?" "What has the shapes of punishment before him. 1 were more vivid, in their intense 1 2 3 4 it. Somehow, now that it has happened seen him like this before. The lad was a wonderful portrait of you as you her, and, to make matters worse, had 1 complex. They retain their egotism, and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 views echoed back to one with all the he answered, smiling. Then he pardons, my dear Lady Ruxton," she to me either.... I don't care," he much since then. I have, though," she of the last Brazilian beetle that he had hideous detail came back to him with some of us. To myself, perhaps," he 1 out, to crush it as one would crush the 1 hooded snakes and horrible horned 1 2 3 4 5 of following you there. They gave the or picked up a card with an Mr. Campbell is out of town, get his written already. Here it is. You see the and in a low voice gave the driver an 1 2 passionate love-letter should have been scrawled a few lines, blotted them, and 1 a time, he went away and stood in an 1 2 3 4 5 was the Duchess of Harley, a lady of your philosophy of pleasure over some Surely not, my dear fellow? It is an you would simply look upon him as an with me soon again. You are really an acts Juliet, and proposes to marry her. acts , you will forget everything. These - CH. 6 - CH. 7 actual relations with Sibyl Vane?" actual painting, and yet there was no actual life, she marred it, and it actual lapse of time got to do with it? Actual life was chaos, but there was - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 18 actuality of impression, than all the - CH. 16 actually , and to me, it seems far too actually pallid with rage. His hands actually are, not in the costume of actually brought her husband with her. - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 15 actual 5 actuality 1 actually 4 add 1 add to it many other egos. They are - CH. 6 added 8 added music of passion and youth; to added , somewhat harshly, "You are added , "I didn't see you hadn't finished added with a sigh. "As long as one has added , with a sickly leer. "You swear added to his collection. Three young added horror. Out of the black cave added , passing his hand over his - CH. 3 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 adder that had stung one. Indeed, - CH. 16 adders . The harsh intervals and shrill - CH. 11 address in the paper. Somewhere in address , or found beneath a pillow a address ." As soon as he was alone, he address . If you don't help me, I must address . The man shook his head. "It - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, addressed an envelope to his assistant. - CH. 8 - CH. 14 adjoining portico and watched. - CH. 20 admirable admirable admirable admirable admirable - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 9 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 adder 1 adders 1 address 5 addressed 2 adjoining 1 admirable 5 good-nature and good Burgundy I am fortunate place for it. Let me see it." subject. You would not tonic, much better than admirably 1 1 Came from Fonthill, I believe. 1 at a costume ball as Anne de Joyeuse, 1 2 It was not that mere physical a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose 1 2 3 a useful thing as long as he does not in opening a restaurant. How could I It is one of the qualities in them that I 1 2 first time for many months she really told me? Simply that you felt that you 1 consolation. Taking some one else's 1 for making a useless thing is that one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Harry. It was Romeo and Juliet. I must month younger than I am, I must is," interrupted Dorian. "You must I did not think so at first, but I I know I am not. And yet I must you. You will do me the justice to much." "How can you say that? I 1 talking to, and two of these can't be 1 for what she called "an insult to poor 1 2 your coal-black hair, and this young you as Paris in dainty armour, and as 1 so essential to romance, he would often 1 extremely annoyed at the tone he had 1 2 3 4 as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad not their own, she is worthy of all your of all your adoration, worthy of the me, years ago, that he had a wild Admirably suited for a religious - CH. 10 Admiral of France, in a dress - CH. 11 admiration of beauty that is born of admiration for art was considerably - CH. 10 - CH. 10 admiral 1 admiration 2 admire 3 admire it. The only excuse - THE PREFACE admire her? But tell me, what did she - CH. 1 admire most. A woman will flirt with - CH. 18 admired 2 admired her son. She would have liked admired me too much. That is not - CH. 5 - CH. 9 admirer when one loses one's own. In - CH. 8 admirer 1 admires 1 admires it intensely. All art - THE PREFACE admit 7 admit that I was rather annoyed at the admit that I delight in it. Perhaps you admit , Harry, that women give to men admit it now. The gods made Sibyl admit that this thing that has happened admit that. You were stern, harsh, admit that I think that it is better to - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 - CH. 17 admitted into decent society. However, - CH. 4 admitted 1 adolphe 1 Adolphe , who invented the menu - CH. 15 adonis 2 Adonis , who looks as if he was made Adonis with huntsman's cloak and - CH. 1 - CH. 9 adopt certain modes of thought that - CH. 11 adopt 1 adopted 1 adopted with her, and there was - CH. 5 adoration 4 adore 4 adoration of some one else caused him adoration , worthy of the adoration of adoration of the world. This marriage adoration for you and that you were - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 19 1 2 3 4 you object to such simple pleasures?" "I not think I don't like good music. I will make this girl his wife, passionately is," cried Dorian Gray. "It is to 1 2 3 4 5 6 " "That is certainly better than being toying with some fruits. "Being rest of my life. The people who have to shun him. Women who had wildly worship; Charles VI, who had so wildly a man marries again, it is because he 1 he whispered. "She perfectly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and he were inseparable. What about the streets, what is that to me? If It had been given to him by in a hesitating manner. "You here, felt he could not stay. The presence of the young man. "Never mind." and said something in a low voice to her enviously. "It's no use," sighed the drizzling rain. His meeting with 1 you had sat on the prow of 1 sein de peries ruisselant, La Venus de l' 1 Jermyn Street money-lenders offering to 1 is more than money." "Mr. Isaacs has 1 2 3 4 of industry on the ground that the one The is that they lead us astray, and the hearing what one says. That is a great 1 determined to go out in search of some 1 it. They said Kelso got some rascally 1 of Commons. He guffawed at his 1 a representative British artist. Did you 1 that annoy me. He gives me good adore adore adore adore simple pleasures," said Lord it, but I am afraid of it. It her for six months, and then some one." "That is certainly - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 adored 6 adored ," he answered, toying with some adored is a nuisance. Women treat us adored me - there have not been very adored him, and for his sake had adored his brother's wife that a leper adored his first wife. Women try their - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 15 adores him." "You fill me with - CH. 17 Adrian Singleton and his dreadful end? Adrian Singleton writes his friend's Adrian Singleton. As he turned over Adrian ?" muttered Dorian. "Where Adrian Singleton troubled him. He Adrian Singleton rose up wearily and Adrian Singleton. A crooked smile, Adrian Singleton. "I don't care to go Adrian Singleton had strangely moved - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 Adrian' s barge, gazing across the green - CH. 9 adores 1 adrian 9 adrian' 1 adriatique 1 Adriatique Sort de l'eau son corps - CH. 14 advance any sum of money at a - CH. 8 advanced us fifty pounds to pay off - CH. 5 advantage of having coal was that it advantage of the emotions is that they advantage of science is that it is not advantage , don't you think so, Mr. Gray - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 adventure . I felt that this grey - CH. 4 adventurer , some Belgian brute, to - CH. 3 adversaries . The word doctrinaire - - CH. 15 advertise for it? You should." "I - CH. 19 advance 1 advanced 1 advantage 4 adventure 1 adventurer 1 adversaries 1 advertise 1 advice 2 advice ." Lord Henry smiled. "People - CH. 4 2 your idyll for you. You gave her good 1 2 lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon 1 surveyed the house. It was a tawdry 1 2 3 this thing that has happened does not meaning, their entire lack of style. They and the horrors that you do there don't 1 impatiently. He hated his mother's 1 2 3 of the deceased, who was greatly styles that from time to time he that discovers thieves, could be 1 2 3 were not visible till five." "Pure family he softened and kissed her with real full of surprises. Her capacity for family 1 But you were simple, natural, and 1 of style. They affect us just as vulgarity 1 2 it was a fact. Was there some subtle calling to atom in secret love or strange 1 ask if the man was really dead, and the 1 return from Australia in a position of 1 2 3 4 coal was that it enabled a gentleman to I wish I could Gray? You must come. I can't tragedy of the poor is that they can 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lord Henry pulled out his watch. "I am will not exhibit this picture is that I am answered the painter; "and I am joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew Quite forget what he does are one of her favourites, and, I am You are very pressing, Basil, but I am what each of us is here for. People are be. But the bravest man amongst us is advice and broke her heart. That was - CH. 19 aeon 2 aeon upon aeon of torture. His life aeon of torture. His life was well - CH. 7 - CH. 7 affair , all Cupids and cornucopias, like - CH. 4 affair 1 affect 3 affect me as it should. It seems to me affect us just as vulgarity affects us. affect you. If in some hideous - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 affectations . They went out into the - CH. 5 affectations 1 affected 3 affected during the giving of her own affected , had their marked influence affected only by the blood of kids. - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 affection , I assure you, Uncle George. affection . There were tears in his eyes affection is extraordinary. When her - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 15 affectionate then. You were the most - CH. 9 affects us. They give us an impression - CH. 8 affinity between the chemical atoms affinity ? But the reason was of no - CH. 8 - CH. 8 affection 3 affectionate 1 affects 1 affinity 2 affirmative 1 affirmative answer of the keeper. The - CH. 18 affluence . I believe there is no society - CH. 5 afford afford afford afford the decency of burning wood on to do the same." "They say that orchids, but I spare no expense nothing but self-denial. - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 afraid I must be going, Basil," he afraid that I have shown in it the afraid you will hardly understand it. afraid and turned to quit the room. It afraid he - doesn't do anything - oh, yes afraid , one of her victims also." "I am afraid I must go. I have promised to afraid of themselves, nowadays. They afraid of himself. The mutilation of the - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 affluence 1 afford 4 afraid 61 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 have had passions that have made you a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being And, yet, what was there to be always searching for new sensations. Be passions of which we were too much when things of high import make us showing herself, Dryadlike and not Henry. Sir Thomas frowned. "I am are, Harry!" he murmured. "I am smiled and shook his head: "I am good music. I adore it, but I am and the value of nothing." "I am the idle classes of a country. Don't be we would throw away if we were not with me? That will be nice! I was in his look that had made her feel there! To play for his delight! I am so well of others is that we are all in his slow melodious voice. "But I am always ready for a new emotion. I am have to examine the portrait. He was terrible reason? He shuddered, and felt glad you take it in that way! I was have not read it yet, Harry. I was something happened that made me to her. You forget that." "I am that you have said, but somehow I was to. I passed a dreadful evening, half Euston Road, isn't it? But I was are not stronger - you are too much to me to reveal my secret. I grew as pleasant." "Pleasanter for you, I am of servility. There was nothing to be you had better go in front. I am And he wiped his shiny forehead. "I am the ball, or the letter that we had been such a part of his life, and was also would they believe it? Yet he was The idea was monstrous, yet he felt "Yes," said Dorian. "And I am the picture. There he stopped, feeling cried Lady Narborough, "and that he is to dinner again after saying this, I am a thing that could fascinate and make and as the mist thickened, he felt away to him," she whined; "I am It is too true." "You need not be He could not finish the sentence. "I am out of order. That is all. I am soul, but that man had not. I am the age is searching for, and what it is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 the grass, white daisies were tremulous. story is simply this," said the painter a reputation for being civilized. Well, to him. Perhaps it was not so reckless, and walked up and down the garden. moments. "He likes me," he answered And he had such a beautiful voice. afraid , thoughts that have filled you afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid . Why had it been left for a afraid of? He was not a schoolboy or afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism afraid , and the exquisite temptations afraid , or when we are stirred by some afraid , because in his soul who sought afraid that your nephew is prejudiced afraid it is not Harry, Mr. Gray," afraid I don't think so, Lady Henry. I afraid of it. It makes me too romantic. afraid I must be going," exclaimed afraid . There are exquisite things in afraid that others might pick them up. afraid you were going to say good-bye afraid . "Kiss me, Mother," said the girl afraid I may frighten the company, afraid for ourselves. The basis of afraid I cannot claim my theory as my afraid , however, that, for me at any rate afraid of certainty. When the coffee afraid , and, going back to the couch, lay afraid I would find you plunged in afraid there might be something in it afraid . I can't tell you what it was, afraid that women appreciate cruelty, afraid of it, and I could not express it afraid that one tragedy might be afraid of intruding upon a sorrow that afraid of life - but you are better. And afraid that others would know of my afraid ," murmured Hallward regretfully. afraid of, there. Yet he thought it afraid it is right at the top of the afraid it is rather heavy," murmured afraid to read, or that we had read afraid that during his absence some afraid . Sometimes when he was down afraid . He seized the lighted candle, afraid , Francis, that I have another afraid to turn round, and his eyes afraid to tell me for fear I should be afraid , Lady Narborough, but it is afraid , as though it held something afraid . Then they passed by lonely afraid of him. Let me have some afraid . Our countrymen never afraid so," rejoined Lord Henry. "He afraid I walked too far this morning. afraid , however, he would not have afraid it has found. I am so glad that - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 after 103 After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out after some time. "Two months ago I after I had been in the room about after all. It was simply inevitable. We After some time he came back. after a pause; "I know he likes me. After a few moments he said to him, - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 purple stars on the clematis, and year to the brain and calls on us to yield. roses seemed to brood over everything. not rational. I am glad he is not, killed in a duel at Spa a few months anybody she chose. Carlington was mad girl in London at the time who wasn't most lucrative profession in America, nowadays. It is most unfair." "Perhaps, are born in England become foreigners I am late, Dorian. I went to look straw-coloured hair, Dorian," he said you in love with?" asked Lord Henry you mustn't be unsympathetic about it. to know everything about life. For days She is everything to me in life. Night horrid old Jew came round to the box mouth was all the echo she could win. Charming," she answered, looking She doesn't understand how to look home in the Euston Road. It was each minute that was left to him. will have only one child now to look that she had only one child to look table. "What happened was simply this. in a forest that no man had ever seen. other things that might have happened. you better than anything in the world. voices and harsh laughter had called pigeons ran about picking up seeds. own room, looking somewhat puzzled. as if he had been looking into a mirror the most reasonable rates of interest. The cool water refreshed him man's life. Should he move it aside, himself of madness. He covered page me, did you go behind and see her, - have always insisted on living on, long fancy how delightful you looked. And, colours faded wearily out of things. now smiled so cruelly at him. Morning the same wonderful boy who, day the idea of reproaching him any more. to you again about this horrible thing, I felt that I was right.... Well, Or was that merely his own fancy? might not his nature grow finer, the library, he found that it was just and began to turn over the leaves. light till he could read no more. Then, sometimes wakened before dawn, either forth sleep from her purple cave. Veil shape and with hideous voices. Yet, Blue Gate Fields, and stay there, day burden that should have been his own. stories became current about him been most intimate with him appeared, the possession of a good chef. And, on the pavement and then hurrying for shame of some kind to follow a wild feeling of pity came over him. after year the green night of its leaves After a time the bee flew away. He After about a quarter of an hour after all - though I wish you chaps after the marriage. There was an ugly after her. She was romantic, though. after him. And by the way, Harry, after politics." "Is she pretty?" "She after all, America never has been after a time, don't they? It is so after a piece of old brocade in after a few puffs. "Why, Harry?" " after a pause. "With an actress," said After all, it never would have happened after I met you, something seemed to after night I go to see her play. One after the performance was over and After some time she became silent. after the victoria. He jumped up and after you. I wish now that I was not after five o'clock, and Sibyl had to lie After some time, he thrust away his after , and believe me that if this man after . She remembered the phrase. It After I left you yesterday evening, After the performance was over, I went After a few minutes, they all passed After all, it is only once that I have after him. Drunkards had reeled by, After a little while, he hailed a hansom After he had taken the button-hole after he had done some dreadful thing. After about ten minutes he got up, after his long sleep. He seemed to after all? Why not let it stay there? after page with wild words of sorrow after the play was over?" "Yes." "I after I had ceased to care for them, or after all, you said something to me After some time Dorian Gray looked after morning he had sat before the after day, used to come down to my After all, his indifference was probably after to-day. I only trust your name after a few days the thing left my After a few moments, in her black after all? There was no reason that after five o'clock and that the tea After a few minutes he became after his valet had reminded him after one of those dreamless nights after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, after some time, he wearied of them, after day, until he was driven away. After a few years he could not after he had passed his twenty-fifth after a time, to shun him. Women after all, it is a very poor consolation after him. In a few moments, his after . 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It was long I go and stay with them every summer and consequently they all fall asleep dinner he could not eat anything. Plate You will never ask me to dinner again "you will be there in an hour," and swerved aside and broke into a gallop. from an open door, and two men ran He stopped and gave a peculiar knock. going on to the other place," he said want anything, won't you?" said Dorian, to be called, ain't it?" she yelled a few seconds his eyes grew sad. Yet, He was trembling from head to foot. by it, Harry?" asked the duchess -room and laid upon one of the sofas. of pity and not a little of contempt. the open. I dare say it will be better they emerged, dragging a body beating through the boughs overhead. lip. "Send him in," he muttered, the white and black ivory of the keys. younger man. He watched him intently do anything that one cannot talk about "By the way, Dorian," he said top windows, the house was all dark. hands. Francis was as pale as death. called out. Everything was still. Finally, After a few moments he drew back After he had drunk his cup of black after a time the book fell from his after that used to be always seen After a strained moment of silence, After two or three minutes of terrible After about ten minutes a knock after seven when Campbell came back after I come from Homburg, but then after dinner. You shan't sit next after plate went away untasted. Lady after saying this, I am afraid, Lady after his fare had got in he turned After some time they left the clay after the hansom for about a hundred After a little time he heard steps in after a pause. "On the wharf?" "Yes after a pause. "Perhaps." "Good night, after him. The drowsy sailor leaped after all, what did it matter to him? After a little while, a black shadow after a pause. "Especially when one After a short time, he came to After breakfast, he walked with the after lunch, when we get to new after them into the sunlight. He After a few moments - that were to after some moments' hesitation. As After the coffee had been brought in, after he had spoken. "I would say, my after dinner. But let us pass from after a pause, "'what does it profit a After a time, he went away and stood After about a quarter of an hour, he after vainly trying to force the door, - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 afternoon in Curzon Street. I am afternoon ." As the door closed behind afternoon , a month later, Dorian Gray afternoon . They have their stereotyped afternoon . Where shall we go? Let us afternoon . Have they summoned you?" afternoon , Lord Henry. It sounds a - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 9 - CH. 15 afterwards . He, too, felt that we were afterwards . He brought his daughter afterwards , amidst an extraordinary afterwards the footlights flared up and afterwards , and always with no small afterwards we will look in at the opera. afterwards . How extraordinarily afterwards . He was walking home afterwards , if you choose. Nobody afterwards . Then he pulled out his afterwards ? Did you go straight home? afterwards with Lady Branksome. She - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 again . It was reckless of me, but I asked - CH. 1 afternoon 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mr. Gray. Come and see me some Basil. It has been a most interesting One and chatter at tea-parties in the sweet of you to let me have your last it. The inquest is to take place this come and explain that to me some afterwards 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 I am sure of that. Dorian told me so chop alone at the club for some time is good in me." A quarter of an hour passed out together. A few moments had altered. As he often remembered You must come and dine with me, and opera, and sup somewhere, I suppose, birthday, as he often remembered it? You can tell the world all about it them into it. He could easily burn them left before eleven. What did you do together, and I will take you to lunch again 72 1 close, almost touching. Our eyes met 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 be any difficulty about that. Sit down spoiled, and Basil will never paint you hill-flowers wither, but they blossom I was told, and she never spoke to him would tell me how to become young she cried. "Then commit them over ladies. When Lord Henry had sat down night, of course, I arrived at the place to the words. The girl laughed had brought him back. His kiss burned I shall ever see this horrid London He felt that Dorian Gray would never be bad. Why I shall never act well to me now. I will never see you we had not kissed each other. Kiss me to be unkind, but I can't see you close to the picture, and examined it his own soul? Would he ever look at it her amends, marry her, try to love her He repeated her name over and over ever say things of that kind to me for her, but she did not come down insisted on going over the whole thing a bed of asphodel. She dragged it out Imogen." "She will never come to life well you know me! But we will not talk brushed them away hastily and looked was of no importance. He would never as Juliet might have died. She passed sad smile, "I won't speak to you you must come and sit to me yourself without you." "I can never sit to you of honour I will never speak to you wish me never to look at your picture you, Basil." "You will sit to me Basil, but I must never sit to you won't let me look at the picture once could not run such a risk of discovery tells the story - nor was it ever found and, when he used to reappear Over and over anything." "You think so?" He laughed me such an ideal as I shall never meet wild gesture of despair. Hallward turned fancy you to be!" He held the light up head down on the table and stabbing on the table and stabbing again and eleven. No one had seen him come in He sighed, and took up the volume Francis." He felt that he was himself had intended never to enter your house good-bye. Let us never see each other ridiculous way, I shall have to marry in the fashion." "You will never marry far too happy. When a woman marries her first husband. When a man marries You will never ask me to dinner must come and dine with me soon He had often tried it, and would try it time they left the clay road and rattled Here it is. Don't ever talk to me again , Harry. And now, Dorian, get up again . You really must not allow again . The laburnum will be as yellow again . Oh, yes; it was a bad business again ." He thought for a moment. again ," he said gravely. "To get back again , Mr. Erskine moved round, and again . When he saw me, he made me a again . The joy of a caged bird was in again upon her mouth. Her eyelids again . I am sure I don't want to." again be to him all that he had been again ." He shrugged his shoulders. again . I will never think of you. I will again , my love. Don't go away from me again . You have disappointed me." She again . There were no signs of any again ? No; it was merely an illusion again . Yes, it was his duty to do so again . The birds that were singing in again . Two days ago I asked Sibyl to again . They ultimately found her lying again , and digging up the past, and again and assured me that I had again now," muttered the lad, burying again of what has happened. It has again at the picture. He felt that the again tempt by a prayer any terrible again into the sphere of art. There is again about this horrible thing, after again . I can't get on without you." " again , Basil. It is impossible!" he again as long as I live. I am quite again , I am content. I have always you again ?" "Impossible!" "You spoil my life again . There is something fatal about a again . But that can't be helped. I quite again . It had been mad of him to have again , though the Emperor again in society, men would whisper again Dorian used to read this again . "I know so. As for what I again . This is the face of a satyr." " again to the portrait and gazed at it. again to the canvas and examined it. again and again. There was a stifled again . There was a stifled groan and again . Most of the servants were at again , and tried to forget. He read of again . His mood of cowardice had again , Gray. But you said it was a again ." "You have saved me from again so as to be in the fashion." "You again , Lady Narborough," broke in again , it is because she detested her again , it is because he adored his again after saying this, I am afraid, again . You are really an admirable again now. There were opium dens again over rough-paven streets. Most again ." Two red sparks flashed for a - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 fault. One had to pay over and over When he closed his eyes, he saw memory of the scene! He saw it all Gray? Harry, Mr. Gray is ill lovelier," was his reply. She laughed could possibly do the same crime poem that you had come across live the strangest month of my life over back and give me the nocturne over thing, at any rate. He would never 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 the door. There, of course, I stumbled with the rage of the English democracy words seemed wrung out of him almost Time is jealous of you, and wars George." "I'll back English women afraid that your nephew is prejudiced dramatic critics were in a conspiracy If so, marriage should be thought of. exclaimed. "You must not say anything made provision for us. Don't speak is of value, and whatever one may say to the back of the box, he leaned up roofs of the houses glistened like silver of sheer brute force, and we revolt because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out want to have it hung up. Just lean it who had heard the most evil things killed toad, that was a certain antidote robe, on which the gods fought the most dreadful things are being said youth - I can't believe anything brains for every common tongue to wag to these horrible charges that are made sweat. The young man was leaning to the window and leaning his forehead be worse even than those who talk And yet, what evidence was there it is the only piece of evidence no one would ever believe anything people go about nowadays saying things then fantastic shadows were silhouetted to defend himself, he was thrust back not of your spear." "I never tilt him when he remembered that, pressed shook. The dead leaves that were blown change. His own nature had revolted asked Dorian, holding up his Burgundy the villa and the salt spray dashing You have crushed the grapes you, Dorian. The world has cried out and the revivalist, warning people There was only one bit of evidence left again , indeed. In her dealings with again the sailor's face peering again . Each hideous detail came back again . He is going to faint." Dorian again . Her teeth showed like white again ? Don't tell me that." "Oh! again , a cadence from a piece of again . I wish I could change places again . Look at that great, again tempt innocence. He would be - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 against Lady Brandon. 'You are not against what they call the vices of the against his will. "What nonsense you against your lilies and your roses. You against the world, Harry," said Lord against that great country," he said to against him, and that they were every Against the shell of her ear broke the against him. I love him." "Why, you against him, my son. He was your against marriage, it is certainly an against the wall, hiding his face in his against it. From some chimney against that. Sometimes, however, a against Heaven because the daughter of against the wall. Thanks." "Might one against him - and from time to time against poison. The bezoar, that was against the giants, that had been against you in London." "I don't wish against you. And yet I see you very against him. And what sort of lives against you. If you tell me that they against the mantelshelf, watching him against the cold, mist-stained glass. against you fancy you to be!" He held against him? Basil Hallward had left against me. If it is discovered, I am against her; Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing against one behind one's back that against some lamplit blind. He against the wall, with a brutal hand against beauty," he said, with a wave against the window of the against the leaded panes seemed to against the excess of anguish that had against the light and wondering how against the panes? It is marvellously against your palate. Nothing has been against us both, but it has always against all the sins of which you have against him. The picture itself - that - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 agate eyes - that it was through certain agate of India made him eloquent. - CH. 4 - CH. 11 against 42 agate 2 1 2 a gleam of pleasure into his brown rendered a man invisible, and the 1 thought it was a duet. When Aunt agatha 12 Agatha sits down to the piano, she - CH. 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 latest protege." "Humph! tell your Aunt having, as he explained once to Lady " "How dreadful!" exclaimed Lady mind him, my dear," whispered Lady that great country," he said to Lady can judge them." "Dear me!" said Lady in Whitechapel," continued Lady timidly. "Terribly grave," echoed Lady from Sir Thomas's tight lips. Lady ruin it. No, I must go, dear out of the room, followed by Lady Agatha , Harry, not to bother me any Agatha , said everything that he had to Agatha . "Really, some one should Agatha . "He never means anything Agatha . "I have travelled all over it in Agatha , "how you men argue! I am sure Agatha . "I can sympathize with Agatha . Lord Henry looked over at Mr. Agatha shook her head, but could not Agatha . Good-bye, Lord Henry, you are Agatha and the other ladies. When - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 Agatha' s. She told me she had Agatha' s black books at present," Agatha' s. I have asked myself and Mr. - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 age of eighty what he was told to say age when men treat art as if it were age . Live! Live the wonderful life that age yet. He has Selby, I know. He age so limited and vulgar as our own, age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and age , reality entered the room in the age , with a little, flowerlike face, a age and in every costume. Ordinary age ." "Well, what night shall we go?" age in less than a year, and then I can age . I consider that for any man of age is a form of the grossest age - that is something worth doing. If age . Besides, women were better suited age when unnecessary things are our age . I suppose they don't know your age may be, or a woman over thirty-five age that reads too much to be wise, age . As a rule, people who act lead the age was in store for it. The cheeks age that was at once sordid and age . He would place his white hands age , and found, indeed, a subtle age better than you do, though you age . Those finely shaped fingers could age is dull of hearing." "Has he never age ? No: we have given up our belief age is not that one is old, but that age is searching for, and what it is - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 aged mediocrity, as bald as a aged mediocrities so common in aged , I always contradict the aged. I aged . I do it on principle. If you ask - CH. 3 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 ages , but in your own dress and in ages . But I suppose you will be back ages , Lady Narborough?" asked ages , slightly edited. But nothing must - CH. 9 - CH. 12 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 agatha' 3 1 2 3 Basil. It was at my aunt, Lady of her victims also." "I am in Lady are you lunching, Harry?" "At Aunt age 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 think. A bishop keeps on saying at the his own life into them. We live in an the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our boy will be well off. He is not of the most satisfying joy left to us in an so limited and vulgar as our own, an At last, liveried in the costume of the a girl, hardly seventeen years of throat. I have seen her in every not principles, that move the I don't care. I shall be of in accepting the standard of one's of culture to accept the standard of his be fine and noble. To spiritualize one's moment, if he had wounded her for an and did not realize that we live in an that to give an interest to one's old woman who wears mauve, whatever her keep your good looks. We live in an of the great romantic tragedies of the of sin, but the hideousness of was could have escaped the stain of an horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of offered to him on his coming of me all the better for it. I know the as horrible as any tragedy of our a petal." "Monmouth has ears." "Old or I to do with the superstitions of our know nothing of. The tragedy of old you. You are the type of what the 1 2 3 4 Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middleErnest Harrowden, one of those middleto them her latest wonder. As for the As for the aged, I always contradict the 1 2 3 4 actually are, not in the costume of dead going away, as I have not seen you for the eligible young ladies." "With their asked Dorian. "Of course, with their aged 4 ages 4 aging 1 1 of him, looking now at the evil and 1 minutes went by he became horribly 1 that landscape of mine, for which aging face on the canvas, and now at - CH. 11 agitated . At last he got up and began - CH. 14 Agnew offered me such a huge price - CH. 1 agitated 1 agnew 1 ago 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 whose sudden disappearance some years a question I put to you some time painter after some time. "Two months ambitions, but I gave them up long happy to-day as you were twenty years of that kind to me again. Two days how I loved her once! It seems years Well - would you believe it? - a week horrible danger. "You told me a month shrill and curious in his ears. "Years her very well at Vienna thirty years "Stop," he cried. "How long when they had parted so many years "Our host is a delightful topic. Years remember Sibyl, don't you? How long and that was when he told me, years Oh! I remember your telling me years Henry had given to him, so many years 1 2 3 4 treacherous crime. Months of voiceless be dividing time into separate atoms of which is dreadful, the cry of a man in a crash. The cry was so horrible in its 1 2 the proletariat live correctly." "I don't his head back and laughed. "I always 1 -piece. He was shivering with a kind of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 twenty - his merely visible presence what I feel. You change too often." " of those who have it. You smile? dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly.... strongly this morning, Lord Henry." " myself blushes, it is a very bad sign. said Lord Henry with a bow. " " duty to drown it in conversation." " How long have you known her?" " to-day as you were twenty years ago. I said before, if he is rich ..." " the lad with a good-natured grumble. " You are simply jealous and unkind. vow. You mock at it for that. are good, we are not always happy." " to be alone. Basil, you must go. ago caused, at the time, such public ago ." "What is that?" said the painter, ago I went to a crush at Lady ago . And now, my dear young friend, if ago . Ah! let me be happy for ever!" ago I asked Sibyl to marry me. I am ago to me now. She was everything to ago , at Lady Hampshire's, I found ago that you would never exhibit it," ago , when I was a boy," said Dorian ago , and how decolletee she was then. ago is it since your sister died? ago . It was obvious that this was not ago he was christened Prince ago that seems! Well, Hetty was not ago , that he had a wild adoration for ago that you had sent it down to ago now, was standing on the table, - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 agony , and then a child born in pain. agony , each of which was too terrible agony , which is worse. "Good heavens! agony that the frightened servants - CH. 3 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 agree with a single word that you have agree with Harry, Duchess." "Even - CH. 1 - CH. 17 ague . For nearly twenty minutes, - CH. 14 agony 4 agree 2 ague 1 ah 35 ah ! I wonder can you realize all that Ah , my dear Basil, that is exactly why I Ah ! when you have lost it you won't Ah ! realize your youth while you have Ah ! this morning! You have lived since Ah ! Lord Henry, I wish you would tell Ah ! that is very nice, and very wrong Ah ! I have talked quite enough for Ah ! that is one of Harry's views, isn' Ah ! Harry, your views terrify me." Ah ! let me be happy for ever!" "My Ah ! Mother, Mother, let me be happy!" Ah ! but you don't like being kissed, Jim Ah ! I wish you would fall in love. Love Ah ! don't mock. It is an irrevocable vow Ah ! but what do you mean by good?" Ah ! can't you see that my heart is - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 has taught me to know myself better." " and old, and wrinkled? What then?" " done that is good, I owe to you. me. There is a great difference." " I tell you the thing is impossible." " air." "You are mad, Dorian." " not of your life that I am thinking." " sigh. "Life is a great disappointment." " as long as he does not love her." " to go to Monte Carlo with his father." " spilled. What could atone for that? he was christened Prince Charming." " " yet told him the colour of my frock." " is, but I can't help feeling it. " amazed sometimes at my own sincerity. Was there no hope for him? 1 genial frame-maker, beginning, with the 1 2 3 4 reveal art and conceal the artist is art's that has not been written for him. The individualism has really the higher any mode of passionate experience. Its 1 or to kill them by pain, instead of 1 2 These are the sickly its pleasures, and grossly common in its 1 2 3 4 5 wanting to marry an American? is that they are foreigners. They all are, the yards. "Somewhere about here, sir, Charming is what you like to be called, "Before God?" "Strike me dumb if it 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 stars, moved to and fro in the languid with a self-conscious and satisfied Gray stepped up on the dais with the He had merely shot an arrow into the must go out and sit in the garden. The idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the There was an exquisite poison in the me, and he took off his hat with an Shakespeare. He told me once, with an it seemed - hung in the panting He repeated his words. They cut the life. We are not sent into the world to down the polished empty street. The riband, through the nacre-coloured drew a deep breath. The fresh morning It was an exquisite day. The warm in their lace and scarlet, tossed into the Ah , Dorian, I am so glad you take it Ah , then," said Lord Henry, rising to go Ah ! you don't know what it cost me to Ah , you have discovered that?" Ah , what is impossible?" murmured Ah ! I was waiting for you to call me Ah , Alan," murmured Dorian with a Ah , my dear," cried Lady Ah ! what a cynic you are!" cried the Ah ! what a nuisance people's people Ah ! for that there was no atonement; Ah ! don't remind me of that," cried Ah ! then, you never really love, Mr. Ah ! you must suit your frock to his Ah ! here is the duchess, looking like Ah ! then it must be an illusion. The Ah , Dorian, how happy you are! Ah ! in what a monstrous moment of - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 aid of his assistant, to unhook the - CH. 10 aid 1 aim 4 aim . The critic is he who - THE PREFACE aim of life is self-development. To - CH. 2 aim . Modern morality consists in - CH. 6 aim , indeed, was to be experience - CH. 11 aiming 1 aiming at making them elements of a - CH. 11 aims 2 aims , the false ideals, of our age. Live aims .... He was a marvellous type, too, - CH. 2 - CH. 3 Ain' t English girls good enough for ain' t they? Even those that are born in ain' t it?" he asked huskily through ain' t it?" she yelled after him. The ain' t so. He is the worst one that - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 air . A grasshopper began to chirrup by air , as if he had summed up the air of a young Greek martyr, and air . Had it hit the mark? How air is stifling here." "My dear fellow, I air and transformed it; let it escape air . I had a passion for sensations.... air of gorgeous servility. There was air of pride, that his five bankruptcies air . The brightly coloured parasols air like a dagger. The people round air our moral prejudices. I never take air was heavy with the perfume of the air . In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, air seemed to drive away all his air seemed laden with spices. A bee air like great gilt flowers had their - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 ain' 5 air 34 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 blow, but through which he inhales the are known in the East as "woven chatter in England. The middle classes door and went in. A cold current of grotesque, stiff-fingered hands in the had been a madness of murder in the and there was a genial warmth in the of ashes that I may scatter in the an old woman like me must have fresh striking bronze blows upon the dusky brain, he grew pale with terror, and the was something in the clear, pine-scented along by his side. The keen aromatic wings seem to wheel in the leaden neck with his crop. She cleft the dusky and a wonderful phrase flung into the moon that hangs in the dusky 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 and began to turn over the leaves. " fit of terror came over him. What if it was only Dorian Gray who smiled: bowed and retired. In a few moments, his coal-black hair and dark eyebrows. " it is a matter of life and death, the face of him he had sent for, " They don't interest me any more." " you. I am awfully sorry for you, you into the matter. I have no option. be no trace of him found here. You, you are up to?" "It was suicide, your friends. Don't come to me." " a moment; listen to me. Only listen, It has nothing to do with me." " you to do this. We were friends once, bowed head and outstretched arms. head and outstretched arms. Alan! am ruined. Why, they will hang me, refuse?" "Yes." "I entreat you, shoulder. "I am so sorry for you, Yes, it is my turn to dictate terms, It seemed to crush him. "Come, some things from the laboratory." "No, infamous!" he muttered. "Hush, your life that I am thinking." "Ah, "How long will your experiment take, the man, leaving the room. "Now, "I don't think I can go in, again." "You have saved me from ruin, have had my own divorce-case and a nameless grave in Selby churchyard. the madness of a moment. As for 1 strolled from Curzon Street over to the 1 sleep and slain. According to the great 1 watched them as they plunged into the air ; the harsh ture of the Amazon air ," and "running water," and air their moral prejudices over their air passed them, and the light shot air . He stabbed him twice more, but air . Some red star had come too air . It was almost like a morning in air ." "You are mad, Dorian." "Ah air sometimes, and besides, I really air , Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, air seemed to him to have become air of that winter morning that air , the brown and red lights that air around me. Good heavens! don't air like an arrow. The stones flew air by shrill hysterical lips - it was air . She is waiting for you to charm - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 Alan Campbell, `5´, Hertford Street, Alan Campbell should be out of Alan Campbell never did. He was an Alan Campbell walked in, looking Alan ! This is kind of you. I thank you Alan , and to more than one person. Alan , in a locked room at the top of Alan , they will have to interest you. Alan . But I can't help myself. You are Alan , you are scientific. You know Alan , you must change him, and Alan ." "I am glad of that. But who Alan , it was murder. I killed him. You Alan . All I ask of you is to perform a Alan , I entreat you. Think of the Alan ." "Don't speak about those days, Alan ! Alan! If you don't come to my Alan ! If you don't come to my Alan ! Don't you understand? They Alan ." "It is useless." The same look of Alan ," he murmured, "but you leave Alan . You know what they are. The Alan , you must decide at once." "I Alan , you must not leave the house. Alan . You have saved my life," said Alan ," murmured Dorian with a sigh, Alan ?" he said in a calm indifferent Alan , there is not a moment to be Alan ," he murmured. "It is nothing to Alan . I cannot forget that," said Alan Campbell's suicide. Now they Alan Campbell had shot himself one Alan Campbell, his suicide had been - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 alan 33 albany 1 Albany to call on his uncle, Lord - CH. 3 alchemist , Pierre de Boniface, the - CH. 11 alder -clump, brushing the lithe - CH. 18 alchemist 1 alder 1 alders 1 1 a hare. It bolted for a thicket of 1 2 jacinth, and in the romantic history of When the Duke de Valentinois, son of 1 and flutes of human bones such as 1 felt faint and sick, and having lit some 1 as the little white walled-in house at 1 lisp and Venetian-red hair; Lady 1 2 upon others, nor ever receive it from of thought that he knew to be really 1 2 would still live on. It would be always to him to have become suddenly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 well written, or badly written. That is the point of view of form, the type of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. thing is that one admires it intensely. like this would set you far above knew you would; but it is quite true, you have an intellectual expression and one sits down to think, one becomes to think, one becomes all nose, or you the truth. There is a fatality about knowledge of defeat. They live as we Dorian Gray's good looks - we shall am going. If I did, I would lose me awfully foolish about it?" "Not at at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at does find me out, she makes no row at of perplexity came over his face. "I am the trade-name of the firm. That is Perhaps it was not so reckless, after she goes in for giving a rapid precis of and red-faced old gentleman covered friends at once." "Laughter is not at not got one who is a fool. They are power, and consequently they care for anything but your art." "He is from him. Of course, I have done presence - ah! I wonder can you realize school, a school that is to have in it it all the passion of the romantic spirit, subtleties of certain colours. That is I have put into it some expression of alders . Sir Geoffrey put his gun to his - CH. 18 Alexander , the Conqueror of Emathia Alexander VI, visited Louis XII of - CH. 11 - CH. 11 Alfonso de Ovalle heard in Chile, and - CH. 11 Algerian pastilles in a pierced copper - CH. 15 Algiers where they had more than - CH. 11 Alice Chapman, his hostess's - CH. 15 alien hands. Your rank and wealth, alien to his nature, abandon himself - CH. 1 - CH. 11 alive . He shuddered, and for a alive with faces. There was the - CH. 10 - CH. 18 alexander 2 alfonso 1 algerian 1 algiers 1 alice 1 alien 2 alive 2 all 294 all . The nineteenth century - THE PREFACE all the arts is the art of the - THE PREFACE All art is at once surface - THE PREFACE All art is quite useless. - THE PREFACE all the young men in England, and - CH. 1 all the same." "Too much of yourself - CH. 1 all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends - CH. 1 all nose, or all forehead, or something - CH. 1 all forehead, or something horrid. - CH. 1 all physical and intellectual distinction, - CH. 1 all should live - undisturbed, - CH. 1 all suffer for what the gods have given - CH. 1 all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I - CH. 1 all ," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, - CH. 1 all , my dear Basil. You seem to forget - CH. 1 all . I sometimes wish she would; but - CH. 1 all expectation, Basil," continued his - CH. 1 all ." "I don't believe that, Harry, - CH. 1 all . It was simply inevitable. We would - CH. 1 all her guests. I remember her bringing - CH. 1 all over with orders and ribbons, and - CH. 1 all a bad beginning for a friendship, - CH. 1 all men of some intellectual power, and - CH. 1 all appreciate me. Is that very vain of - CH. 1 all my art to me now," said the - CH. 1 all that. But he is much more to me - CH. 1 all that that means? Unconsciously he - CH. 1 all the passion of the romantic spirit, - CH. 1 all the perfection of the spirit that is - CH. 1 all ." "Then why won't you exhibit his - CH. 1 all this curious artistic idolatry, of - CH. 1 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 That accounts for the fact that we is like a bric-a-brac shop, proper value. I think you will tire first, It was charming to have escaped her last Tuesday, and I really forgot face that made one trust him at once. candour of youth was there, as well as says. He has a very bad influence over thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. They have forgotten the highest of impulse of joy that we would forget has told me." "You know you believe it tossed his rebellious curls and tangled a moment. Then it began to scramble "It is the real Dorian Gray - that is rational. I am glad he is not, after be a rather nice excuse: it would have want to be faithless, and cannot: that is face. "Well, sit down and tell me girl, Margaret Devereux, and made by him. His mother had money, too. She was romantic, though. to write cheques for her silly fads." " any effect. Philanthropic people lose views echoed back to one with of one who was unconscious of it shadow they made real: how strange it as he remarked once himself, that to give some wearisome facts. Like it never had been discovered at It is most unfair." "Perhaps, after And they dress well, too. They get said to Lady Agatha. "I have travelled Erskine, with a smile. "Paradoxes are dear aunt, for I take no interest at primers, and encyclopaedias. Of you so, may I ask if you really meant I said," smiled Lord Henry. "Was it happens to our good duchess, we shall It is the hour when we sleep there." " And you will promise to talk to me -day," said Lord Henry, smiling. " was never returned, she had kept it is that they are foreigners. They a bird of paradise that had been out sentimental people." "Never marry at and esprit used to go together. That is be unsympathetic about it. After the house. It was a tawdry affair, hautboy. In the garden-scene it had not have helped telling me, Dorian. I am much obliged for the compliment, at that, and confided to me that appearance, most of them cannot be at you." "How horrid you are! She is make her love me. You, who know to pay him something, of course. When morrow. She plays Juliet to-morrow." " great poet, is the most unpoetical of to wonder at. It was no matter how it of an active cause as conscience itself. all take such pains to over-educate all monsters and dust, with everything all the same. Some day you will look all that! As he thought of his aunt, an all about it. We were to have played a All the candour of youth was there, as all youth's passionate purity. One felt all his friends, with the single All influence is immoral - immoral all duties, the duty that one owes to all the maladies of mediaevalism, and all ," said Lord Henry, looking at him all their gilded threads. There was a all over the oval stellated globe of the all ." "It is not." "If it is all - though I wish you chaps would all the surprise of candour." "It is such all one can say." "Don't go to the all about it. Young people, nowadays, all the men frantic by running away All the Selby property came to her, All the women of that family were. All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, all sense of humanity. It is their all the added music of passion and all ; the silent spirit that dwelt in dim all was! He remembered something all really good people fall into, and all people who try to exhaust a all !" she exclaimed. "Really, our girls all , America never has been all their dresses in Paris. I wish I all over it in cars provided by the all very well in their way...." rejoined all in the East End. For the future I all people in the world the English all that you said to us at lunch?" "I all very bad?" "Very bad indeed. In fact all look on you as being primarily All of you, Mr. Erskine?" "Forty of all the time? No one talks so All I want now is to look at life. You all her illusions. She tried to look all are, ain't they? Even those that are all night in the rain, she flitted out of all , Dorian. Men marry because they all over now. As long as a woman can all , it never would have happened if I all Cupids and cornucopias, like a all the tremulous ecstasy that one All through your life you will tell me all the same. And now tell me - reach all the dramatic critics were in a all expensive." "Well, he seemed to all the great heroines of the world in all the secrets of life, tell me how to all that is settled, I shall take a West All right. The Bristol at eight o'clock; all creatures. But inferior poets are all ended, or was destined to end. He All that it really demonstrated was that - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 sense, and was for that very reason life and wondered how it was quite right. I have chosen my own life. he is one of the aristocracy. He has and, that she might think of him was not to go to the gold-fields at account, and which for that reason was a revelation. I feel it. And it is smile curving that sullen mouth was foolish; a bad-tempered boy, that is that I was not going to Australia at expressed. She felt that they would married, but I have no recollection at "You don't mean a single word of " Lord Henry laughed. "The reason we think so well of others is that we are so happy. Of course, it is sudden the one thing I have been looking for like, and then you will tell us how it seemed to me more exquisite. She had at that moment. It seemed to me that of rose-coloured joy. She trembled hands. I feel that I should not tell you she say in answer? Perhaps you forgot good. When I am with her, I regret Vane's hand makes me forget you and love, your theories about pleasure. be fond of me. I represent to you happened. After a few minutes, they Gray would never again be to him I found her, and she is divine beyond that are not their own, she is worthy of the girl to whom I am going to give It was wrong in colour. It took away that I lived. I thought that it was something higher, something of which of shadows. You are more to me than Suddenly it dawned on my soul what it the shadows of art. You have thrown it didn't act well. I was thinking of you better than anything in the world. After and thought, and that he might keep fresh morning air seemed to drive away sleep. He seemed to have forgotten I am not cold," he murmured. Was it s life. Should he move it aside, after to others, and the fear of God to us the door. "I am so sorry for it Harry - perfectly brutal. But it is hair of yours." "I have got through said Lord Henry, gravely. "It is in the theatre? If they don't, it is Yet the roses are not less lovely for dramatic life is! If I had read my heart almost broke. She explained it boring him so completely that he loses a certain charm for the weak. That is ending to a wonderful play. It has linger. I once wore nothing but violets consoles some. Its mysteries have sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all the more dangerous. It was the all going to end. When he arrived All I say is, watch over Sibyl. Don't all the appearance of it, I must say. It all the more, she did not talk of him, all . They were horrid places, where all the more dominant within him. He all his, his only, Prince Charming, my all the echo she could win. After some all . How can you say such horrible all . I have a great mind to chuck the all laugh at it some day. all of being engaged. I am inclined to all that, Harry; you know you don't. all like to think so well of others is all afraid for ourselves. The basis of all really delightful things are. And yet all my life." He was flushed with all came about." "There is really not all the delicate grace of that Tanagra all my life had been narrowed to one all over and shook like a white all this, but I can't help it. Of all about it." "My dear Harry, I did all that you have taught me. I become all your wrong, fascinating, poisonous, All your theories, in fact, Harry." all the sins you have never had the all passed downstairs. He drove off by all that he had been in the past. Life all living things. When she acts, you all your adoration, worthy of the all my life, to whom I have given all the life from the verse. It made all true. I was Rosalind one night and all art is but a reflection. You had all art can ever be. What have I to do all meant. The knowledge was exquisite all away. You are shallow and stupid. all the time. But I will try - indeed, all , it is only once that I have not all the delicate bloom and loveliness of all his sombre passions. He thought all that he had gone through. A dim all true? Had the portrait really all ? Why not let it stay there? What all . There were opiates for remorse, all , Dorian," said Lord Henry as he all right now. I am not sorry for all that," said Dorian, shaking his head all the morning papers. I wrote down all right. Did any one see you going all that. The birds sing just as happily all this in a book, Harry, I think I all to me. It was terribly pathetic. But I all possible interest in life. If you had all that can be said for them. They are all the terrible beauty of a Greek all through one season, as a form of all the charm of a flirtation, a woman all . 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"I felt been a marvellous experience. That is "But I am awfully obliged to you for Poor Sibyl! What a romance it had joys and wilder sins - he was to have bear the burden of his shame: that was be some curious scientific reason for it to alter, it was to alter. That was child, too! What did she say about it no heart, no pity in you. It is what I mean - middle-class virtue and of the martyr about her. Her death has the pathetic uselessness of martyrdom, that yellow satin could console one for pomp - there is much to be got from of reproaching him any more. After one. She told me once that they were my flowers for me sometimes - that is disks of blue fire. He was trembling that. Georges Petit is going to collect whom you spoke. I wanted to have you marvel of your own face. And it had annoyed; but then you did not realize tell us of form and colour - that is of being very dangerous. But that was don't know what it cost me to tell you curious reticences - he understood them The portrait must be hidden away at I simply want to see the place - that is blue eyes, and rose-red lips - they a couple of your men." "No trouble at back. "Can you move it, covering and wrists. How well he remembered it he had thought, in those dead days, of might not his nature grow finer, after kindness in coming round." "Not at coming round." "Not at all, not at of rich men who had been blackmailed and flung the pieces away. How ugly it to realize in the nineteenth century upon his soul with a pity that was of the real culture of the scholar with the greatest, of the arts, and for it instinct with that vivid life that lurks in daily sacrifice, more awful really than He felt keenly conscious of how barren on his ear. He collected together from that is sounded by the sentinels who sit de la vieille roche that was the envy of of the queen one could behold " of the Sun, on which were displayed bears, dogs, forests, rocks, hunters that the portrait still preserved, under him, and for his sake had braved possession of a good chef. And, after also, stirred within him. How curious it all the women one meets! There is all play with, such as romance, passion, all the same. They love being all , you said something to me the day all the heroines of romance - that she all that you have said, but somehow I all . I wonder if life has still in store for all that you have said to me. You are all been! She had often mimicked all these things. The portrait was to all . A feeling of pain crept over him all ? If thought could exercise its all . Why inquire too closely into it? all ?" "My dear Basil, how do I know all Harry's influence. I see that." The all that kind of thing. How different all the pathetic uselessness of all its wasted beauty. But, as I was all the miseries of life. I love beautiful all these. But the artistic temperament all , his indifference was probably all rather curious to learn who I was, all . No; I did it myself. The light all over. "Dorian!" "Don't speak!" all my best pictures for a special all to myself. I was only happy when I all been what art should be all that it meant to me. Harry, to whom all . It often seems to me that art all . He was too clever and too cynical all that I have told you." "My dear all now, and he felt sorry. There all costs. He could not run such a risk all . Give me the key." "And here is all were there. It was simply the all , Mr. Gray. I am delighted to be all , just as it is? I don't want all ! Every moment of his lonely all that was in store for him! But all ? There was no reason that the all , not at all, Mr. Gray. Ever all , Mr. Gray. Ever ready to do all their lives by some servant who all was! And how horribly real all the passions and modes of thought all the more poignant because it was all the grace and distinction and all the other arts seemed to be but a all grotesques, and that lends to all the sacrifices of the antique world, all intellectual speculation is when all parts of the world the strangest all day long in high trees, and can be all the connoisseurs. He discovered all the chaste ladies of the world, all the dainties and viands that could all , in fact, that a painter can copy all the foulness and ugliness of the all social censure and set convention all , it is a very poor consolation to be all seemed! And his mother with her - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 He felt that he had known them was a horrible fascination in them about here, but I don't feel at as I have sent on my heavy things. - do you know? - he was not at more difficult for me." "What is it your position, and your wealth, and you, I don't believe these rumours at when I am away from you, and I hear enough I know, and English society is over his friends. Yours seem to lose you look at it? You can tell the world did believe you, they would like me the portrait that was the origin of feeling of pity came over him. After t ask me to read anything to-night. an almost empty book-case - that was was simply asleep. How quickly it had had painted the fatal portrait to which morrow. I have some work to do." " dream. Yet he had not dreamed at He winced at the memory of in which he used to shut himself up shame comes on you. You deserve it disgraced. How dare you ask me, of listen to me. Only listen, Alan. living man, at any rate. I bore it from Campbell's lips and he shivered with anybody. However, that was Queen Elizabeth, and consequently they does not remember my short frocks at none of them had had any hearts at fan. "Lord Henry, I am not at hostess, laughing. "But really, if you you for your defects, where would you that would alter you much. Nowadays married men live like bachelors, and carefully to-night and draw out a list of well, Harry. I am tired. That is shall go home. I must go home." " shall have another if you drive fast." " the wild desire to live, most terrible of intense actuality of impression, than seconds his eyes grew sad. Yet, after is either killed, or, if it lives at and disobedience its charm. For do my job first. One minute. That's of the man he had sought to kill had to kill had all the bloom of boyhood, hardly older, if older indeed at Well, she made it out of nothing. hats are made out of nothing." "Like love with your eyes, if you ever love at romanticists." "Romanticists! You have Henry, "you merely fainted. That was failure thrust upon the weak. That was mere memory of the scene! He saw it was silly of me to come down here at come back, Duchess." "I have heard Henry. "It has no psychological value at are dreadfully out of order. That is all , those strange terrible figures that all . He saw them at night, and they all certain about it. I am sorry you All I have with me is in this bag, and all a bad servant. I never liked him, all about?" cried Dorian in his all that kind of thing. But position all . At least, I can't believe them when all these hideous things that people all wrong. That is the reason why I all sense of honour, of goodness, of all about it afterwards, if you choose. all the better for it. I know the age all his shame was to be burdened for all , what right had he to pry into the All I want is a plain answer to my all that it seemed to contain, besides all been done! He felt strangely calm, all his misery had been due had All right, sir." "Did any one call this all . His night had been untroubled by all that he had suffered, and for a all day long, greatly to the all . I should not be sorry to see you all men in the world, to mix myself All I ask of you is to perform a all . Now it is for me to dictate terms." all over. The ticking of the clock on all Narborough's fault. He was all fall asleep after dinner. You shan't all , Lord Henry. But I remember her all ." "Four husbands! Upon my word all surprised that the world says that all worship Madame de Ferrol in this all be? Not one of you would ever be all the married men live like all the bachelors like married men." all the eligible young ladies." "With all ." "You were charming last night. All right, Dorian. I dare say I shall All right, sir," answered the man, "you all man's appetites, quickened into all the gracious shapes of art, the all , what did it matter to him? One's all , lives but to give rebellion its all sins, as theologians weary not of all ." Dorian's arms fell to his side. all the bloom of boyhood, all the all the unstained purity of youth. He all , than his sister had been when All good hats are made out of all good reputations, Gladys," all ." "It seems to me that we never do all the methods of science." "Men all . You must have overtired yourself. all . Besides, had any stranger been all again. Each hideous detail came all . I think I shall send a wire to all about it, Mr. Gray," she answered. all . Now if Geoffrey had done the all . I am afraid I walked too far this - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 "One may lose one's way." " I am quite sure that I loved her. is not broken. Of course, she cried and that Basil never arrived in Paris at It must be a delightful city, and possess It does not seem to me to be at for a character that doesn't suit you. suit you. All crime is vulgar, just as be able to give me an answer. That is has been hidden from you. And it has the revivalist, warning people against show the world its own shame. That is he had brought to shame. But was it unsullied splendour of eternal youth! than we are ourselves? Or, perhaps, But this murder - was it to dog him so it would kill the painter's work, and one of the top windows, the house was master as they had last seen him, in 1 2 reason why she should not contract an what The Morning Post calls a suitable 1 time to time between his explosions. An 1 2 3 4 5 paint you again. You really must not cried Dorian Gray; "and I don't now, my dear young friend, if you will - I have some. Basil, I can't it. Then it was that I resolved never to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 personality was so fascinating that, if I - which, of course, I would not have If they were again. It had been mad of him to have got rid of at once. He must not be Rio Negro Indians, that women are not whom no pure-minded girl should be park? Why, even her children are not not do that." "Women are not always 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 stirred me. We were quite close, the words seemed wrung out of him and taking Hallward by the arm, he him by its suggestion of a strange, figure like a beer-barrel. Mercutio was was a fiasco. The last act was played to of cruelty round the warped lips. He gazing at the portrait with a feeling of I should have thought she was she played so badly, and my heart the portrait wondering at its beauty, He had absolutely nothing to do, his own secret, he had succeeded, and began to dress for dinner. It was All ways end at the same point, my All during this wonderful May that we all that. But there is no disgrace all . I suppose in about a fortnight we all the attractions of the next world." all probable. I know there are All crime is vulgar, just as all all vulgarity is crime. It is not in you, all . I was going through the park last all been to you no more than the all the sins of which you have grown all . But we won't discuss literature. all irretrievable? Was there no hope All his failure had been due to that. all these? And why was the red stain all his life? Was he always to be all that that meant. It would kill the all dark. After a time, he went away all the wonder of his exquisite youth - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 alliance with him. I trust he is one of alliance , and I want you both to be - CH. 5 - CH. 15 alliterative prefix served as an - CH. 15 alliance 2 alliterative 1 allow 5 allow allow allow allow allow yourself to become sunburnt. It people to call me a silly boy." me to call you so, may I ask if you to smoke cigars. You must the picture to be exhibited. You - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 6 - CH. 9 allowed 9 allowed allowed allowed allowed allowed allowed allowed allowed allowed it to do so, it would absorb - but I assure you that in any their own way, every comedy the thing to remain, even for to know where the picture to look at and that even to know, and whom no chaste to live with her. Then there a choice," he answered, but - CH. 1 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 17 almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost touching. Our eyes met again. It against his will. "What nonsense led him into the house. modern romance. A beautiful as bad. He was played by the empty benches. The curtain dreaded his valet leaving the scientific interest. That such a younger than that. She looked broke. She explained it all to enamoured of it, as it seemed died of ennui, and became a by chance, in wresting a secret nine o'clock before he reached - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 almost 33 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 which he seemed, at times, to have been so remarkable. It was with an ready to accept the position that was of those dreamless nights that make us in whatever he took up - he was fear that seemed to him at times to be that had made him so suddenly, and starting up from the sofa and turning picture, an old Italian cassone, and an to think. Every year - every month, was a genial warmth in the air. It was romantic, background was everything, or great friends once, five years before strangely melancholy at times, appeared I am in. Just before you came I yes, Harry." "He bores me dreadfully, something that he longed for and yet drooped till the long fringed lashes of shot in his chest. He must have died almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost entirely lost control. The hero, cruel joy - and perhaps in immediately offered to him enamoured of death, or one of saddened by the reflection of too great to be borne. Upon without cause, give utterance, white from fear. "Yes," empty book-case - that was all - men were strangled in like a morning in May. everything. Basil had been inseparable, indeed. Then the to dislike hearing music, and fainted with terror. You may as much as he bores her. She loathed. His breath quickened. touched his cheek. But he still instantaneously. Come; let us - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 aloes 1 1 hovenia, that makes men mad; and of 1 the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloes , that are said to be able to - CH. 11 aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped - CH. 11 alone , Mr. Gray." "I should like that alone at the club for some time alone are wonderful things revealed; alone . He says things that annoy me. alone with this rough stern son of hers. alone that made him gloomy and alone . Basil, you must go. Ah! can' alone , with a look of triumph on her alone . I hate the stage. I might mimic a alone he would have to examine the alone when he looked upon the mask alone with it, I felt that I was right.... alone , in the morning-room, looking alone or with Lord Henry, listening alone in her villa at Mentone. Your alone , he lit a cigarette and began alone ." He went to his room and - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 17 along along along along along along along - CH. 3 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 aloft 1 alone 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Well, then, you and I will go up, but, egad, Kelso ate his chop wakened that wonderful vision to which to him. I don't want to see him she had felt ill at ease when she was at leaving home. Yet it was not this cried the lad. "I want to be greenroom. The girl was standing there away with you, where we can be quite He knew that when he was both doors. At least he would be the picture was finished, and I sat where he found Lord Henry sitting sit in his box at the opera, either had written to him when she was dying get his address." As soon as he was would rather come down. I must not be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 been his father's secretary, had resigned a gold and silver ground, and fringed as if in pursuit. Dorian Gray hurried a black shadow that had been creeping we get to new ground." Dorian strolled At the same time, the firing ceased life had brought its sure swift penalty 1 wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In 1 2 He would seek to dominate him - had looking supercilious. "My uncle has along 7 with his chief, somewhat foolishly the edges with broideries of the quay through the drizzling the dripping wall moved out by his side. The keen aromatic the line. "Here," answered Sir with it. There was purification alphonso' 1 Alphonso' s Clericalis Disciplina a - CH. 11 already 18 already , indeed, half done so. He already suggested pork-packing, Sir - CH. 3 - CH. 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 himself, came over him. It had altered making his choice. Or had his choice into his bedroom, where his valet was him from those sins that seemed to be five o'clock and that the tea had been the picture - had no doubt missed it know his secret then. Perhaps the world no alternative. I have a letter written with which he was threatened had Dorian. "Oh! my maid does that Bournemouth's eldest son. He has smiling. "I am a little changed would soon pass away. It was was waiting for. Surely he had begun it the face. Perhaps the signs of evil had as if the load had been lifted from him 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 appearance of a new personality for art and, I am afraid, one of her victims the great sins of the world take place -instinct, in her, but she has personality of spirit with matter was a mystery much more of life. He must be sure, dominant within him. He was conscious and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine given to him? But he had suffered his strange likeness to his mother, and He discovered wonderful stories, He had a special passion, was St. Sebastian. He had chasubles, was such a part of his life, and was thin-lipped woman in black. Her blood, of your repentance will be answered more than once. He spent a long time looked back, the woman had vanished to him to pre-figure death for himself 1 2 tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; of an epigram." "The world goes to the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 It will be a great pity, for it will like it in appearance. But it will never him. It had altered already, and would joy? Surely a painted canvas could not it seemed to him at times. Was it to terrible power. If the picture was to If the picture was to alter, it was to mechanically, as though words could Not, however, that that would his." "My dear Gladys, I would not loved. Difference of object does not a new ideal, Harry. I am going to not to think of the past. Nothing could 1 2 3 the friendship between them had never warm with his breath. Then wisdom callous and cold. She has entirely already , and would alter more. Its gold already been made? Yes, life had already waiting for him. An hour later already stirring in spirit and in flesh already brought up. On a little table already , while he had been laying the already suspected it. For, while he already . Here it is. You see the already come upon him. The hand already , Mr. Gray, when she is already copied your neckties, and has already ." "You cannot change to me, already waning. He was perfectly safe already . He had spared one innocent already gone away. He would go and already . He went in quietly, locking - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 also . What the invention of oil-painting also ." "I am in Lady Agatha's black also . You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, also ; and you have often told me that also . He began to wonder whether we also , to write to her by every mail, and also of the shallowness and vanity of also . I believed in everything. The also . During the three terrible hours also for other reasons, he had always also , about jewels. In Alphonso's also , for ecclesiastical vestments, as also , of amber-coloured silk, and blue also afraid that during his absence also , stirred within him. How curious also . I worshipped you too much. I also over breakfast, tasting the various also . also . He had nearly swooned at what - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 altar frontals of crimson velvet and altar of its own accord," was the - CH. 11 - CH. 18 alter you. What you have told me is alter ," sighed Hallward. "That is alter more. Its gold would wither into alter ? The thing was absurd. It would alter now with every mood to which he alter , it was to alter. That was all. alter . That was all. Why inquire too alter things. "You must. You have no alter you much. Nowadays all the alter either name for the world. They alter singleness of passion. It merely alter . I think I have altered." "You alter that. It was of himself, and of his - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 altered him. Suddenly there had come altered its method and spoke of espial altered . Last night she was a great - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 also 19 altar 2 alter 13 altered 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 no doubt that the whole expression had of himself, came over him. It had It was perfectly true. The portrait had grievance redressed, or some unjust law It was simply the expression that had picture! What did it mean? Why had it I am going to alter. I think I have 1 violet spinels, and amethysts with their 1 he murmured, "but you leave me no 1 2 that is in an English Blue Book, Harry, and came to those wonderful lines - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 and as a natural consequence he beautiful creature who should be we have no flowers to look at, and gets confused over her dates, and I independent I am by nature. I have been my own master; had at least forward an idea to a true Englishman in the plain woodland the wonder I had wonder I had always looked for and afternoon in Curzon Street. I am nearly that graceful wave of the hand that was you go, you charm the world. Will it you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be I am glad now. I wonder shall I I wonder shall I always be glad?" " dreadful. But this picture will remain way! If it were I who was to be or your silver Faun. You will like them picture could change, and I could be better for keeping your promises. He could have produced him, and he one lives charmingly upon it. Besides, I me about the English noble who was stay in their own country? They are giving me the information I wanted. I warbled the duchess. "I have Henry had not yet come in. He was was a curious woman, whose dresses isn't it, Mr. Gray? I the first romance of your life. You will You will always be loved, and you will as one knows their bonnets. One can some day. When one is in love, one begins by deceiving one's self, and one me." "You were quite right. There is opening his blue eyes in wonder. "You He had been be revealed to us. As it was, we question is a perfect gentleman. He is son, you distress me very much. Sibyl is does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is handsome. "I hope you will altered . It was not a mere fancy of his altered already, and would alter more. altered . As he often remembered altered - I forget exactly what it was. altered . That was horrible in its altered ? He turned and looked at altered ." "You have not yet told me - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 13 - CH. 19 alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. - CH. 11 alternative . I have a letter written - CH. 14 alternate 1 alternative 1 although 2 although those fellows nowadays write Although I joy in thee, I have no joy - CH. 3 - CH. 7 always looks absolutely delightful. Your always here in winter when we have always here in summer when we want always do. But when she does find me always been my own master; had at always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. always a rash thing to do - he never always looked for and always missed." always missed." "Basil, this is always at home at five o'clock. Write always so characteristic of him, and always be so? ... You have a always searching for new sensations. Be always be glad?" "Always! That is a Always ! That is a dreadful word. It always young. It will never be older always young, and the picture that was always . How long will you like me? always what I am now! Why did you always breaks his own. I beg you not always said that the country was going always deal with Dartmoor's tradesmen, always quarrelling with the cabmen always telling us that it is the paradise always like to know everything about always felt rather guilty when I came always late on principle, his principle always looked as if they had been always hear Harry's views from his always be loved, and you will always always be in love with love. A grande always find them. There is no mystery always begins by deceiving one's self, always ends by deceiving others. That always something infinitely mean about always come dreadfully late." "Well, I always enthralled by the methods of always misunderstood ourselves and always most polite to me. Besides, he always under my special care. Of always from the noblest motives." "I always be very happy, Dorian," said - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 always 110 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 say anything about marriage, and they curiosity. I have a theory that it is approval. When we are happy, we are but when we are good, we are not its gods. They worship us, and are with the desire to do masterpieces and why I like you so much." "You will can one want? Yes, Dorian, you will tired look in his eyes, "but I am was so bad to-night. Why I shall of the empty pageant in which I had There is he often remembered afterwards, and would have treated her kindly. One can about good resolutions - that they are many, but there have been some - have never remember its details. Details are rejoined his companion. "Life has the whole world for me. That is know when the curtain has fallen. They Vane did for you. Ordinary women -five who is fond of pink ribbons. It loses one's own. In good society that really died. To you at least she was died for love of him, and love would surrender the chance of remaining She lived her finest tragedy. She was me less. I am changed, but you must be out of town. And if you keep it your picture again, I am content. I have shown in the work one creates. Art is and I are friends, Basil, and we must thing would still live on. It would be But it was too late now. The past could for people to come to him. But he and also for other reasons, he had I was thinking of something else." " pearl-coloured octagonal stand that had book on the little Florentine table that dishonour when they saw him. He had in the settling of which Lord Henry and certainly the Roman ritual had us, and the subtle antinomianism that As he investigated the subject - and he would you like hock-and-seltzer? I into an amateur curate for the moment for your good. You know I have been played there, and after that used to be their intimacy lasted. Campbell was they met and that Campbell seemed one of her especial favourites, and she -seven, with a hooked nose, who was Mr. Gray should get married?" "I am somewhat overdressed by being How inquisitive you are, Harry! You to know what one has been doing. I he threw his head back and laughed. "I I could not do that." "Women are not and finely wrought temperaments it is yawned. "Basil was very popular, and I should fancy, however, that murder is always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always Always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always always remind us." Hallward laid his the women who propose to us, good, but when we are good, happy." "Ah! but what do you bothering us to do something prevent us from carrying them like me, Dorian," he replied. be fond of me. I represent to ready for a new emotion. I am be bad. Why I shall never act played. To-night, for the first something ridiculous about the with no small wonder, he found be kind to people about whom made too late. Mine certainly insisted on living on, long after vulgar." "I must sow poppies in poppies in her hands. Of a dreadful moment. It fills one want a sixth act, and as soon console themselves. Some of means that they have a history. whitewashes a woman. But a dream, a phantom that flitted be a sacrament to him now. young, however fantastic that a heroine. The last night she be my friend. Of course, I am behind a screen, you can't care you to look at. If you wish the more abstract than we fancy. remain so." "You have got alive. He shuddered, and for a be annihilated. Regret, denial, made an exception in favour of hated and desired to keep at a glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," looked to him like the work stood at his bedside and began the look of one who had kept assisted him, were noted as a great attraction for him. The seems to accompany it, moved had an extraordinary faculty of take hock-and-seltzer myself. began by saying that, and then a stanch friend to you." "Don't seen together at the opera and either at Selby Royal or in to go away early from any told him that she was trying to get herself telling him so, Lady absolutely over-educated. He is want to know what one has want to forget what I have agree with Harry, Duchess." allowed a choice," he answered, so. Their strong passions must wore a Waterbury watch. Why a mistake. One should never - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 bad painting and good intentions that her latest wonder. As for the aged, I cried out against us both, but it has but it has always worshipped you. It said Lord Henry. "You and I will and answered that wicked people were it to dog him all his life? Was he always always always always always always always entitles a man to be called a contradict the aged. I do it on worshipped you. It always will will worship you. You are the be friends." "Yet you poisoned very old and very ugly. What a to be burdened by his past? - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 am 232 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 answered the artist. "Of course I like him. You shrug your shoulders? I now I never tell my people where I dear Basil. You seem to forget that I is, and my wife never knows what I it - much better, in fact, than I Lord Henry pulled out his watch. "I I will not exhibit this picture is that I of perplexity came over his face. "I Harry," answered the painter; "and I from the grass and examined it. "I yourself, Harry, how independent I each other without any introduction. I Hallward, frowning. "My dear fellow, I a sitter. I won't tell you that I and that his name was Dorian Gray. I I had known it was your friend." "I to-day, Dorian." "Oh, I You are one of her favourites, and, I afraid, one of her victims also." "I t know what she will say to me. I smiled and looked at Dorian Gray. " "You are very pressing, Basil, but I me some afternoon in Curzon Street. I It is quite true, I never talk when I was unconscious of the silence. "Basil, I is stifling here." "My dear fellow, I dear fellow, I am so sorry. When I been in better form for painting than I turned to each other and smiled. "I Henry, looking at him. "Yes, I And you have sat splendidly to-day. I like your art better than your friends. I burning. "Yes," he continued, "I thing worth having. When I find that I who are finer than any of them!" "I everything whose beauty does not die. I change, and I could be always what I cried. "It would be murder!" "I thought you would." "Appreciate it? I many things, but he is not rational. I I can send him a wire to say that I to say that I am ill, or that I of the portrait, strolling across to him. " time, so you might have known her. I the Americans." "They don't last, I Uncle George, for Dartmoor's sake. I any more with her charity appeals. I "Really, some one should interfere." "I Lord Henry. Sir Thomas frowned. "I Lady Agatha, "how you men argue! I you are talking about. Oh! Harry, I am not like him. I know that perfectly am telling you the truth. There is a am going. If I did, I would lose all am married, and the one charm of am doing. When we meet - we do am . She never gets confused over her am afraid I must be going, Basil," he am afraid that I have shown in it the am all expectation, Basil," continued his am afraid you will hardly understand it. am quite sure I shall understand it," am by nature. I have always been my am sure of that. Dorian told me so am not quite serious. But I can't help am dissatisfied with what I have done am bound to state that she never told am very glad you didn't, Harry." "Why am tired of sitting, and I don't want a am afraid, one of her victims also." "I am in Lady Agatha's black books at am far too frightened to call." "Oh, I Am I to go, Mr. Gray?" he asked am afraid I must go. I have promised am nearly always at home at five am working, and never listen either, am tired of standing," cried Dorian am so sorry. When I am painting, I am painting, I can't think of anything am to-day. This is going to be my am waiting," he cried. "Do come in. am glad now. I wonder shall I always am awfully obliged to you." "That is am no more to you than a green am less to you than your ivory am growing old, I shall kill myself." am jealous of everything whose beauty am jealous of the portrait you have am now! Why did you paint it? It will am glad you appreciate my work at am in love with it, Basil. It is part am glad he is not, after all - though I am ill, or that I am prevented from am prevented from coming in Am I really like that?" "Yes; you are am very much interested in Mr. Gray am told," muttered his uncle. "A long am told that pork-packing is the most am sick of them. Why, the good am told, on excellent authority, that am afraid that your nephew is am sure I never can make out what am quite vexed with you. Why do you - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 except the weather," he answered. "I is going to be in the chair. If I delightful and dreadfully demoralizing. I "why don't you write one?" "I over some admirable Burgundy I bid good-bye to your excellent aunt. I " Lord Henry laughed and rose. "I you are, Harry!" he murmured. "I Dorian smiled and shook his head: "I like good music. I adore it, but I But he has been most pleasant. I am so glad I've seen him." "I both with an amused smile. "So sorry I everything and the value of nothing." "I You are dining out, I suppose? So both are disappointed." "I don't think I think I am likely to marry, Harry. I love. That is one of your aphorisms. I My dear Dorian, it is quite true. I laughing. It is horrid of you!" "I I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I - don't commit crimes, Dorian. But I too much champagne, or something." "I hidden away in that little ivory body, I designed by himself, and, though I being a whole month younger than I be, if you say it. And now I "Mother, Mother, I their dingy sitting-room contained. "I head. "Happy!" she echoed, "I But what does he see in me? I so much. Don't look so sad. I ever see this horrid London again. I Let us go to the park." "I "You are not listening to a word I saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, "and I are more likely to forget me than I He is going to be there, and I sitting there! To play for his delight! I lover, my god of graces. But I "I he answered, "and I know what I used to be so fond of acting in. I and stooping down, he kissed her. "I recollection at all of being engaged. I I should ever be more serious than I none the less interesting. You know I her belief makes me good. When I from what you have known me to be. I in his slow melodious voice. "But I a tired look in his eyes, "but I I am always ready for a new emotion. I Dorian, you will come with me. I and you will see the girl to whom I can't act. Let us go." "I lad, in a hard bitter voice. "I don't leave me!" she whispered. "I Her tears and sobs annoyed him. "I the window?" Dorian shook his head. "I Dorian looked at him for a moment. "I the picture, and unlocked the door. "I am quite content with philosophic am late he is sure to be furious, and I am sure I don't know what to say am too fond of reading books to care am fortunate enough to possess." "I am due at the Athenaeum. It is the am going to the park," he cried. As he am afraid it is not Harry, Mr. Gray," am afraid I don't think so, Lady am afraid of it. It makes me too am so glad I've seen him." "I am am charmed, my love, quite charmed," am late, Dorian. I went to look after a am afraid I must be going," exclaimed am I. Perhaps I shall see you at Lady am likely to marry, Harry. I am too am too much in love. That is one of am putting it into practice, as I do am analysing women at present, so I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am am not laughing at you. But you am much obliged for the compliment, am not surprised." "Then he asked me am filled with awe." "You can dine am a little jealous of the picture for am , I must admit that I delight in it. am off. Imogen is waiting for me. am so happy!" whispered the girl, am so happy!" she repeated, "and you am only happy, Sibyl, when I see you am not worthy of him. And yet - why, am as happy to-day as you were am sure I don't want to." "My son am too shabby," he answered, frowning. am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, "and I am making the most delightful plans am to forget you, Sibyl." She flushed. " am to play Juliet. Oh! how I shall play am afraid I may frighten the company, am poor beside him. Poor? What does am sixteen," he answered, "and I know am about. Mother is no help to you. am not going to quarrel with you. I am sorry if I have pained you by am inclined to think that I never was am at the present moment." "But do am not a champion of marriage. The am with her, I regret all that you have am changed, and the mere touch of am afraid I cannot claim my theory as am always ready for a new emotion. I am afraid, however, that, for me at any am so sorry, Basil, but there is only am going to give all my life, to whom I am going to see the play through," am awfully sorry that I have made am so sorry I didn't act well. I was am going," he said at last in his calm am not cold," he murmured. Was it all am not at home to any one, Victor," am so sorry for it all, Dorian," said - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 brutal. But it is all right now. I know myself better." "Ah, Dorian, I shaking his head and smiling. "I days ago I asked Sibyl to marry me. I happily in my garden. And to-night I I do? You don't know the danger I as I want to? I don't think I explanation, Harry," he rejoined, "but I "but I am glad you don't think I glad you don't think I am heartless. I I know I me that I had spoiled her life. I of art. You are more fortunate than I me quite beautiful about her death. I beautiful about her death. I am glad I cruel to her. You forget that." "I the same. They love being dominated. I will see her name on the door. But I to it," said Dorian listlessly. "But I Hallward was shown into the room. "I I can't tell you how heart-broken I taught me to be vain." "Well, I Well, I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I passions, new thoughts, new ideas. I but you must not like me less. I must always be my friend. Of course, I Basil, and don't quarrel with me. I don't quarrel with me. I am what I "Only my Christian name, and that I to you again as long as I live. I see my own work, especially as I never to look at your picture again, I done to be hidden from the world, I just as pleasant." "Pleasanter for you, I regretfully. "And now good-bye. I a religious subject, Mr. Gray." "I No trouble at all, Mr. Gray. I perhaps you had better go in front. I And he wiped his shiny forehead. "I he said, wearily, turning round. "I I shan't trouble you any more now. I -room, looking very much bored. "I to bed, as he let me out. I don't feel at all certain about it. I you will be back soon?" "No: I "I hope it is not about myself. I it is entirely for your own sake that I down to the studio now, and when I writes his friend's name across a bill, know? But it is said of you. I and their throbbing cores of flame. "I deny them! Can't you see what I in a low voice. "Yes." "I also. I worshipped you too much. I half-dressed and looking very drowsy. "I away to catch his train." "Oh! I This one will have to interest you. I one man who is able to save me. I matter, whatever it is. Do you think I "It was suicide, Alan." "I am not sorry for anything that has am so glad you take it in that way! I am perfectly happy now. I know what am not going to break my word to her. am to dine with you, and then go on am in, and there is nothing to keep am heartless. Do you?" "You have am glad you don't think I am heartless. am heartless. I am nothing of the kind. am nothing of the kind. I know I am am not. And yet I must admit that this am bound to state that she ate an am . I assure you, Dorian, that not one am glad I am living in a century when am living in a century when such am afraid that women appreciate am sure you were splendid. I have am sorry you won't come and dine." "I am awfully obliged to you for all that am so glad I have found you, Dorian," am about the whole thing. I know am punished for that, Dorian - or shall am not like that young man you told am a man now. I have new passions, am different, but you must not like me am changed, but you must always be am very fond of Harry. But I know am what I am. There is nothing more am . There is nothing more to be said. am quite sure she never mentioned to am quite serious. I don't offer any am going to exhibit it in Paris in the am content. I have always you to look am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer am afraid," murmured Hallward am sorry you won't let me look at the am so sorry you have given yourself am delighted to be of any service to am afraid it is right at the top of the am afraid it is rather heavy," am sorry I kept you so long. I was am much obliged for your kindness in am so sorry, Harry," he cried, "but am off to Paris by the midnight train, am sorry you are going away, as I am going to be out of England for six am tired of myself to-night. I should am speaking. I think it right that you am away from you, and I hear all am I his keeper? I know how people am told things that it seems am waiting, Basil," said the young am going through? My God! don't am delighted," he answered, smiling. am punished for it. You worshipped am sorry to have had to wake you am sorry I didn't see him. Did he am awfully sorry for you, Alan. But am forced to bring you into the am going to peril my reputation for am glad of that. But who drove him - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 If it is discovered, I desire to help you. You forget that. I I entreat you. Think of the position I If you don't come to my assistance, I putting his hand upon his shoulder. "I culminated in crime. In doing what I do - it is not of your life that I "Yes," said Dorian. "And I You can have the evening to yourself. I him with her fan. "Lord Henry, I me to dinner again after saying this, I that Mr. Gray should get married?" "I I smoke a great deal too much. I rather out of sorts at dinner." "I "I am quite well, Harry. I "Don't mind me, Harry. I He wanted to escape from himself. "I now." Dorian shrugged his shoulders. "I to go back. What does it matter? I better confess your sin, for as sure as I as bad." "He is not the man I since Prince Charming made me what I her hand up to heaven. "Before God I me away to him," she whined; "I up at him with her wonderful eyes. "I satisfied with my own name, and I hand, no one is more ready than I Too often." The duchess sighed. "I "Greek meets Greek, then?" "I That a burnt child loves the fire." "I he asked. "Oh! I remember. He could not finish the sentence. "I Harry. Don't laugh like that. I who has just died is better off than I into his pocket. "Tell her Grace that I the passion and forgotten the desire. I the loveliest of little live things. But I dreadfully out of order. That is all. I "It came to you crowned." "I too many dreadful things in my life. I For I have a new ideal, Harry. I a village. But I really loved her. I suggest the most serious tragedies. I of sin. I want to be better. I you, Dorian, to commit a murder. I did. But I never really liked it. I a soul, but that man had not. I youth. You must have some secret. I ten years older than you are, and I you are the young Apollo and that I is old, but that one is young. I you. You are still the same." "I and what it is afraid it has found. I been exquisite," he murmured, "but I a sad look in his eyes. "But I heard from it before." "It is because I be good," he answered, smiling. "I literature. Come round to-morrow. I am lost; and it is sure to be am simply indifferent to the whole am in. Just before you came I almost am ruined. Why, they will hang me, am so sorry for you, Alan," he am going to do - what you force me am thinking." "Ah, Alan," murmured am afraid, Francis, that I have another am not dining at home, so I shall not am not at all surprised that the world am afraid, Lady Narborough, but it is am always telling him so, Lady am going to limit myself, for the am quite well, Harry. I am tired. That am tired. That is all." "You were am irritable, and out of temper. I am going on to the other place," he am sick of women who love one. am quite happy here." "You will write am James Vane, you are going to die. am looking for," he answered, "and I am ." "You lie!" cried James Vane. She am telling the truth," she cried. am afraid of him. Let me have some am quite satisfied with my own name, am sure Mr. Gray should be satisfied am to acknowledge that it is better to am searching for peace," she said, am on the side of the Trojans. They am not even singed. My wings are Am I safe here, Harry?" He began to am afraid so," rejoined Lord Henry. am telling you the truth. The am . I have no terror of death. It is am coming in," he said, coldly. The am too much concentrated on myself. am sorry they told you about the man. am afraid I walked too far this am tired of strawberry leaves." "They am not going to do any more. I am going to alter. I think I have am quite sure that I loved her. All am sorry I told you now. I don't care am going to be better. Tell me am sorry if I hurt your vanity by am sorry I sat for it. The memory of am afraid, however, he would not am only ten years older than you are, am wrinkled, and worn, and yellow. am Marsyas listening to you. I have am amazed sometimes at my own am not the same, Harry." "Yes, you am so glad that you have never done am not going to have the same life, am tired to-night, Harry. I shan't am going to be good," he answered, am a little changed already." "You am going to ride at eleven. We might - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 amarre au pilier, Devant une facade - CH. 14 amarre 1 1 aborde et me depose, Jetant son amateur 1 1 every man who turned himself into an 1 violin and the piano better than most 1 2 He felt intensely interested. He was old, but that one is young. I am 1 2 3 4 5 6 his eyebrows and looked at him in I dare say." The painter stared in Verona. I think, from his blank look of " he answered, gazing at her in up and looking at him in perplexed He looked at Dorian Gray in absolute 1 -bills. A hideous Jew, in the most 1 inhales the air; the harsh ture of the 1 amused him. His father had been our 1 wife to one of our most tedious 1 2 3 Sebastian. He had chasubles, also, of fan, by a gilded pomander and by an where the Hadjis sit counting their 1 that made one mystical, and in 1 Erskine. "I myself used to have literary 1 would go back to Sibyl Vane, make her 1 2 3 4 5 is the most lucrative profession in means anything that he says." "When is most unfair." "Perhaps, after all, die?" inquired the duchess. "They go to do now and then, Harry." "Except in 1 strange romance 'A Margarite of 1 2 about Dartmoor wanting to marry an got any?" Lord Henry shook his head. " amateur curate for the moment - CH. 12 amateurs . In fact, it was music that - CH. 14 amazed at the sudden impression that amazed sometimes at my own - CH. 2 - CH. 19 amateurs 1 amazed 2 amazement 6 amazement through the thin blue amazement . It was so unlike Dorian to amazement , that he was under the amazement . "Horribly! It was dreadful. amazement . "But, my dear Dorian - " " amazement . He had never seen him - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my - CH. 4 Amazon tribes, that is sounded by the - CH. 11 ambassador at Madrid when Isabella - CH. 3 ambassadors , and having buried her - CH. 15 amber -coloured silk, and blue silk and amber chain. Dorian Gray had been amber beads and the turbaned - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 ambergris that stirred one's passions, - CH. 11 amazing 1 amazon 1 ambassador 1 ambassadors 1 amber 3 ambergris 1 ambitions 1 ambitions , but I gave them up long - CH. 3 amends , marry her, try to love her - CH. 7 America , after politics." "Is she pretty?" America was discovered," said the America never has been discovered," America ," murmured Lord Henry. Sir America ," rejoined Lord Henry - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 6 amends 1 america 5 america' 1 America' , it was stated that in the - CH. 11 American ? Ain't English girls good American girls are as clever at - CH. 3 - CH. 3 american 7 3 4 5 6 7 behaves as if she was beautiful. Most of their charm." "Why can't these authority, that her father keeps an Sir Thomas." "Dry-goods! What are in wonder and accentuating the verb. " 1 2 3 4 5 6 him?" "It is rather fashionable to marry with his fist. "The betting is on the the same." "They say that when good off clothes. "Really! And where do bad things, not to read about them. The you there is no nonsense about the 1 2 nature quiver. His eyes deepened into the hyacinth provoked sleep, and the 1 orange and violet spinels, and 1 2 3 and when the light summer wind stirred people go by." They took their seats me." A quarter of an hour afterwards, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 there? His fingers were straying about gave rise to such strange conjecture Indeed, there were many, especially Outside, there is the stirring of birds either in the tombs of dead nations or medallions of many saints and martyrs, face with colours, and plied the distaff Her white hands were moving daintily 1 2 3 4 5 6 ideal, it may be. But the bravest man his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint on him, and the consciousness that people. It has had that excellent effect, Dorian Gray to be the true object, or a jaded-looking man of sixty, was 1 gorges rondes Que souleve un soupir d' 1 every one who knew her, and of those 1 of the milky opal. He procured from 1 of them. You shall sit by me and 1 2 them from the tea-table with an by Society as he fed the people who American women do. It is the secret American women stay in their own American dry-goods store," said Sir American dry-goods?" asked the American novels," answered Lord - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 Americans just now, Uncle George." Americans ." "They don't last, I am told Americans die they go to Paris," Americans go to when they die?" Americans are an extremely interesting Americans ." "How dreadful!" cried - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 amethyst , and across them came a mist amethyst drove away the fumes of - CH. 2 - CH. 11 amethysts with their alternate layers - CH. 11 amidst the trees of the garden, there amidst a crowd of watchers. The amidst an extraordinary turmoil of - CH. 1 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 americans 6 amethyst 2 amethysts 1 amidst 3 among 8 among among among among among among among among the litter of tin tubes and dry those who were his friends, or the very young men, who saw, the leaves, or the sound of the few savage tribes that whom was St. Sebastian. He the women, and brought the the cups, and her full red lips - CH. 2 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 17 amongst 6 amongst amongst amongst amongst amongst amongst us is afraid of himself. The women, but so dreadfully his audience there was one others. We are to see her the true objects, of life; and his guests. It was tea-time, - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 6 - CH. 11 - CH. 17 amour . L'esquif aborde et me depose, - CH. 14 amour 1 ample 1 ample architectural proportions that in - CH. 3 amsterdam 1 Amsterdam three emeralds of - CH. 11 amuse me." Dorian murmured a - CH. 15 amuse 1 amused 6 amused smile. "I must go, Basil," he amused him. His father had been our - CH. 2 - CH. 3 3 4 5 6 her head, but could not help being and looking at them both with an was something about him, Harry, that gone bankrupt over a poet. Hallward 1 life. He pictured to himself with silent 1 of slavery, and we try to solve it by amused . Mr. Erskine listened. "Yes," he amused smile. "So sorry I am late, amused me. He was such a monster. amused himself with watching the faces - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 amusement the tedious luncheon that - CH. 1 amusing the slaves." The politician - CH. 3 amusement 1 amusing 1 an 229 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 There is no such thing as a moral or of art consists in the perfect use of No artist has ethical sympathies. sympathies. An ethical sympathy in An ethical sympathy in an artist is are to the artist instruments of virtue are to the artist materials for of Tokyo who, through the medium of In the centre of the room, clamped to and you - well, of course you have But beauty, real beauty, ends where ashamed of your own virtues. You are "I will tell you," said Hallward; but public that we are not savages. With Brandon treats her guests exactly as to your category I must be merely old Basil, you are much more than and that if any one of us makes that observation. If one puts forward believes it oneself. Now, the value of - his personality has suggested to me to me an entirely new manner in art, have invented a realism that is vulgar, I hate them for it," cried Hallward. " of his own life into them. We live in a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, all that! As he thought of his aunt, whatever charm it possesses: my life as "This is Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian, as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, similar experience. He had merely shot everything. After about a quarter of that!" "You would hardly care for such dine at White's, but it is only with watching them from the tea-table with Well, I can tell you anything that is in I was at her christening. She was months after the marriage. There was me about Dartmoor wanting to marry boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes; it was Talking to him was like playing upon the most satisfying joy left to us in age so limited and vulgar as our own, occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, authority, that her father keeps extremely civil. I assure you that it is to read about them. The Americans are an immoral book. Books are - THE PREFACE an imperfect medium. No - THE PREFACE An ethical sympathy in an - THE PREFACE an artist is an unpardonable - THE PREFACE an unpardonable mannerism - THE PREFACE an art. Vice and virtue are - THE PREFACE an art. From the point of - THE PREFACE an art that is necessarily immobile, - CH. 1 an upright easel, stood the full-length - CH. 1 an intellectual expression and all that. - CH. 1 an intellectual expression begins. - CH. 1 an extraordinary fellow. You never say - CH. 1 an expression of perplexity came over - CH. 1 an evening coat and a white tie, as - CH. 1 an auctioneer treats his goods. She - CH. 1 an acquaintance." "My dear old Basil, - CH. 1 an acquaintance." "And much less than - CH. 1 an ass of himself, he is poaching on - CH. 1 an idea to a true Englishman - always - CH. 1 an idea has nothing whatsoever to do - CH. 1 an entirely new manner in art, an - CH. 1 an entirely new mode of style. I see - CH. 1 an ideality that is void. Harry! if you - CH. 1 An artist should create beautiful things, - CH. 1 an age when men treat art as if it - CH. 1 an ornament for a summer's day." - CH. 1 an idea seemed to strike him. He - CH. 1 an artist depends on him. Mind, Harry, - CH. 1 an old Oxford friend of mine. I have - CH. 2 an echo of some one else's music, an - CH. 2 an actor of a part that has not been - CH. 2 an arrow into the air. Had it hit the - CH. 2 an hour Hallward stopped painting, - CH. 2 an arrangement, Basil," cried Lord - CH. 2 an old friend, so I can send him a wire - CH. 2 an amused smile. "I must go, Basil," - CH. 2 an English Blue Book, Harry, although - CH. 3 an extraordinarily beautiful girl, - CH. 3 an ugly story about it. They said Kelso - CH. 3 an American? Ain't English girls good - CH. 3 an old and loveless man. Yes; it was an - CH. 3 an interesting background. It posed the - CH. 3 an exquisite violin. He answered to - CH. 3 an age so limited and vulgar as our - CH. 3 an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, - CH. 3 an old gentleman of considerable - CH. 3 an American dry-goods store," said Sir - CH. 3 an education to visit it." "But must we - CH. 3 an extremely interesting people. They - CH. 3 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 characteristic. Yes, Mr. Erskine, century has gone bankrupt through one is young," she answered. "When s black, dripping, sloping sides. It was forty arm-chairs. We are practising for fingers he turned over the pages of and looking at them both with going," exclaimed Lady Henry, breaking asked Lord Henry after a pause. "With Others filled me with terror. There was About half-past eight I passed by a vile cigar. He had greasy ringlets, and saw me, and he took off his hat with I have seen her die in the gloom of manner. They are quite obvious. But obvious. But an actress! How different me that the only thing worth loving is dyed hair and painted faces. There is a most offensive brute, though he had for Shakespeare. He told me once, with have ruined one's self over poetry is of the world in one. She is more than meets Romeo." "Half-past six! What be like having a meat-tea, or reading power in experience. It was as little of elevated her son to the dignity of no reason why she should not contract looking up to the ceiling in search of married, and come home, and live in of golden hair and laughing lips, and in a boy. At the Marble Arch they hailed Indeed, he was highly connected." or disapprove, of anything now. It is may say against marriage, it is certainly the forest of Arden; I shall find her in woman who is mine. What is marriage? that. Ah! don't mock. It is door was beaming from ear to ear with that is good in me." A quarter of quarter of an hour afterwards, amidst sorry that I have made you waste of remaining young is never to have on her face. Her eyes were lit with he entered, she looked at him, and to him. She was transfigured with joy. I should have shown myself more of and their beauty seemed to bring him winced and, taking up from the table a moment, if he had wounded her for look at it again? No; it was merely and did not realize that we live in ten minutes he got up, and throwing on table close to the open window. It was for Monsieur?" asked his valet, putting stood facing the screen. The screen was of the degradation of sin. Here was one till I came. There will have to be One should reserve that to give you going round to her room? That is a stifled voice, "Harry, did you say once." "I have no doubt it was not an absolutely reasonable people. I an over-expenditure of sympathy, I an old woman like myself blushes, it is an extraordinary improvisation. He felt an English Academy of Letters." Lord an elaborately illustrated edition of an amused smile. "So sorry I am late, an awkward silence with her silly an actress," said Dorian Gray, blushing. an exquisite poison in the air. I had a an absurd little theatre, with great an enormous diamond blazed in the an air of gorgeous servility. There was an Italian tomb, sucking the poison an actress! How different an actress is! an actress is! Harry! why didn't you tell an actress?" "Because I have loved so an extraordinary charm in them, an extraordinary passion for an air of pride, that his five an honour. But when did you first an individual. You laugh, but I tell you an hour! It will be like having a meatan English novel. It must be seven. No an active cause as conscience itself. All an audience. She felt sure that the an alliance with him. I trust he is one an imaginary gallery. "Come, Sibyl," an immense house in London. Yes, an open carriage with two ladies an omnibus, which left them close to An oath broke from his lips. "I don't an absurd attitude to take towards life. an experience. I hope that Dorian an orchard in Verona." Lord Henry An irrevocable vow. You mock at it an irrevocable vow that I want to take. an oily tremulous smile. He escorted an hour afterwards, amidst an an extraordinary turmoil of applause, an evening, Harry. I apologize to you an emotion that is unbecoming. Come an exquisite fire. There was a radiance an expression of infinite joy came over An ecstasy of happiness dominated her. an artist. It was foolish of me, and yet an anodyne for his pain. He followed an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, an age. Besides, women were better an illusion wrought on the troubled an age when unnecessary things are an elaborate dressing-gown of an exquisite day. The warm air an omelette on the table. "I shut the an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, an ever-present sign of the ruin men an inquest, of course, and you must an interest to one's old age. I suppose an important point." Dorian did not an inquest? 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"It is question," said Lord Henry, who found on the lad's unconscious egotism, " the real tragedies of life occur in such just as vulgarity affects us. They give us you. I wish that I had ever had such What a fearful thing it is! And what life. I am bound to state that she ate must keep your good looks. We live in him to go. The man seemed to take organism, might not thought exercise his valet was already waiting for him. people who require years to get rid of cried Hallward, looking up at him with Then it passed away. I cannot repeat Surely not, my dear fellow? It is you want to have a strange quarter of whose memory haunts us artists like "Impossible!" "You spoil my life as allowed the thing to remain, even for at eight-fifteen that evening. "Wait for to come to him. But he always made conversation, or picked up a card with following paragraph: INQUEST ON INQUEST ON AN ACTRESS. up the volume, flung himself into been so remarkable. It was with he was could have escaped the stain of tavern near the docks which, under dandyism, which, in its own way, is mistaking, for a house in which to live, with sticks that are smeared with the subject - and he always had in her right hand, and her left clasped a table by her side lay a mandolin and many of them, and certainly with jockeys in their stables and supped in by a helmet and a lighted torch, by fan, by a gilded pomander and by hand was on his arm. "Dorian! What painter to travel! A Gladstone bag and open hearth. The lamps were lit, and and has established her in Paris as it to you. I shall only keep you half Dorian sighed and lit a cigarette. "Half heard a good deal since. He offered that every man who turned himself into Flemish tapestry, a curtained picture, picture, an old Italian cassone, and its rod and flung it on the ground. nothing shameful. You were to me such God, Dorian, what a lesson! What glanced at the picture, and suddenly into the library. For a quarter of the intimacy had come suddenly to Alan Campbell never did. He was who made up prescriptions. He was you would simply look upon him as too terrible to be borne. He felt as if few lines, blotted them, and addressed an absolute failure." "I suppose it an interesting question," said Lord an exquisite pleasure in playing on the an extremely interesting question. I an inartistic manner that they hurt us an impression of sheer brute force, and an experience. It would have made me an utter intellectual stagnation it reveals! an enormous dinner, so I did not feel an age that reads too much to be an interminable time over everything. an influence upon dead and inorganic An hour later he was at the opera, an emotion. A man who is master of an expression of horror. "My dear an emotion. No one can, except an admirable place for it. Let me see an hour, get Basil to tell you why he an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I an artist by refusing, Dorian. No man an hour, in a room to which any of his an answer," he said, handing it to him, an exception in favour of Dorian an address, or found beneath a pillow AN ACTRESS. - An inquest was held An inquest was held this morning at an arm-chair and began to turn over an almost cruel joy - and perhaps in an age that was at once sordid and an assumed name and in disguise, it an attempt to assert the absolute an inn that is but suitable for the an elastic gum obtained from the an extraordinary faculty of becoming an enamelled collar of white and an apple. There were large green an influence of which one was more an ivory manger with a an embroidered glove and a jewelled an amber chain. Dorian Gray had an extraordinary piece of luck! I have an ulster! Come in, or the fog will get an open Dutch silver spirit-case stood, an English dressmaker. Anglomania is an hour." Dorian sighed and lit a an hour!" he murmured. "It is not an extravagant price. I refused him. an amateur curate for the moment an old Italian cassone, and an almost an almost empty book-case - that was An exclamation of horror broke from an ideal as I shall never meet again. an awful lesson!" There was no an uncontrollable feeling of hatred for an hour he walked up and down the an end. When they met in society an extremely clever young man, an excellent musician, however, as an admirable subject. You would not an iron ring was being slowly an envelope to his assistant. 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You don't know what disliked by their friends; Lady Ruxton, that inordinate joviality can atone for kept scolding him for what she called " is still decolletee," he answered, taking is in a very smart gown she looks like with me soon again. You are really time to time between his explosions. An alliterative prefix served as has she been married?" asked Dorian. " horrible. It took him three-quarters of it and in a low voice gave the driver answered the man, "you will be there in woman yelled something at them from in the puddles. A red glare came from stood two haggard women, mocking brushing the sleeves of his coat with lodging." He broke from her with chiefly of flowers. Yesterday I cut "It is a malady." "Love?" " effect that one produces gives one by repetition, and repetition converts and repetition converts an appetite into art begins with its climax." "I must keep him. And yet if it had been merely he walked with the duchess for like salt upon the grass. The sky was beater!" exclaimed Sir Geoffrey. "What As for omens, there is no such thing as "Her Grace told me to wait for scandal." "The basis of every scandal is anybody, Harry, for the sake of It is a hideous subject." "It is to faint." Dorian drew himself up with another night at Selby Royal. It was must see it at once." "It is in save time." In less than a quarter of his crop. She cleft the dusky air like Civilization is not by any means got the mysterious disappearance of has been seen in San Francisco. It is beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of regrets them the most. They are such I dare say he fell into the Seine off me to have lost something. It had lost is his heart," he answered, sinking into I thought you might be able to give me effects of that kind. A wet Sunday, "Ah! then it must be Ah, Dorian, how happy you are! What horror to his fancy; that he had been What was youth at best? A green, thinking of Hetty Merton. For it was a time, he went away and stood in pale as death. After about a quarter of an authoritative manner. Campbell felt an excellent wife to one of our most an old woman like me must have an existence they lead down there. It an overdressed woman of forty-seven, an entire lack of ideas. He was rather an insult to poor Adolphe, who an olive in his long fingers; "and an edition de luxe of a bad French an admirable tonic, much better than An alliterative prefix served as an an ornament of oratory. He hoisted An eternity, she tells me. I believe, an hour to consume everything. At an address. The man shook his head. an hour," and after his fare had got an open door, and two men ran after an outward-bound steamer that was an old man who was brushing the an expression of disgust. "He thinks an oath and rushed to the corner of an orchid, for my button-hole. It was An illusion." "Religion?" "The an enemy. To be popular one must an appetite into an art. Besides, each an art. Besides, each time that one an opportunity for retreat." "In the an illusion, how terrible it was to an hour in the garden and then an inverted cup of blue metal. A thin an ass the man was to get in front of an omen. Destiny does not send us an answer," he murmured. Dorian put an immoral certainty," said Lord an epigram." "The world goes to the an annoying subject," broke in Lord an effort and smiled. "It is nothing, an ill-omened place. Death walked an empty stable in the Home Farm, an hour, Dorian Gray was galloping an arrow. The stones flew from her an easy thing to attain to. There are an artist. Scotland Yard still insists an odd thing, but every one who an open vinaigrette box, "one can an essential part of one's personality." an omnibus and that the conductor an ideal. When you and he ceased to an arm-chair. Dorian Gray shook his an answer. That is all. I was going an uncouth Christian in a mackintosh, an illusion. The things one feels an exquisite life you have had! You an evil influence to others, and had an unripe time, a time of shallow an unjust mirror, this mirror of his an adjoining portico and watched. an hour, he got the coachman and - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 analyse it some day. The passion for - CH. 4 analyse 1 1 of failure. Faithfulness! I must analysing 1 1 dear Dorian, it is quite true. I am 1 which one could arrive at any scientific 1 that artist in thought, who had first 1 ever found again, though the Emperor 1 him wherever he went. Yet one had 1 in her wonderful irony, driving out the analysing women at present, so I ought - CH. 4 analysis of the passions; and certainly - CH. 4 analyzed it? Was it not Buonarotti who - CH. 3 analysis 1 analyzed 1 anastasius 1 Anastasius offered five - CH. 11 ancestors in literature as well as in - CH. 11 anchorite to feed with the wild - CH. 11 ancestors 1 anchorite 1 and 2211 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 of beautiful things. To reveal art artist can express everything. Thought to the artist instruments of an art. Vice is the type. All art is at once surface so at their peril. It is the spectator, shows that the work is new, complex, was filled with the rich odour of roses, just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now a kind of momentary Japanese effect, seek to convey the sense of swiftness man of extraordinary personal beauty, at the time, such public excitement As the painter looked at the gracious smile of pleasure passed across his face, there. But he suddenly started up, Grosvenor. The Academy is too large " Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows world worse than being talked about, above all the young men in England, stretched himself out on the divan I didn't know you were so vain; you, with your rugged strong face strong face and your coal-black hair, looks as if he was made out of ivory my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, you have an intellectual expression is in itself a mode of exaggeration, to say when he was a boy of eighteen, when we have no flowers to look at, There is a fatality about all physical different from one's fellows. The ugly in this world. They can sit at their ease all should live - undisturbed, indifferent, receive it from alien hands. Your rank You seem to forget that I am married, parties. I never know where my wife is, She never gets confused over her dates, fellow. You never say a moral thing, and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and conceal the artist is art's - THE PREFACE language are to the - THE PREFACE virtue are to the artist - THE PREFACE symbol. Those who go - THE PREFACE not life, that art really - THE PREFACE vital. When critics - THE PREFACE when the light summer wind - CH. 1 honey-coloured blossoms of a - CH. 1 now and then the fantastic - CH. 1 then the fantastic shadows of - CH. 1 making him think of those pallid, - CH. 1 motion. The sullen murmur of the - CH. 1 in front of it, some little distance - CH. 1 gave rise to so many strange - CH. 1 comely form he had so skilfully - CH. 1 seemed about to linger there. But - CH. 1 closing his eyes, placed his fingers - CH. 1 too vulgar. Whenever I have gone - CH. 1 looked at him in amazement - CH. 1 that is not being talked about. A - CH. 1 make the old men quite jealous, if - CH. 1 laughed. "Yes, I knew you would; - CH. 1 I really can't see any resemblance - CH. 1 your coal-black hair, and this - CH. 1 this young Adonis, who looks as if - CH. 1 rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, - CH. 1 you - well, of course you have an - CH. 1 all that. But beauty, real beauty, - CH. 1 destroys the harmony of any face. - CH. 1 as a natural consequence he - CH. 1 always here in summer when we - CH. 1 intellectual distinction, the sort of - CH. 1 the stupid have the best of it in - CH. 1 gape at the play. If they know - CH. 1 without disquiet. They neither - CH. 1 wealth, Harry; my brains, such as - CH. 1 the one charm of marriage is that - CH. 1 my wife never knows what I am - CH. 1 I always do. But when she does - CH. 1 you never do a wrong thing. Your - CH. 1 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 pose." "Being natural is simply a pose, I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; men went out into the garden together must be going, Basil," he murmured, " of my own soul." Lord Henry laughed. " to tell, Harry," answered the painter; " hardly believe it." Lord Henry smiled, a pink-petalled daisy from the grass the little golden, white-feathered disk, " shook some blossoms from the trees, with their clustering stars, moved to began to chirrup by the wall, hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, are not savages. With an evening coat talking to huge overdressed dowagers looking at me. I turned half-way round fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid for trying to escape." "Conscience "I don't believe that, Harry, However, whatever was my motive of her. She brought me up to royalties, up to royalties, and people with stars and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras we were destined to know each other." " her bringing me up to a truculent gentleman covered all over with orders all over with orders and ribbons, dear fellow, she tried to found a salon, like, 'Charming boy - poor dear mother ' Neither of us could help laughing, at all a bad beginning for a friendship, " cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back acquaintances for their good characters, are all men of some intellectual power, " brothers. My elder brother won't die, masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, should be their own special property, their indignation was quite magnificent. with a single word that you have said, Henry stroked his pointed brown beard I like persons better than principles, appearance of a new medium for art, Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, is nothing that art cannot express, that is Greek. The harmony of soul in our madness have separated the two, of the best things I have ever done. influence passed from him to me, the wonder I had always looked for Gray." Hallward got up from the seat got up from the seat and walked up curves of certain lines, in the loveliness about it. But the world might guess it, day I will show the world what it is; As a rule, he is charming to me, to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things. Now however, he is horribly thoughtless, and the most irritating pose I know," and the two young men went out into and ensconced themselves on a long and before I go, I insist on your And what is that?" he asked. "I will and I am afraid you will hardly and leaning down, plucked a and examined it. "I am quite sure I and as for believing things, I can and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their and fro in the languid air. A and like a blue thread a long thin and wondered what was coming. "The and a white tie, as you told me once, and tedious academicians, I suddenly and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid and turned to quit the room. It was and cowardice are really the same and I don't believe you do either. and it may have been pride, for I and people with stars and garters, and and garters, and elderly ladies with and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses. She spoke of me as And how did Lady Brandon describe and red-faced old gentleman covered all and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic and only succeeded in opening a and I absolutely inseparable. Quite and we became friends at once." and it is far the best ending for one," and looking up at the little clouds that, and my enemies for their good and consequently they all appreciate And much less than a friend. A sort and my younger brothers seem never and immorality should be their own and that if any one of us makes an ass And yet I don't suppose that ten per and , what is more, Harry, I feel sure and tapped the toe of his and I like persons with no principles and the second is the appearance of a and the face of Dorian Gray will some and I know that the work I have done, and body - how much that is! We in and have invented a realism that is And why is it so? Because, while I was and for the first time in my life I saw and always missed." "Basil, this is and walked up and down the garden. and down the garden. After some time and subtleties of certain colours. That and I will not bare my soul to their and for that reason the world shall and we sit in the studio and talk of a and talk of a thousand things. 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One's own soul, to have met Lord Goodbody there, been about the feeding of the poor have spoken on the value of thrift, to strike him. He turned to Hallward was going to help her in the East End, not. She said that he was very earnest to myself a creature with spectacles and lank hair, horribly freckled, in in a few moments." The man bowed friend," he said. "He has a simple would be bad. The world is wide, I trust you." He spoke very slowly, you talk!" said Lord Henry, smiling, "Oh, I am tired of sitting, coloured his cheeks for a moment, him what a capital sitter you were, said Lord Henry, stepping forward you. You are one of her favourites, in Whitechapel with her last Tuesday, my aunt. She is quite devoted to you. people." "That is very horrid to her, Mr. Gray - far too charming." Henry flung himself down on the divan had been busy mixing his colours brushes ready. He was looking worried, glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, you to go away?" Lord Henry smiled that Basil is in one of his sulky moods, himself." Lord Henry took up his hat Good-bye, Mr. Gray. Come open your lips while you are painting, is horribly dull standing on a platform "Stay, Harry, to oblige Dorian, true, I never talk when I am working, I am working, and never listen either, about that. Sit down again, Harry. now, Dorian, get up on the platform, with the air of a young Greek martyr, Basil. They made a delightful contrast. are charitable. They feed the hungry the beggar. But their own souls starve, are the two things that govern us. boy," said the painter, deep in his work " Lord Henry, in his low, musical voice, that was always so characteristic of him, one man were to live out his life fully and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping And the mind of the thoroughly and dust, with everything priced above and he will seem to you to be a little and seriously think that he has and indifferent. It will be a great pity, and the worst of having a romance of And Lord Henry struck a light on a and began to smoke a cigarette with a and satisfied air, as if he had summed and the blue cloud-shadows chased And how delightful other people's and the passions of one's friends and the whole conversation would have and the necessity for model and the idle grown eloquent over the and said, "My dear fellow, I have just and that his name was Dorian Gray. I and had a beautiful nature. I at once and lank hair, horribly freckled, and and tramping about on huge feet. I and went up the walk. Then he looked and a beautiful nature. Your aunt was and has many marvellous people in it. and the words seemed wrung out of and taking Hallward by the arm, he and I don't want a life-sized portrait of and he started up. "I beg your pardon, and now you have spoiled everything." and extending his hand. "My aunt has and , I am afraid, one of her victims and I really forgot all about it. We And I don't think it really matters and not very nice to me," answered And Lord Henry flung himself down and opened his cigarette-case. The and getting his brushes ready. He was and when he heard Lord Henry's last and then said, "Harry, I want to finish and looked at Dorian Gray. "Am I to and I can't bear him when he sulks. and gloves. "You are very pressing, and see me some afternoon in Curzon and it is horribly dull standing on a and trying to look pleasant. Ask him to and to oblige me," said Hallward, and never listen either, and it must be and it must be dreadfully tedious for And now, Dorian, get up on the and don't move about too much, or and made a little moue of discontent And he had such a beautiful voice. and clothe the beggar. But their own and are naked. 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The body sins once, temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, monstrous laws have made monstrous in the brain. It is in the brain, you yourself, with your rose-red youth have filled you with terror, day-dreams stood there, motionless, with parted lips - words spoken by chance, no doubt, but that he felt was now vibrating How terrible they were! How clear, they were! How clear, and vivid, One could not escape from them. give a plastic form to formless things, that his words had produced, of his, that had the true refinement Dorian Gray suddenly. "I must go out sat better. You were perfectly still. effect I wanted - the half-parted lips "Certainly, Harry. Just touch the bell, " Lord Henry went out to the garden had been wine. He came close to him senses but the soul." The lad started and drew back. He was bareheaded, leaves had tossed his rebellious curls His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, nerve shook the scarlet of his lips cure the soul by means of the senses, want to know." Dorian Gray frowned him. His romantic, olive-coloured face They moved, as he spoke, like music, their own. But he felt afraid of him, to have disclosed to him life's mystery. was absurd to be frightened. "Let us go "Parker has brought out the drinks, in this glare, you will be quite spoiled, you have the most marvellous youth, it now. Some day, when you are old day, when you are old and wrinkled has seared your forehead with its lines, Gray. Don't frown. You have. years in which to live really, perfectly, youth goes, your beauty will go with it, dreadful. Time is jealous of you, of you, and wars against your lilies your roses. You will become sallow, will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, your life to the ignorant, the common, will be purple stars on the clematis, of which we were too much afraid, youth!" Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed upon the gravel. A furry bee came us lays sudden siege to the brain The flower seemed to quiver, to quiver, and then swayed gently to appeared at the door of the studio to come in. They turned to each other Do come in. The light is quite perfect, can bring your drinks." They rose up down the walk together. Two green- and return to the Hellenic ideal - to and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is and your soul grows sick with longing and unlawful. It has been said that the and the brain only, that the great sins and your rose-white boyhood, you have and sleeping dreams whose mere and eyes strangely bright. He was and with wilful paradox in them - had and throbbing to curious pulses. Music and vivid, and cruel! One could not and cruel! One could not escape from And yet what a subtle magic there was and to have a music of their own as and , remembering a book that he had and perfect delicacy that in art, at any and sit in the garden. The air is And I have caught the effect I wanted and the bright look in the eyes. I don't and when Parker comes I will tell him and found Dorian Gray burying his and put his hand upon his shoulder. and drew back. He was bareheaded, and the leaves had tossed his and tangled all their gilded threads. and some hidden nerve shook the and left them trembling. "Yes," and the senses by means of the soul. and turned his head away. He could and worn expression interested him. and seemed to have a language of and ashamed of being afraid. Why had And , yet, what was there to be afraid and sit in the shade," said Lord Henry. and if you stay any longer in this and Basil will never paint you again. and youth is the one thing worth and wrinkled and ugly, when thought and ugly, when thought has seared and passion branded your lips with its And beauty is a form of genius - is and fully. When your youth goes, your and then you will suddenly discover and wars against your lilies and your and your roses. You will become and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly... and the vulgar. These are the sickly and year after year the green night of and the exquisite temptations that we and wondering. The spray of lilac fell and buzzed round it for a moment. and calls on us to yield. After a time and then swayed gently to and fro. and fro. Suddenly the painter appeared and made staccato signs for them to and smiled. "I am waiting," he cried. and you can bring your drinks." 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The sweep broke the stillness, except when, now the open doorway the dust danced looked for a long time at Dorian Gray, the end of one of his huge brushes It is quite finished," he cried at last, of the canvas. Lord Henry came over was certainly a wonderful work of art, of modern times. Mr. Gray, come over "Quite finished," said the painter. " passed listlessly in front of his picture it. When he saw it he drew back, first time. He stood there motionless That had stirred him at the time, a day when his face would be wrinkled be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim the grace of his figure broken scarlet would pass away from his lips He would become dreadful, hideous, of pain struck through him like a knife His eyes deepened into amethyst, How sad it is! I shall grow old, is! I shall grow old, and horrible, it were I who was to be always young, said Hallward. Dorian Gray turned quite angry. His face was flushed shall kill myself." Hallward turned pale I have never had such a friend as you, that passes takes something from me other way! If the picture could change, into his eyes; he tore his hand away finest piece of work I have ever done, What is it but canvas not let it come across our three lives lifted his golden head from the pillow, from the pillow, and with pallid face about among the litter of tin tubes sob the lad leaped from the couch, tore the knife out of his hand, as you are dry, you shall be varnished, you shall be varnished, and framed, can do what you like with yourself." " And he walked across the room You will have tea, of course, Dorian? This silly boy doesn't really want it, never forgive you!" cried Dorian Gray; " I gave it to you before it existed." " have been a little silly, Mr. Gray, then." There came a knock at the door, the butler entered with a laden tea-tray table. There was a rattle of cups There was a rattle of cups and saucers in by a page. Dorian Gray went over men sauntered languidly to the table dress-clothes," muttered Hallward. " said the lad. "Then you shall come; work to do." "Well, then, you and in the pear-tree at the corner of and a lifelong passion is that the and resumed his pose. Lord Henry and watched him. The sweep and dash and dash of the brush on the canvas and then, Hallward stepped back to and was golden. The heavy scent of and then for a long time at the and frowning. "It is quite finished," he and stooping down he wrote his name and examined the picture. It was and a wonderful likeness as well. "My and look at yourself." The lad started, And you have sat splendidly to-day. I and turned towards it. When he saw it and his cheeks flushed for a moment and in wonder, dimly conscious that and now, as he stood gazing at the and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, and colourless, the grace of his figure and deformed. The scarlet would pass and the gold steal from his hair. The and uncouth. As he thought of it, a and made each delicate fibre of his and across them came a mist of tears. and horrible, and dreadful. But this and dreadful. But this picture will and the picture that was to grow old! and looked at him. "I believe you and his cheeks burning. "Yes," he and caught his hand. "Dorian! Dorian!" and I shall never have such another. and gives something to it. Oh, if it were and I could be always what I am now! and , flinging himself on the divan, he and I will destroy it. What is it but and colour? I will not let it come and mar them." Dorian Gray lifted his and with pallid face and tear-stained and tear-stained eyes, looked at him as and dry brushes, seeking for something. and , rushing over to Hallward, tore the and flung it to the end of the studio. " and framed, and sent home. Then you and sent home. Then you can do what And he walked across the room and and rang the bell for tea. "You will And so will you, Harry? Or do you and I really do." "If you let any one and I don't allow people to call me a And you know you have been a little and that you don't really object to and the butler entered with a laden and set it down upon a small Japanese and saucers and the hissing of a fluted and the hissing of a fluted Georgian and poured out the tea. The two men and examined what was under the And , when one has them on, they are and you will come, too, Basil, won't and I will go alone, Mr. Gray." 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"Very well," said Hallward, well," said Hallward, and he went over on the tray. "It is rather late, Harry. Good-bye, Dorian. Come No, of course not," cried Dorian. " Mr. Gray, my hansom is outside, painter flung himself down on a sofa, at Madrid when Isabella was young the good English of his dispatches, foolishly as was thought at the time, live in chambers as it was less trouble, a hero to his valet, who bullied him, England could have produced him, rough shooting-coat, smoking a cheroot you dandies never got up till two, making a wry face. "Well, sit down settling his button-hole in his coat; " bills who want that, Uncle George, Credit is the capital of a younger son, always deal with Dartmoor's tradesmen, is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux, sir, to do it, paid him his daughter back with him, I was told, Selby, I know. He told me so. me so himself. She laughed at him, at the time who wasn't after him. know everything about my new friends, "At Aunt Agatha's. I have asked myself The old gentleman growled approvingly the low arcade into Burlington Street crime. Months of voiceless agony, away by death, the boy left to solitude to solitude and the tyranny of an old that the meanest flower might blow.... the night before, as with startled eyes violin. He answered to every touch one's soul into some gracious form, one with all the added music of passion joy left to us in an age so limited an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, type, at any rate. Grace was his, his, and the white purity of boyhood, such beauty was destined to fade! ... silent spirit that dwelt in dim woodland, suddenly showing herself, Dryadlike things revealed; the mere shapes of things becoming, as it were, refined, were themselves patterns of some other fascinating in this son of love of love and death. Suddenly he stopped he had passed his aunt's some distance, He gave one of the footmen his hat one of the footmen his hat and stick He invented a facile excuse, and walked over, cup in hand, to the and are not; old men want to be and cannot: that is all one can say." " and dine with me." "I can't, Basil and shook his head. "I entreat you." and looked over at Lord Henry, who and he went over and laid down his and laid down his cup on the tray. "It and , as you have to dress, you had and see me soon. Come to-morrow." " And ... Harry!" "Yes, Basil?" and I can drop you at your own place. and a look of pain came into his face. and Prim unthought of, but had retired and his inordinate passion for pleasure. and on succeeding some months later and took most of his meals at his club. and a terror to most of his relations, and he always said that the country and grumbling over The Times. "Well, and were not visible till five." "Pure and tell me all about it. Young people, and when they grow older they know and I never pay mine. Credit is the and one lives charmingly upon it. and consequently they never bother me. and if he is not a gentleman, whatever and made all the men frantic by and that the fellow spitted his man as and she never spoke to him again. Oh, And ... his mother was very beautiful?" and there wasn't a girl in London at And by the way, Harry, talking about and nothing about my old ones." and Mr. Gray. He is her latest protege. and rang the bell for his servant. and turned his steps in the direction of and then a child born in pain. The and the tyranny of an old and loveless and loveless man. Yes; it was an And how charming he had been at and lips parted in frightened pleasure and thrill of the bow.... There was and let it tarry there for a moment; to and youth; to convey one's and vulgar as our own, an age grossly and grossly common in its aims.... He and the white purity of boyhood, and and beauty such as old Greek marbles And Basil? From a psychological point and walked unseen in open field, and not afraid, because in his soul who and patterns of things becoming, as it and gaining a kind of symbolical value, and more perfect form whose shadow and death. Suddenly he stopped and and glanced up at the houses. 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The duchess sighed that most of them are extremely pretty. Humour's cast-off clothes. "Really! play to me," cried Lord Henry, smiling, smiling, and he looked down the table lord. "It is the problem of slavery, emotions is that they lead us astray, of a sort of creeping common sense, the table. He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air the air and transformed it; let it escape it; made it iridescent with fancy he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young, one might fancy, her wine-stained robe like a Bacchante over the hills of life, of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, seemed to give his wit keenness charmed his listeners out of themselves, smiles chasing each other over his lips I am late he is sure to be furious, Lord Henry, you are quite delightful say about your views. You must come bow. "Ah! that is very nice, she cried; "so mind you come"; of the room, followed by Lady Agatha down again, Mr. Erskine moved round, would be as lovely as a Persian carpet anything except newspapers, primers, but I gave them up long ago. I consider you extremely dangerous, of London, come down to Treadley a great privilege. It has a perfect host, old gentleman with a courteous bow. " of Letters." Lord Henry laughed you had promised Basil Hallward to go I must come with you. Do let me. now is to look at life. You may come oak, its cream-coloured frieze frieze and ceiling of raised plasterwork, table stood a statuette by Clodion, for Margaret of Valois by Clovis Eve her device. Some large blue china jars were ranged on the mantelshelf, away. At last he heard a step outside, a shrill voice. He glanced quickly round Lady Henry?" "Well, eighteen, then. " She laughed nervously as she spoke, as if they had been designed in a rage She was usually in love with somebody, in being untidy. Her name was Victoria, staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and good temper, much liked by every and of those ample architectural and in private life followed the best and thinking with the Liberals, in and well-known rule. The post on her and culture, who had fallen, however, and from which none of them ever and accentuating the verb. "American and he began to give some wearisome and exercised her privilege of And they dress well, too. They get all And where do bad Americans go to and he looked down the table and and caught a bright answering glance. and we try to solve it by amusing the and the advantage of science is that it and discover when it is too late that and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and and recaptured it; made it iridescent and winged it with paradox. The praise and philosophy herself became young, and catching the mad music of and wreath of ivy, danced like a and mocked the slow Silenus for being and the consciousness that amongst his and to lend colour to his imagination. and they followed his pipe, laughing. and wonder growing grave in his and I couldn't have a scene in this and dreadfully demoralizing. I am sure and dine with us some night. Tuesday? and very wrong of you," she cried; "so and she swept out of the room, and the other ladies. When Lord and taking a chair close to him, placed and as unreal. But there is no literary and encyclopaedias. Of all people in And now, my dear young friend, if you and if anything happens to our good and expound to me your philosophy and a perfect library." "You will And now I must bid good-bye to your and rose. "I am going to the park," and see him," answered Lord Henry. "I And you will promise to talk to me all and look at it with me, if you care to and ceiling of raised plasterwork, and and its brickdust felt carpet strewn and beside it lay a copy of Les Cent and powdered with the gilt daisies that and parrot-tulips were ranged on the and through the small leaded panes of and the door opened. "How late you and rose to his feet. "I beg your pardon And I saw you with him the other and watched him with her vague and put on in a tempest. 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It is so clever of them, you something - I forget what it was his dark, crescent-shaped eyebrows piece of old brocade in Wardour Street people know the price of everything of frangipanni. Then he lit a cigarette are only two kinds of women, the plain however. They paint in order to try grandmothers painted in order to try order to try and talk brilliantly. Rouge five women in London worth talking to, you known her?" "About three weeks." " to look at every one who passed me its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, t know what I expected, but I went out my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets a vile cigar. He had greasy ringlets, ' he said, when he saw me, me, I know, but I really went in I can't make out why I did so; of your life. You will always be loved, people. What they call their loyalty, I looked out from behind the curtain house. It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids a third-rate wedding-cake. The gallery rows of dingy stalls were quite empty, Women went about with oranges about with oranges and ginger-beer, drama." "Just like, I should fancy, enough for us, Harry. It was Romeo at last the drop-scene was drawn up corked eyebrows, a husky tragedy voice, who had introduced gags of his own were both as grotesque as the scenery, the mist of tears that came across me. s ear. Then it became a little louder, how a voice can stir one. Your voice When I close my eyes, I hear them, her play. One evening she is Rosalind, disguised as a pretty boy in hose as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and dainty cap. She has been mad, come into the presence of a guilty king, guilty king, and given him rue to wear to taste of. She has been innocent, throat. I have seen her in every age They ride in the park in the morning They have their stereotyped smile "Oh, yes, horrid people with dyed hair faces." "Don't run down dyed hair If I ever did a crime, I would come for the compliment, all the same. leaped to his feet, with flushed cheeks always begins by deceiving one's self, the box after the performance was over offered to take me behind the scenes me to her. I was furious with him, had been dead for hundreds of years seemed terribly disappointed at that, and shook his head: "I am afraid I and such a compliment to art. Makes and I found Mr. Gray here. We have and looking at them both with an and had to bargain for hours for it. and the value of nothing." "I am afraid and flung himself down on the sofa. and the coloured. The plain women and look young. Our grandmothers and talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit and esprit used to go together. That is and two of these can't be admitted And where did you come across her?" and wonder, with a mad curiosity, and its splendid sins, as you once and wandered eastward, soon losing my and black grassless squares. About and gaudy play-bills. A hideous Jew, in and an enormous diamond blazed in and he took off his hat with an air of and paid a whole guinea for the and yet if I hadn't - my dear Harry, and you will always be in love with and their fidelity, I call either the and surveyed the house. It was a and cornucopias, like a third-rate and pit were fairly full, but the two and there was hardly a person in what and ginger-beer, and there was a and there was a terrible consumption and very depressing. I began to and Juliet. I must admit that I was and the play began. Romeo was a and a figure like a beer-barrel. and was on most friendly terms with and that looked as if it had come out And her voice - I never heard such a and sounded like a flute or a distant and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two and each of them says something and the next evening she is Imogen. I and doublet and dainty cap. She has and dainty cap. She has been mad, and has come into the presence of a and given him rue to wear and bitter and bitter herbs to taste of. She has and the black hands of jealousy have and in every costume. Ordinary women and chatter at tea-parties in the and their fashionable manner. They are and painted faces." "Don't run down and painted faces. There is an and confess it to you. You would And now tell me - reach me the and burning eyes. "Harry! Sibyl Vane and one always ends by deceiving and offered to take me behind the and introduce me to her. 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I had thrown her some flowers, "Sibyl? Oh, she was so shy her what I thought of her performance, dressing-wrapper on the first night, head to her little feet, she is absolutely of my life I go to see her act, either lunch or sup together every day, act. I get hungry for her presence; -night she is Imogen," he answered, " tell you she has genius. I love her, of the world to hear our laughter how I worship her!" He was walking up secret hiding-place had crept his soul, had come to meet it on the way. " said Lord Henry at last. "I want you and Basil to come with me some night for three years - at least for two years settled, I shall take a West End theatre in her, but she has personality also; All right. The Bristol at eight o'clock; seven. Shall you see Basil between this frame, specially designed by himself, life but his prejudices, his principles, artists exist simply in what they make, "It must be, if you say it. Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, him so much as Dorian Gray, that science had seemed to him trivial to him trivial and of no import. life in its curious crucible of pain fumes from troubling the brain turbid with monstrous fancies one sought to understand their nature. note the curious hard logic of passion, intellect - to observe where they met, at what point they were in unison, for any sensation. He was conscious soul had turned to this white girl Sometimes this was the effect of art, dealt immediately with the passions the passions and the intellect. But now a complex personality took the place while it was yet spring. The pulse to watch him. With his beautiful face, sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, whose wounds are like red roses. Soul are like red roses. Soul and body, body were! There was animalism in the soul, of spirituality. The senses could refine, definitions of ordinary psychologists! of spirit from matter was a mystery, was, we always misunderstood ourselves something that taught us what to follow future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, with loathing, we would do many times, at any scientific analysis of the passions; Gray was a subject made to his hand, and that they were every one of them and I had to go. He wanted me to try and assured me that I was a munificent and she had looked at me - at least I and so gentle. There is something of a and she seemed quite unconscious of and looks as if she had seen better and entirely divine. Every night of my and every night she is more marvellous. and I have been to the opera with and when I think of the wonderful and to-morrow night she will be Juliet. and I must make her love me. You, and grow sad. I want a breath of our and down the room as he spoke. and desire had come to meet it on the And what do you propose to do?" said and Basil to come with me some night and see her act. I have not the and eight months - from the present and bring her out properly. She will and you have often told me that it is and I will get Basil." "Not eight, Harry and then? Or shall I write to him?" " and , though I am a little jealous of the and his common sense. The only and consequently are perfectly And now I am off. Imogen is waiting and he began to think. Certainly few and yet the lad's mad adoration of and of no import. And so he had And so he had begun by vivisecting and pleasure, one could not wear over and making the imagination turbid with and misshapen dreams. There were And , yet, what a great reward one and the emotional coloured life of the and where they separated, at what and at what point they were at discord and the thought brought a gleam of and bowed in worship before her. To and chiefly of the art of literature, and the intellect. But now and then a and then a complex personality took and assumed the office of art, was and passion of youth were in him, but and his beautiful soul, he was a thing and whose wounds are like red roses. and body, body and soul - how and soul - how mysterious they were! and the body had its moments of and the intellect could degrade. Who And yet how difficult to decide and the union of spirit with matter was and rarely understood others. and showed us what to avoid. But and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many and with joy. 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He got up of his friend's young fiery-coloured life lying on the hall table. He opened it "I am so happy!" she repeated, " must be happy, too!" Mrs. Vane winced Mr. Isaacs has been very good to us, owe him money." The girl looked up us fifty pounds to pay off our debts "He is not a gentleman, Mother, me," said the girl, rising to her feet querulously. Sibyl Vane tossed her head she paused. A rose shook in her blood wind of passion swept over her her voice. Her eyes caught the melody had sent her soul to search for him, breath. Then wisdom altered its method altered its method and spoke of espial by her. She saw the thin lips moving, in me? I am not worthy of him. coarse powder that daubed her cheeks, to her, flung her arms round her neck, The whole thing is most inconvenient, when James is going away to Australia, be happy!" Mrs. Vane glanced at her, arms. At this moment, the door opened room. He was thick-set of figure, was thick-set of figure, and his hands and his hands and feet were large them. Mrs. Vane fixed her eyes on him cried. "You are a dreadful old bear." old bear." And she ran across the room a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, your fortune, you must come back like to make some money to take you feet pattered overhead. He walked up attacking, just as they attack by sudden Solicitors are a very respectable class, with the best families." "I hate offices, comes every night to the theatre he has the appearance of being rich, The lad muttered something to himself to say something when the door opened at the tone he had adopted with her, lips touched the withered cheek into the flickering, wind-blown sunlight at, which comes on geniuses late in life She was thinking of Prince Charming, hump-backed waves trying to get in, a black wind blowing the masts down bid a polite good-bye to the captain, nugget that had ever been discovered, were to attack them three times, places, where men got intoxicated, and shot each other in bar-rooms, He was to be a nice sheep-farmer, off by a robber on a black horse, and fruitful results. His sudden mad and the desire for new experiences, yet and was for that very reason all the and his valet entered and reminded and reminded him it was time to dress and looked out into the street. The and wondered how it was all going to and found it was from Dorian Gray. and you must be happy, too!" Mrs. and put her thin, bismuth-whitened and we owe him money." The girl and pouted. "Money, Mother?" she and to get a proper outfit for James. and I hate the way he talks to me," and going over to the window. "I don't and laughed. "We don't want him any and shadowed her cheeks. Quick and stirred the dainty folds of her and echoed it in radiance, then closed and it had brought him back. His kiss and spoke of espial and discovery. and discovery. This young man might and smiled. Suddenly she felt the need And yet - why, I cannot tell - though I and her dry lips twitched with a spasm and kissed her. "Forgive me, Mother. I and really, when James is going away and I have so much to think of, I must and with one of those false theatrical and a young lad with rough brown and his hands and feet were large and and feet were large and somewhat and somewhat clumsy in movement. and intensified her smile. She mentally And she ran across the room and and hugged him. James Vane looked and beginning to patch it. She felt a and assert yourself in London." and Sibyl off the stage. I hate it." " and down the room two or three times. and strange surrenders. "I hope you and in the country often dine with the and I hate clerks," he replied. "But you and goes behind to talk to her. Is that and the flowers he sends are lovely." and drummed on the window-pane and Sibyl ran in. "How serious you and there was something in his look and warmed its frost. "My child! my and strolled down the dreary Euston and never leaves the commonplace. and , that she might think of him all and a black wind blowing the masts and tearing the sails into long and go off at once to the gold-fields. and bring it down to the coast in a and be defeated with immense and shot each other in bar-rooms, and and used bad language. He was to be and one evening, as he was riding and give chase, and rescue her. 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But he must be very good, also, to write to her by every mail, God was very good, him. She would pray for him, too, years he would come back quite rich happy. The lad listened sulkily to her not this alone that made him gloomy her no good. He was a gentleman, for which he could not account, was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl knit together into a wedge-like furrow, I am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, " "Oh! that you will be a good boy like him so much. Everybody likes him, -night. He is going to be there, it! Fancy, Jim, to be in love announce me as a revelation. I feel it. rewriting. They were made in winter, you are mad about him." She laughed been hard for us both, terribly hard now. You are going to a new world, Here are two chairs; let us sit down The brightly coloured parasols danced hopes, his prospects. He spoke slowly she caught a glimpse of golden hair of golden hair and laughing lips, after the victoria. He jumped up Berwick's four-in-hand came between, talking about. You are simply jealous fall in love. Love makes people good, "I am sixteen," he answered, " to quarrel with you. I have seen him, shall love him for ever!" she cried. " shrank from him. Then she laughed Euston Road. It was after five o'clock, She would be sure to make a scene, There was jealousy in the lad's heart, her arms were flung round his neck, strayed through his hair, he softened meal. The flies buzzed round the table Through the rumble of omnibuses, some time, he thrust away his plate When the clock struck six, he got up went to the door. Then he turned back terrible moment, the moment that night moment that night and day, for weeks she had dreaded, had come at last, him, my son. He was your father, lad was touched. He went towards her, have only one child now to look after, find out who he is, track him down, atmosphere. She breathed more freely, short. Trunks had to be carried down The lodging-house drudge bustled in and rescue her. Of course, she would and he with her, and they would get and they would get married, and come and come home, and live in an and live in an immense house in and not lose his temper, or spend his and to say his prayers each night and would watch over him. She would and in a few years he would come and happy. The lad listened sulkily to and made no answer. He was and morose. Inexperienced though he and he hated him for that, hated him and which for that reason was all the and vanity of his mother's nature, and and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness. Children begin and with a twitch of pain he bit his and I am making the most delightful and not forget us," she answered, and I ... love him. I wish you could and I am to play Juliet. Oh! how I and play Juliet! To have him sitting And it is all his, his only, Prince and it is summer now; spring-time for and took his arm. "You dear old Jim, and difficult. But it will be different and I have found one. Here are two and see the smart people go by." They and dipped like monstrous butterflies. and with effort. They passed words to and laughing lips, and in an open and in an open carriage with two and seized her roughly by the arm. and when it had left the space clear, and unkind. Ah! I wish you would fall and what you said was wicked." "I am and I know what I am about. Mother and oh! to see him is perfect happiness. And he?" "For ever, too!" "He and put her hand on his arm. He was and Sibyl had to lie down for a couple and he detested scenes of every kind. and a fierce murderous hatred of the and her fingers strayed through his and kissed her with real affection. and crawled over the stained cloth. and the clatter of street-cabs, he could and put his head in his hands. He felt and went to the door. Then he turned and looked at her. Their eyes met. In and day, for weeks and months, she and months, she had dreaded, had and yet she felt no terror. Indeed, in and a gentleman. Indeed, he was highly and stooping down, he kissed her. "I am and believe me that if this man and kill him like a dog. I swear it." and for the first time for many months and mufflers looked for. The and out. 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"But think of Dorian's birth, think of Dorian's birth, and position, creature, who might degrade his nature Henry, sipping a glass of vermouth -bitters. "Dorian says she is beautiful, Harry?" asked the painter, walking up painter, walking up and down the room any notice of what common people say, with a beautiful girl who acts Juliet, complex. They retain their egotism, They become more highly organized, Besides, every experience is of value, passionately adore her for six months, that we may overdraw our account, that would be silly, but there are other more interesting bonds between men evening cape with its satin-lined wings sudden - all really delightful things are. life." He was flushed with excitement flushed with excitement and pleasure, engagement. You let Harry know." " putting his hand on the lad's shoulder he spoke. "Come, let us sit down and try what the new chef here is like, in Rupert Street you introduced me to, Of course, the scenery was dreadful with a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, I forgot that I was in London performance was over, I went behind rose-coloured joy. She trembled all over Then she flung herself on her knees shall be of age in less than a year, t I, to take my love out of poetry had the arms of Rosalind around me, mention the word marriage, Dorian? not treat it as a business transaction, proposal. I told her that I loved her, forget to say anything about marriage, always the women who propose to us, are not modern." Dorian Gray laughed, want to place her on a pedestal of gold have known me to be. I am changed, Sibyl Vane's hand makes me forget you poisonous, delightful theories." " Dorian, leaning back in his chair civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, treats its gods. They worship us, us with the desire to do masterpieces you fellows? Waiter, bring coffee, bring coffee, and fine-champagne, of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, follow us in a hansom." They got up coffee standing. The painter was silent him. He could not bear this marriage, off by himself, as had been arranged, and dramatically expressed. She felt and coat to the bowing waiter. "What and then frowned. "Dorian engaged to and then, my dear Basil." "Marriage is and then, Harry." "Except in America," and position, and wealth. It would be and wealth. It would be absurd for and ruin his intellect." "Oh, she is and orange-bitters. "Dorian says she is and he is not often wrong about things and down the room and biting his lip. and biting his lip. "You can't approve and I never interfere with what and proposes to marry her. Why not? And unselfish people are colourless. and add to it many other egos. They and to be highly organized is, I should and whatever one may say against and then suddenly become fascinated and find good qualities in the and more interesting bonds between and women. I will certainly encourage and shaking each of his friends by the And yet it seems to me to be the one and pleasure, and looked and looked extraordinarily handsome. And I don't forgive you for being late and smiling as he spoke. "Come, let us and try what the new chef here is like, and then you will tell us how it all and went down at eight o'clock to the and the Orlando absurd. But Sibyl! and a hooded cloak lined with dull red. and in the nineteenth century. I was and spoke to her. As we were sitting and shook like a white narcissus. Then and kissed my hands. I feel that I and then I can do what I like. I have and to find my wife in Shakespeare's and kissed Juliet on the mouth." "Yes, And what did she say in answer? and I did not make any formal and she said she was not worthy to be and they always remind us." Hallward and not we who propose to the women. and tossed his head. "You are quite and to see the world worship the and the mere touch of Sibyl Vane's and all your wrong, fascinating, And those are ...?" asked Lord Henry, and looking at Lord Henry over the and no uncivilized man ever knows and are always bothering us to do and always prevent us from carrying and fine-champagne, and some and some cigarettes. No, don't mind and it leaves one unsatisfied. What and put on their coats, sipping their and preoccupied. 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At least he declared he did, insisted on shaking him by the hand man who had discovered a real genius pit. The heat was terribly oppressive, in the gallery had taken off their coats had taken off their coats and waistcoats talked to each other across the theatre the pit. Their voices were horribly shrill Gray. "It was here I found her, rough people, with their coarse faces she is on the stage. They sit silently sit silently and watch her. They weep as a violin. She spiritualizes them, feels that they are of the same flesh blood as one's self." "The same flesh painter. "I understand what you mean, Any one you love must be marvellous, the effect you describe must be fine in people whose lives have been sordid she can strip them of their selfishness five minutes. Then the curtain rises, something of the fawn in her shy grace house. She stepped back a few paces Basil Hallward leaped to his feet feet and began to applaud. Motionless, scene was the hall of Capulet's house, dress had entered with Mercutio was, struck up a few bars of music, hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, pale as he watched her. He was puzzled staginess of her acting was unbearable, When she leaned over the balcony common uneducated audience of the pit interest in the play. They got restless, got restless, and began to talk loudly at the back of the dress-circle, stamped was over, there came a storm of hisses, and Lord Henry got up from his chair she seems to me to be simply callous like a wooden doll? She is very lovely, people who know absolutely everything, Come to the club with Basil and myself. We will smoke cigarettes came to his eyes. His lips trembled, with a strange tenderness in his voice, afterwards the footlights flared up went back to his seat. He looked pale, his seat. He looked pale, and proud, and indifferent. The play dragged on, went out, tramping in heavy boots The curtain went down on a titter When he entered, she looked at him, was all true. I was Rosalind one night other. The joy of Beatrice was my joy, my world. I knew nothing but shadows, You came - oh, my beautiful love! conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and the crowded flaring streets became and the fat Jew manager who met and talking at the top of his voice. and had been met by Caliban. Lord and insisted on shaking him by the and assuring him that he was proud to and gone bankrupt over a poet. and the huge sunlight flamed like a and waistcoats and hung them over the and hung them over the side. They and shared their oranges with the and discordant. The sound of the and she is divine beyond all living and brutal gestures, become quite and watch her. They weep and laugh and laugh as she wills them to do. and one feels that they are of the and blood as one's self." "The same and blood as one's self! Oh, I hope and I believe in this girl. Any one you and any girl who has the effect you and noble. To spiritualize one's age and ugly, if she can strip them of their and lend them tears for sorrows that and you will see the girl to whom I and startled eyes. A faint blush, like and her lips seemed to tremble. Basil and began to applaud. Motionless, and and as one in a dream, sat Dorian and Romeo in his pilgrim's dress had and his other friends. The band, such and the dance began. Through the And palm to palm is holy palmers' and anxious. Neither of his friends and grew worse as she went on. Her and came to those wonderful lines and gallery lost their interest in the and began to talk loudly and to and to whistle. The Jew manager, who and swore with rage. The only person and Lord Henry got up from his chair and put on his coat. "She is quite and cold. She has entirely altered. Last and if she knows as little about life as and people who know absolutely and myself. We will smoke cigarettes and drink to the beauty of Sibyl Vane. and rushing to the back of the box, he and the two young men passed out and the curtain rose on the third act. and proud, and indifferent. The play and indifferent. The play dragged on, and seemed interminable. Half of the and laughing. The whole thing was a and some groans. As soon as it was and an expression of infinite joy came and Portia the other. The joy of and the sorrows of Cordelia were and I thought them real. 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She looked at him in wonder no answer. She came across to him, fingers stroked his hair. She knelt down hands to her lips. He drew them away, ran through him. Then he leaped up marvellous, because you had genius you realized the dreams of great poets dreams of great poets and gave shape thrown it all away. You are shallow The world would have worshipped you, with a pretty face." The girl grew white, She clenched her hands together, bitterly. She rose from her knees to him. She put her hand upon his arm he cried. A low moan broke from her, her, and she flung herself at his feet for to-night? I will work so hard of an artist. It was foolish of me, on the floor like a wounded thing, his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, to be absurdly melodramatic. Her tears disappointed me." She wept silently, Her little hands stretched blindly out, seeking for him. He turned on his heel past gaunt, black-shadowed archways houses. Women with hoarse voices him. Drunkards had reeled by, cursing children huddled upon door-steps, upon door-steps, and heard shrieks to Covent Garden. The darkness lifted, heavy with the perfume of the flowers, his pain. He followed into the market refused to accept any money for them, They had been plucked at midnight, of boys carrying crates of striped tulips, crates of striped tulips, and of yellow piazza. The heavy cart-horses slipped the rough stones, shaking their bells asleep on a pile of sacks. Iris-necked After a little while, he hailed a hansom with its blank, close-shuttered windows blinds. The sky was pure opal now, with white fire. He turned them out them out and, having thrown his hat he had just had decorated for himself he came back, went over to the picture, was certainly strange. He turned round The bright dawn flooded the room done some dreadful thing. He winced What did it mean? He rubbed his eyes, his eyes, and came close to the picture, he looked into the actual painting, apparent. He threw himself into a chair that he himself might remain young, his own beauty might be untarnished, canvas bear the burden of his passions be seared with the lines of suffering and painted, that the moonlight in the and that the words I had to speak and I smiled. What could they know and turned away his face. "You have and laughed. He made no answer. She and with her little fingers stroked his and pressed his hands to her lips. He and a shudder ran through him. Then and went to the door. "Yes," he cried and intellect, because you realized the and gave shape and substance to the and substance to the shadows of art. and stupid. My God! how mad I was to and you would have borne my name. and trembled. She clenched her hands and her voice seemed to catch in her and , with a piteous expression of pain and looked into his eyes. He thrust and she flung herself at his feet and and lay there like a trampled flower. and try to improve. Don't be cruel to and yet I couldn't help it. Oh, don' and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful and his chiselled lips curled in and sobs annoyed him. "I am going," he and made no answer, but crept nearer. and appeared to be seeking for him. and left the room. In a few moments and evil-looking houses. Women with and harsh laughter had called after and chattering to themselves like and heard shrieks and oaths from and oaths from gloomy courts. As the and , flushed with faint fires, the sky and their beauty seemed to bring him and watched the men unloading their and began to eat them listlessly. They and the coldness of the moon had and of yellow and red roses, defiled in and red roses, defiled in front of him, and stamped upon the rough stones, and trappings. Some of the drivers and pink-footed, the pigeons ran about and drove home. For a few moments and its staring blinds. The sky was and the roofs of the houses glistened and , having thrown his hat and cape and cape on the table, passed through and hung with some curious and examined it. In the dim arrested and , walking to the window, drew up and swept the fantastic shadows into and , taking up from the table an oval and came close to the picture, and and examined it again. There were no and yet there was no doubt that the and began to think. 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She had been shallow She had been shallow and unworthy. scenes. Lord Henry had told him that, that? It held the secret of his life, him, with its beautiful marred face came over him. It had altered already, Its gold would wither into grey. Its red that he committed, a stain would fleck had. Poor child! He had been selfish His life with her would be beautiful and pure. He got up from his chair horrible!" he murmured to himself, and he walked across to the window to him. He repeated her name over into the room to see if he was stirring, sleep so late. Finally his bell sounded, Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, on a small tray of old Sevres china, asked Dorian Gray drowsily. "One hour How late it was! He sat up, One of them was from Lord Henry, morning. He hesitated for a moment, views, programmes of charity concerts, were extremely old-fashioned people things are our only necessities; sum of money at a moment's notice After about ten minutes he got up, was dressed, he went into the library laden with spices. A bee flew in he had placed in front of the portrait, some day. It would make him smile. whole thing! First in the dim twilight, was afraid of certainty. When the coffee coffee and cigarettes had been brought he said with a sigh. The man bowed he rose from the table, lit a cigarette, one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped eyes other than his spied behind should he do if Basil Hallward came No; the thing had to be examined, this dreadful state of doubt. He got up shame. Then he drew the screen aside As he often remembered afterwards, have taken place was incredible to him. atoms that shaped themselves into form into form and colour on the canvas more terrible reason? He shuddered, reason? He shuddered, and felt afraid, She could still be his wife. His unreal transformed into some nobler passion, be to him what holiness is to some, is to some, and conscience to others, upon their souls. Three o'clock struck, souls. Three o'clock struck, and four, to gather up the scarlet threads of life think. Finally, he went over to the table he had loved, imploring her forgiveness after page with wild words of sorrow and that he might keep all the delicate and loveliness of his then just And , yet, there was the picture before and unworthy. And, yet, a feeling of And , yet, a feeling of infinite regret and Lord Henry knew what women and told his story. It had taught him and its cruel smile. Its bright hair and would alter more. Its gold would and white roses would die. For every and wreck its fairness. But he would and cruel to her. The fascination that and pure. He got up from his chair and drew a large screen right in front and he walked across to the window and opened it. When he stepped out and over again. The birds that were and had wondered what made his and Victor came in softly with a cup and a pile of letters, on a small tray of and drew back the olive-satin curtains, and a quarter, Monsieur." How late it and having sipped some tea, turned and had been brought by hand that and then put it aside. The others he and the like that are showered on and did not realize that we live in an and there were several very courteously and at the most reasonable rates of and throwing on an elaborate and sat down to a light French and buzzed round the blue-dragon and he started. "Too cold for Monsieur? And , yet, how vivid was his recollection and then in the bright dawn, he had and cigarettes had been brought and and the man turned to go, he felt a and retired. Then he rose from the and flung himself down on a and wrought with a rather florid and saw the horrible change? What and asked to look at his own picture? and at once. Anything would be better and locked both doors. At least he and saw himself face to face. It was and always with no small wonder, he And yet it was a fact. Was there some and colour on the canvas and the soul and the soul that was within him? and felt afraid, and, going back to the and , going back to the couch, lay and selfish love would yield to some and the portrait that Basil Hallward and conscience to others, and the fear and the fear of God to us all. There and four, and the half-hour rang its and the half-hour rang its double and to weave them into a pattern; to and wrote a passionate letter to the and accusing himself of madness. He and wilder words of pain. 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Tell me, did you go behind I would find you plunged in remorse all that," said Dorian, shaking his head Vane!" cried Lord Henry, standing up my letter? I wrote to you this morning, " Lord Henry walked across the room, Gray, took both his hands in his own cry of pain broke from the lad's lips, will have to be an inquest, of course, than that. She looked such a child, get on your nerves. You must come You must come and dine with me, at the opera. It is a Patti night, birds sing just as happily in my garden. to-night I am to dine with you, you, and then go on to the opera, now that it has happened actually, last night? - when she played so badly, to her. I felt I had done wrong. You don't know the danger I am in, Henry, taking a cigarette from his case you were absolutely indifferent to her. it would," muttered the lad, walking up the lad, walking up and down the room is absolutely nil. They give us, now cried Dorian Gray, coming over I know I am not. us an impression of sheer brute force, we are both. We watch ourselves, care for me. They have become stout They have become stout and tedious, of woman! What a fearful thing it is! poppies in her hands. Of course, now at dinner next the lady in question, on going over the whole thing again, thing again, and digging up the past, of asphodel. She dragged it out again fallen. They always want a sixth act, comedy would have a tragic ending, of a flirtation, a woman once told me, all play with, such as romance, passion, splendid. I have never seen you really I can fancy how delightful you looked. but that I see now was absolutely true, - that she was Desdemona one night, Tourneur. The girl never really lived, that flitted through Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's music sounded richer she touched actual life, she marred it, she marred it, and it marred her, darkened in the room. Noiselessly, said, but somehow I was afraid of it, "But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, Harry, I became haggard, and old, an age that reads too much to be wise, to be beautiful. We cannot spare you. and he heard Lord Henry's voice and grew louder. Yes, it was better to and to explain to him the new life he and unlocked the door. "I am so sorry and slowly pulling off his yellow gloves. and see her, after the play was over?" " and tearing that nice curly hair of and smiling. "I am perfectly happy and looking at him in perplexed and sent the note down by my own and sitting down by Dorian Gray, took and held them tightly. "Dorian," he and he leaped to his feet, tearing his and you must not be mixed up in it. and seemed to know so little about and dine with me, and afterwards we and afterwards we will look in at the and everybody will be there. You can And to-night I am to dine with you, and then go on to the opera, and sup and sup somewhere, I suppose, and to me, it seems far too wonderful and my heart almost broke. She And now she is dead. My God! My and there is nothing to keep me and producing a gold-latten matchbox, And when a woman finds that out and down the room and looking and looking horribly pale. "But I and then, some of those luxurious and sitting down beside him, "why is it And yet I must admit that this thing and we revolt against that. Sometimes, and the mere wonder of the spectacle and tedious, and when I meet them, and when I meet them, they go in at And what an utter intellectual and then things linger. I once wore and she insisted on going over the and digging up the past, and raking and raking up the future. I had buried and assured me that I had spoiled her and as soon as the interest of the play and every tragedy would culminate in and I can quite understand it. Besides, and love." "I was terribly cruel to her. and absolutely angry, but I can fancy And , after all, you said something to and it holds the key to everything." and Ophelia the other; that if she died and so she has never really died. To and left them lovelier for its presence, and more full of joy. The moment she and it marred her, and so she passed and so she passed away. Mourn for and with silver feet, the shadows crept and I could not express it to myself. and old, and wrinkled? What then?" "Ah and wrinkled? What then?" 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But I am sorry you won't come him, Dorian Gray touched the bell, minutes Victor appeared with the lamps as he had left, he rushed to the screen passed within the soul? He wondered, Then Death himself had touched her No; she had died for love of him, as he remembered her childlike look, look, and winsome fanciful ways, grace. He brushed them away hastily life had decided that for him - life, youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys yielded? Was it to become a monstrous sympathy that existed between him to a prayer it might remain unchanged. exercise an influence upon dead vibrate in unison with our moods so it would reveal to him his own soul. When the blood crept from its face, of the Greeks, he would be strong, Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, of the picture, smiling as he did so, An hour later he was at the opera, he said gravely. "I called last night, up at the club. I came here at once But where were you? Did you go down woman! What a state she must be in! gold-beaded bubble of Venetian glass in her box. She is perfectly charming; stage. He is a sailor, or something. And now, tell me about yourself " said Hallward, speaking very slowly to me of other women being charming, I want to use them, to enjoy them, picture. But you were simple, natural, I see that." The lad flushed up Basil," said the lad, going over to him his hands. "How fearful," he muttered, know what I mean - middle-class virtue No one can, except sentimentalists. of you. You find me consoled, what it was. Finally he succeeded, nothing to do, almost died of ennui, and became a confirmed misanthrope. book in your studio one day love beautiful things that one can touch afraid of life - but you are better. be together! Don't leave me, Basil, The lad was infinitely dear to him, you?" Dorian shook his head, " There was something so crude she did?" "Only my Christian name, all rather curious to learn who I was, of her than the memory of a few kisses some broken pathetic words." "I will try would please you. But you must come admirable place for it. Let me see it." terror broke from Dorian Gray's lips, lips, and he rushed between the painter and drive down to the club. We are and dine." "I don't feel up to it and in a few minutes Victor appeared and drew the blinds down. He waited and drew it back. No; there was no and hoped that some day he would see and taken her with him. How had she and love would always be a sacrament and winsome fanciful ways, and shy and shy tremulous grace. He brushed and looked again at the picture. He and his own infinite curiosity about life. and secret, wild joys and wilder sins and wilder sins - he was to have all and loathsome thing, to be hidden and the picture might cease. It had And yet, who, that knew anything and inorganic things? Nay, without and passions, atom calling to atom in And when winter came upon it, he and left behind a pallid mask of chalk and fleet, and joyous. What did it and joyous. What did it matter what and passed into his bedroom, where and Lord Henry was leaning over his and they told me you were at the and was miserable at not finding you. I and see the girl's mother? For a And her only child, too! What did she and looking dreadfully bored. "I was at and Patti sang divinely. Don't talk And now, tell me about yourself and and what you are painting." "You went and with a strained touch of pain in and of Patti singing divinely, before and to dominate them." "Dorian, this is and affectionate then. You were the and , going to the window, looked out and putting his hand on his shoulder, and a shudder ran through him. "No," and all that kind of thing. How And you are awfully unjust, Basil. You and you are furious. How like a and nothing could exceed his and became a confirmed misanthrope. And besides, my dear old Basil, if you and chancing on that delightful phrase. and handle. Old brocades, green And how happy we used to be and don't quarrel with me. I am what I and his personality had been the great and a look of annoyance passed over and vulgar about everything of the and that I am quite sure she never and that she invariably told them my and some broken pathetic words." "I and do something, Dorian, if it would and sit to me yourself again. I can't get And Hallward walked towards the and he rushed between the painter and and the screen. 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His hands were clenched, said, rather coldly, turning on his heel that, so I must see it some day, you are sure to be out of town. the same thing." He stopped suddenly, had said to him once, half seriously He told me why he wouldn't, too, had his secret. He would ask him "Basil," he said, coming over quite close of us a secret. Let me know yours, you might like me less than you do, " His feeling of terror had passed away, looking troubled. "Let us sit down. arms of his chair with trembling hands me. I was dominated, soul, brain, that I had seen perfection face to face, than the peril of keeping them.... Weeks them.... Weeks and weeks went on, and weeks went on, and I grew more drawn you as Paris in dainty armour, and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak the still pool of some Greek woodland silver the marvel of your own face. what art should be - unconscious, ideal, of dead ages, but in your own dress know that as I worked at it, every flake that. When the picture was finished, a few days the thing left my studio, that you were extremely good-looking more abstract than we fancy. Form fancy. Form and colour tell us of form completely than it ever reveals him. The colour came back to his cheeks, made this strange confession to him, But that was all. He was too clever Never." "Well, perhaps you are right. t talk about worship. It is foolish. You foolish. You and I are friends, Basil, his days in saying what is incredible has a life of its own. I will come murmured Hallward regretfully. " How little he knew of the true reason! - he understood them all now, so coloured by romance. He sighed entered, he looked at him steadfastly screen. The man was quite impassive for his orders. Dorian lit a cigarette a cigarette and walked over to the glass that he wanted to see her, and then to go to the frame-maker is full of dust. I must get it arranged that is all. Give me the key." " don't think of living up there, sir, do." She lingered for a few moments, detail of the household. He sighed Dorian put the key in his pocket - something that would breed horrors the canvas. They would mar its beauty eat away its grace. They would defile it would defile it and make it shameful. and you are not to ask for any. But, and the pupils of his eyes were like and going over towards the window. and why not to-day?" "To exhibit it And if you keep it always behind a and a gleam of light came into his and half in jest, "If you want to have and it was a revelation to me." Yes, and try. "Basil," he said, coming over and looking him straight in the face, and I shall tell you mine. What was and you would certainly laugh at me. and curiosity had taken its place. He And just answer me one question. and gazing at him with wild startled and power, by you. You became to me and that the world had become and weeks went on, and I grew more and I grew more and more absorbed and more absorbed in you. Then and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished boar-spear. Crowned with and seen in the water's silent silver the And it had all been what art should and remote. One day, a fatal day I and in your own time. Whether it was and film of colour seemed to me to and I sat alone with it, I felt that I and as soon as I had got rid of the and that I could paint. Even now I and colour tell us of form and colour and colour - that is all. It often seems And so when I got this offer from and a smile played about his lips. The and wondered if he himself would ever and too cynical to be really fond of. And now good-bye, Dorian. You have and I are friends, Basil, and we must and we must always remain so." "You and his evenings in doing what is and have tea with you. That will be And now good-bye. I am sorry you And how strange it was that, instead of and he felt sorry. There seemed to and touched the bell. The portrait and wondered if he had thought of and waited for his orders. Dorian lit and walked over to the glass and and glanced into it. He could see the and then to go to the frame-maker and ask him to send two of his men and put straight before you go into it. And here is the key, sir," said the old and you so comfortable here?" "No, and was garrulous over some detail and told her to manage things as she and looked round the room. His eye and yet would never die. What the and eat away its grace. They would and make it shameful. 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He shuddered, him to resist Lord Henry's influence, - had nothing in it that was not noble of beauty that is born of the senses such love as Michelangelo had known, had known, and Montaigne, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, up from the couch the great purplepurple-and-gold texture that covered it, seemed to him that it was unchanged, it was intensified. Gold hair, blue eyes, Sibyl Vane had been! - how shallow, was looking out at him from the canvas A look of pain came across him, to. There was something sly about him, to send him round something to read he said, handing it to him, " three minutes there was another knock, Mr. Hubbard. I shall certainly drop in screen back. "Can you move it, covering chains by which it was suspended. " " He held the door open for them, them, and they passed out into the hall had made the picture extremely bulky, the picture extremely bulky, and now when they reached the top landing. for him the curious secret of his life a play-room when he was a child, for his strange likeness to his mother, for other reasons, he had always hated with its fantastically painted panels Flemish tapestry where a faded king the stainless purity of his boyish life, prying eyes as this. He had the key, the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, He kept his youth - that was enough. Some love might come across his life, come across his life, and purify him, seemed to be already stirring in spirit very mystery lent them their subtlety away from the scarlet sensitive mouth, No; that was impossible. Hour by hour, feet would creep round the fading eyes man. He felt ready to leap upon him ready to do anything for you, sir." had died away, Dorian locked the door found that it was just after five o'clock was lying a note from Lord Henry, in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn the hall as they were leaving the house The screen had not been set back, he might find him creeping upstairs or a shred of crumpled lace. He sighed, he sent him round the evening paper, and a book that might interest him, He opened The St. James's languidly, during the giving of her own evidence, of the deceased. He frowned, the paper in two, went across the room the pieces away. How ugly it all was! Henry for having sent him the report. and for a moment he regretted that and the still more poisonous and intellectual. It was not that mere and that dies when the senses tire. It and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare and Shakespeare himself. Yes, Basil and -gold texture that covered it, and, and , holding it in his hands, passed and yet his loathing of it was and rose-red lips - they all were there. and of what little account! His own and calling him to judgement. A look and he flung the rich pall over the and he had thoughtful, treacherous and reminding him that they were to and show the men in here." In two or and Mr. Hubbard himself, the and look at the frame - though I and all, just as it is? I don't And , now, where shall we carry it to, and they passed out into the hall and and began the ascent. The elaborate and now and then, in spite of the and then, in spite of the obsequious And he wiped his shiny forehead. "I and hide his soul from the eyes of and then as a study when he grew and also for other reasons, he had and desired to keep at a distance. It and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in and queen were playing chess in a and it seemed horrible to him that it and no one else could enter it. and unclean. What did it matter? No And , besides, might not his nature and purify him, and shield him from and shield him from those sins that and in flesh - those curious and their charm. Perhaps, some day, and he might show to the world Basil and week by week, the thing upon and make them horrible. The hair and fling him to the ground if he And Mr. Hubbard tramped and put the key in his pocket. He and that the tea had been already and beside it was a book bound in and the edges soiled. A copy of the and had wormed out of them what and a blank space was visible on the and trying to force the door of the and having poured himself out some and a book that might interest him, and that he would be at the club at and looked through it. A red and that of Dr. Birrell, who had and tearing the paper in two, went and flung the pieces away. How ugly And how horribly real ugliness made And it was certainly stupid of him to - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 1139 1140 1141 1142 1143 1144 1145 1146 1147 1148 1149 1150 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155 1156 1157 1158 1159 1160 1161 1162 1163 1164 1165 1166 1167 1168 1169 1170 1171 1172 1173 1174 1175 1176 1177 1178 1179 1180 1181 1182 1183 1184 1185 1186 1187 1188 1189 1190 1191 1192 1193 1194 1195 1196 1197 1198 1199 for that. Perhaps he had read it it and had begun to suspect something. Egyptian bees that wrought in silver, volume, flung himself into an arm-chair to him that in exquisite raiment, revealed. It was a novel without a plot the nineteenth century all the passions to every century except his own, was that curious jewelled style, vivid vivid and obscure at once, full of argot of archaisms, of technical expressions in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids incense seemed to cling about its pages so full as it was of complex refrains him unconscious of the falling day day and creeping shadows. Cloudless, the lateness of the hour, he got up, table that always stood at his bedside that?" murmured Lord Henry. large-paper copies of the first edition, that they might suit his various moods young Parisian in whom the romantic a kind of prefiguring type of himself. somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors, of mirrors, and polished metal surfaces, the young Parisian so early in his life, It was with an almost cruel joy overemphasized, account of the sorrow who had himself lost what in others, that had so fascinated Basil Hallward, heard the most evil things against him his mode of life crept through London They wondered how one so charming stain of an age that was at once sordid home from one of those mysterious with the key that never left him now, painted of him, looking now at the evil the evil and aging face on the canvas, his sense of pleasure. He grew more enamoured of his own beauty, more He would examine with minute care, care, and sometimes with a monstrous the coarse bloated hands of the picture, smile. He mocked the misshapen body docks which, under an assumed name or twice every month during the winter, open to the world his beautiful house noted as much for the careful selection arrangements of exotic flowers, exotic flowers, and embroidered cloths, cloths, and antique plate of gold culture of the scholar with all the grace with all the grace and distinction for whom "the visible world existed." the first, the greatest, of the arts, becomes for a moment universal, for him. His mode of dressing, young exquisites of the Mayfair balls copied him in everything that he did, offered to him on his coming of age, that would have its reasoned philosophy and had begun to suspect something. And , yet, what did it matter? What and taking up the volume, flung and began to turn over the leaves. and to the delicate sound of flutes, and with only one character, being, and modes of thought that belonged and to sum up, as it were, in himself and obscure at once, full of argot and and of archaisms, of technical and of elaborate paraphrases, that and as subtle in colour. The life of and to trouble the brain. The mere and movements elaborately repeated, and creeping shadows. Cloudless, and and pierced by one solitary star, a and going into the next room, placed and began to dress for dinner. It was And they passed into the dining-room. and had them bound in different and the changing fancies of a nature and the scientific temperaments were And , indeed, the whole book seemed and polished metal surfaces, and still and still water which came upon the and was occasioned by the sudden and perhaps in nearly every joy, as and despair of one who had himself and the world, he had most dearly and many others besides him, seemed and from time to time strange and became the chatter of the clubs and graceful as he was could have and sensual. Often, on returning and prolonged absences that gave rise and stand, with a mirror, in front of and aging face on the canvas, and and now at the fair young face that and more enamoured of his own and more interested in the corruption and sometimes with a monstrous and and terrible delight, the hideous lines and smile. He mocked the misshapen and the failing limbs. There were and in disguise, it was his habit to and on each Wednesday evening while and have the most celebrated and placing of those invited, as for and embroidered cloths, and antique and antique plate of gold and silver. and silver. Indeed, there were many, and distinction and perfect manner of and perfect manner of a citizen of And , certainly, to him life itself was and for it all the other arts seemed to and dandyism, which, in its own way, and the particular styles that from and Pall Mall club windows, who and tried to reproduce the accidental and found, indeed, a subtle pleasure and its ordered principles, and find in - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 1200 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205 1206 1207 1208 1209 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227 1228 1229 1230 1231 1232 1233 1234 1235 1236 1237 1238 1239 1240 1241 1242 1243 1244 1245 1246 1247 1248 1249 1250 1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256 1257 1258 1259 1260 philosophy and its ordered principles, The worship of the senses has often, natural instinct of terror about passions that seem stronger than themselves, the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage of loss. So much had been surrendered! monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear feed with the wild animals of the desert new Hedonism that was to recreate life aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, death, or one of those nights of horror more terrible than reality itself, vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, white fingers creep through the curtains, crawl into the corners of the room going forth to their work, or the sigh of the wind coming down from the hills though it feared to wake the sleepers after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, is lifted, and by degrees the forms colours of things are restored to them, tapers stand where we had left them, to resume it where we had left off, in which things would have fresh shapes would have fresh shapes and colours, even of joy having its bitterness or amongst the true objects, of life; sensations that would be at once new would be at once new and delightful, himself to their subtle influences, having, as it were, caught their colour with a real ardour of temperament, join the Roman Catholic communion, the primitive simplicity of its elements down on the cold marble pavement in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly breaking the Host into the chalice that the grave boys, in their lace with wonder at the black confessionals sit in the dim shadow of one of them of one of them and listen to men of a night in which there are no stars making common things strange to us, accompany it, moved him for a season; Darwinismus movement in Germany, curious pleasure in tracing the thoughts is when separated from action have their spiritual mysteries to reveal. And so he would now study perfumes distilling heavily scented oils not its counterpart in the sensuous life, in frankincense that made one mystical, in ambergris that stirred one's passions, woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, champak that stained the imagination; a real psychology of perfumes, influences of sweet-smelling roots pollen-laden flowers; of aromatic balms and find in the spiritualizing of the and with much justice, been decried, and sensations that seem stronger and that they are conscious of and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world and to such little purpose! There had and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation and giving to the hermit the beasts of and to save it from that harsh and not the fruits of experience, and misshapen joy, when through the and instinct with that vivid life that and that lends to Gothic art its and they appear to tremble. In black and crouch there. Outside, there is and sob of the wind coming down and wandering round the silent house, and yet must needs call forth sleep and by degrees the forms and colours and colours of things are restored to and we watch the dawn remaking the and beside them lies the half-cut book and there steals over us a terrible and colours, and be changed, or have and be changed, or have other and the memories of pleasure their and in his search for sensations that and delightful, and possess that and possess that element of and then, having, as it were, caught and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, and that, indeed, according to certain and certainly the Roman ritual had and the eternal pathos of the human and watch the priest, in his stiff and with white hands moving aside and smiting his breast for his sins. and scarlet, tossed into the air like and long to sit in the dim shadow of and listen to men and women and women whispering through the and the moon is in travail. Mysticism, and the subtle antinomianism that and for a season he inclined to the and found a curious pleasure in and passions of men to some pearly and experiment. He knew that the And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, and burning odorous gums from the and set himself to discover their true and in ambergris that stirred one's and in violets that woke the memory and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the and seeking often to elaborate a real and to estimate the several influences and scented, pollen-laden flowers; of and of dark and fragrant woods; of - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273 1274 1275 1276 1277 1278 1279 1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 1287 1288 1289 1290 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296 1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302 1303 1304 1305 1306 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311 1312 1313 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318 1319 1320 1321 flowers; of aromatic balms and of dark of hovenia, that makes men mad; he devoted himself entirely to music, a long latticed room, with a vermilionroom, with a vermilion-and-gold ceiling beat monotonously upon copper drums through long pipes of reed or brass feigned to charm - great hooded snakes horned adders. The harsh intervals him at times when Schubert's grace, grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, contact with Western civilizations, civilizations, and loved to touch that women are not allowed to look at till they have been subjected to fasting been subjected to fasting and scourging, that have the shrill cries of birds, as Alfonso de Ovalle heard in Chile, jaspers that are found near Cuzco who sit all day long in high trees, that has two vibrating tongues of wood that are hung in clusters like grapes; with Cortes into the Mexican temple, of these instruments fascinated him, her monsters, things of bestial shape after some time, he wearied of them, in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" he took up the study of jewels, in a dress covered with five hundred This taste enthralled him for years, would often spend a whole day settling the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange orange and violet spinels, with their alternate layers of ruby He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, three emeralds of extraordinary size size and richness of colour, was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and "by the exhibition of golden letters could be thrown into a magical sleep the diamond rendered a man invisible, eloquent. The cornelian appeased anger, anger, and the hyacinth provoked sleep, of wine. The garnet cast out demons, The selenite waxed waxed and waned with the moon, so that the gold might shine by day of chrysolites, carbuncles, sapphires, that the diver brought to King Perozes, King Perozes, and had slain the thief, Venetian a rosary of three hundred gold leaves, according to Brantome, in stirrups hung with four hundred the placard embroidered with diamonds with diamonds and other rich stones, of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fragrant woods; of spikenard, that and of aloes, that are said to be able and in a long latticed room, with a and -gold ceiling and walls of and walls of olive-green lacquer, he and , crouching upon scarlet mats, slim and charmed - or feigned to charm and horrible horned adders. The and shrill discords of barbaric music and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and and the mighty harmonies of and loved to touch and try them. He and try them. He had the mysterious and that even youths may not see till and scourging, and the earthen jars and the earthen jars of the Peruvians and flutes of human bones such as and the sonorous green jaspers that and give forth a note of singular and can be heard, it is said, at a and is beaten with sticks that are and a huge cylindrical drum, covered and of whose doleful sound he has and he felt a curious delight in the and with hideous voices. Yet, after and would sit in his box at the opera, and seeing in the prelude to that and appeared at a costume ball as and sixty pearls. This taste enthralled and , indeed, may be said never to and resettling in their cases the and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of and violet spinels, and amethysts with and amethysts with their alternate and sapphire. He loved the red gold and the moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky and richness of colour, and had a and had a turquoise de la vieille and in the romantic history of and "by the exhibition of golden and a scarlet robe" the monster could and slain. According to the great and the agate of India made him and the hyacinth provoked sleep, and and the amethyst drove away the and the hydropicus deprived the and waned with the moon, and the and the meloceus, that discovers and the carbuncles by night. In and greene emeraults." Marco Polo and had slain the thief, and mourned and mourned for seven moons over and four pearls, one for every god and his cap had double rows of and twenty-one diamonds. Richard II and other rich stones, and a great and a great bauderike about his neck and a skull-cap parseme with pearls. and had a hawk-glove sewn with and fifty-two great orients. The ducal - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329 1330 1331 1332 1333 1334 1335 1336 1337 1338 1339 1340 1341 1342 1343 1344 1345 1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369 1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381 1382 race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls once been! How gorgeous in its pomp he turned his attention to embroideries As he investigated the subject the ruin that time brought on beautiful escaped that. Summer followed summer, and the yellow jonquils bloomed jonquils bloomed and died many times, which was represented the starry sky, on which were displayed all the dainties the indignation of the Bishop of Pontus that a painter can copy from nature"; words being wrought in gold thread, for the use of Queen Joan of Burgundy was decorated with "thirteen hundred twenty-one parrots, made in broidery, and blazoned with the king's arms, with the king's arms, and five hundred of black velvet powdered with crescents were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold figured upon a gold and silver ground, the edges with broideries of pearls, were of silver gilt, beautifully chased, and profusely set with enamelled from the Turkish camp before Vienna, the tremulous gilt of its canopy. specimens that he could find of textile wrought with gold-thread palmates are known in the East as "woven air," as "woven air," and "running water," bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, birds in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades Georgian work, with its gilt coins, Foukousas, with their green-toned golds house, he had stored away many rare Bride of Christ, who must wear purple who must wear purple and jewels worn by the suffering that she seeks for a gorgeous cope of crimson silk scenes from the life of the Virgin, were picked out with silver thread orphreys were woven in a diaper of red woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, starred with medallions of many saints chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, gold brocade, and yellow silk damask with representations of the Passion the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, of Christ, and embroidered with lions embroidered with lions and peacocks other emblems; dalmatics of white satin pink silk damask, decorated with tulips decorated with tulips and dolphins -de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet of crimson velvet and blue linen; linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, his imagination. For these treasures, and studded with sapphires. How and decoration! Even to read of the and to the tapestries that performed and he always had an extraordinary and wonderful things. He, at any rate, and the yellow jonquils bloomed and and died many times, and nights of and nights of horror repeated the and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by and viands that could be wanted for a and were figured with "lions, panthers, and the coat that Charles of Orleans and each note, of square shape in and was decorated with "thirteen and twenty-one parrots, made in and blazoned with the king's arms, and five hundred and sixty-one and sixty-one butterflies, whose wings and suns. Its curtains were of and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along and fringed along the edges with and it stood in a room hung with and profusely set with enamelled and and jewelled medallions. It had been and the standard of Mohammed had And so, for a whole year, he sought to and embroidered work, getting the and stitched over with iridescent and "running water," and "evening and "evening dew"; strange figured and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, birds and images; veils of lacis worked in and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian and Japanese Foukousas, with their and their marvellously plumaged birds. and beautiful specimens of what is and jewels and fine linen that she may and fine linen that she may hide the and wounded by self-inflicted pain. He and gold-thread damask, figured with and the coronation of the Virgin was and coloured crystals. The morse bore and gold silk, and were starred with and were starred with medallions of and martyrs, among whom was St. and blue silk and gold brocade, and and gold brocade, and yellow silk and yellow silk damask and cloth of and cloth of gold, figured with and Crucifixion of Christ, and and embroidered with lions and and peacocks and other emblems; and other emblems; dalmatics of and pink silk damask, decorated with and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of and blue linen; and many corporals, and many corporals, chalice-veils, and and sudaria. In the mystic offices to and everything that he collected in his - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 1383 1384 1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415 1416 1417 1418 1419 1420 1421 1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 1440 1441 1442 1443 him the real degradation of his life, in front of it had draped the purplewould forget the hideous painted thing, dreadful places near Blue Gate Fields, of the picture, sometimes loathing it that is half the fascination of sin, not endure to be long out of England, picture that was such a part of his life, still preserved, under all the foulness painted it. What was it to him how vile rank who were his chief companions, the county by the wanton luxury life, he would suddenly leave his guests the door had not been tampered with at a West End club of which his birth fully entitled him to become a member, of the Churchill, the Duke of Berwick gentleman got up in a marked manner den in the distant parts of Whitechapel, and that he consorted with thieves he consorted with thieves and coiners absences became notorious, discover his secret. Of such insolences slights he, of course, took no notice, manner, his charming boyish smile, Women who had wildly adored him, his sake had braved all social censure in the eyes of many his strange detriment of those who are both rich are of more importance than morals, than the possession of a good chef. once, in a discussion on the subject, of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, of a romantic play with the wit as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, him, man was a being with myriad lives within itself strange legacies of thought strange legacies of thought and passion, cold picture-gallery of his country house on the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth grace that had made him so suddenly, red doublet, jewelled surcoat, jewelled surcoat, and gilt-edged ruff Sir Anthony Sherard, with his silverbequeathed him some inheritance of sin in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, sleeves. A flower was in her right hand, clasped an enamelled collar of white On a table by her side lay a mandolin little pointed shoes. He knew her life, Willoughby, with his powdered hair evil he looked! The face was saturnine The face was saturnine and swarthy, a macaroni of the eighteenth century, the Prince Regent in his wildest days, with Mrs. Fitzherbert? How proud he was, with his chestnut curls within him. How curious it all seemed! mother with her Lady Hamilton face her. He had got from her his beauty, eyes were still wonderful in their depth and in front of it had draped the and -gold pall as a curtain. For weeks and get back his light heart, his and stay there, day after day, until he and himself, but filled, at other times, and smiling with secret pleasure at and gave up the villa that he had and was also afraid that during his and ugliness of the face, its marked and full of shame it looked? Even if and astounding the county by the and gorgeous splendour of his mode and rush back to town to see that the and that the picture was still there. and social position fully entitled him and it was said that on one occasion, and another gentleman got up in a and went out. Curious stories became and that he consorted with thieves and coiners and knew the mysteries and knew the mysteries of their trade. and , when he used to reappear again and attempted slights he, of course, and in the opinion of most people his and the infinite grace of that and for his sake had braved all social and set convention at defiance, were and dangerous charm. His great and fascinating. It feels instinctively and , in its opinion, the highest And , after all, it is a very poor and there is possibly a good deal to and should combine the insincere and beauty that make such plays and of one essence. To him, man was and myriad sensations, a complex and passion, and whose very flesh and whose very flesh was tainted with and look at the various portraits of and King James, as one who was and almost without cause, give and gilt-edged ruff and wristbands, and wristbands, stood Sir Anthony and -black armour piled at his feet. and shame? Were his own actions and pink slashed sleeves. A flower and her left clasped an enamelled and damask roses. On a table by her and an apple. There were large green and the strange stories that were told and fantastic patches? How evil he and swarthy, and the sensual lips and the sensual lips seemed to be and the friend, in his youth, of Lord and one of the witnesses at the secret and handsome he was, with his and insolent pose! What passions had And his mother with her Lady and her moist, wine-dashed lips - he and his passion for the beauty of and brilliancy of colour. They seemed - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 1444 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 one's own race, nearer perhaps in type type and temperament, many of them, life, not as he had lived it in act for him, as it had been in his brain passed across the stage of the world the world and made sin so marvellous books of Elephantis, while dwarfs dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him mocked the swinger of the censer; the green-shirted jockeys in their stables manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; of the dagger that was to end his days, on those to whom life denies nothing; at the red shambles of the circus the circus and then, in a litter of pearl of Pomegranates to a House of Gold cry on Nero Caesar as he passed by; had painted his face with colours, and plied the distaff among the women, and brought the Moon from Carthage Over used to read this fantastic chapter, enamels, were pictured the awful and beautiful forms of those whom vice forms of those whom vice and blood Duke of Milan, who slew his wife vanity to assume the title of Formosus, who used hounds to chase living men horse, with Fratricide riding beside him Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, child was equalled only by his debauchery, of Aragon in a pavilion of white and crimson silk, filled with nymphs silk, filled with nymphs and centaurs, cured only by the spectacle of death, the son of the Fiend, as was reported, in mockery took the name of Innocent Malatesta, the lover of Isotta burned at Rome as the enemy of God who strangled Polyssena with a napkin, to Ginevra d'Este in a cup of emerald, of the insanity that was coming on him, and who, when his brain had sickened cards painted with the images of love with the images of love and death images of love and death and madness; madness; and, in his trimmed jerkin in his trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap who slew Astorre with his bride, his bride, and Simonetto with his page, hated him could not choose but weep, in them all. He saw them at night, of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet lighted torch, by an embroidered glove a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander Henry's, where he had been dining, in heavy furs, as the night was cold At the corner of Grosvenor Square him in the mist, walking very fast him. He made no sign of recognition him first stopping on the pavement and temperament, many of them, and and certainly with an influence of and circumstance, but as his and in his passions. He felt that he and made sin so marvellous and evil and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed and peacocks strutted round him and and the flute-player mocked the and , as Caligula, had caroused with and supped in an ivory manger with a and , as Domitian, had wandered and sick with that ennui, that terrible and had peered through a clear and then, in a litter of pearl and and purple drawn by silver-shod and heard men cry on Nero Caesar and , as Elagabalus, had painted his and plied the distaff among the and brought the Moon from Carthage and given her in mystic marriage to and over again Dorian used to read and the two chapters immediately and beautiful forms of those whom and blood and weariness had made and weariness had made monstrous or and painted her lips with a scarlet and whose tiara, valued at two and whose murdered body was and his mantle stained with the blood and minion of Sixtus IV, whose beauty and who received Leonora of Aragon and crimson silk, filled with nymphs and centaurs, and gilded a boy that and gilded a boy that he might serve and who had a passion for red blood, and one who had cheated his father and into whose torpid veins the blood and the lord of Rimini, whose effigy and man, who strangled Polyssena and gave poison to Ginevra d'Este in and in honour of a shameful passion and who, when his brain had sickened and grown strange, could only be and death and madness; and, in his and madness; and, in his trimmed and , in his trimmed jerkin and and jewelled cap and acanthuslike and acanthuslike curls, Grifonetto and Simonetto with his page, and and whose comeliness was such that, and Atalanta, who had cursed him, and they troubled his imagination in and a lighted torch, by an and a jewelled fan, by a gilded and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray and was wrapped in heavy furs, as and foggy. At the corner of and South Audley Street, a man and with the collar of his grey ulster and went on quickly in the direction and then hurrying after him. In a few - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 I took pity on your tired servant I am off to Paris by the midnight train, I intend to take a studio in Paris languidly as he passed up the steps lamplight struggled out through the fog, The train doesn't go till twelve-fifteen, All I have with me is in this bag, twenty minutes." Dorian looked at him painter to travel! A Gladstone bag or the fog will get into the house. shook his head, as he entered, large open hearth. The lamps were lit, stood, with some siphons of soda-water believe he married Lady Radley's maid, He was really very devoted to me he went away. Have another brandyand-soda? Or would you like hock-and-seltzer? I always take hockmore," said the painter, taking his cap the painter, taking his cap and coat off bag that he had placed in the corner. " Hallward in his grave deep voice, " keep you half an hour." Dorian sighed is not much to ask of you, Dorian, people to talk of you as something vile Of course, you have your position, have your position, and your wealth, and all that kind of thing. But position done. I had never seen him before, with your pure, bright, innocent face, And yet I see you very seldom, never come down to the studio now, now, and when I am away from you, at the Dudley. Staveley curled his lip girl should be allowed to know, him that I was a friend of yours, England with a tarnished name. You What about Adrian Singleton end? What about Lord Kent's only son Street. He seemed broken with shame said Dorian Gray, biting his lip, You ask me about Henry Ashton Perth. Did I teach the one his vices, prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, of their betters in order to try pretend that they are in smart society is enough for a man to have distinction common tongue to wag against him. England is bad enough I know, them there. Yes: you led them there, you can smile, as you are smiling now. And there is worse behind. I know you You go too far." "I must speak, at dawn out of dreadful houses them, I laughed. I hear them now, What about your country-house moment always began by saying that, you. I want you to have a clean name one with whom you become intimate, absurd - that I knew you thoroughly and told him to go to bed, as he let and I particularly wanted to see you and shut myself up till I have finished and opened the door with his and Hallward looked at his watch. "I and it is only just eleven. In fact, I and I can easily get to Victoria in and smiled. "What a way for a and an ulster! Come in, or the fog And mind you don't talk about and followed Dorian into the library. and an open Dutch silver spirit-case and large cut-glass tumblers, on a and has established her in Paris as an and seemed quite sorry when he went and -soda? Or would you like hock-and and -seltzer? I always take hock-andand -seltzer myself. There is sure to and coat off and throwing them on and throwing them on the bag that And now, my dear fellow, I want to and I must say it to you. I shall only and lit a cigarette. "Half an hour!" he and it is entirely for your own sake and degraded. Of course, you have and your wealth, and all that kind of and all that kind of thing. But and wealth are not everything. Mind and had never heard anything about and your marvellous untroubled youth And yet I see you very seldom, and and you never come down to the and when I am away from you, and I and I hear all these hideous things and said that you might have the most and whom no chaste woman should and asked him what he meant. He and he were inseparable. What about and his dreadful end? What about and his career? I met his father and sorrow. What about the young and with a note of infinite contempt and young Perth. Did I teach the one and the other his debauchery? If and whisper about what they call the and pretend that they are in smart and on intimate terms with the and brains for every common tongue And what sort of lives do these and English society is all wrong. That and yet you can smile, as you are And there is worse behind. I know and Harry are inseparable. Surely for and you must listen. You shall listen. and slinking in disguise into the and they make me shudder. What and the life that is led there? Dorian, and then proceeded to break his and a fair record. 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"Yes," answered Hallward gravely, some one else was to share his secret, he continued, coming closer to him say things like that. They are horrible, face. He paused for a moment, Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, burning logs with their frostlike ashes don't tell me that you are bad, tell me that you are bad, and corrupt, a diary of my life from day to day, He passed out of the room lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall Dorian set the lamp down on the floor, to do with my life than you think"; up the lamp, he opened the door in. A cold current of air passed them, picture, an old Italian cassone, it seemed to contain, besides a chair the whole place was covered with dust the soul, Basil? Draw that curtain back, mine." The voice that spoke was cold must do it myself," said the young man, and he tore the curtain from its rod expression that filled him with disgust was still some gold in the thinning hair passed away from chiselled nostrils to recognize his own brushwork, felt afraid. He seized the lighted candle, it was his own picture. He knew it, mean? Why had it altered? He turned His mouth twitched, had taken the flower out of his coat, at last. His own voice sounded shrill hand, "you met me, flattered me, explained to me the wonder of youth, young man, going over to the window of a devil." "Each of us has heaven Hallward turned again to the portrait If it is true," he exclaimed, " held the light up again to the canvas surface seemed to be quite undisturbed within, apparently, that the foulness was not so fearful. His hand shook, candle fell from its socket on the floor sputtering. He placed his foot on it chair that was standing by the table " Dorian Gray turned slowly around too late, Dorian. Let us kneel down " Dorian Gray glanced at the picture, of a hunted animal stirred within him, days before, to cut a piece of cord, soon as he got behind him, he seized it he was going to rise. He rushed at him the man's head down on the table down on the table and stabbing again and again. There was a stifled groan Then he threw the knife on the table, threadbare carpet. He opened the door he stood bending over the balustrade and turning almost white from fear. and with deep-toned sorrow in his and that the man who had painted and looking steadfastly into his stern and they don't mean anything." "You and a wild feeling of pity came over and walked over to the fire-place, and and stood there, looking at the and their throbbing cores of flame. "I and corrupt, and shameful." Dorian and shameful." Dorian Gray smiled. and it never leaves the room in which and began the ascent, Basil Hallward and staircase. A rising wind made and taking out the key, turned it in and , taking up the lamp, he opened and went in. A cold current of air and the light shot up for a moment and an almost empty book-case - that and a table. As Dorian Gray was and that the carpet was in holes. A and you will see mine." The voice and cruel. "You are mad, Dorian, or and he tore the curtain from its rod and flung it on the ground. An and loathing. Good heavens! it was and some scarlet on the sensual and from plastic throat. Yes, it was and the frame was his own design. and held it to the picture. In the leftand he felt as if his blood had and looked at Dorian Gray with the and his parched tongue seemed and was smelling it, or pretending to and curious in his ears. "Years ago, and taught me to be vain of my good and you finished a portrait of me and leaning his forehead against the and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian and gazed at it. "My God! If it and this is what you have done with and examined it. The surface seemed and as he had left it. It was from and horror had come. Through some and the candle fell from its socket on and lay there sputtering. He placed and put it out. Then he flung himself and buried his face in his hands. and looked at him with tear-dimmed and try if we cannot remember a and suddenly an uncontrollable feeling and he loathed the man who was and had forgotten to take away with and turned round. Hallward stirred in and dug the knife into the great vein and stabbing again and again. There and again. There was a stifled groan and the horrible sound of some one and listened. He could hear nothing, and went out on the landing. The and peering down into the black - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687 of darkness. Then he took out the key over the table with bowed head, with bowed head, and humped back, for the red jagged tear in the neck all been done! He felt strangely calm, walking over to the window, opened it The wind had blown the fog away, He looked down and saw the policeman going his rounds prowling hansom gleamed at the corner railings, staggering as she went. Now as she went. Now and then she stopped voice. The policeman strolled over the square. The gas-lamps flickered gas-lamps flickered and became blue, trees shook their black iron branches to iron branches to and fro. He shivered reached the door, he turned the key with arabesques of burnished steel, it might be missed by his servant, for a moment, then he turned back downstairs. The woodwork creaked as if in pain. He stopped several times he reached the library, he saw the bag he kept his own curious disguises, twenty minutes to two. He sat down star had come too close to the earth.... It was to Paris that Basil had gone, struck him. He put on his fur coat him. He put on his fur coat and hat the policeman on the pavement outside reflected in the window. He waited a few moments he drew back the latch minutes his valet appeared, half-dressed answered the man, looking at the clock sir. He stayed here till eleven, his slippers. Dorian Gray threw his hat threw his hat and coat upon the table For a quarter of an hour he walked up up and down the room, biting his lip the Blue Book from one of the shelves in with a cup of chocolate on a tray twice on the shoulder before he woke, of its chiefest charms. He turned round, into the room. The sky was bright, silent, blood-stained feet into his brain the memory of all that he had suffered, he sat in the chair came back to him, dead man was still sitting there, too, the pride more than the passions, he passed his hand across his forehead, his forehead, and then got up hastily of attention to the choice of his necktie the choice of his necktie and scarf-pin getting made for the servants at Selby, him. One he read several times over napkin, motioned to his servant to wait, and going over to the table, sat down round to `5´, Hertford Street, Francis, soon as he was alone, he lit a cigarette a piece of paper, drawing first flowers and returned to the room, locking and humped back, and long fantastic and long fantastic arms. Had it not and the clotted black pool that was and walking over to the window, and stepped out on the balcony. The and the sky was like a monstrous and saw the policeman going his and flashing the long beam of his and then vanished. A woman in a and then she stopped and peered and peered back. Once, she began to and said something to her. She and became blue, and the leafless and the leafless trees shook their and fro. He shivered and went back, and went back, closing the window and opened it. He did not even and studded with coarse turquoises. and questions would be asked. He and took it from the table. He could and seemed to cry out as if in pain. and waited. No: everything was still. and coat in the corner. They must be and put them into it. He could easily and began to think. Every year And yet, what evidence was there and by the midnight train, as he had and hat and went out into the hall. and went out into the hall. There he and seeing the flash of the bull's-eye and held his breath. After a few and slipped out, shutting the door and looking very drowsy. "I am sorry and blinking. "Ten minutes past two? and then he went away to catch his and coat upon the table and passed and passed into the library. For a and down the room, biting his lip and and thinking. Then he took down the and began to turn over the leaves. and opened the shutters. Dorian was and as he opened his eyes a faint and leaning upon his elbow, began to and there was a genial warmth in the and reconstructed themselves there and for a moment the same curious and he grew cold with passion. The and in the sunlight now. How horrible and gave to the intellect a quickened and then got up hastily and dressed and dressed himself with even more and scarf-pin and changing his rings and changing his rings more than and going through his correspondence. and then tore up with a slight look of and going over to the table, sat down and wrote two letters. 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He frowned, getting up, went over to the book-case leather, with a design of gilt trellis-work mal lavee," with its downy red hairs shuddering slightly in spite of himself, down the green water-ways of the pink in a black gondola with silver prow reminded him of the gleam of the opalhalf-closed eyes, he kept saying over the autumn that he had passed there, had kept the background for romance, had been with him part of the time, way for a man to die! He sighed, sighed, and took up the volume again, He read of the swallows that fly in Hadjis sit counting their amber beads smoke their long tasselled pipes of granite in its lonely sunless exile Nile, where there are Sphinxes, there are Sphinxes, and rose-red ibises, and white vultures with gilded claws, fell from his hand. He grew nervous, no real appreciation of the visible arts, of his time working in the laboratory, still devoted to the study of chemistry, heart on his standing for Parliament an excellent musician, however, as well, as well, and played both the violin it was music that had first brought him him and Dorian Gray together - music able to exercise whenever he wished the night that Rubinstein played there, to be always seen together at the opera the type of everything that is wonderful that they scarcely spoke when they met almost to dislike hearing music, had no time left in which to practise. to become more interested in biology, horribly agitated. At last he got up last he got up and began to pace up waiting for him there; saw it, indeed, have robbed the very brain of sight had its own food on which it battened, made grotesque by terror, twisted like some foul puppet on a stand slow-breathing thing crawled no more, being dead, raced nimbly on in front, a hideous future from its grave, him stone. At last the door opened of relief broke from his parched lips, had passed away. The man bowed Campbell walked in, looking very stern being intensified by his coal-black hair But you said it was a matter of life of life and death." His voice was hard in the pockets of his Astrakhan coat, "Yes: it is a matter of life is a matter of life and death, Alan, " Campbell took a chair by the table, moment of silence, he leaned across and then human faces. Suddenly he and getting up, went over to the and took out a volume at hazard. He and dotted pomegranates. It had been and its "doigts de faune." He glanced and passed on, till he came to those and pearl city, seated in a black and trailing curtains. The mere lines and -iris-throated birds that flutter and over to himself: "Devant une and a wonderful love that had stirred and , to the true romantic, background and had gone wild over Tintoret. and took up the volume again, and and tried to forget. He read of the and out of the little cafe at Smyrna and the turbaned merchants smoke and talk gravely to each other; he and longs to be back by the hot, and rose-red ibises, and white and white vultures with gilded claws, and crocodiles with small beryl eyes and a horrible fit of terror came over and whatever little sense of the and had taken a good class in the and had a laboratory of his own in and had a vague idea that a chemist and played both the violin and the and the piano better than most and Dorian Gray together - music and and that indefinable attraction that and , indeed, exercised often without and after that used to be always seen and wherever good music was going and fascinating in life. Whether or and that Campbell seemed always to and would never himself play, giving And this was certainly true. Every day and his name appeared once or twice and began to pace up and down the and down the room, looking like a and , shuddering, crushed with dank and driven the eyeballs back into their and the imagination, made grotesque and distorted as a living thing by and grinned through moving masks. and horrible thoughts, time being and dragged a hideous future from its and showed it to him. He stared at it. and his servant entered. He turned and the colour came back to his and retired. In a few moments, Alan and rather pale, his pallor being and dark eyebrows. "Alan! This is and death." His voice was hard and and cold. He spoke with slow and seemed not to have noticed the and death, Alan, and to more than and to more than one person. Sit and Dorian sat opposite to him. 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You know about chemistry You, Alan, you must change him, experiment. You go to hospitals You go to hospitals and dead-houses, what you are accustomed to work at. If it is discovered, I am lost; is sitting at the table with bowed head out his hand, took a piece of paper, read it over twice, folded it carefully, the table. Having done this, he got up Campbell looked at him in surprise, surprise, and then took up the paper, he read it, his face became ghastly pale of terrible silence, Dorian turned round silence, Dorian turned round and came Campbell buried his face in his hands, The thing has to be done. Face it, it." A groan broke from Campbell's lips with asbestos." "I shall have to go home on a sheet of notepaper what you want want and my servant will take a cab scrawled a few lines, blotted them, his assistant. Dorian took the note up read it carefully. Then he rang the bell orders to return as soon as possible door shut, Campbell started nervously, A fly buzzed noisily about the room, struck one, Campbell turned round, There was something in the purity gone from corruption to corruption, for you." He turned away as he spoke ten minutes a knock came to the door, of chemicals, with a long coil of steel a long coil of steel and platinum wire asked Campbell. "Yes," said Dorian. " at once, see Harden personally, twice as many orchids as I ordered, ones. It is a lovely day, Francis, courage. Campbell frowned the other things." He spoke rapidly top landing, Dorian took out the key turned it in the lock. Then he stopped, in his life, to hide the fatal canvas, loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet breath, opened the door a little wider, a little wider, and with half-closed eyes the dead man. Then, stooping down stooping down and taking up the goldstopped, feeling afraid to turn round, Campbell bringing in the heavy chest, in the heavy chest, and the irons, work. He began to wonder if he if he and Basil Hallward had ever met, a stern voice behind him. He turned had been thrust back into the chair you asked me to do," he muttered " at eight-thirty, exquisitely dressed was throbbing with maddened nerves, over his hostess's hand was as easy smiling lips have cried out on God and don't look at me like that. Who and things of that kind. You have and everything that belongs to him, and dead-houses, and the horrors and the horrors that you do there And , remember, it is the only piece and it is sure to be discovered unless and outstretched arms. Alan! Alan! If and wrote something on it. He read it and pushed it across the table. Having and went over to the window. and then took up the paper, and and opened it. As he read it, his face and he fell back in his chair. A and came and stood behind him, and stood behind him, putting his and a shudder passed through him. and do it." A groan broke from and he shivered all over. The ticking and get some things from the and my servant will take a cab and and bring the things back to you." and addressed an envelope to his and read it carefully. Then he rang and gave it to his valet, with orders and to bring the things with him. As and having got up from the chair, and the ticking of the clock was like and looking at Dorian Gray, saw that and refinement of that sad face that and now you have culminated in and stood looking out at the garden. and the servant entered, carrying a and platinum wire and two rather and two rather curiously shaped iron And I am afraid, Francis, that I have and tell him to send twice as many and to have as few white ones as and Richmond is a very pretty place and bit his lip. "It will take about five and in an authoritative manner. and turned it in the lock. Then he and a troubled look came into his and was about to rush forward, when and glistening, on one of the hands, and with half-closed eyes and averted and averted head, walked quickly in, and taking up the gold-and-purple and -purple hanging, he flung it right and his eyes fixed themselves on the and the irons, and the other things and the other things that he had and Basil Hallward had ever met, and , if so, what they had thought of and hurried out, just conscious that and that Campbell was gazing into a And now, good-bye. Let us never see and wearing a large button-hole of and he felt wildly excited, but his and graceful as ever. Perhaps one and goodness. 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He was dreadfully short-sighted, up quite suddenly to stay with her, dear," she whispered. "Of course I go like me must have fresh air sometimes, because they have so much to do, since the time of Queen Elizabeth, either of them. You shall sit by me murmured a graceful compliment the people he had never seen before, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp that, once seen, are never remembered; round to him this morning on chance consolation that Harry was to be there, to be there, and when the door opened invented the menu specially for you," the menu specially for you," and now across at him, wondering at his silence with champagne. He drank eagerly, he is in love," cried Lady Narborough, " Henry. "She is the one link between us very well at Vienna thirty years ago, taking an olive in his long fingers; " French novel. She is really wonderful, Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed enough for anything, my dear. can only be the next world. This world behind one's back that are absolutely all the married men live like bachelors, him. Lord Henry is very wicked, go through Debrett carefully to-night Morning Post calls a suitable alliance, the old lady, pushing back her chair to Lady Ruxton. "You must come " "I like men who have a future at him curiously. "You must come don't stay too long over your politics to squabble upstairs." The men laughed, up solemnly from the foot of the table the top. Dorian Gray changed his seat Dorian Gray changed his seat and went A smile curved Lord Henry's lips, Lord Henry's lips, and he turned round like. They have been through the fire, " "Oh, the Willoughbys, Lord Rugby a nuisance people's people are! Try " Dorian glanced at him hurriedly I had left my latch-key at home, t mind me, Harry. I am irritable, and out of temper. I shall come round him lose his nerve for the moment, it had to be done. He realized that, he had thrust Basil Hallward's coat on it. The smell of the singeing clothes everything. At the end he felt faint and for a moment felt keenly the and having buried her husband and married off her daughters to and French esprit when she could get and she always told him that she was and thrown my bonnet right over the and the mills were so occupied in and there is no pleasure in taking in and , to make matters worse, had and stay with them every summer and besides, I really wake them up. and go to bed early, because they and consequently they all fall asleep and amuse me." Dorian murmured a and looked round the room. Yes: it and the others consisted of Ernest and Venetian-red hair; Lady Alice and her husband, a red-cheeked, and he promised faithfully not to and when the door opened and he and he heard his slow musical voice and now and then Lord Henry looked and then Lord Henry looked across and abstracted manner. From time to and his thirst seemed to increase. and that he is afraid to tell me for and your short frocks." "She does not and how decolletee she was then." and when she is in a very smart gown and full of surprises. Her capacity for and hung at her girdle. She told me And what is Ferrol like? I don't know and I are on excellent terms." and entirely true." "Isn't he incorrigible? and all the bachelors like married and I sometimes wish that I had and draw out a list of all the eligible and I want you both to be happy." and nodding to Lady Ruxton. "You and dine with me soon again. You and women who have a past," he and explain that to me some and scandal," cried Lady Narborough and Mr. Chapman got up solemnly and came up to the top. Dorian Gray and went and sat by Lord Henry. Mr. and sat by Lord Henry. Mr. Chapman and he turned round and looked at and looked at Dorian. "Are you and what fire does not destroy, it and his wife, our hostess, Geoffrey and make him come. By the way, and frowned. "No, Harry," he said at and my servant had to let me in. If and out of temper. I shall come and see you to-morrow, or next day. and he wanted his nerve still. Things and when he had locked the door of and bag. A huge fire was blazing. He and burning leather was horrible. 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His eyes grew strangely bright, Florentine cabinet, made out of ebony out of ebony and inlaid with ivory it were a thing that could fascinate it held something that he longed for came over him. He lit a cigarette he had been lying, went over to it, instinctively towards it, dipped in, It was a small Chinese box of black the sides patterned with curved waves, silken cords hung with round crystals in lustre, the odour curiously heavy was terribly hot, he drew himself up shutting the cabinet doors as he did so, air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, hansom with a good horse. He hailed it "you will be there in an hour," had got in he turned his horse round A cold rain began to fall, The public-houses were just closing, were just closing, and dim men laughter. In others, drunkards brawled eyes the sordid shame of the great city, sordid shame of the great city, and now cure the soul by means of the senses, was the secret. He had often tried it, cloud stretched a long arm across hid it. The gas-lamps grew fewer, fewer, and the streets more narrow and gloomy. Once the man lost his way cure the soul by means of the senses, forgetfulness was possible still, horrible, not to be endured. On at each step. He thrust up the trap to gnaw at him. His throat burned madly with his stick. The driver laughed and whipped up. He laughed in answer, silent. The way seemed interminable, The monotony became unbearable, brickfields. The fog was lighter here, fire. A dog barked as they went by, stumbled in a rut, then swerved aside After some time they left the clay road of the windows were dark, but now They moved like monstrous marionettes something at them from an open door, the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped those subtle words that dealt with soul expression, as it were, of his mood, cell of his brain crept the one thought; into force each trembling nerve life, the very vileness of thief top of a dark lane. Over the low roofs huskily through the trap. Dorian started round. "This will do," he answered, he answered, and having got out hastily in the direction of the quay. Here huge merchantman. The light shook on towards the left, glancing back now and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and having lit some Algerian pastilles forehead with a cool he gnawed nervously at his inlaid with ivory and blue lapis. blue lapis. He watched it as make afraid, as though it held yet almost loathed. His breath then threw it away. His eyelids having unlocked it, touched some closed on something. It was a gold-dust lacquer, elaborately the silken cords hung with round tasselled in plaited metal threads. persistent. He hesitated for some glanced at the clock. It was went into his bedroom. As with a muffler wrapped round his in a low voice gave the driver an after his fare had got in he drove rapidly towards the river. the blurred street-lamps looked dim men and women were women were clustering in broken screamed. Lying back in the now and then he repeated to then he repeated to himself the the senses by means of the soul." would try it again now. There hid it. The gas-lamps grew fewer, the streets more narrow and gloomy. Once the man lost his had to drive back half a mile. A the senses by means of the soul!" he was determined to forget, to on plodded the hansom, going called to the man to drive faster. his delicate hands twitched whipped up. He laughed in the man was silent. The way the streets like the black web of as the mist thickened, he felt he could see the strange, far away in the darkness some broke into a gallop. After some rattled again over rough-paven then fantastic shadows were made gestures like live things. two men ran after the hansom reshaped those subtle words that sense, till he had found in them justified, by intellectual approval, the wild desire to live, most fibre. Ugliness that had once outcast, were more vivid, in their jagged chimney-stacks of the peered round. "This will do," he having got out hastily and given given the driver the extra fare he there a lantern gleamed at the splintered in the puddles. 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The door opened quietly, a tattered green curtain that swayed in from the street. He dragged it aside -saloon. Shrill flaring gas-jets, dulled ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here trampled here and there into mud, stove, playing with bone counters his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, by. The man looked at her in terror met him. He heaved a deep breath, a long thin pipe, looked up at him had too many friends." Dorian winced strange heavens they were suffering, the same." "I like it better. Come mind." Adrian Singleton rose up wearily A half-caste, in a ragged turban greeting as he thrust a bottle of brandy in front of them. The women sidled up Dorian turned his back on them woman's sodden eyes, then flickered out then flickered out and left them dull She tossed her head the young man, passing up the steps sailor leaped to his feet as she spoke, Singleton had strangely moved him, such infamy of insult. He bit his lip, shoulders. Each man lived his own life for a single fault. One had to pay over be instinct with fearful impulses. Men move. Choice is taken from them, lives but to give rebellion its fascination concentrated on evil, with stained mind, himself suddenly seized from behind, his throat. He struggled madly for life, second he heard the click of a revolver, barrel, pointing straight at his head, life of Sibyl Vane," was the answer, " I go on board to-night for India, "Eighteen years! Set me under the lamp meant. Then he seized Dorian Gray dragged him from the archway. Dim her life. He loosened his hold My God! my God!" he cried, " wrong track." "You had better go home said Dorian, turning on his heel dripping wall moved out into the light He felt a hand laid on his arm have killed him. He has lots of money, man I am looking for," he answered, " " He broke from her with an oath amongst his guests. It was tea-time, on the table lit up the delicate china were moving daintily among the cups, house-party consisted of twelve people, Lord Henry, strolling over to the table am quite satisfied with my own name, not underrate them. Beer, the Bible, Tartuffe has emigrated to England ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and gave a peculiar knock. After a and the chain being unhooked. The and he went in without saying a word and shook in the gusty wind which and entered a long low room which and distorted in the fly-blown mirrors and there into mud, and stained with and stained with dark rings of spilled and showing their white teeth as they and by the tawdrily painted bar that and began to whimper. At the end and his nostrils quivered with and nodded in a hesitating manner. and looked round at the grotesque and what dull hells were teaching and have something to drink. I must and followed Dorian to the bar. A and a shabby ulster, grinned a and two tumblers in front of them. and began to chatter. Dorian turned and said something in a low voice to and left them dull and glazed. She and glazed. She tossed her head and and raked the coins off the counter and wiping his parched mouth with a and looked wildly round. The sound and he wondered if the ruin of that and for a few seconds his eyes grew and paid his own price for living it. and over again, indeed. In her and women at such moments lose and conscience is either killed, or, if and disobedience its charm. For all and soul hungry for rebellion, Dorian and before he had time to defend and by a terrible effort wrenched the and saw the gleam of a polished and the dusky form of a short, and Sibyl Vane was my sister. She and I must do my job first. One and look at my face!" James Vane and dragged him from the archway. and wavering as was the wind-blown and reeled back. "My God! my God!" and I would have murdered you!" and put that pistol away, or you may and going slowly down the street. and came close to him with stealthy and looked round with a start. It was and he's as bad as bad." "He is and I want no man's money. I want a and rushed to the corner of the and the mellow light of the huge, and hammered silver of the service at and her full red lips were smiling at and there were more expected to and putting his cup down. "I hope and I am sure Mr. Gray should be and the seven deadly virtues have and opened a shop." "Is that yours, and vice by hypocrisy." 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Romance lives by repetition, in life but one great experience at best, Lord Henry. The duchess turned moment. Then he threw his head back "Harry is never wrong, Duchess." " I have searched for pleasure." " I am searching for peace," she said, " she said, "and if I don't go cried Dorian, starting to his feet Gray is!" she said. "Let us go duchess stood motionless in horror. at once into the blue drawing-room After a short time, he came to himself not be alone." He went to his room his manner as he sat at table, but now next day he did not leave the house, room, sick with a wild terror of dying, to him like his own wasted resolutions peering through the mist-stained glass, had called vengeance out of the night The mask of youth had saved him. could raise such fearful phantoms, phantoms, and give them visible form, What sort of life would his be if, day his brain, he grew pale with terror, Out of the black cave of time, terrible to bring him back his joyousness of anguish that had sought to maim the perfection of its calm. With subtle Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves victim of a terror-stricken imagination, now on his fears with something of pity the duchess for an hour in the garden of his gun. He jumped from the cart, his guest through the withered bracken side. The keen aromatic air, the brown beaters ringing out from time to time, the guns that followed, fascinated him of them, with black-tipped ears erect that strangely charmed Dorian Gray, Dorian!" laughed his companion, ask if the man was really dead, There was the trampling of myriad feet a hand laid on his shoulder. He started bitterly. "The whole thing is hideous Then Dorian looked at Lord Henry people think that one is a wild shot. are, my dear fellow! You must come at Lord Henry in a hesitating manner, he said, coldly. The man turned round much, but I don't love her." " " "You are talking scandal, Harry, "But I seem to have lost the passion tell you, Harry," he answered sadly. " "Poor Geoffrey is terribly upset. " Dorian drew himself up with an effort me some other time. I think I must go And what does she get annoyed with and tell her that I must be dressed and women rule the world. I assure and repetition converts an appetite and the secret of life is to reproduce and looked at Dorian Gray with a and laughed. "I always agree with And does his philosophy make you And found it, Mr. Gray?" "Often. and if I don't go and dress, I shall and dress, I shall have none this and walking down the conservatory. and help him. I have not yet told And with fear in his eyes, Lord and laid upon one of the sofas. After and looked round with a dazed and dressed. There was a wild and then a thrill of terror ran and , indeed, spent most of the time and yet indifferent to life itself. The and wild regrets. When he closed his and horror seemed once more to lay and set the hideous shapes of And yet if it had been merely an and give them visible form, and make and make them move before one! and night, shadows of his crime were and the air seemed to him to have and swathed in scarlet, rose the and his ardour for life. But it was not and mar the perfection of its calm. and finely wrought temperaments it is and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are and looked back now on his fears and not a little of contempt. After and then drove across the park to and having told the groom to take and rough undergrowth. "Have you and red lights that glimmered in the and the sharp snaps of the guns that and filled him with a sense of and long hinder limbs throwing it and he cried out at once, "Don't shoot and as the hare bounded into the and the affirmative answer of the and the low buzz of voices. A great and looked round. "Dorian," said and cruel. Is the man ...?" He could and said, with a heavy sigh, "It is And Geoffrey is not; he shoots very and see my doctor, when we get back and then produced a letter, which he and went rapidly in the direction of And the duchess loves you very and there is never any basis for and forgotten the desire. I am too And I dare say it is only a fancy of And it seems that you asked him not and smiled. "It is nothing, Duchess," he and lie down. 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He frowned pulled his chequebook out of a drawer should not like them to be left in want, pen dropped from Dorian Gray's hand, a sort of sailor; tattooed on both arms, on him?" said Dorian, leaning forward "Some money, sir - not much, "The Home Farm! Go there at once sweep past him in spectral procession, the mare swerved at a white gate-post in the yard. He leaped from the saddle to tell him that the body was there, was there, and he hurried to the door his life. Then he thrust the door open of a man dressed in a coarse shirt hand to take the handkerchief away, being either, so they stagnate." "Culture crimson pyramid of seeded strawberries what I mean. She was quite beautiful have been having, I used to run down kept tumbling down on her hair, idyll for you. You gave her good advice is not broken. Of course, she cried live, like Perdita, in her garden of mint in her garden of mint and marigold." " Well, the fact of having met you, will teach her to despise her husband, this, Harry! You mock at everything, Don't let us talk about it any more, Dorian, pouring himself out some wine been talking about it for six weeks, They have had my own divorce-case the ninth of November was poor Basil, Francisco. It must be a delightful city, up his Burgundy against the light everything nowadays except that. Death said nothing, but rose from the table, the next room, sat down to the piano let his fingers stray across the white coffee had been brought in, he stopped, Henry yawned. "Basil was very popular, But a man can paint like Velasquez dull. He only interested me once, that he had a wild adoration for you he fell into the Seine off an omnibus with the heavy barges floating over him off very much." Dorian heaved a sigh, Lord Henry strolled across the room grey-plumaged bird with pink crest crinkled lids over black, glasslike eyes eyes and began to sway backwards "Yes," he continued, turning round It had lost an ideal. When you ago that you had sent it down to Selby, that curious mixture of bad painting arm-chair. Dorian Gray shook his head and looked at the duchess with his and gave him orders to pack his and to have the brougham at the and asking him to entertain his guests and his valet informed him that the and bit his lip. "Send him in," he and spread it out before him. "I and will send them any sum of money and he felt as if his heart had and that kind of thing." "Was there and looking at the man with startled and a six-shooter. There was no name and meet me. Tell one of the grooms and wild shadows to fling themselves and nearly threw him. He lashed her and threw the reins to one of them. and he hurried to the door and put and put his hand upon the latch. and entered. On a heap of sacking in and a pair of blue trousers. A and called out to one of the and corruption," echoed Dorian. "I and , through a perforated, shell-shaped and wonderfully like Sibyl Vane. I and see her two or three times a and she was laughing. We were to and broke her heart. That was the and all that. But there is no disgrace and marigold." "And weep over a And weep over a faithless Florizel," and loved you, will teach her to and she will be wretched. From a and then suggest the most serious and don't try to persuade me that the and frowning slightly. "My dear boy, and the British public are really not and Alan Campbell's suicide. Now and the French police declare that and possess all the attractions of the and wondering how it was that he and vulgarity are the only two facts and passing into the next room, sat and let his fingers stray across the and black ivory of the keys. After the and looking over at Lord Henry, said, and always wore a Waterbury watch. and yet be as dull as possible. Basil and that was when he told me, years and that you were the dominant and that the conductor hushed up and long weeds catching in his hair. and Lord Henry strolled across the and began to stroke the head of a and tail, that was balancing itself and began to sway backwards and and forwards. "Yes," he continued, and taking his handkerchief out of his and he ceased to be great friends, he and that it had got mislaid or stolen and good intentions that always and struck some soft chords on the - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 2115 2116 2117 2118 2119 2120 2121 2122 2123 2124 2125 2126 2127 2128 2129 2130 2131 2132 2133 2134 2135 2136 2137 2138 2139 2140 2141 2142 2143 2144 2145 2146 2147 2148 2149 2150 2151 2152 2153 2154 2155 2156 2157 2158 2159 2160 2161 2162 2163 2164 2165 2166 2167 2168 2169 2170 2171 2172 2173 2174 2175 a heart.'" The elder man lay back profit a man if he gain the whole world - his own soul'?" The music jarred, music jarred, and Dorian Gray started was going through the park last Sunday, a broken roof of dripping umbrellas, is a terrible reality. It can be bought, reality. It can be bought, and sold, never true. That is the fatality of faith, something. Play me a nocturne, Dorian, I am only ten years older than you are, older than you are, and I am wrinkled, are, and I am wrinkled, and worn, first. You were rather cheeky, very shy, wore high stocks, believed in everything, with the sea weeping round the villa to me that you are the young Apollo Nothing has been hidden from you. intention. Life is a question of nerves, Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, cells in which thought hides itself its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe perfume that you had once loved lilas blanc passes suddenly across me, type of what the age is searching for, " Dorian rose up from the piano not going to have the same life, Harry. you stopped playing, Dorian? Go back She is waiting for you to charm her, then. It has been a charming evening, He has already copied your neckties, him to you. He is quite delightful go to the club. It is nearly eleven, me, Dorian," said Lord Henry. "You soon be going about like the converted, that. Besides, it is no use. You use. You and I are what we are, ride at eleven. We might go together, She is a charming woman, something more to say. Then he sighed that he threw his coat over his arm lured to love him that he was poor, had told her once that he was wicked, wicked, and she had laughed at him wicked people were always very old she had! - just like a thrush singing. she had been in her cotton dresses up for him. He sent him to bed, himself down on the sofa in the library, himself, filled his mind with corruption he had been an evil influence to others, experienced a terrible joy in being so; crossed his own, it had been the fairest in what a monstrous moment of pride should bear the burden of his days, ago now, was standing on the table, noted the change in the fatal picture, changed because you are made of ivory The phrases came back to his memory, his memory, and he repeated them over Then he loathed his own beauty, and looked at him with half-closed and lose - how does the quotation and Dorian Gray started and stared and stared at his friend. "Why do you and close by the Marble Arch there and a wonderful phrase flung into the and sold, and bartered away. It can and bartered away. It can be and the lesson of romance. How and , as you play, tell me, in a and I am wrinkled, and worn, and and worn, and yellow. You are really and yellow. You are really wonderful, and absolutely extraordinary. You and knew absolutely nothing. How and the salt spray dashing against the and that I am Marsyas listening to And it has all been to you no more and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in and slowly built-up cells in which and passion has its dreams. You may and think yourself strong. But a and that brings subtle memories with and I have to live the strangest and what it is afraid it has found. I am and passed his hand through his hair. And you must not say these and give me the nocturne over again. and if you play she will come closer and we must end it charmingly. There and has begged me to introduce him and rather reminds me of you." "I and I want to go to bed early." "Do and I will always be friends." "Yet and the revivalist, warning people and I are what we are, and will be and will be what we will be. As for and I will take you to lunch and wants to consult you about some and went out. and did not even put his silk scarf and she had believed him. He had and she had laughed at him and and answered that wicked people were and very ugly. What a laugh she had! And how pretty she had been in her and her large hats! She knew nothing, and threw himself down on the sofa and began to think over some of the and given horror to his fancy; that he and had experienced a terrible joy in and that of the lives that had crossed and the most full of promise that he and passion he had prayed that the and he keep the unsullied splendour and the white-limbed Cupids laughed and with wild, tear-dimmed eyes and gold. The curves of your lips and he repeated them over and over and over to himself. 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He took the lamp from the table across his strangely young-looking face his lips. Yes, he would be good, door behind him, as was his custom, from the portrait. A cry of pain in the eyes there was a look of cunning loathsome, if possible, than before that spotted the hand seemed brighter, are ourselves? Or, perhaps, all these? he was to confess? To give himself up duty to confess, to suffer public shame, given him pleasure to watch it changing He would destroy it. He looked round no stain left upon it. It was bright, so it would kill the painter's work, that that meant. It would kill the past, It would kill this monstrous soul-life, would be at peace. He seized the thing, picture with it. There was a cry heard, agony that the frightened servants woke passing in the square below, stopped walked on till they met a policeman all dark. After a time, he went away away and stood in an adjoining portico at each other, as they walked away, each other. Old Mrs. Leaf was crying of an hour, he got the coachman the coachman and one of the footmen to force the door, they got on the roof in all the wonder of his exquisite youth in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and the youth that he had prayed and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn and of his own future, that he had to and that he had yet borne with and look. He took the lamp from the and crept upstairs. As he unbarred and lingered for a moment about his and the hideous thing that he had and dragged the purple hanging from and indignation broke from him. He and in the mouth the curved wrinkle and the scarlet dew that spotted the and more like blood newly spilled. And why was the red stain larger and be put to death? He laughed. and to make public atonement. There and growing old. Of late he had felt and saw the knife that had stabbed and glistened. As it had killed the and all that that meant. It would kill and when that was dead, he would be and without its hideous warnings, he and stabbed the picture with it. and a crash. The cry was so horrible and crept out of their rooms. Two and looked up at the great house. and brought him back. The man rang and stood in an adjoining portico and and watched. "Whose house is that, and sneered. One of them was Sir and wringing her hands. Francis was and one of the footmen and crept and crept upstairs. They knocked, but and dropped down on to the balcony. and beauty. Lying on the floor was a and loathsome of visage. It was not - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 Andrew prescribes for me. You must - CH. 15 anew in the darkness for our - CH. 11 angels , or, robed in the garments of - CH. 11 anger , and the hyacinth provoked - CH. 11 Anglomania is very fashionable over - CH. 12 angrily . "No; I think your nature so deep angrily . "Why I was so bad to-night angrily , hurrying towards the thicket. - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 18 andrew 1 1 tonic, much better than what Sir 1 a world that had been refashioned 1 the "panis caelestis," the bread of 1 him eloquent. The cornelian appeased 1 her in Paris as an English dressmaker. 1 2 3 nature so shallow?" cried Dorian Gray t you?" "Understand what?" he asked, the line. "Here," answered Sir Geoffrey 1 2 with a slight frown. "Don't look so What had happened? He seemed quite anew 1 angels 1 anger 1 anglomania 1 angrily 3 angry 5 angry , Basil. It was at my aunt, Lady angry . His face was flushed and his - CH. 1 - CH. 2 3 4 5 I don't mind. It is impossible to be never seen you really and absolutely cannot be shown. You must not be 1 had revolted against the excess of 1 2 3 4 who it was defined man as a rational and that they had remained savage and lips. The mad passions of a hunted beater, shot in the thicket like a wild 1 but there was something in the 1 - how mysterious they were! There was 1 out the anchorite to feed with the wild 1 and appeared at a costume ball as 1 too late now. The past could always be 1 Art has no influence upon action. It 1 me as a dogma; to-night he will 1 to see him alone. He says things that 1 2 3 4 5 service in a capricious moment of caused him not the slightest pang of Dorian shook his head, and a look of and then tore up with a slight look of himself up all day long, greatly to the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ticking of the Louis Quatorze clock Juliet. I must admit that I was rather "But why should you be strained stateliness. She was extremely arm. "Don't, Harry. You have across the table. "Dorian is never melodramatic. Her tears and sobs to be exhibited. You were a little ugliness made things! He felt a little that already, Mr. Gray, when she is with me." "And what does she get angry with you. When you see Sibyl angry , but I can fancy how delightful angry with me, Dorian, for what I have - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 anguish 1 anguish that had sought to maim and - CH. 18 animal . It was the most premature animal merely because the world had animal stirred within him, and he animal , had seemed to him to - CH. 2 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 18 animal' s grace of movement that - CH. 18 animal 4 animal' 1 animalism 1 animalism in the soul, and the body - CH. 4 animals of the desert and giving to - CH. 11 Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, - CH. 11 annihilated . Regret, denial, or - CH. 10 annihilates the desire to act. It is - CH. 19 animals 1 anne 1 annihilated 1 annihilates 1 announce 1 announce me as a revelation. I feel it. - CH. 5 annoy me. He gives me good advice." - CH. 4 annoy 1 annoyance 5 annoyance annoyance annoyance annoyance annoyance on not being offered the or jealousy. He was pleased passed over his face at the in his face. "That awful of his mother, who had set - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 9 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 annoyed him. Once or twice he thought annoyed at the idea of seeing annoyed ? I suppose she will belong to annoyed at the tone he had adopted annoyed Dorian. He is not like other annoyed with me," he answered. "I annoyed him. "I am going," he said at annoyed ; but then you did not realize annoyed with Lord Henry for having annoyed with me." "And what does annoyed with you about, Duchess?" - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 annoyed 11 annoying 2 1 her hands in mock despair. "How annoying !" she cried. "I must go. I - CH. 3 2 It is a hideous subject." "It is an 1 their beauty seemed to bring him an annoying subject," broke in Lord - CH. 18 anodyne 1 anodyne for his pain. He followed into - CH. 7 another 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 The critic is he who can translate into for one," said the young lord, plucking It was not a new world, but rather as you, and I shall never have such to convey one's temperament into that one tragedy might be followed by autumn. I shall probably have to give it " In two or three minutes there was to expel melancholy from the soul. At Italian work of the fifteenth century. the Churchill, the Duke of Berwick and quite sorry when he went away. Have And I am afraid, Francis, that I have bag. A huge fire was blazing. He piled for you," said Dorian. "You shall have He was determined not to sleep another manner or a new - THE PREFACE another daisy. Hallward shook his head. - CH. 1 another chaos, that it created in us. - CH. 2 another . You are not jealous of - CH. 2 another as though it were a subtle - CH. 3 another . I think you might have - CH. 9 another coat of varnish before that, so - CH. 9 another knock, and Mr. Hubbard - CH. 10 another time he devoted himself - CH. 11 Another cope was of green velvet, - CH. 11 another gentleman got up in a - CH. 11 another brandy-and-soda? Or would - CH. 12 another errand for you. What is the - CH. 14 another log on it. The smell of the - CH. 15 another if you drive fast." "All right, - CH. 15 another night at Selby Royal. It was - CH. 18 another' 1 1 were too brief to take the burden of another' s errors on one's shoulders. - CH. 16 answer to you, but I cannot find it. answer , but passed listlessly in front of answer . "Harry, I can't quarrel with my answer . The waving of crooked, answer . He was heart-sick at leaving answer . "I shall love him for ever!" she answer , but sat down to his meagre answer . "Tell me the truth. I have a answer . The situation had not been answer ? Perhaps you forgot all about answer . She came across to him, and answer , but crept nearer. Her little answer at first, but remained quite still. answer for a few moments. He was answer to a prayer; perhaps in answer answer to a prayer it might remain answer me one question. Have you answer ," he said, handing it to him, " answer to the calumnies, for so they answer that, I should have to see answer to these horrible charges that answer to my question." "That shall answer , but he could hear the young answer . After about ten minutes a answer , and the man was silent. The answer , "and Sibyl Vane was my sister. answer of the keeper. The wood answer ," he murmured. Dorian put answer . "I wish I could love," cried answer for some time, but stood answer . That is all. I was going answer . Except for a light in one of - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 answer 32 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 don't know what to say. There is some t it, Mr. Gray?" Dorian made no when you asked me," was Lord Henry's child!" was the parrot-phrase flung in lad listened sulkily to her and made no love him, I suppose," was the sullen as he entered. He made no vaguely about the room. She made no of the question called for a direct Dorian? And what did she say in in wonder and laughed. He made no me." She wept silently, and made no yourself up like this." He made no is an important point." Dorian did not picture might cease. It had changed in in answer to a prayer; perhaps in troubled. "Let us sit down. And just eight-fifteen that evening. "Wait for an him, were in themselves a sufficient wonder do I know you? Before I could he cried. "You must give me some to-night. All I want is a plain What an awful lesson!" There was no out at the garden. Campbell made no laughed and whipped up. He laughed in the life of Sibyl Vane," was the was really dead, and the affirmative "Her Grace told me to wait for an to the altar of its own accord," was the love with him?" he asked. She did not you might be able to give me an the bell several times, but there was no answered 87 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 think I shall send it anywhere," he "You don't understand me, Harry," awfully foolish about it?" "Not at all," there is really very little to tell, Harry," a few moments. "He likes me," he t want a life-sized portrait of myself," Lady Agatha's black books at present," to her, and not very nice to me," is it?" "Dorian's, of course," on, they are so horrid." "Yes," smile. "I must go, Basil," he did the jarvies." "I don't know," playing upon an exquisite violin. He the verb. "American novels," have seen specimens of the inhabitants," grave shake of the head. "Quite so," in England except the weather," he Henry. "Only when one is young," she of literature." "I fear you are right," perfect library." "You will complete it," Basil Hallward to go and see him," afraid it is not Harry, Mr. Gray," "To-night she is Imogen," he how we could manage without him," the park." "I am too shabby," he he asked. "Quite ready, James," she though," said the lad harshly. "No," "What is the matter?" "Nothing," he "Good-bye, my son," she be a good boy and not forget us," she Why, you don't even know his name," said Jim Vane. "Prince Charming," she "I am sixteen," he "No," she been laid for three. "No, Harry," "Dorian is never annoyed with me," he thing worth having a theory about," he certainly better than being adored," he divinity in!" said Lord Henry. "Yes!" have been incomplete." "Thanks, Basil," "I am going to see the play through," Dorian!" she cried. "Horribly!" he suffered." The girl smiled. "Dorian," she to you. You do it so well," he asked the lad. "Yes, of course," was selfish of her." "My dear Dorian," to give yourself that name, Dorian," beginning of our friendship, Dorian," "They don't know my name," he it?" "I saw something in it," he of him. "That does not matter," he glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," watch. "I have heaps of time," he somebody else." "It is about yourself," turning almost white from fear. "Yes," "Yes." "I am delighted," he The prayer of your pride has been The prayer of your repentance will be it?" "Ten minutes past two, sir," "It will take about five hours," he answered , tossing his head back in that answered the artist. "Of course I am answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my answered the painter; "and I am afraid answered after a pause; "I know he answered the lad, swinging round on answered Dorian with a funny look of answered Dorian, laughing. Lord Henry answered the painter. "He is a very answered Lord Henry dreamily, "the answered . "Very well," said Hallward, answered Lord Henry. "I fancy that answered to every touch and thrill of answered Lord Henry, helping himself answered the duchess vaguely. "I must answered the young lord. "It is the answered . "I am quite content with answered . "When an old woman like answered Mr. Erskine. "I myself used answered the old gentleman with a answered Lord Henry. "I would answered a shrill voice. He glanced answered , "and to-morrow night she answered the elder woman querulously. answered , frowning. "Only swell people answered , keeping her eyes on her answered his mother with a placid answered . "I suppose one must be answered with a bow of strained answered , smiling at him. He shrugged answered the lad. "Who is he? I have answered , looking after the victoria. He answered , "and I know what I am answered , wondering at the harsh answered the artist, giving his hat and answered . "I asked the question for the answered in his slow melodious voice. answered , toying with some fruits. answered Dorian Gray. "It was here I answered Dorian Gray, pressing his answered the lad, in a hard bitter answered , gazing at her in amazement. answered , lingering over his name with answered bitterly. She rose from her answered Lord Henry, sinking into a answered Lord Henry, taking a answered Lord Henry with his sweet answered Lord Henry, shaking him by answered . "But surely she did?" "Only answered , "something that seemed to answered . "I simply want to see the answered the frame-maker, who was answered . "The train doesn't go till answered Hallward in his grave deep answered Hallward gravely, and with answered , smiling. Then he added, answered . The prayer of your answered also. I worshipped you too answered the man, looking at the answered . "It will be time enough, - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 was then." "She is still decolletee," he murmured Lord Henry. "Fin du globe," future and women who have a past," he you go to the club?" "Yes," he you drive fast." "All right, sir," and peered round. "This will do," he Dorian. "Where else should I be?" he "Good night, then." "Good night," in a hoarse voice. "Curse you!" he is not the man I am looking for," he I prefer the mistakes of to-day," she "Our host is rather horrid this evening," you never really love, Mr. Gray," when one has been wounded by it," are worse things than capture," she are not always allowed a choice," he began to tremble. "My dear Dorian," the firing ceased along the line. "Here," it were stopped for ever, Harry," he "I can't tell you, Harry," he heard all about it, Mr. Gray," she "The button from your foil," he taking up a pen. "Yes, sir," artistically, his brain is his heart," he is because I am going to be good," he and she had laughed at him and "Mr. Dorian Gray's, sir," answered , taking an olive in his long answered his hostess. "I wish it were answered . "Or do you think that answered . Then he bit his lip. "No, answered the man, "you will be there answered , and having got out hastily answered , listlessly. "None of the answered the young man, passing up answered , "don't call me that." She answered , "and I want no man's answered . "You disarm me, Gladys," answered the duchess, colouring. "I answered the duchess with mock answered Lord Henry. The duchess answered . "You gallop with a loose answered , but hardly had he finished answered Lord Henry, "you merely answered Sir Geoffrey angrily, answered bitterly. "The whole thing is answered sadly. "And I dare say it is answered . "Poor Geoffrey is terribly answered . "You have dropped it." She answered the gamekeeper. "Was the answered , sinking into an arm-chair. answered , smiling. "I am a little answered that wicked people were answered the policeman. 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The bezoar, - CH. 11 antinomianism that always seems to - CH. 11 Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, - CH. 1 antique plate of gold and silver. antique pattern. The wan mirrors get antique world, stirred him as much - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 antiquity is fatal to us who are - CH. 17 ants on him," laughed one of them, as - CH. 16 antidote 1 antinomianism 1 antinous 1 antique 3 antiquity 1 ants 1 anxiety 1 anxious 2 anxiety . But what a lack of taste she - CH. 8 1 2 why, like Eve, they are so excessively as he watched her. He was puzzled and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 My dear fellow, why? Have you jealous, if old men are ever capable of were so vain; and I really can't see and destroys the harmony of horrid. Look at the successful men in immensely, I never tell their names to my very art itself. I did not want have spoken to each other without their own special property, and that if wrong. The only thing he considers of Harry, that there are only two eras of and the worst of having a romance of Basil, but I didn't know you had laughed. "I don't think there will be don't move about too much, or pay and perfect delicacy that in art, at brought out the drinks, and if you stay are you? - you who are finer than and I really do." "If you let the old gentleman. "Has she got I shall be late for lunch, if I stop Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me I'll tell her, but it won't have be fashioned into a marvellous type, at for a moment. "Can you remember doesn't it? You have never been to felt interested, in a sort of way. At find them. There is no mystery in calls a romance. You know her, at "Then he asked me if I wrote for to it there was nothing else of could never pay too high a price for method by which one could arrive at head and laughed. "We don't want him I believe there is no society of watch over Sibyl. Don't let her come to a God in heaven, if he ever does you quarrel. I know you would never harm air our moral prejudices. I never take transaction, and I did not make He would never bring misery upon indeed, that excuses one for asking a heart. I cannot understand how of one's age. I consider that for am afraid, however, that, for me at through his opera-glass. "Don't pay you mean, and I believe in this girl. one you love must be marvellous, and Yet they felt that the true test of actress." "Don't talk like that about us go. Dorian, you must not stay here wondered why he refused to accept it again. There were no signs of He would not see Lord Henry Lord Henry any more - would not, at money-lenders offering to advance a moment. "I am not at home to anxious to get out of it," said Lord anxious . Neither of his friends dared to - CH. 3 - CH. 7 any reason? What odd chaps you any emotion." "I know you will laugh any resemblance between you, with any face. The moment one sits down any of the learned professions. How any one. It is like surrendering a part any external influence in my life. You any introduction. I am sure of that. any one of us makes an ass of himself, any importance is whether one believes any importance in the world's history. any kind is that it leaves one so any one with you." "This is Lord any difficulty about that. Sit down any attention to what Lord Henry says. any rate comes only from strength. any longer in this glare, you will be any of them!" "I am jealous of any one have it but me, Basil, I shall any ?" Lord Henry shook his head. any longer. Thanks for giving me the any more with her charity appeals. I any effect. Philanthropic people lose all any rate. Grace was his, and the white any great error that you committed in any of my parties, have you, Mr. Gray any rate, I determined to wait for the any of them. They ride in the park in any rate, I suppose?" "Of course I know any of the newspapers. I told him I any value. It was true that as one any sensation. He was conscious - and any scientific analysis of the passions; any more, Mother. Prince Charming any kind in the Colonies - nothing that any harm. Mother, you must watch any wrong, I shall kill him." She looked any one I love, would you?" "Not as any notice of what common people any formal proposal. I told her that I any one. His nature is too fine for that. any question - simple curiosity. I have any one can wish to shame the thing any man of culture to accept the any rate, there is no such thing. Still, any attention to him, Dorian," said the Any one you love must be marvellous, any girl who has the effect you any Juliet is the balcony scene of the any one you love, Dorian. Love is a any longer. It is not good for one's any money for them, and began to eat any change when he looked into the any more - would not, at any rate, listen any rate, listen to those subtle any sum of money at a moment's any one, Victor," he said with a sigh. - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 any 117 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 us. Don't sneer at it, Harry, down to you to ask you not to see they don't, it is all right. Did have allowed - but I assure you that in an enormous dinner, so I did not feel made of her life. He would not think would never again tempt by a prayer temperament that they create, or at not bear the idea of reproaching him I am quite sure she never mentioned to I am quite serious. I don't offer explanation, and you are not to ask for world would induce you to send it to Your friendship is dearer to me than even for an hour, in a room to which Mr. Gray. I am delighted to be of of his life. "I shan't trouble you uncomely face. He had never seen He never knew - never, indeed, had them. Yet he was not really reckless, at certainly, yet it was never to accept that would involve the sacrifice of have little or no place, or survive, at arresting his intellectual development by theory of life seemed to him to be of to Democritus, kept the wearer from beautiful and wonderful things. He, at learn from that? He would laugh at can multiply our personalities. Such, at met you. You see, I shan't have habits, it would be months before do." "All right, sir." "Did sorry I didn't see him. Did he leave all. His night had been untroubled by or of pain. But youth smiles without a quickened sense of joy, greater than seemed always to go away early from to yourself. They don't interest me dared to treat me - no living man, at as possible. In fact, I don't want passed through a tragedy as horrible as didn't, because none of them had had Henry. "A man can be happy with servant had to let me in. If you want the weak. That was all. Besides, had by the servants or the keepers. Had in some winter sea. From him, at scandal, Harry, and there is never "Was the poor fellow married? Had he to be left in want, and will send them a six-shooter. There was no name of in my life. I am not going to do uncivilized. Civilization is not by It is not a story I could tell to girl will ever be really content now with of jasmine. Don't let us talk about it to whose opinions I listen now with that you will never lend that book to tongue gets on one's nerves. Well, in He had spared one innocent thing, at any more - at least not before me. I any one till I came. There will have any one see you going round to her any case the whole thing would have any anxiety. But what a lack of taste any more of what she had made him any terrible power. If the picture was any rate reveal, is still more to me. To any more. After all, his indifference any one. She told me once that they any explanation, and you are not to any . But, remember, if you touch this any exhibition. You told Harry exactly any fame or reputation." "No, Basil, you any of his friends had access. any service to you. Which is the work any more now. I am much obliged any one so marvellous. When the any cause to know - that somewhat any rate in his relations to society. any theory or system that would any mode of passionate experience. any rate, in no conscious form of any formal acceptance of creed or any importance compared with life any danger by fire. The King of any rate, had escaped that. Summer any one who tried to taunt him. He any rate, was Dorian Gray's opinion. any delay about luggage, as I have any suspicions would be roused. any one call this evening?" "Mr. any message?" "No, sir, except that he any images of pleasure or of pain. any reason. It is one of its chiefest any joy they brought, or could ever any party at which Dorian Gray was any more." "Alan, they will have to any rate. I bore it all. Now it is any white ones. It is a lovely day, any tragedy of our age. Those finely any hearts at all." "Four husbands! any woman, as long as he does not any corroborative evidence on the any stranger been prowling round the any foot-marks been found on the any rate, he was safe. Why, the man any basis for scandal." "The basis of any people dependent on him?" asked any sum of money you may think any kind. A decent-looking man, sir, any more. I began my good actions any means an easy thing to attain to. any one else. I spared somebody. It any one of her own rank? I suppose any more, and don't try to persuade any respect are people much younger any one. It does harm." "My dear boy any case, be here at eleven." "Must I any rate. He would never again tempt - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 anybody 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a white tie, as you told me once, understand. She could have married Tuesday?" "For you I would throw over that I never had even a flirtation with I admire most. A woman will flirt with lighting a cigarette. "You would sacrifice dear boy," said Lord Henry, smiling, " 1 I like Wagner's music better than anybody , even a stock-broker, can gain anybody she chose. Carlington was anybody , Duchess," said Lord Henry anybody . However, that was all anybody in the world as long as anybody , Harry, for the sake of an anybody can be good in the country. - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 anybody' 1 anybody' s. It is so loud that one can - CH. 4 anything 68 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 medium. No artist desires to prove odd chaps you painters are! You do as for believing things, I can believe what he does - afraid he - doesn't do my younger brothers seem never to do persons with no principles better than I thought you would never care for nothing about it. He shall never know viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there When I am painting, I can't think of that is the reason that I don't believe I will give you information." "Well, I can tell you Lady Agatha. "He never means laughed. "I don't desire to change is no literary public in England for you extremely dangerous, and if are a decorative sex. They never have so I had to assure Sibyl that I was not I see you act. You must not think of the lad. "I don't want to know She used to wonder if he suspected Jim!" she exclaimed. "You must not say "I never approve, or disapprove, of of that kind we often forget to say Neither of his friends dared to say to me, because I love you better than thing had to be examined, and at once. is all right now. I am not sorry for cruelty, downright cruelty, more than I wonder if life has still in store for me opera, Harry. I feel too tired to eat unchanged. And yet, who, that knew art.... Of course, I never let you know foolish in imagining that I had seen did you expect, Dorian? You didn't see dislike of seeing a gentleman doing all, Mr. Gray. Ever ready to do chatter of the clubs - could not believe at least - is never very ready to believe house. And mind you don't talk about next room." "Thanks, I won't have in London." "I don't wish to know seen him before, and had never heard untroubled youth - I can't believe about his life, not because he knows and that you were incapable of They are horrible, and they don't mean anything . Even things that - THE PREFACE anything in the world to gain a - CH. 1 anything , provided that it is quite - CH. 1 anything - oh, yes, plays the piano - or - CH. 1 anything else." "Harry!" exclaimed - CH. 1 anything else in the world. Tell me - CH. 1 anything but your art." "He is all my - CH. 1 anything about it. But the world might - CH. 1 anything so real as words? Yes; there - CH. 2 anything else. But you never sat better. - CH. 2 anything he has told me." "You know - CH. 2 anything you like to ask for it. I must - CH. 2 anything that is in an English Blue - CH. 3 anything that he says." "When America - CH. 3 anything in England except the - CH. 3 anything except newspapers, primers, - CH. 3 anything happens to our good - CH. 3 anything to say, but they say it - CH. 4 anything of the kind. She said quite - CH. 4 anything but your acting. Mr. Isaacs - CH. 5 anything about that. I should like to - CH. 5 anything . The silence, for he made no - CH. 5 anything against him. I love him." - CH. 5 anything now. It is an absurd attitude - CH. 6 anything about marriage, and they - CH. 6 anything to him. She seemed to them - CH. 7 anything in the world. After all, it is - CH. 7 Anything would be better than this - CH. 8 anything that has happened. It has - CH. 8 anything else. They have wonderfully - CH. 8 anything as marvellous." "Life has - CH. 8 anything . What is the number of your - CH. 8 anything about life, would surrender - CH. 8 anything about this. It would have - CH. 9 anything in it, more than that you were - CH. 9 anything else in the picture, did you? - CH. 9 anything useful, Dorian put his hand - CH. 10 anything for you, sir." And Mr. - CH. 10 anything to his dishonour when they - CH. 11 anything to the detriment of those - CH. 11 anything serious. Nothing is serious - CH. 12 anything more," said the painter, - CH. 12 anything about them. I love scandals - CH. 12 anything about him at the time, - CH. 12 anything against you. And yet I see - CH. 12 anything about mine. With such blood - CH. 12 anything of the kind. Know you? I - CH. 12 anything ." "You think so?" He laughed - CH. 12 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 -morrow. But don't ask me to read in his whole life he had ever loathed Stop, Gray. I don't want to know would not believe that you were doing this scene. I absolutely refuse to do in taking in a husband who never sees no one would ever believe bored. But at dinner he could not eat "Oh! she is audacious enough for " "Darlington is not going to do I must have something." "I don't want "You will write to me if you want "It seems to me that we never do and that kind of thing." "Was there looking at the man with startled eyes. " Don't tell me that." "Oh! always a mistake. One should never do To get back my youth I would do I am so glad that you have never done or painted a picture, or produced anything to-night. All I want is a plain anything . He glanced wildly around. anything further. Whether what you anything wrong. On the contrary, you anything in the matter. It is insane of anything ." Her guests this evening anything against her; Mrs. Erlynne, a anything . Plate after plate went away anything , my dear. And what is anything . My brother paid the bill at anything ," murmured the young man. anything , won't you?" said Dorian, anything else," murmured Dorian. "Ah! anything found on him?" said Dorian, Anything that would tell his name?" anything becomes a pleasure if one anything that one cannot talk about anything in the world, except take anything , never carved a statue, or anything outside of yourself! Life has - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 anywhere ," he answered, tossing his anywhere ." Lord Henry elevated his anywhere ? My dear fellow, why? Have anywhere . Here: this will do. I don't anywhere . Everything belonging to - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 10 - CH. 20 apartment . The state bed of Sobieski, - CH. 11 apes the name of common sense. She apes . He had seen grotesque children - CH. 5 - CH. 7 aphorisms . I am putting it into - CH. 4 anywhere 5 1 2 3 4 5 "I don't think I shall send it Oxford. "No, I won't send it opium-tainted cigarette. "Not send it shall we put it, sir?" "Oh, was no trace of the murdered man 1 caryatides fifteen feet high in his 1 2 that book of cowardice whose author chattering to themselves like monstrous 1 too much in love. That is one of your 1 2 was represented the starry sky, and It seems to me that you are the young 1 made you waste an evening, Harry. I 1 voice lending charm to some insincere 1 of his own. The thing was horribly 1 2 sudden decay of a beau that had once, he had left it. It was from within, 1 2 3 I would suggest that we should every costume. Ordinary women never Their eyes met. In hers he saw a wild apartment 1 apes 2 aphorisms 1 apollo 2 Apollo driving a chariot drawn by Apollo and that I am Marsyas - CH. 11 - CH. 19 apologize to you both." "My dear - CH. 7 apologize 1 apology 1 apology , he ceased to feel bored. But - CH. 15 apparent 1 apparent . He threw himself into a - CH. 7 apparently , been so remarkable. It apparently , that the foulness and - CH. 11 - CH. 13 apparently 2 appeal 4 appeal to science to put us straight. appeal to one's imagination. They are appeal for mercy. It enraged him. - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 4 " "You fill me with apprehension. The 1 2 to bother me any more with her charity beauty are real, the whole thing simply 1 creep through the curtains, and they 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in the world's history. The first is the medium for art, and the second is the Basil!" "At least you are like it in on the other hand, judging from their most polite to me. Besides, he has the is one of the aristocracy. He has all the his appreciation of the personal have changed, of course, but not in 1 shallow people who do not judge by appeal to antiquity is fatal to us who - CH. 17 appeals 2 appeals . I am sick of them. Why, the appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. - CH. 3 - CH. 8 appear 1 appear to tremble. In black fantastic - CH. 11 appearance of a new medium for art, appearance of a new personality for art appearance . But it will never alter," appearance , most of them cannot be at appearance of being rich, and the appearance of it, I must say. It might appearance of other people. It has had appearance . I wish you would tell me - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 19 appearance 8 appearances 1 appearances . The true mystery of the - CH. 2 appeared at the door of the studio and appeared to him the one thing worth appeared to be seeking for him. He appeared to him to be a little changed. appeared with the lamps and drew the appeared at the very moment that the appeared to Dorian to have but little appeared to Dorian Gray that the appeared at a costume ball as Anne appeared , after a time, to shun him. appeared to Dorian Gray that the appeared , half-dressed and looking appeared almost to dislike hearing appeared once or twice in some of - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 appeased anger, and the hyacinth - CH. 11 appetite into an art. Besides, each - CH. 17 appetites , quickened into force each - CH. 16 applaud . Motionless, and as one in a - CH. 7 applause , Sibyl Vane stepped on to the - CH. 7 apple device wrought in seed-pearls. apple . There were large green rosettes apple -blossoms kept tumbling down on - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 appeared 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 gently to and fro. Suddenly the painter by vivisecting others. Human life - that little hands stretched blindly out, and the cream-coloured silk blinds, the face the bell, and in a few minutes Victor fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, and desired to keep at a distance. It organized forms of existence. But it he took up the study of jewels, and who had been most intimate with him conscious. There were times when it In about five minutes his valet too - was strangely melancholy at times, interested in biology, and his name 1 India made him eloquent. The cornelian 1 by repetition, and repetition converts an 1 desire to live, most terrible of all man's 1 leaped to his feet and began to 1 amidst an extraordinary turmoil of 1 2 3 which on either side was the pineby her side lay a mandolin and an she met me in a little orchard. The appeased 1 appetite 1 appetites 1 applaud 1 applause 1 apple 3 apples 1 1 " Over the gable were "two golden 1 -night, if that boy doesn't forget his 1 2 3 4 power, and consequently they all It would be murder!" "I am glad you surprise. "I never thought you would." " forget that." "I am afraid that women 1 2 3 he was good-looking. Women have no Your portrait of him has quickened his young man, though he had no real 1 perfectly adores him." "You fill me with 1 a sigh of relief as he saw the gardener 1 2 Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of his mood, and justified, by intellectual 1 2 3 at the present moment." "But do you room and biting his lip. "You can't It is some silly infatuation." "I never 1 " The old gentleman growled 1 panes of the window streamed the 1 day." "Days in summer, Basil, are 1 made of dull silver inlaid with 1 2 that was found in the heart of the could cure the plague. In the nests of 1 and who received Leonora of 1 to be something more than a mere 1 impulse began? How shallow were the 1 servant. Lord Henry passed up the low apples , in which were two - CH. 11 appointment 1 appointment ." "Are you serious?" - CH. 6 appreciate appreciate Appreciate appreciate - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 8 appreciate 4 me. Is that very vain of me? my work at last, Dorian," it? I am in love with it, cruelty, downright cruelty, appreciation 3 appreciation of good looks; at least, appreciation of the personal appreciation of the visible arts, and - CH. 1 - CH. 6 - CH. 14 apprehension . The appeal to antiquity - CH. 17 approaching . The man touched his - CH. 18 approval . When we are happy, we are approval , passions that without such - CH. 6 - CH. 16 approve of it, Harry?" asked the approve of it, possibly. It is some silly approve , or disapprove, of anything - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 approvingly and rang the bell for his - CH. 3 apricot -coloured light of a summer day - CH. 4 apt to linger," murmured Lord Henry. - CH. 1 apprehension 1 approaching 1 approval 2 approve 3 approvingly 1 apricot 1 apt 1 arabesques 1 arabesques of burnished steel, and - CH. 13 Arabian deer, was a charm that could Arabian birds was the aspilates, that, - CH. 11 - CH. 11 Aragon in a pavilion of white and - CH. 11 arbiter elegantiarum, to be consulted - CH. 11 arabian 2 aragon 1 arbiter 1 arbitrary 1 arbitrary definitions of ordinary - CH. 4 arcade into Burlington Street and - CH. 3 arcade 1 arcades 1 1 grace, through the dim, dust-stained 1 2 He was merely a boy. At the Marble last Sunday, and close by the Marble 1 obscure at once, full of argot and of 1 Pietro Riario, the young Cardinal 1 one who knew her, and of those ample 1 paper, drawing first flowers and bits of 1 2 went, but as he darted aside into a dim Dorian Gray and dragged him from the 1 lit streets, past gaunt, black-shadowed 1 2 her wandering through the forest of head. "I left her in the forest of 1 be more intensified even. The quivering 1 2 that is not incompatible with a real bring him back his joyousness and his arcades . Leaning back with half-closed - CH. 14 Arch they hailed an omnibus, which Arch there stood a little crowd of - CH. 5 - CH. 19 archaisms , of technical expressions and - CH. 10 Archbishop of Florence, child and - CH. 11 arch 2 archaisms 1 archbishop 1 architectural 1 architectural proportions that in women - CH. 3 architecture 1 architecture , and then human faces. - CH. 14 archway , that had served him often as archway . Dim and wavering as was - CH. 16 - CH. 16 archway 2 archways 1 archways and evil-looking houses. - CH. 7 Arden , disguised as a pretty boy in Arden ; I shall find her in an orchard - CH. 4 - CH. 6 ardent sunlight showed him the lines - CH. 7 ardour of temperament, and that, ardour for life. But it was not merely - CH. 11 - CH. 18 arden 2 ardent 1 ardour 2 are 373 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 find ugly meanings in beautiful things beautiful meanings in beautiful things For these there is hope. They as a moral or an immoral book. Books to prove anything. Even things that everything. Thought and language instruments of an art. Vice and virtue reason? What odd chaps you painters the old men quite jealous, if old men professions. How perfectly hideous they Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you If they know nothing of victory, they wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they led into the garden. "I believe that you a very good husband, but that you ashamed of your own virtues. You time, just to remind the public that we to escape." "Conscience and cowardice I stumbled against Lady Brandon. 'You to know." "Poor Lady Brandon! You are corrupt without being - THE PREFACE are the cultivated. For these - THE PREFACE are the elect to whom - THE PREFACE are well written, or badly - THE PREFACE are true can be proved. No - THE PREFACE are to the artist instruments - THE PREFACE are to the artist materials - THE PREFACE are ! You do anything in the world to - CH. 1 are ever capable of any emotion." "I - CH. 1 are ! Except, of course, in the Church. - CH. 1 are not in the least like him." "You - CH. 1 are at least spared the knowledge of - CH. 1 are - my art, whatever it may be worth; - CH. 1 are really a very good husband, but - CH. 1 are thoroughly ashamed of your own - CH. 1 are an extraordinary fellow. You never - CH. 1 are not savages. With an evening coat - CH. 1 are really the same things, Basil. - CH. 1 are not going to run away so soon, Mr. - CH. 1 are hard on her, Harry!" said Hallward - CH. 1 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 like every one; that is to say, you have not got one who is a fool. They acquaintance." "My dear old Basil, you tasselled ebony cane. "How English you expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities "I sometimes think, Harry, that there Harry - too much of myself!" "Poets " "Poets are not so scrupulous as you portrait of Dorian Gray." "I think you s day." "Days in summer, Basil, is exactly why I can feel it. Those who cried. "I want to learn them. They has often spoken to me about you. You Basil Hallward worshipped him. "You course you must stay. Dorian's whims took up his hat and gloves. "You at five o'clock. Write to me when you You never open your lips while you with his natural passions. His virtues not real to him. His sins, if there sins, if there are such things as sins, is what each of us is here for. People owes to one's self. Of course, they beggar. But their own souls starve, and which is the secret of religion - these the self-denial that mars our lives. We put his hand upon his shoulder. "You eyes, such as people have when they the senses by means of the soul. You t feel it now. Some day, when you you will suddenly discover that there These quite unconscious of what you really import make us afraid, or when we garden a thrush began to sing. "You me shudder when I hear it. Women I shall never have such another. You You are not jealous of material things, of material things, are you? - you who feel that." "Well, as soon as you pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They on the stage. What absurd fellows you object to being reminded that you "And, when one has them on, they Am I really like that?" "Yes; you "How wonderful, Basil!" "At least you Young men want to be faithful, and can you expect? Examinations, sir, engagement exhausts them, but they think Dartmoor has a chance." "Who Henry shook his head. "American girls their parents, as English women he said, rising to go. "They women stay in their own country? They That is the reason why, like Eve, they nothing about my old ones." "Where that wonderful vision to which alone proportions that in women who that in women who are not duchesses none of them ever quite escape. "We Sir Thomas." "Dry-goods! What are indifferent to every one." "How are all men of some intellectual power, are much more than an acquaintance." are Basil! That is the second time you are that the more insincere the man is, are only two eras of any importance are not so scrupulous as you are. are . They know how useful passion is are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with are apt to linger," murmured Lord are faithful know only the trivial side are perfectly charming." "That entirely are one of her favourites, and, I am are too charming to go in for are laws to everybody, except himself." are very pressing, Basil, but I am are coming. I should be sorry to miss are painting, and it is horribly dull are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. are borrowed. He becomes an echo of are afraid of themselves, nowadays. are charitable. They feed the hungry are naked. Courage has gone out of are the two things that govern us. are punished for our refusals. Every are quite right to do that," he are suddenly awakened. His finely are a wonderful creation. You know are old and wrinkled and ugly, when are no triumphs left for you, or have are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of are , of what you really might be. are stirred by some new emotion for are glad you have met me, Mr. Gray," are so fond of using it. They spoil are not jealous of material things, are are you? - you who are finer than any are finer than any of them!" "I am are dry, you shall be varnished, and are the last refuge of the complex. are , both of you! I wonder who it was are extremely young." "I should have are so horrid." "Yes," answered Lord are just like that." "How wonderful, are like it in appearance. But it will are not; old men want to be faithless, are pure humbug from beginning to are capital at a steeplechase. They take are her people?" grumbled the old are as clever at concealing their are at concealing their past," he said, are pork-packers, I suppose?" "I hope are always telling us that it is the are so excessively anxious to get out of are you lunching, Harry?" "At Aunt are wonderful things revealed; the are not duchesses are described by are described by contemporary are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord are American dry-goods?" asked the - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 "I must confess that most of them by the directors, who, in such matters, not to read about them. The Americans an extremely interesting people. They Mr. Erskine, with a smile. "Paradoxes sure I never can make out what you a bright answering glance. "But they would have been different." "You that the only things one never regrets Agatha. Good-bye, Lord Henry, you and dine with us some night. Tuesday? of the beauty of literature." "I fear you born was tedious. Some day, when you of us, in forty arm-chairs. We and the door opened. "How late you it is about them. Perhaps it is that they it is that they are foreigners. They all all are, ain't they? Even those that the same ideas. No; I think our ideas Gray. Good-bye, Harry. You puffs. "Why, Harry?" "Because they at all, Dorian. Men marry because they they are tired; women, because they women, because they are curious: both as I do everything that you say." "Who boy, no woman is a genius. Women I find that, ultimately, there and the coloured. The plain women down to supper. The other women satisfied. As for conversation, there greatest romance of my life. I see you of a country. Don't be afraid. There who love only once in their lives The passion for property is in it. There just before dawn when nightingales Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane never appeal to one's imagination. They and their fashionable manner. They like a good boy - thanks - what " "It is only the sacred things that "I congratulate you." "How horrid you not the slightest fear of the result. You advice." Lord Henry smiled. "People The only artists I have ever known who known who are personally delightful in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they of all creatures. But inferior poets fascinating. The worse their rhymes sense of beauty, and whose wounds be happy for ever!" "My child, you being kissed, Jim," she cried. "You laughing, "how unkind of you! But the still figure in the chair. "Mother, entered a solicitor's office. Solicitors I hate clerks," he replied. "But you Is that right? What about that?" "You understand, James. In the profession we of being rich, and the flowers he sends a charming couple. His good looks Sibyl ran in. "How serious you both are extremely pretty. And they dress are extremely civil. I assure you that it are an extremely interesting people. are absolutely reasonable. I think that are all very well in their way...." are talking about. Oh! Harry, I am are so unhappy in Whitechapel," are really very comforting," warbled are one's mistakes." A laugh ran round are quite delightful and dreadfully Are you disengaged Tuesday?" "For are right," answered Mr. Erskine. "I are tired of London, come down to are practising for an English Academy are , Harry!" he murmured. "I am afraid are foreigners. They all are, ain't they? are , ain't they? Even those that are are born in England become foreigners are quite different. But he has been are dining out, I suppose? So am I. are so sentimental." "But I like are tired; women, because they are are curious: both are disappointed." "I are disappointed." "I don't think I am are you in love with?" asked Lord are a decorative sex. They never have are only two kinds of women, the plain are very useful. If you want to gain a are very charming. They commit one are only five women in London worth are laughing. It is horrid of you!" "I are exquisite things in store for you. are really the shallow people. What are many things that we would throw are singing. There were moments, later are two things that I shall never forget. are limited to their century. No are quite obvious. But an actress! How are your actual relations with Sibyl are worth touching, Dorian," said Lord are ! She is all the great heroines of are certain to acknowledge her genius. are very fond of giving away what they are personally delightful are bad artists. are bad artists. Good artists exist are perfectly uninteresting in what they are . A great poet, a really great poet, are absolutely fascinating. The worse are , the more picturesque they look. are like red roses. Soul and body, are far too young to think of falling in are a dreadful old bear." And she ran are you really going for a walk with are my things ready?" he asked. are a very respectable class, and in the are quite right. I have chosen my own are speaking about things you don't are accustomed to receive a great deal are lovely." "You don't know his name, are really quite remarkable; everybody are !" she cried. 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"You things? You don't know what you know what you are talking about. You don't be so serious, Jim. You excellent effect, amongst others. We boy doesn't forget his appointment." " absurd attitude to take towards life. We And unselfish people They lack individuality. Still, there and add to it many other egos. They would be sorrier than yourself. You to think so well of others is that we is sheer terror. We think that we with the possession of those virtues that of course that would be silly, but there it is sudden - all really delightful things to me compared with her." "Women Henry, "much more practical than we life. But then the middle classes laughed, and tossed his head. "You delightful theories." "And those s test, her sign of approval. When we of approval. When we are happy, we we are always good, but when we always good, but when we are good, we one's moral views about them, but they so?" suggested the painter. "Yes, we Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, art is charming, but mediaeval emotions only things that one can use in fiction treats its gods. They worship us, and us from carrying them out." "Harry, you them, and one feels that they and lend them tears for sorrows that more wonderful thing than art." "They will be a delightful experience. There are only two kinds of people who amazement. "Horribly! It was dreadful. again." He shrugged his shoulders. "You "You are ill, I suppose. When you life! I have grown sick of shadows. You art. You have thrown it all away. You you! What a fool I have been! You it mars your art! Without your art, you you would have borne my name. What seemed to catch in her throat. "You serious, Dorian?" she murmured. "You that I have not pleased you. But you of charity concerts, and the like that live in an age when unnecessary things I congratulate you on it. But how " "Yes, Harry, I know what you in Paris. But in London people little throat with a knife. Yet the roses about good resolutions - that they are not listening to a word I am are more likely to forget me than I are mad about him." She laughed and are going away, you leave me happier are going to a new world, and I have are two chairs; let us sit down and see are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a badare talking about. You are simply are simply jealous and unkind. Ah! I are like one of the heroes of those are to see her to-night, if that boy Are you serious?" "Quite serious, Basil. are not sent into the world to air our are colourless. They lack individuality. are certain temperaments that marriage are forced to have more than one life. are much better than you pretend to are all afraid for ourselves. The basis are generous because we credit our are likely to be a benefit to us. We are other and more interesting bonds are . And yet it seems to me to be the are wonderfully practical," murmured are . In situations of that kind we often are not modern." Dorian Gray laughed, are quite incorrigible, Harry; but I are ...?" asked Lord Henry, helping are happy, we are always good, but are always good, but when we are are good, we are not always happy." "Ah are not always happy." "Ah! but what are not one's concern. Besides, are overcharged for everything are the privilege of the rich." "One has are out of date. One can use them in are the things that one has ceased to are always bothering us to do are dreadful! I don't know why I like are of the same flesh and blood as are not their own, she is worthy of all are both simply forms of imitation," are only two kinds of people who are are really fascinating - people who Are you ill? You have no idea what it are ill, I suppose. When you are ill you are ill you shouldn't act. You make are more to me than all art can ever are shallow and stupid. My God! how are nothing to me now. I will never are nothing. I would have made you are you now? A third-rate actress with are not serious, Dorian?" she are acting." "Acting! I leave that to you are quite right, Dorian. I should have are showered on fashionable young are our only necessities; and there are you going to begin?" "By marrying are going to say. Something dreadful are so prejudiced. Here, one should are not less lovely for all that. The are always made too late. 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They but they have no sense of art. You Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they fight for your victories. As it is, they dress and drive down to the club. We for all that you have said to me. You ever understood me as you have." "We tell me about yourself and what you grave to sleep in? Why, man, there lead the most commonplace lives. They can, except sentimentalists. And you of you. You find me consoled, and you escape the suffering of life. I know you fond of Harry. But I know that you that you are better than he is. You than he is. You are not stronger - you are too much afraid of life - but you "Not look at my own work! You I don't offer any explanation, and you spare it for that time. In fact, you The only difference is that your moods portrait of you as you actually As I said to Harry, once, you surely?" "Never." "Well, perhaps you about worship. It is foolish. You and I as his servant entered. "The persons or gross, as the mouths of old men stronger than themselves, and that they life that is itself but a moment. There degrees the forms and colours of things a few hours of a night in which there that makes men mad; and of aloes, that of the Rio Negro Indians, that women and the sonorous green jaspers that of wood and is beaten with sticks that the yotl-bells of the Aztecs, that gauzes, that from their transparency anything to the detriment of those who It feels instinctively that manners view. For the canons of good society at all certain about it. I am sorry you about myself I wanted to talk. Here we about. One often imagines things that know that the most dreadful things kind of thing. But position and wealth talk sometimes of secret vices. There all these hideous things that people associate with him?" "Stop, Basil. You in order to try and pretend that they My dear fellow, you forget that we there, and yet you can smile, as you is worse behind. I know you and Harry in the park? Why, even her children allowed to live with her. Then there into the foulest dens in London. are useless attempts to interfere with are simply cheques that men draw on a are real, the whole thing simply are no longer the actors, but the are both. We watch ourselves, and the are always vulgar." "I must sow poppies are charmingly artificial, but they have are more fortunate than I am. I assure are ." There was a silence. The evening are brought to you. No, you must are rather late, as it is." "I think are certainly my best friend. No one are only at the beginning of our are painting." "You went to the opera? are horrors in store for that little are good husbands, or faithful wives, or are awfully unjust, Basil. You come are furious. How like a sympathetic are surprised at my talking to you like are better than he is. You are not are not stronger - you are too much are too much afraid of life - but you are better. And how happy we used to are not serious. Why shouldn't I look are not to ask for any. But, remember, are sure to be out of town. And if you are rather meaningless. You can't have are , not in the costume of dead ages, are made to be worshipped." Dorian are right. And now good-bye, Dorian. are friends, Basil, and we must always are here, Monsieur." He felt that the are . There would be the wrinkled are conscious of sharing with the less are few of us who have not are restored to them, and we watch are no stars and the moon is in are said to be able to expel are not allowed to look at and that are found near Cuzco and give forth are smeared with an elastic gum are hung in clusters like grapes; and are known in the East as "woven air," are both rich and fascinating. It feels are of more importance than morals, are , or should be, the same as the are going away, as I have not seen are at your door. Let me come in for are quite absurd. He was really very are being said against you in London. are not everything. Mind you, I don't are no such things. If a wretched man are whispering about you, I don't are talking about things of which you are in smart society and on intimate are in the native land of the are smiling now. And there is worse are inseparable. Surely for that are not allowed to live with her. Then are other stories - stories that you Are they true? 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"You one sees on the faces of those who You worshipped yourself too much. We the hot, lotus-covered Nile, where there is, why he died, how he died, Alan. But I can't help myself. You matter. I have no option. Alan, you that I may scatter in the air." "You for you to call me Dorian." "You What is it to me what devil's work you without my stirring in the matter, you must be far less horrible than what you speak about those days, Dorian - they know what the result will be. But you terms, Alan. You know what they face that seemed to enrage him. "You It will be time enough, then, if you clubs who have no enemies, but British faces that, once seen, is the matter with you to-night? You surprised that the world says that you be the next world. This world and I terms." "Everybody I know says you against one behind one's back that wish that I had been; but you love her." "Ah! what a cynic you and dine with me soon again. You from the door. "If you do, we turned round and looked at Dorian. " gold of the image precious. Her feet Her feet are very pretty, but they "Ah! what a nuisance people's people forget what I did.... How inquisitive you Dorian. Tell me what it is. You who love one. Women who hate one the face of one of the women. "We never closed her accounts. There theologians weary not of reminding us, If you stir, I shoot you." "You your peace with God, for to-night you stammered. "I never heard of her. You for as sure as I am James Vane, you to arrive on the next day. "What alter either name for the world. They of giving lovely names to things. Names never recognize a description." "They description." "They are practical." "They fashionable substitute for belief." "You is the beginning of faith." "What made it out of nothing. All good hats walking down the conservatory. "You a woman." "They were defeated." "There "I am not even singed. My wings appeal to antiquity is fatal to us who desert. I could not do that." "Women live on. The loves and sorrows that are horrible, and they don't mean are made against you. If you tell me are absolutely untrue from beginning are bad, and corrupt, and shameful." are the one man in the world who is are mad, Dorian, or playing a part," are absorbed in a play when some are both punished." Dorian Gray are Sphinxes, and rose-red ibises, and are matters that do not concern you. are the one man who is able to save are scientific. You know about are mad, Dorian." "Ah! I was waiting are mad, I tell you - mad to imagine are up to?" "It was suicide, Alan." are certain to be arrested. Nobody are accustomed to work at. And, are dead." "The dead linger are going to help me. It is impossible are . The thing is quite simple. Come, are infamous, absolutely infamous!" he are back at half-past seven, Francis. are thoroughly disliked by their are never remembered; and her are quite out of sorts." "I believe he is are extremely wicked." "But what are on excellent terms." "Everybody I are very wicked," cried the old lady, are absolutely and entirely true." "Isn't are made to be good - you look so are !" cried the old lady, pushing back are really an admirable tonic, much are sure to squabble upstairs." The Are you better, my dear fellow?" he are very pretty, but they are not feet are not feet of clay. White porcelain are ! Try and make him come. By the are , Harry! You always want to know are not yourself to-night." "Don't mind are much more interesting. Besides, are very proud to-night," she sneered. " are moments, psychologists tell us, are sins of disobedience. When that are mad. What have I done to you?" " are going to die." Dorian Gray grew are mad." "You had better confess are going to die." There was a are you two talking about?" said are both perfect. I was thinking are everything. I never quarrel with are practical." "They are more cunning are more cunning than practical. are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is are you?" "To define is to limit." " are made out of nothing." "Like all are flirting disgracefully with him," are worse things than capture," she are untouched." "You use them for are romanticists." "Romanticists! 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"How fond women in the world as long as other people people are looking on." "How fond you Harry! In the present instance, you much, but she likes you less, so you so you are excellently matched." "You safe." "Safe from what, Dorian? You Duchess," he murmured; "my nerves the duchess with his slumberous eyes. " as if in search of something. "What is no use your telling me that you copper bowl filled with rose-water. "You can be good in the country. There why people who live out of town means an easy thing to attain to. There of your reformation." "Harry, you been to the club for days." "The people it for six weeks, and the British public except that. Death and vulgarity one regrets them the most. They me to be at all probable. I know there things one feels absolutely certain about the lesson of romance. How grave you I am only ten years older than you wrinkled, and worn, and yellow. You opinions I listen now with any respect nothing. How lovely that thing you to-night. It seems to me that you sincerity. Ah, Dorian, how happy you of music. It has not marred you. You not the same, Harry." "Yes, you it by renunciations. At present you Don't make yourself incomplete. You not shake your head: you know you senses will imagine them for us. There you. It always will worship you. You have set yourself to music. Your days It does harm." "My dear boy, you of which you have grown tired. You Besides, it is no use. You and I is no use. You and I are what we The books that the world calls immoral she never sees you now. Perhaps you "The world is changed because you makes us do things finer than we are destroyed by their own plenitude. are not likely to suffer from it unless are , my dear fellow! You must come are of doing dangerous things!" are looking on." "How fond you are are of saying dangerous things, Harry! are quite astray. I like the duchess are excellently matched." "You are are talking scandal, Harry, and there are in some trouble. Why not tell me are dreadfully out of order. That is all. Are you very much in love with him? are you looking for?" she inquired. are going to be good," cried Lord are quite perfect. Pray, don't change." are no temptations there. That is the are so absolutely uncivilized. are only two ways by which man can are horrible! You mustn't say these are still discussing poor Basil's are really not equal to the mental are the only two facts in the are such an essential part of one's are dreadful places in Paris, but Basil are never true. That is the fatality of are ! Don't be so serious. What have are , and I am wrinkled, and worn, and are really wonderful, Dorian. You are people much younger than myself. are playing is! I wonder, did Chopin are the young Apollo and that I am are ! What an exquisite life you have are still the same." "I am not the same are the same. I wonder what the rest are a perfect type. Don't make are quite flawless now. You need not are . Besides, Dorian, don't deceive are moments when the odour of lilas are the type of what the age is are your sonnets." Dorian rose up are really beginning to moralize. You are much too delightful to do that. are what we are, and will be what we are , and will be what we will be. As are books that show the world its are tired of Gladys? I thought you are made of ivory and gold. The are ourselves? Or, perhaps, all these? - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 argot and of archaisms, of technical - CH. 10 argue with you. It is only the argue . Tell me, is Dorian Gray very argue ! I am sure I never can make - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 3 aristocracy ." James Vane bit his lip. aristocracy . He has all the appearance - CH. 5 - CH. 5 argot 1 1 style, vivid and obscure at once, full of 1 2 3 you are wrong, Basil, but I won't is only the intellectually lost who ever me!" said Lady Agatha, "how you men 1 2 him. He is probably a member of the with him. I trust he is one of the argue 3 aristocracy 2 aristocratic 1 1 to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely - CH. 3 arm 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 smiling, and taking Hallward by the Gray put his hand upon Lord Henry's Henry flung himself into a large wicker close to him, placed his hand upon his Erskine?" "Forty of us, in forty door, Dorian Gray touched him on the Gray was reclining in a luxurious intrusive light, was sitting in the one about him." She laughed and took his up and seized her roughly by the she laughed and put her hand on his us." Hallward laid his hand upon his to him. She put her hand upon his up the volume, flung himself into an In a few moments, his hand was on his huge misshapen cloud stretched a long footsteps. He felt a hand laid on his his heart," he answered, sinking into an warm that he threw his coat over his arm , he almost led him into the house. arm . "In that case, let our friendship be arm -chair and watched him. The sweep arm . "You talk books away," he said; arm -chairs. We are practising for an arm . "Let me come with you," he arm -chair, in the little library of Lord arm -chair that their dingy sitting-room arm . "You dear old Jim, you talk as arm . "Show him to me. Which is he arm . He was merely a boy. At the arm . "Don't, Harry. You have annoyed arm and looked into his eyes. He arm -chair and began to turn over the arm . "Dorian! What an extraordinary arm across and hid it. The gas-lamps arm and looked round with a start. It arm -chair. Dorian Gray shook his arm and did not even put his silk - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 armour , and as Adonis with huntsman's armour studded with jacinths, a collar armour piled at his feet. What had - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 arms round her neck, and kissed her. arms . At this moment, the door arms were flung round his neck, and arms of Rosalind around me, and arms of his chair with trembling hands arms , and five hundred and sixty-one arms of the queen, the whole worked arms shot up convulsively, waving arms . Had it not been for the red arms . Alan! Alan! If you don't come arms , a sailor sprawled over a table, arms fell to his side. Paralysed with arms , and that kind of thing." "Was - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 aromatic balms and of dark and aromatic air, the brown and red lights - CH. 11 - CH. 18 around me, and kissed Juliet on the around the heavy sensual mouth, around and looked at him with around . Something glimmered on the around me. Good heavens! don't you - CH. 6 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 18 arrange my room for me? He settles - CH. 9 arranged , and watched the flashing - CH. 6 armour 3 1 2 3 I had drawn you as Paris in dainty to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold Sherard, with his silver-and-black arms 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sybil rushed to her, flung her to a stage-player, clasped her in her had come between them. Yet, when her their secret in my ear. I have had the "Basil!" cried the lad, clutching the broidery, and blazoned with the king's were similarly ornamented with the blood. Three times the outstretched and humped back, and long fantastic table with bowed head and outstretched one corner, with his head buried in his One minute. That's all." Dorian's been a sort of sailor; tattooed on both aromatic 2 1 2 and scented, pollen-laden flowers; of strolled along by his side. The keen 1 2 3 4 5 ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind the wrinkling forehead or crawled punished." Dorian Gray turned slowly loathed anything. He glanced wildly wings seem to wheel in the leaden air 1 Basil. You don't imagine I let him 1 He drove off by himself, as had been around 5 arrange 1 arranged 2 2 it is full of dust. I must get it 1 " "You would hardly care for such an 1 of the table, with its subtle symphonic 1 2 3 life is spoiled but one whose growth is picture, and examined it. In the dim in the matter, you are certain to be 1 But he never fell into the error of 1 2 the only method by which one could and there were more expected to 1 2 3 declined. The next night, of course, I how it was all going to end. When he French police declare that Basil never 1 2 experience. He had merely shot an his crop. She cleft the dusky air like an 1 the waves of worldly cunning. The arranged and put straight before you - CH. 10 arrangement 1 arrangement , Basil," cried Lord Henry, - CH. 2 arrangements 1 arrangements of exotic flowers, and - CH. 11 arrested . If you want to mar a nature, arrested light that struggled through the arrested . Nobody ever commits a - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 14 arresting his intellectual development - CH. 11 arrive at any scientific analysis of the arrive on the next day. "What are you - CH. 4 - CH. 17 arrived at the place again. When he arrived home, about half-past twelve arrived in Paris at all. I suppose in - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 19 arrow into the air. Had it hit the mark? arrow . The stones flew from her hoofs. - CH. 2 - CH. 18 arrested 3 arresting 1 arrive 2 arrived 3 arrow 2 arrows 1 arrows of craft shot by her. She saw - CH. 5 art 76 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 creator of beautiful things. To reveal of the artist, but the morality of are to the artist instruments of an virtue are to the artist materials for an form, the type of all the arts is the the actor's craft is the type. All It is the spectator, and not life, that Diversity of opinion about a work of is that one admires it intensely. All Tokyo who, through the medium of an form he had so skilfully mirrored in his my brains, such as they are - my whole nature, my whole soul, my very would never care for anything but your anything but your art." "He is all my is the appearance of a new medium for the appearance of a new personality for of him, or that his beauty is such that cannot express it. There is nothing that to me an entirely new manner in Gray is to me simply a motive in We live in an age when men treat me is quite a romance, a romance of me the one person who gives to my refinement and perfect delicacy that in It was certainly a wonderful work of is one of the greatest things in modern art and conceal the artist is - THE PREFACE art consists in the perfect - THE PREFACE art . Vice and virtue are to - THE PREFACE art . From the point of view - THE PREFACE art of the musician. From - THE PREFACE art is at once surface and - THE PREFACE art really mirrors. Diversity - THE PREFACE art shows that the work is - THE PREFACE art is quite useless. OSCAR - THE PREFACE art that is necessarily immobile, seek - CH. 1 art , a smile of pleasure passed across - CH. 1 art , whatever it may be worth; Dorian - CH. 1 art itself. I did not want any external - CH. 1 art ." "He is all my art to me now - CH. 1 art to me now," said the painter - CH. 1 art , and the second is the appearance - CH. 1 art also. What the invention of - CH. 1 art cannot express it. There is nothing - CH. 1 art cannot express, and I know that - CH. 1 art , an entirely new mode of style. I see - CH. 1 art . You might see nothing in him. I - CH. 1 art as if it were meant to be a form of - CH. 1 art one might call it, and the worst of - CH. 1 art whatever charm it possesses: my - CH. 1 art , at any rate comes only from - CH. 2 art , and a wonderful likeness as well. - CH. 2 art . I will give you anything you like - CH. 2 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 believe you would, Basil. You like your serious study of the great aristocratic interesting he was! The new manner in of them, and such a compliment to fathers is not good enough for us. In me that I was a munificent patron of "Yes, she will. She has not merely She has not merely art, consummate away. Sometimes this was the effect of was the effect of art, and chiefly of the the place and assumed the office of indeed, in its way, a real work of shoulders. "My dear fellow, mediaeval It was simply bad Love is a more wonderful thing than higher, something of which all shadows. You are more to me than all shape and substance to the shadows of know of love, if you say it mars your you say it mars your art! Without your artificial, but they have no sense of She passed again into the sphere of had been the great turning point in his from me, you were still present in my own face. And it had all been what really shown in the work one creates. that is all. It often seems to me that in my life who has really influenced my little man, whose admiration for go in much at present for religious service to you. Which is the work of " "Might one look at the work of his guests with the wonders of their all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this being, one might fancy, especially the a curious delight in the thought that in the prelude to that great work of should be, the same as the canons of than all the gracious shapes of "Decay fascinates me more." "What of repetition converts an appetite into an be a premature surrender." "Romantic you were the dominant motive of his fancy that crime was to them what I thought of telling the prophet that What a blessing it is that there is one outside of yourself! Life has been your book, there is no such thing as that. art better than your friends. I am no art of doing absolutely nothing. He art , the fresh mode of looking at life, art . Makes it quite cosmopolitan, art , as in politics, les grandperes ont art . He was a most offensive brute, art , consummate art-instinct, in her, but art -instinct, in her, but she has art , and chiefly of the art of literature, art of literature, which dealt art , was indeed, in its way, a real art , life having its elaborate art is charming, but mediaeval art . She was a complete failure. Even art ." "They are both simply forms of art is but a reflection. You had made art can ever be. What have I to do art . You have thrown it all away. You art ! Without your art, you are nothing. art , you are nothing. I would have art . You are more fortunate than I am. art . There is something of the martyr art . He could not bear the idea of art .... Of course, I never let you know art should be - unconscious, ideal, and Art is always more abstract than we art conceals the artist far more art . Whatever I have done that is art was considerably tempered by the art - but to-day I only want a picture art , sir?" "This," replied Dorian, art , sir?" Dorian started. "It would not art . His little dinners, in the settling art its enduring vitality, this art being, art being, one might fancy, especially art of those whose minds have been art , like Nature, has her monsters, art a presentation of the tragedy of art . Form is absolutely essential to it. art , the dreamy shadows of song. art ?" she asked. "It is a malady." art . Besides, each time that one loves art begins with its climax." "I must art ." "I was very fond of Basil," said art is to us, simply a method of art had a soul, but that man had not. art left to us that is not imitative! art . You have set yourself to music. Art has no influence upon action. 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They are charmingly 1 had ever passed, loving for their mere articulate . He passed his hand across - CH. 13 artificial 3 artificial manner. The voice was artificial . She overemphasized artificial , but they have no sense of art. - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 artificiality 1 artificiality those renunciations that - CH. 10 artist 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 The things. To reveal art and conceal the forms part of the subject-matter of the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No things that are true can be proved. No sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an unpardonable mannerism of style. No of style. No artist is ever morbid. The Thought and language are to the of an art. Vice and virtue are to the and vital. When critics disagree, the little distance away, was sitting the understand me, Harry," answered the painted with feeling is a portrait of the hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An charm it possesses: my life as an it in history. Was it not Plato, that for three. "No, Harry," answered the her to-night. She is simply a born altered. Last night she was a great I should have shown myself more of an his. He had dreamed of her as a great Dorian Gray I used to paint," said the often seems to me that art conceals the "Impossible!" "You spoil my life as an absorbed in a play when some great got the mysterious disappearance of an great friends, he ceased to be a great to be called a representative British 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 it some expression of all this curious soul being hideous." "A very charming however, a tragedy that possesses all through one season, as a form of happened, or to see it from a proper much to be got from all these. But the and said that you might have the most 1 Henry laughed. "If a man treats life 1 2 3 4 5 6 at Lady Brandon's. You know we poor and his common sense. The only who are personally delightful are bad delightful are bad artists. Good unseen ideal whose memory haunts us inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artist is the creator of - THE PREFACE artist is art's aim. The critic - THE PREFACE artist , but the morality of art - THE PREFACE artist desires to prove - THE PREFACE artist has ethical sympathies. - THE PREFACE artist is an unpardonable - THE PREFACE artist is ever morbid. The - THE PREFACE artist can express everything. - THE PREFACE artist instruments of an art. - THE PREFACE artist materials for an art. - THE PREFACE artist is in accord with - THE PREFACE artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose - CH. 1 artist . "Of course I am not like him. - CH. 1 artist , not of the sitter. The sitter is - CH. 1 artist should create beautiful things, - CH. 1 artist depends on him. Mind, Harry, I - CH. 1 artist in thought, who had first analyzed - CH. 3 artist , giving his hat and coat to the - CH. 6 artist . I sat in the dingy box absolutely - CH. 6 artist . This evening she is merely a - CH. 7 artist . It was foolish of me, and yet I - CH. 7 artist , had given his love to her - CH. 7 artist sadly. "Basil," said the lad, going - CH. 9 artist far more completely than it ever - CH. 9 artist by refusing, Dorian. No man - CH. 9 artist is acting. There was neither real - CH. 13 artist . Scotland Yard still insists that - CH. 19 artist . What was it separated you? I - CH. 19 artist . Did you advertise for it? You - CH. 19 artistic 7 artistic artistic artistic artistic artistic artistic artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I basis for ethics, Dorian! I elements of beauty crosses our mourning for a romance that point of view. Was it not temperament that they create, tastes, but that you were a - CH. 1 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 12 artistically 1 artistically , his brain is his heart," he - CH. 19 artists have to show ourselves in artists I have ever known who are artists . Good artists exist simply in artists exist simply in what they make, artists like an exquisite dream. I artists who dealt with him. As a rule, - CH. 1 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 artists 7 7 the work of some of the finest 1 2 3 4 5 of view of form, the type of all the used to write about la consolation des itself was the first, the greatest, of the of the arts, and for it all the other had no real appreciation of the visible artists of the French school of - CH. 10 arts 5 arts is the art of the - THE PREFACE arts ? I remember picking up a little - CH. 9 arts , and for it all the other arts - CH. 11 arts seemed to be but a preparation. - CH. 11 arts , and whatever little sense of the - CH. 14 as 572 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 of beautiful things. The highest only beauty. There is no such thing forgive a man for making a useful thing man for making a useful thing as long -bags on which he was lying, smoking, the burden of a beauty so flamelike rise to so many strange conjectures. eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, in the world to gain a reputation. the world to gain a reputation. As soon hair, and this young Adonis, who looks when he was a boy of eighteen, and the knowledge of defeat. They live and wealth, Harry; my brains, such little golden, white-feathered disk, "and its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt With an evening coat and a white tie, She spoke of me Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly other people having the same faults purely intellectual will the idea be, of him is there. He is a suggestion, of myself!" "Poets are not so scrupulous We live in an age when men treat art I know I shall be sorry for having said. whole soul to some one who treats it "Harry, don't talk like that. Harry, don't talk like that. As long with a self-conscious and satisfied air, was charming to have escaped all that! art whatever charm it possesses: my life All the candour of youth was there, the candour of youth was there, as well a very bad influence, Lord Henry? bad influence, Lord Henry? As bad as Basil says?" "There is no such thing him. His sins, if there are such things and to have a music of their own to have a music of their own as sweet words! Was there anything so real be my masterpiece. It is my masterpiece feverishly drinking in their perfume can cure the soul but the senses, just was a look of fear in his eyes, such more than you think you know, just had a curious charm. They moved, it matter?" cried Dorian Gray, laughing, genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, so, but at least it is not so superficial more bitter than defeats. Every month as the lowest form of - THE PREFACE as a moral or an immoral - THE PREFACE as long as he does not - THE PREFACE as he does not admire it. - THE PREFACE as was his custom, innumerable - CH. 1 as theirs; and now and then the - CH. 1 As the painter looked at the gracious - CH. 1 as though he sought to imprison within - CH. 1 As soon as you have one, you seem to - CH. 1 as you have one, you seem to want to - CH. 1 as if he was made out of ivory and - CH. 1 as a natural consequence he always - CH. 1 as we all should live - undisturbed, - CH. 1 as they are - my art, whatever it may be - CH. 1 as for believing things, I can believe - CH. 1 as if he could hear Basil Hallward's - CH. 1 as you told me once, anybody, even a - CH. 1 as her dearest friend. I had only met - CH. 1 as an auctioneer treats his goods. She - CH. 1 as ourselves. I quite sympathize with - CH. 1 as in that case it will not be coloured - CH. 1 as I have said, of a new manner. I - CH. 1 as you are. They know how useful - CH. 1 as if it were meant to be a form of - CH. 1 As a rule, he is charming to me, and - CH. 1 as if it were a flower to put in his coat - CH. 1 As long as I live, the personality of - CH. 1 as I live, the personality of Dorian - CH. 1 as if he had summed up the world in - CH. 1 As he thought of his aunt, an idea - CH. 1 as an artist depends on him. Mind, - CH. 1 As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. - CH. 2 as well as all youth's passionate purity. - CH. 2 as all youth's passionate purity. One - CH. 2 As bad as Basil says?" "There is no - CH. 2 as Basil says?" "There is no such thing - CH. 2 as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All - CH. 2 as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an - CH. 2 as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere - CH. 2 as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! - CH. 2 as words? Yes; there had been things - CH. 2 as it stands." Lord Henry went out to - CH. 2 as if it had been wine. He came close - CH. 2 as nothing can cure the senses but the - CH. 2 as people have when they are suddenly - CH. 2 as you know less than you want to - CH. 2 as he spoke, like music, and seemed - CH. 2 as he sat down on the seat at the end - CH. 2 as it needs no explanation. It is of the - CH. 2 as thought is. To me, beauty is the - CH. 2 as it wanes brings you nearer to - CH. 2 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 blossom again. The laburnum will be laburnum will be as yellow next June is that the caprice lasts a little longer." work of art, and a wonderful likeness and look at yourself." The lad started, A look of joy came into his eyes, had stirred him at the time, and now, become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth. them came a mist of tears. He felt you than a green bronze figure. Hardly that. I have never had such a friend he buried his face in the cushions, and tear-stained eyes, looked at him of myself. I feel that." "Well, I feel that." "Well, as soon you! I wonder who it was defined man tray. "It is rather late, and, has been a most interesting afternoon." who was considered generous by Society along with his chief, somewhat foolishly but preferred to live in chambers Certainly. I remember the whole thing - and that the fellow spitted his man What on earth induced her to behave shook his head. "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, politics." "Is she pretty?" "She behaves of Dorian Gray's parentage. Crudely posed the lad, made him more perfect, he had been at dinner the night before, convey one's temperament into another to us in an age so limited and vulgar purity of boyhood, and beauty such shapes and patterns of things becoming, and gaining a kind of symbolical value, and passed into the dining-room. "Late described by contemporary historians into bad habits of silence, having, most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, middle-aged mediocrity, as bald which is the one unpardonable error, with philosophic contemplation. But, it with paradox. The praise of folly, a novel certainly, a novel that would be a novel that would be as lovely be as lovely as a Persian carpet and good duchess, we shall all look on you I am going to the park," he cried. the time? No one talks so wonderfully So the lad was looking rather sulky, at the opera." She laughed nervously woman, whose dresses always looked was usually in love with somebody, and, Henry, shutting the door behind her aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, the triumph of matter over mind, just to know. The subject is not so abstruse to go together. That is all over now. together. That is all over now. As long own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. seemed to throb in my veins. as yellow next June as it is now. In a as it is now. In a month there will be As they entered the studio, Dorian as well. "My dear fellow, I congratulate as if awakened from some dream. "Is as if he had recognized himself for as he stood gazing at the shadow of As he thought of it, a sharp pang of as if a hand of ice had been laid as much, I dare say." The painter as you, and I shall never have such as though he was praying. "This is as he walked over to the deal as soon as you are dry, you shall be as you are dry, you shall be varnished, as a rational animal. It was the most as you have to dress, you had better As the door closed behind them, the as he fed the people who amused him. as was thought at the time, and on as it was less trouble, and took most as if it happened yesterday. The poor as if he had been a pigeon. The thing as she did, I never could understand. as clever at concealing their parents, as as English women are at concealing as if she was beautiful. Most American as it had been told to him, it had yet as it were. Behind every exquisite thing as with startled eyes and lips parted in as though it were a subtle fluid or a as our own, an age grossly carnal in its as old Greek marbles kept for us. as it were, refined, and gaining a kind as though they were themselves as usual, Harry," cried his aunt, as stoutness. Next to her sat, on her as he explained once to Lady Agatha, as bald as a ministerial statement in as a ministerial statement in the House as he remarked once himself, that all as the nineteenth century has gone as he went on, soared into a as lovely as a Persian carpet and as as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But as unreal. But there is no literary as being primarily responsible. But I As he was passing out of the door, as you do." "Ah! I have talked quite as with listless fingers he turned over as she spoke, and watched him with as if they had been designed in a rage as her passion was never returned, as , looking like a bird of paradise that as I do everything that you say." 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Mercutio was almost terms with the pit. They were both the pit. They were both as grotesque as the scenery, and that looked through the forest of Arden, disguised them. One knows their minds them. One knows their minds as easily were entirely due to 'The Bard,' her, Harry. She regarded me merely on the first night, and looks He was walking up and down the room out properly. She will make the world She will make the world as mad a week. It is rather horrid of me, forget about to-morrow. Good-bye." had ever interested him so much so he had begun by vivisecting himself, else of any value. It was true that having its elaborate masterpieces, just Or was the body really in the soul, spring of life would be revealed to us. gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it formation of character, had praised it no motive power in experience. It was It was as little of an active cause was that our future would be the same in radiance, then closed for a moment, proud. Mother, did you love my father much. Don't look so sad. I am so sad. I am as happy to-day shown more consideration. However, movement. He was not so finely bred the door. One could hear her singing defend themselves by attacking, just was when acting was really understood. a nice sheep-farmer, and one evening, Children begin by loving their parents; that had reached his ears one night of horrible thoughts. He remembered it loafers at the bar. He has preached me a dogma; to-night he will announce me arm. "You dear old Jim, you talk effort. They passed words to each other seen him." "I wish I had, for "I wish I had, for as sure whispered. He followed her doggedly any one I love, would you?" "Not I love, would you?" "Not as long murderous hatred of the stranger who, affection. There were tears in his eyes She grumbled at his unpunctuality, have been told to him before, if it was lace handkerchief from the window, Basil?" said Lord Henry that evening said Lord Henry, watching him the greatest contempt for optimism. a nature, you have merely to reform it. hand on the lad's shoulder and smiling as you once phrased it, must have as in politics, les grandperes ont as bad. He was played by the as grotesque as the scenery, and that as the scenery, and that looked as if it as if it had come out of a as a pretty boy in hose and doublet as easily as one knows their bonnets. as one knows their bonnets. One can as he insisted on calling him. He as a person in a play. She knows as if she had seen better days." "I know as he spoke. Hectic spots of red as mad as she has made me." "That as she has made me." "That would be as he has sent me my portrait in the As he left the room, Lord Henry's as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad as he had ended by vivisecting others. as one watched life in its curious as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting. as Giordano Bruno thought? The As it was, we always misunderstood as a rule, regarded it as a mode of as a mode of warning, had claimed for as something that taught us what to as little of an active cause as as conscience itself. All that it really as our past, and that the sin we had as though to hide their secret. When as I love Prince Charming?" The elder as happy to-day as you were twenty as you were twenty years ago. Ah! let as I said before, if he is rich ..." " as his sister. One would hardly have as she ran upstairs. Her little feet as they attack by sudden and strange As for Sibyl, I do not know at present as he was riding home, he was to see as they grow older they judge them; as he waited at the stage-door, had set as if it had been the lash of a huntingas a dogma; to-night he will announce as a revelation. I feel it. And it is as if you were a hundred. Some day as players at a game pass counters. as sure as there is a God in heaven, if as there is a God in heaven, if he ever as she passed through the crowd. He as long as you love him, I suppose," as you love him, I suppose," was the as it seemed to him, had come as he went downstairs. His mother was as he entered. He made no answer, as he suspected. Leaden with fear, his as her son drove away. She was as Hallward was shown into a little as he spoke. Hallward started and then As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled As for marriage, of course that would as he spoke. "Come, let us sit down - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 is really not much to tell," cried Dorian like dark leaves round a pale rose. over, I went behind and spoke to her. "My dear Harry, I did not treat it I am afraid I cannot claim my theory s own life - that is the important thing. is a nuisance. Women treat us just change. That is the worry. Women, downstairs. He drove off by himself, loathed him more than ever. He felt and watch her. They weep and laugh she wills them to do. She makes them to do. She makes them as responsive they are of the same flesh and blood one's self." "The same flesh and blood a mirror of silver, came to her cheeks and began to applaud. Motionless, and and his other friends. The band, such Her body swayed, while she danced, passion unreal. Dorian Gray grew pale nothing in her. She looked charming acting was unbearable, and grew worse next we meet - she spoke the words She is very lovely, and if she knows and if she knows as little about life down on a titter and some groans. on a titter and some groans. As soon with long-drawn music in her voice, What could they know of love such shrieks and oaths from gloomy courts. had painted of him. He started back the lines of cruelty round the mouth of cruelty round the mouth as clearly fault, not his. He had dreamed of her feeling of infinite regret came over him, in front of the portrait, shuddering was the unreality of a dream about it. unreality of a dream about it. As soon The thing was absurd. It would serve felt a wild desire to tell him to remain. perfectly true. The portrait had altered. for it all, Dorian," said Lord Henry in that way to the public. It seems that it. I should fancy it was prussic acid, Gray, half to himself, "murdered her half to himself, "murdered her as surely lovely for all that. The birds sing just is it that I cannot feel this tragedy that I cannot feel this tragedy as much that has happened does not affect me entire lack of style. They affect us just but violets all through one season, They always want a sixth act, and always want a sixth act, and as soon their conjugal felicity in one's face, it. Besides, nothing makes one so vain of the things we all play with, such and Ophelia the other; that if she died if she died as Juliet, she came to life in the tawdry dressing-room simply as they took their seats at the small As for her acting - well, you shall see As we were sitting together, suddenly as a business transaction, and I did as my own. It belongs to Nature, not to As for the lives of one's neighbours, if as humanity treats its gods. They as some witty Frenchman once put it, as had been arranged, and watched the as if he had come to look for Miranda as she wills them to do. She makes as responsive as a violin. She as a violin. She spiritualizes them, and as one's self." "The same flesh and as one's self! Oh, I hope not!" as she glanced at the crowded as one in a dream, sat Dorian Gray, as it was, struck up a few bars of music as a plant sways in the water. The as he watched her. He was puzzled and as she came out in the moonlight. as she went on. Her gestures became as though they conveyed no meaning to as little about life as she does about as she does about acting, she will be a As soon as it was over, Dorian Gray as it was over, Dorian Gray rushed as though it were sweeter than honey as ours? Take me away, Dorian - take As the dawn was just breaking, he As he was turning the handle of the as if in surprise. Then he went on into as clearly as if he had been looking as if he had been looking into a as a great artist, had given his love to as he thought of her lying at his feet as he glanced at it. "How horrible!" he As soon as he was dressed, he went as he was dressed, he went into the as a tale to tell Basil some day. It As the door was closing behind him, As he often remembered afterwards, as he entered. "But you must not think as she was leaving the theatre with her as she seems to have died as surely as if I had cut her little as if I had cut her little throat with a as happily in my garden. And to-night I as much as I want to? I don't think as I want to? I don't think I am as it should. It seems to me to be as vulgarity affects us. They give us an as a form of artistic mourning for a as soon as the interest of the play is as the interest of the play is entirely as if it were the most fascinating of as being told that one is a sinner. as romance, passion, and love." "I was as Juliet, she came to life as Imogen." " as Imogen." "She will never come to as a strange lurid fragment from some - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, if life has still in store for me anything would have to fight for your victories. down to the club. We are rather late, friend. No one has ever understood me I hope. Remember, Patti is singing." an interminable time over everything. time over everything. As soon It was conscious of the events of life place before his very eyes, shuddering last scene? Had she cursed him, When he thought of her, it would be tragic figure? Tears came to his eyes all. A feeling of pain crept over him at its beauty, almost enamoured of it, place in front of the picture, smiling never happened. It is simply expression, is master of himself can end a sorrow of himself can end a sorrow as easily what has come over you. You talk the great romantic tragedies of the age. When she knew its unreality, she died, martyrdom, all its wasted beauty. But, become the spectator of one's own life, that. I felt the room looked different honour I will never speak to you again I will never speak to you again as long I shouldn't see my own work, especially go in for being consistent have just consistent have just as many moods a new development. I had drawn you you as Paris in dainty armour, and to paint a wonderful portrait of you veil, I cannot tell. But I know that few days the thing left my studio, and the thing left my studio, and as soon Dorian, for what I have told you. a compliment." "It was not intended again?" "Impossible!" "You spoil my life have tea with you. That will be just understand what you feel about it." round at once. It seemed to him that sighed and told her to manage things She left the room, wreathed in smiles. thing in. It had perhaps served often when the senses tire. It was such love he flung the rich pall over the picture. knock came to the door. He passed out most of the artists who dealt with him. Can you move it, covering and all, just We will go up by the front staircase, useful, Dorian put his hand to it so it is rather heavy," murmured Dorian not, indeed, since he had used it first -room when he was a child, and then which he had so often hidden himself his lonely childhood came back to him the house so secure from prying eyes or droop, would be foolish or gross, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or as marvellous." "Life has everything in As it is, they are brought to you. No as it is." "I think I shall join you as you have." "We are only at the As he closed the door behind him, As soon as he had left, he rushed to as he had left, he rushed to the screen as they occurred. The vicious cruelty as he hoped it. Poor Sibyl! What a as she died? No; she had died for love as a wonderful tragic figure sent on to as he remembered her childlike look, as he thought of the desecration that as it seemed to him at times. Was it to As it had revealed to him his own as he did so, and passed into his As he was sitting at breakfast next as Harry says, that gives reality to as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I as he can invent a pleasure. I don't as if you had no heart, no pity in you As a rule, people who act lead the as Juliet might have died. She passed as I was saying, you must not think I as Harry says, is to escape the as I came in." "My servant has nothing as long as I live. I am quite serious. as I live. I am quite serious. I don' as I am going to exhibit it in Paris in as many moods as others have. The as others have. The only difference is as Paris in dainty armour, and as as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and as you actually are, not in the costume as I worked at it, every flake and film as soon as I had got rid of the as I had got rid of the intolerable As I said to Harry, once, you are made as a compliment. It was a confession. as an artist by refusing, Dorian. No as pleasant." "Pleasanter for you, I am As he left the room, Dorian Gray as the man left the room his eyes as she thought best. She left the As the door closed, Dorian put the as a pall for the dead. Now it was to as Michelangelo had known, and As he did so, a knock came to the as his servant entered. "The persons As a rule, he never left his shop. He as it is? I don't want it to get as it is wider." He held the door as to help them. "Something of a load as he unlocked the door that opened as a play-room when he was a child, as a study when he grew somewhat as a boy. There the satinwood as he looked round. He recalled the as this. He had the key, and no one as the mouths of old men are. There - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 if he had met the men in the hall century except his own, and to sum up, that men have unwisely called virtue, have unwisely called virtue, as much Symbolistes. There were in it metaphors were in it metaphors as monstrous metaphors as monstrous as orchids and subtle monotony of their music, so full produced in the mind of the lad, joy - and perhaps in nearly every joy, how one so charming and graceful it was purely selfish. But moments such Lord Henry had first stirred in him, mad hungers that grew more ravenous Henry always assisted him, were noted selection and placing of those invited, of those whom Dante describes was to be the dominant characteristic. to the hermit the beasts of the field his companions. Yes: there was to be, the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter the asceticism that deadens the senses, and wandering round the silent house, pain. It was the creation of such worlds subtle influences, and then, having, of the antique world, stirred him rejection of the evidence of the senses had their subtle fascination for him. or healthy, normal or diseased. Yet, birds, and flutes of human bones such jewels, and appeared at a costume ball stones that he had collected, such his city with a large ruby in his hand, the Tower previous to his coronation, transparency are known in the East also, for ecclesiastical vestments, it had draped the purple-and-gold pall shared at Trouville with Lord Henry, at Trouville with Lord Henry, as well look at him with cold searching eyes, cannot atone for half-cold entrees, society are, or should be, the same should have the dignity of a ceremony, have the dignity of a ceremony, as well of those who conceive the ego in man of Queen Elizabeth and King James, The world had looked upon him Yet one had ancestors in literature one had ancestors in literature as well merely the record of his own life, not lived it in act and circumstance, but his imagination had created it for him, lightning might strike him, he had sat, mocked the swinger of the censer; and, with a jewel-frontleted horse; and, and heard men cry on Nero Caesar on Nero Caesar as he passed by; and, immediately following, in which, Pietro Barbi, the Venetian, known a boy that he might serve at the feast as they were leaving the house and as it were, in himself the various as much as those natural rebellions as those natural rebellions that wise as monstrous as orchids and as subtle as orchids and as subtle in colour. as subtle in colour. The life of the as it was of complex refrains and as he passed from chapter to chapter, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty as he was could have escaped the as these were rare. That curiosity as they sat together in the garden of as he fed them. Yet he was not really as much for the careful selection and as for the exquisite taste shown in as having sought to "make themselves As he looked back upon man moving as his companions. Yes: there was to as Lord Henry had prophesied, a new as they might be. Of the asceticism as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls as though it feared to wake the as these that seemed to Dorian Gray as it were, caught their colour and as much by its superb rejection of the as by the primitive simplicity of its As he passed out, he used to look as has been said of him before, no as Alfonso de Ovalle heard in Chile, as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of as the olive-green chrysoberyl that as the ceremony of his coronation. as wearing "a jacket of raised gold, As he investigated the subject - and as "woven air," and "running water," as indeed he had for everything as a curtain. For weeks he would not as well as the little white walled-in as the little white walled-in house at as though they were determined to as Lord Henry remarked once, in a as the canons of art. Form is as well as its unreality, and should as its unreality, and should combine as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, as one who was "caressed by the as infamous. He had led the orgies at as well as in one's own race, nearer as in one's own race, nearer perhaps as he had lived it in act and as his imagination had created it for as it had been in his brain and in his as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, as Caligula, had caroused with the as Domitian, had wandered through as he passed by; and, as Elagabalus, as Elagabalus, had painted his face as in some curious tapestries or as Paul the Second, who sought in as Ganymede or Hylas; Ezzelin, - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 and who had a passion for red blood, for red wine - the son of the Fiend, whose effigy was burned at Rome and whose comeliness was such that, when he looked on evil simply eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, servant and told him to go to bed, it was you, or rather your fur coat, it. I am sorry you are going away, your train?" said Dorian Gray languidly I shan't have any delay about luggage, should be." Hallward shook his head, maid, and has established her in Paris You don't want people to talk of you anything about mine. With such blood sort of lives do these people, who pose led them there, and yet you can smile, you. I want you to lead such a life He laughed again. "I know so. close behind. They walked softly, the door behind you," he whispered, a puzzled expression. The room looked to contain, besides a chair and a table. of horror broke from the painter's lips own picture. He knew it, and he felt it?" said Dorian bitterly. "My ideal, "My ideal, as you call it..." " You were to me such an ideal seemed to be quite undisturbed and verse somewhere, 'Though your sins be sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them scarlet, yet I will make them as white for Basil Hallward came over him, slowly towards it, passing Hallward it, passing Hallward as he did so. passing Hallward as he did so. As soon round. Hallward stirred in his chair to the room, locking himself in slowly by the railings, staggering creaked and seemed to cry out had gone, and by the midnight train, on the shoulder before he woke, and eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, Hallward that had made him kill him "That awful thing, a woman's memory!" is out of town, get his address." out of town, get his address." As soon been given to him by Adrian Singleton. d'un escalier. How exquisite they were! lines of turquoise-blue that follow one He was an excellent musician, however, Royal or in Grosvenor Square. To him, and would never himself play, giving second he kept glancing at the clock. with dank hands his burning lids by terror, twisted and distorted you would simply look upon him inquire now. I have told you too much then took up the paper, and opened it. of sickness came over him. He felt as other men have for red wine - the as was reported, and one who had as the enemy of God and man, who as he lay dying in the yellow piazza as a mode through which he could as he often remembered afterwards. as the night was cold and foggy. At as he let me out. I am off to Paris as you passed me. But I wasn't quite as I have not seen you for ages. But as he passed up the steps and opened as I have sent on my heavy things. as he entered, and followed Dorian as an English dressmaker. Anglomania as something vile and degraded. Of as he has in his veins, how could his as being moral, lead themselves? My as you are smiling now. And there is as will make the world respect you. I As for what I said to you to-night, as men do instinctively at night. The as he placed the lamp on the table. as if it had not been lived in for As Dorian Gray was lighting a as he saw in the dim light the as if his blood had changed in a as you call it..." "As you called it." As you called it." "There was nothing as I shall never meet again. This is as he had left it. It was from within, as scarlet, yet I will make them as as white as snow'?" "Those words as snow'?" "Those words mean as though it had been suggested to as he did so. As soon as he got As soon as he got behind him, he as he got behind him, he seized it as if he was going to rise. He rushed as he did so. The thing was still as she went. Now and then she as if in pain. He stopped several as he had intended. With his curious as he opened his eyes a faint smile as though he had been lost in some as he sat in the chair came back to as Lord Henry had once said. After As soon as he was alone, he lit a as he was alone, he lit a cigarette As he turned over the pages, his eye As one read them, one seemed to be as one pushes out to the Lido. The as well, and played both the violin as to many others, Dorian Gray was as his excuse, when he was called As the minutes went by he became as though he would have robbed the as a living thing by pain, danced like as an admirable subject. You would as it is. But I beg of you to do As he read it, his face became ghastly as if his heart was beating itself to - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 stern, harsh, offensive. You treated me was too terrible to be borne. He felt slowly tightened round his forehead, I cannot do it," he said, mechanically, it to his valet, with orders to return his valet, with orders to return as soon and to bring the things with him. clock was like the beat of a hammer. that I have for you." He turned away personally, and tell him to send twice tell him to send twice as many orchids many orchids as I ordered, and to have ordered, and to have as few white ones coldly. Dorian half opened the door. and glistening, on one of the hands, it had not stirred, but was still there, gazing into a glistening yellow face. cannot forget that," said Dorian simply. that," said Dorian simply. As soon he felt wildly excited, but his manner as he bent over his hostess's hand was hostess's hand was as easy and graceful one never seems so much at one's ease that he had passed through a tragedy passed through a tragedy as horrible with what Lord Henry used to describe you were not thought of at the time. were rather tedious. The fact was, "Dorian," said Lord Henry at last, way, I shall have to marry again so "A man can be happy with any woman, can be happy with any woman, as long "I fear so," she said, laughing, "Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as bad as a meal. More than enough is a meal. More than enough is as good a fascinating theory," she murmured, explosions. An alliterative prefix served Harry." "He bores me dreadfully, almost bores me dreadfully, almost as much his shoulders. "My dear fellow, Harry," he said, leaving the room. ivory and blue lapis. He watched it that could fascinate and make afraid, box back, shutting the cabinet doors he did so, and went into his bedroom. a mile. A steam rose from the horse to stamp the thing out, to crush it right had Basil to have spoken to him The monotony became unbearable, and fanlike tongues of fire. A dog barked them. A dull rage was in his heart. had found in them the full expression, that flattened itself into the shadow entered a long low room which looked counters and showing their white teeth red ants on him," laughed one of them, leading to a darkened chamber. t care," he added with a sigh. " he added with a sigh. "As long as no man has ever dared to treat as if an iron ring was being slowly as if the disgrace with which he was as though words could alter things. as soon as possible and to bring the as possible and to bring the things As the hall door shut, Campbell As the chime struck one, Campbell as he spoke and stood looking out at as many orchids as I ordered, and to as I ordered, and to have as few as few white ones as possible. In fact, as possible. In fact, I don't want any As he did so, he saw the face of his as though the canvas had sweated as he had left it. He heaved a deep As he was going downstairs, he heard As soon as Campbell had left, he as Campbell had left, he went upstairs. as he bent over his hostess's hand as easy and graceful as ever. Perhaps as ever. Perhaps one never seems so as when one has to play a part. as horrible as any tragedy of our age. as any tragedy of our age. Those as the remains of really remarkable As it was, our bonnets were so as she explained to Dorian, behind a as the chaud-froid was being handed as to be in the fashion." "You will as long as he does not love her." "Ah as he does not love her." "Ah! what as she stood up. "A thousand as bad as a meal. More than enough as a meal. More than enough is as as good as a feast." Lady Ruxton as a feast." Lady Ruxton glanced at as she swept out of the room. "Now, as an ornament of oratory. He as much as he bores her. She is very as he bores her. She is very clever, too as if I cared! Let us go up to the As he drove back to his own house, as though it were a thing that could as though it held something that he as he did so, and went into his As midnight was striking bronze blows as it splashed up the puddles. The as one would crush the adder that as he had done? Who had made him as the mist thickened, he felt afraid. as they went by, and far away in the As they turned a corner, a woman as it were, of his mood, and justified, as he passed. At the end of the hall as if it had once been a third-rate as they chattered. In one corner, with as Dorian passed by. The man looked As Dorian hurried up its three rickety As long as one has this stuff, one as one has this stuff, one doesn't want - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 ulster, grinned a hideous greeting door with a look of pain in his face. The drowsy sailor leaped to his feet door fell on his ear. He rushed out life was really to be laid at his door, a nature that every fibre of the body, will. They move to their terrible end disobedience its charm. For all sins, star of evil, fell from heaven, it was Gray hastened on, quickening his step on, quickening his step as he went, but dim archway, that had served him often "You had better confess your sin, for had better confess your sin, for as sure from the archway. Dim and wavering served to show him the hideous error, He has lots of money, and he's has lots of money, and he's as bad -hole. It was a marvellous spotted thing, a marvellous spotted thing, as effective title." "Royalties may not abdicate," fell the seven deadly virtues, Gladys. You, "We have carried their burden." "Only have carried their burden." "Only as far me on purely scientific principles we can't bear mediocrities. We women, some one says, love with our ears, just of life is to reproduce that experience is to reproduce that experience as often "But not explained you." "Describe us recklessness of gaiety in his manner secret places, to whisper in his ear the feast, to wake him with icy fingers him with icy fingers as he lay asleep! in at six o'clock, he found him crying Dorian!" laughed his companion, and for the day." Dorian watched them It is a bad omen, Harry. I feel them that the subject is to be tabooed. As for omens, there is no such thing to town." Dorian heaved a sigh of relief will flirt with anybody in the world flirt with anybody in the world as long "I wish he had been." He glanced about to entertain his guests in his absence. after some moments' hesitation. some moments' hesitation. As soon from Dorian Gray's hand, and he felt a sailor?" "Yes, sir. He looks was galloping down the long avenue galloping down the long avenue as hard minutes looking at the dead body. more than one?" asked his companion Suddenly I determined to leave her I determined to leave her as flowerlike Florizel," said Lord Henry, laughing, much of your great renunciation. Even to me. I know I was right in acting right in acting as I did. Poor Hetty! can paint like Velasquez and yet be as he thrust a bottle of brandy and As he drew the curtain aside, a as she spoke, and looked wildly as if in pursuit. Dorian Gray hurried as Basil Hallward had said to him as every cell of the brain, seems to as automatons move. Choice is taken as theologians weary not of reminding as a rebel that he fell. Callous, as he went, but as he darted aside as he darted aside into a dim as a short cut to the ill-famed place as sure as I am James Vane, you are as I am James Vane, you are going to as was the wind-blown light, yet it as it seemed, into which he had as bad as bad." "He is not the man as bad." "He is not the man I am as effective as the seven deadly sins. as the seven deadly sins. In a as a warning from pretty lips. "You as a good Tory, must not underrate as far as the Stock Exchange." She as the Stock Exchange." She shook as the best specimen he could find of as some one says, love with our ears, as you men love with your eyes, if as often as possible." "Even when one as possible." "Even when one has as a sex," was her challenge. as he sat at table, but now and then a as he sat at the feast, to wake him as he lay asleep! As the thought As the thought crept through his as one whose heart will break. It was as the hare bounded into the thicket, as they plunged into the alder-clump, as if something horrible were going to As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send as he saw the gardener approaching. as long as other people are looking as other people are looking on." "How As the glass door closed behind as if in search of something. "What As he was putting it into the As soon as the man entered, Dorian as the man entered, Dorian pulled his as if his heart had suddenly stopped as if he had been a sort of sailor; as hard as he could go. The trees as he could go. The trees seemed to As he rode home, his eyes were full as he spilled into his plate a little as flowerlike as I had found her." "I as I had found her." "I should think as he leaned back in his chair. "My as a beginning, it is poor. Besides, how as I did. Poor Hetty! As I rode past As I rode past the farm this as dull as possible. 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It struck me Play me a nocturne, Dorian, and, revealed to them her latest wonder. stay. You have never played so well are, and will be what we will be. by a book, there is no such thing said Dorian. "Good night, Harry." the door, he hesitated for a moment, put his silk scarf round his throat. his boyhood - his rose-white boyhood, white-limbed Cupids laughed round it it as of old. He took it up, forced to know. The excitement, such been simply the madness of a moment. tempt innocence. He would be good. Surely it was not still so horrible lamp from the table and crept upstairs. no longer be a terror to him. He felt in quietly, locking the door behind him, Or the desire for a new sensation, There was blood on the painted feet, upon men to tell their sins to earth men to tell their sins to earth as well upon it. It was bright, and glistened. They looked at each other, and wringing her hands. Francis was wringing her hands. Francis was as pale wall a splendid portrait of their master as possible. Basil was really rather as all vulgarity is crime. It is not in as you suggest, but I can't. I dare As his pointed fingers touched it, it As I passed by, I heard the man as being rather dramatic. London is as you play, tell me, in a low voice As for the aged, I always contradict as to-night. There was something in As for being poisoned by a book, as that. Art has no influence upon As he reached the door, he hesitated as if he had something more to say. As he strolled home, smoking his as Lord Henry had once called it. He as of old. He took it up, as he as he had done on that night of as it was, over Basil Hallward's As for Alan Campbell, his suicide As he thought of Hetty Merton, he as it had been? Perhaps if his life As he unbarred the door, a smile of as if the load had been lifted from as was his custom, and dragged the as Lord Henry had hinted, with his as though the thing had dripped as well as to heaven. Nothing that he as to heaven. Nothing that he could As it had killed the painter, so it as they walked away, and sneered. as pale as death. After about a as death. After about a quarter of an as they had last seen him, in all the - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 asbestos ." "I shall have to go home - CH. 14 ascent . The elaborate character of the ascent , Basil Hallward following close - CH. 10 - CH. 13 asceticism that deadens the senses, as - CH. 11 ashamed of your own virtues. You are ashamed of being afraid. Why had it ashamed of him. The Queen used to - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 asbestos 1 1 "Yes, there is a gas-fire with 1 2 passed out into the hall and began the passed out of the room and began the 1 or bitter as they might be. Of the 1 2 3 husband, but that you are thoroughly own. But he felt afraid of him, and once when I was there. Egad, I was 1 2 3 4 dust into consciousness, to wake their Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put at the burning logs with their frostlike that belongs to him, into a handful of 1 2 his great friend. There was Sir Henry be clean? You ask me about Henry ascent 2 asceticism 1 ashamed 3 ashes 4 ashes ashes ashes ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I on your head because Cordelia and their throbbing cores of that I may scatter in the air." - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 ashton 2 ashton' 1 Ashton , who had to leave England Ashton and young Perth. Did I teach - CH. 12 - CH. 12 1 sneered. One of them was Sir Henry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 hesitated for a moment, and then put it of a man's life. Should he move it of his shame. Then he drew the screen slowly and with white hands moving horse stumbled in a rut, then swerved him in from the street. He dragged it pain in his face. As he drew the curtain his step as he went, but as he darted brushing the lithe swinging branches 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 who stood blinking in the sunlight. " a platform and trying to look pleasant. I will give you anything you like to ashamed of him. The Queen used to will allow me to call you so, may I I came in to look for you, to He had something on his mind to him. "Mother, I have something to " "I should have said that whatever they papers. I wrote down to you to any explanation, and you are not to Basil, too, had his secret. He would Dorian shook his head. "You must not was nothing else to see. Why do you and then to go to the frame-maker and It is rather heavy, so I thought I would he murmured. "It is not much to of infinite contempt in his voice. "You how could his record be clean? You I can go to-morrow. But don't the colour came back to his cheeks. " publicly disgraced. How dare you to me. Only listen, Alan. All I in the matter. It is insane of you to t believe a word of it." "Well, even our intellects. You will never evidence on the subject, you can years," said the man. "Why do you he went. He heard Sir Geoffrey waiting for you. I suppose he wants to and stared at his friend. "Why do you aged. I do it on principle. If you 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Dorian Gray? Is that his name?" Henry laughed. "And what is that?" he again. It was reckless of me, but I describe this wonderful young man?" why won't you exhibit his portrait?" name of Dorian Gray." "Where was it?" you think it awfully rude of me if I Am I to go, Mr. Gray?" he shall not run away, now that you have " "You should have gone away when I you," he muttered. "I stayed when you "Yes, Basil?" "Remember what I "Mr. Dorian Gray? Who is he?" Ashton' s uncle. Inside, in the servants' - CH. 20 aside . The others he opened listlessly. aside , after all? Why not let it stay aside and saw himself face to face. It aside the veil of the tabernacle, or aside and broke into a gallop. After aside and entered a long low room aside , a hideous laugh broke from aside into a dim archway, that had aside . In a few moments they - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 Ask Mr. Gray to wait, Parker: I shall Ask him to stay. I insist upon it." " ask for it. I must have it." "It ask me about the English noble who ask if you really meant all that you ask you something - I forget what it ask of her, something that he had ask you," he said. Her eyes wandered ask for they had first given to us," ask you not to see any one till I came. ask for any. But, remember, if you ask him and try. "Basil," he said, ask me that, Basil. I could not possibly ask ? But you mustn't talk about ask him to send two of his men ask you to lend me a couple of your ask of you, Dorian, and it is entirely ask me why Berwick leaves a room ask me about Henry Ashton and ask me to read anything to-night. All Ask him to come in at once, Francis." ask me, of all men in the world, to ask of you is to perform a certain ask me." "You refuse?" "Yes." " ask Mr. Gray. He is one of her most ask me to dinner again after saying ask him." Lord Henry shrugged his ask me? What do years matter?" ask if the man was really dead, and ask you what flowers you wish to ask me that, Harry?" "My dear fellow," ask them their opinion on something - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 asked Lord Henry, walking across the asked . "I will tell you," said Hallward; asked Lady Brandon to introduce me asked his companion. "I know she goes asked Lord Henry. "Because, without asked Hallward, with a slight frown. asked you to go away?" Lord Henry asked . "Oh, please don't, Lord Henry asked me to stop. You don't really asked you," he muttered. "I stayed asked me," was Lord Henry's answer. asked you, when we were in the asked Lord Fermor, knitting his bushy - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 aside 9 ask 32 asked 61 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Harry?" "At Aunt Agatha's. I have -goods! What are American dry-goods?" see Chicago in order to be educated?" the baronet. "Was that a paradox?" change do you propose, then?" he in your early days, Duchess?" he say." "Who are you in love with?" "I am not surprised." "Then he "Mother, are my things ready?" he "What do you mean, Jim?" she "But do you approve of it, Harry?" "Have you seen her to-day?" annoyed with me," he answered. "I delightful theories." "And those are ...?" don't you?" "Understand what?" he "What o'clock is it, Victor?" he started. "Too cold for Monsieur?" he do if Basil Hallward came and it." "Do you mean about Sibyl Vane?" that kind to me again. Two days ago I Mrs. Leaf bustled into the library. He him that I was a friend of yours, and "You insist on knowing, Basil?" he by his servant, and questions would be Shall I leave the things here, sir?" he absolutely calm. "I have done what you so, Lady Narborough," said Dorian. "I wicked." "But what world says that?" " "With their ages, Lady Narborough?" "Are you better, my dear fellow?" he " "How long has she been married?" Geoffrey Clouston, the usual set. I have about here, sir, ain't it?" he deadly sins. In a thoughtless moment I what should we call you, Harry?" she You don't like your country, then?" she fascinates me more." "What of art?" she one has been wounded by it, Harry?" expression. "What has happened?" he you had good sport, Geoffrey?" he a very bad omen." "What is?" is terribly upset. And it seems that you you very much in love with him?" he Had he any people dependent on him?" you say you had done more than one?" do you think has happened to Basil?" elevating his eyebrows in surprise, "I "Whose house is that, Constable?" asked myself and Mr. Gray. He is her asked the duchess, raising her large asked Mr. Erskine plaintively. "I don't asked Mr. Erskine. "I did not think so asked . Lord Henry laughed. "I don't asked , looking at her across the table. "A asked Lord Henry after a pause. "With asked me if I wrote for any of the asked . "Quite ready, James," she asked . "You have a new friend, I hear asked the painter, walking up and down asked Lord Henry. Dorian Gray shook asked the question for the best reason asked Lord Henry, helping himself to asked , angrily. "Why I was so bad to asked Dorian Gray drowsily. "One asked his valet, putting an omelette on asked to look at his own picture? Basil asked the lad. "Yes, of course," asked Sibyl to marry me. I am not asked her for the key of the asked him what he meant. He told asked in a low voice. "Yes." "I asked . He hesitated for a moment, asked Campbell. "Yes," said Dorian. asked me to do," he muttered "And asked her whether, like Marguerite asked Lord Henry, elevating his asked Dorian. "Of course, with their asked . "You seemed rather out of asked Dorian. "An eternity, she tells asked Lord Grotrian." "I like him," asked huskily through the trap. asked one of the gardeners what it asked . "His name is Prince Paradox," asked . "I live in it." "That you asked . "It is a malady." "Love?" asked the duchess after a pause. asked . "Oh! I remember. Am I safe asked . "Not very good, Dorian. I think asked Lord Henry. "Oh! this accident, asked him not to shoot the hare. asked . She did not answer for some asked Dorian, looking bored. "If so, I asked his companion as he spilled asked Dorian, holding up his asked you because I thought you asked the elder of the two gentlemen. - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 asking asking asking asking - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 10 - CH. 18 asking 4 1 2 3 4 "I am sorry if I have pained you by reason, indeed, that excuses one for he scribbled a note to Lord Henry, up to town to consult his doctor and 1 2 3 4 Some of the drivers were lying have said that the man was simply Elizabeth, and consequently they all fall to wake him with icy fingers as he lay about my father," he said, "but I any question - simple curiosity. him to send him round him to entertain his guests in asleep 4 asleep on a pile of sacks. Iris-necked asleep . How quickly it had all been asleep after dinner. You shan't sit asleep ! As the thought crept through - CH. 7 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 asphodel 1 1 I had buried my romance in a bed of 1 In the nests of Arabian birds was the 1 2 and that if any one of us makes an " exclaimed Sir Geoffrey. "What an 1 chap." "He is very good-looking," 1 2 your fortune, you must come back and in its own way, is an attempt to 1 Alan! If you don't come to my 1 2 3 4 with a somewhat rough-looking young -maker, beginning, with the aid of his tramped downstairs, followed by the them, and addressed an envelope to his 1 settling of which Lord Henry always 1 2 has he got now? What gentleman would to get rid of the dreadful people you 1 the Second, who sought in his vanity to 1 2 complex personality took the place and tavern near the docks which, under an asphodel . She dragged it out again and - CH. 8 aspilates 1 aspilates , that, according to - CH. 11 ass of himself, he is poaching on their ass the man was to get in front of - CH. 1 - CH. 18 assented Lord Henry. "I hope he will - CH. 3 assert yourself in London." "Society!" assert the absolute modernity of - CH. 5 - CH. 11 assistance , I am ruined. Why, they - CH. 14 assistant . Mr. Hubbard was a florid, assistant , to unhook the picture from assistant , who glanced back at Dorian assistant . Dorian took the note up - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 14 assisted him, were noted as much for - CH. 11 associate with him?" "Stop, Basil. You associate with. Don't shrug your - CH. 12 - CH. 12 assume the title of Formosus, and - CH. 11 assumed the office of art, was indeed, assumed name and in disguise, it was - CH. 4 - CH. 11 assure assure assure assure assure assure assure assure assure assure - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 ass 2 assented 1 assert 2 assistance 1 assistant 4 assisted 1 associate 2 assume 1 assumed 2 assure 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 visible till five." "Pure family affection, I in such matters, are extremely civil. I an absolutely reasonable people. I Gray to give up the East End? I calling me 'My Lord,' so I had to I would not have allowed - but I You are more fortunate than I am. I the most trivial things, Mr. Gray, I head; "and women rule the world. I I hurt your vanity by saying so, but I you, Uncle George. I want to you that it is an education to you there is no nonsense about you he would be quite Sibyl that I was not anything of you that in any case the whole you, Dorian, that not one of you. Usually because I come you we can't bear mediocrities. you it is true. Crime belongs assured 3 1 2 3 saw me, he made me a low bow and asphodel. She dragged it out again and You can't have forgotten that you 1 Is it true, Mr. Gray?" "She assured me that I was a munificent assured me that I had spoiled her life. assured me most solemnly that nothing - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 assures 1 assures me so, Lady Narborough," - CH. 15 assuring 1 1 on shaking him by the hand and 1 curls, Grifonetto Baglioni, who slew 1 2 to everybody in the room, the most who were his chief companions, and 1 kept his hands in the pockets of his 1 2 of the emotions is that they lead us In the present instance, you are quite assuring him that he was proud to - CH. 7 astorre 1 Astorre with his bride, and Simonetto - CH. 11 astounding details. I simply fled. I like astounding the county by the wanton - CH. 1 - CH. 11 Astrakhan coat, and seemed not to - CH. 14 astray , and the advantage of science is astray . I like the duchess very much, - CH. 3 - CH. 18 astounding 2 astrakhan 1 astray 2 at 562 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 actor's craft is the type. All art is who go beneath the surface do so peril. Those who read the symbol do so disappearance some years ago caused, conjectures. As the painter looked way that used to make his friends laugh used to make his friends laugh at him elevated his eyebrows and looked of any emotion." "I know you will laugh all forehead, or something horrid. Look don't think. A bishop keeps on saying when we have no flowers to look best of it in this world. They can sit They can sit at their ease and gape they know nothing of victory, they are think me awfully foolish about it?" "Not Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not serious faces. My wife is very good does find me out, she makes no row wish she would; but she merely laughs continued his companion, glancing it," he replied, gazing intently "Two months ago I went to a crush conscious that some one was looking have always been my own master; had of mine had made a great success had made a great success at the time, help laughing, and we became friends friends at once." "Laughter is not tilting his hat back and looking up all the same. Some day you will look Don't look so angry, Basil. It was have no appreciation of good looks; earnest and had a beautiful nature. I and went up the walk. Then he looked they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated "I am in Lady Agatha's black books Dorian, laughing. Lord Henry looked in his face that made one trust him Lord Henry's last remark, he glanced away?" Lord Henry smiled and looked at once surface and symbol. - THE PREFACE at their peril. Those who - THE PREFACE at their peril. It is the - THE PREFACE at the time, such public excitement - CH. 1 at the gracious and comely form he - CH. 1 at him at Oxford. "No, I won't - CH. 1 at Oxford. "No, I won't send it - CH. 1 at him in amazement through the thin - CH. 1 at me," he replied, "but I really can' - CH. 1 at the successful men in any of the - CH. 1 at the age of eighty what he was told - CH. 1 at , and always here in summer when - CH. 1 at their ease and gape at the play. If - CH. 1 at the play. If they know nothing of - CH. 1 at least spared the knowledge of - CH. 1 at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at - CH. 1 at all, my dear Basil. You seem to - CH. 1 at it - much better, in fact, than I - CH. 1 at all. I sometimes wish she would; - CH. 1 at me." "I hate the way you talk about - CH. 1 at him. "Oh, there is really very little - CH. 1 at the little golden, white-feathered - CH. 1 at Lady Brandon's. You know we poor - CH. 1 at me. I turned half-way round and saw - CH. 1 at least always been so, till I met - CH. 1 at the time, at least had been - CH. 1 at least had been chattered about in - CH. 1 at once." "Laughter is not at all a bad - CH. 1 at all a bad beginning for a friendship, - CH. 1 at the little clouds that, like ravelled - CH. 1 at your friend, and he will seem to - CH. 1 at my aunt, Lady Agatha's. She told me - CH. 1 at least, good women have not. She - CH. 1 at once pictured to myself a creature - CH. 1 at Lord Henry. "Dorian Gray is my - CH. 1 at the piano, with his back to them, - CH. 2 at present," answered Dorian with a - CH. 2 at him. Yes, he was certainly - CH. 2 at once. All the candour of youth was - CH. 2 at him, hesitated for a moment, and - CH. 2 at Dorian Gray. "Am I to go, Mr - CH. 2 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 go. I have promised to meet a man in Curzon Street. I am nearly always Street. I am nearly always at home me," said Hallward, gazing intently you to stay." "But what about my man that entirely fresh influences were felt intensely interested. He was amazed and perfect delicacy that in art, believe it all," said Lord Henry, looking laughing, as he sat down on the seat is only superficial. That may be so, but youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us and fro. Suddenly the painter appeared past them, and in the pear-tree Mr. Gray," said Lord Henry, looking be a caprice," he murmured, flushing then, Hallward stepped back to look painting, looked for a long time Dorian Gray, and then for a long time frowning. "It is quite finished," he cried times. Mr. Gray, come over and look He had listened to them, laughed of its brevity. That had stirred him the time, and now, as he stood gazing "Don't you like it?" cried Hallward Dorian Gray turned and looked I can't quarrel with my two best friends pallid face and tear-stained eyes, looked blade of lithe steel. He had found it " "I am glad you appreciate my work lived since then." There came a knock somewhere. I have promised to dine like that." "How wonderful, Basil!" " " The lad hesitated, and looked over hansom is outside, and I can drop you His father had been our ambassador on not being offered the Embassy somewhat foolishly as was thought trouble, and took most of his meals I am very much interested in Mr. Gray his mother intimately. I believe I was The poor chap was killed in a duel but, egad, Kelso ate his chop alone of it. I didn't dare show my face her. Told me so himself. She laughed him, and there wasn't a girl in London exhausts them, but they are capital his head. "American girls are as clever their parents, as English women are "Where are you lunching, Harry?" " blow.... And how charming he had been pleasure he had sat opposite to him be fashioned into a marvellous type, in art, the fresh mode of looking Suddenly he stopped and glanced up Harry," cried his aunt, shaking her head goodness it never had been discovered the slaves." The politician looked Lady Agatha. Lord Henry looked over your dear aunt, for I take no interest at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at At at at At at at at at at at at at at at at at at at At at at at at at at at at at at the Orleans. Good-bye, Mr. Gray home at five o'clock. Write to me five o'clock. Write to me when you his picture. "It is quite true, I the Orleans?" The painter laughed. work within him. Yet they seemed the sudden impression that his any rate comes only from strength. him with his dreamy languorous the end of the garden. "It should least it is not so superficial as twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs the door of the studio and made the corner of the garden a thrush him. "Yes, I am glad now. his own boldness, then stepped up his work from a distance. In the Dorian Gray, and then for a long the picture, biting the end of one last, and stooping down he wrote yourself." The lad started, as if them, forgotten them. They had not the time, and now, as he stood the shadow of his own loveliness, last, stung a little by the lad's silence him. "I believe you would, Basil. once, but between you both you him as he walked over to the deal last. He was going to rip up the last, Dorian," said the painter coldly the door, and the butler entered White's, but it is only with an old least you are like it in appearance. Lord Henry, who was watching your own place. Good-bye, Basil. half-past twelve next day Lord Madrid when Isabella was young Paris, a post to which he the time, and on succeeding some his club. He paid some attention to present. I have only just met him." " her christening. She was an Spa a few months after the the club for some time afterwards. Court for a month. I hope he him, and there wasn't a girl in the time who wasn't after him. And a steeplechase. They take things concealing their parents, as English concealing their past," he said, Aunt Agatha's. I have asked myself dinner the night before, as with the club, the red candleshades any rate. Grace was his, and the life, suggested so strangely by the the houses. He found that he had him. He invented a facile excuse, all!" she exclaimed. "Really, our girls him keenly. "What change do you Mr. Erskine. "Humanity takes itself all in the East End. 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I have to call for my husband to take him to some absurd meeting you really meant all that you said to us -bye to your excellent aunt. I am due smiling. "All I want now is to look look at life. You may come and look or twice he thought of going away. I saw you with him the other night mania for going to church. "That was Henry, I think?" "Yes; it was Henry. I never talk during music I have simply worshipped pianists - two crescent-shaped eyebrows and looking So am I. Perhaps I shall see you I like sentimental people." "Never marry it is quite true. I am analysing women strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look I ever beheld in my life, was standing He was such a monster. You will laugh you!" "I am not laughing, Dorian; Dorian; at least I am not laughing I must admit that I was rather annoyed I felt interested, in a sort of way. over by a young Hebrew who sat piano, that nearly drove me away, but heard such a voice. It was very low in the park in the morning and chatter world calls a romance. You know her, I know her. On the first night I was them. He seemed terribly disappointed appearance, most of them cannot be The next night, of course, I arrived her some flowers, and she had looked flowers, and she had looked at me nervous. The old Jew stood grinning about us both, while we stood looking you propose to do?" said Lord Henry She is bound to him for three years to-morrow." "All right. The Bristol they met, and where they separated, at what point they were in unison, and in unison, and at what point they were soul, he was a thing to wonder only method by which one could arrive across them. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted let me be happy!" Mrs. Vane glanced stage-player, clasped her in her arms. for a moment. "Very well," he said For some months past she had felt ill I myself used to receive many bouquets As for Sibyl, I do not know -bye, Mother; I will have my dinner stateliness. She was extremely annoyed Road. The passersby glanced in wonder He had that dislike of being stared ribands! He was to leave the vessel good-bye to the captain, and go off at her across the table. "A great many, at which wise Omar sits, till the At last, liveried in the costume of the at the club, to take him to some at Willis's Rooms, where he is going at lunch?" "I quite forget what I said," at the Athenaeum. It is the hour when at life. You may come and look at it at it with me, if you care to." At last he heard a step outside, and at the opera." She laughed nervously at Lohengrin, Lady Henry, I think?" at dear Lohengrin. I like Wagner's at least, during good music. If one at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I at them both with an amused smile. at Lady Thornbury's." "I dare say, my at all, Dorian. Men marry because they at present, so I ought to know. The at every one who passed me and at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar. at me, I know, but I really went in at least I am not laughing at you. But at you. But you should not say the at the idea of seeing Shakespeare done At any rate, I determined to wait for at a cracked piano, that nearly drove at last the drop-scene was drawn up at first, with deep mellow notes that at tea-parties in the afternoon. They at any rate, I suppose?" "Of course I at the theatre, the horrid old Jew at that, and confided to me that all at all expensive." "Well, he seemed to at the place again. When he saw me, he at me - at least I fancied that she had. at least I fancied that she had. The old at the doorway of the dusty at each other like children. He would at last. "I want you and Basil to come at least for two years and eight at eight o'clock; and I will get Basil." at what point they were in unison, and at what point they were at discord at discord - there was a delight in that! at . It was no matter how it all ended, at any scientific analysis of the at her from the worn chair, hinted at at prudence, quoted from that book of at her, and with one of those false At this moment, the door opened and at last, "but don't be too long dressing at ease when she was alone with this at one time. That was when acting was at present whether her attachment is at five o'clock. Everything is packed, at the tone he had adopted with her, at the sullen heavy youth who, in at , which comes on geniuses late in life at Melbourne, bid a polite good-bye to at once to the gold-fields. 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When poverty creeps in "He wants to enslave you." "I shudder passed words to each other as players I must see him!" he exclaimed; but any wrong, I shall kill him." She looked passed through the crowd. He felt glad on her lips. She shook her head now that I was not going to Australia on his arm. He was merely a boy. waiting for him below. She grumbled door. Then he turned back and looked months, she had dreaded, had come "No," she answered, wondering She felt that they would all laugh was shown into a little private room married, but I have no recollection should ever be more serious than I am cried Dorian as they took their seats Harry, I dressed, had some dinner you introduced me to, and went down I can't describe to you what I felt champagne in a meditative manner. " An irrevocable vow. You mock leaning back in his chair and looking I am afraid, however, that, for me to his eyes. When the cab drew up and the fat Jew manager who met them his fat jewelled hands and talking upon the other hand, rather liked him. is quite right. I did not think so Yes, she was certainly lovely to look came to her cheeks as she glanced in a dream, sat Dorian Gray, gazing The Jew manager, who was standing When he entered, she looked cried. "Horribly!" he answered, gazing it would be profanation for me to play my love," he muttered. She looked broke from her, and she flung herself with his beautiful eyes, looked down annoyed him. "I am going," he said them listlessly. They had been plucked upon the doorstep, looking round discovered stored in a disused attic over him, as he thought of her lying his own soul? Would he ever look see Lord Henry any more - would not, the portrait, shuddering as he glanced offering to advance any sum of money of money at a moment's notice and waiting for his orders. Dorian looked at him for a moment. "I am not Basil Hallward came and asked to look No; the thing had to be examined, and He got up and locked both doors. at all. They were horrid places, where at leaving home. Yet it was not this at the theatre, a whispered sneer that at the stage-door, had set loose a train at him. He shrugged his shoulders. at the bar. He has preached me as a at the door, love flies in through the at the thought of being free." "I want at a game pass counters. Sibyl felt at that moment the Duke of Berwick's at him in horror. He repeated his at what he had said. When they at him. "You are foolish, Jim, utterly at all. I have a great mind to chuck the At the Marble Arch they hailed an at his unpunctuality, as he entered. He at her. Their eyes met. In hers he saw at last, and yet she felt no terror. at the harsh simplicity of life. "My at it some day. at the Bristol where dinner had been at all of being engaged. I am inclined at the present moment." "But do you at the small round table. "What at that little Italian restaurant in at eight o'clock to the theatre. Sibyl at that moment. It seemed to me that At what particular point did you at it for that. Ah! don't mock. at Lord Henry over the heavy clusters at any rate, there is no such thing. Still at the theatre, it seemed to him that at the door was beaming from ear to at the top of his voice. Dorian Gray At least he declared he did, and at first, but I admit it now. The gods at - one of the loveliest creatures, at the crowded enthusiastic house. She at her. Lord Henry peered through his at the back of the dress-circle, stamped at him, and an expression of infinite at her in amazement. "Horribly! It was at being in love. You have made me at him in wonder and laughed. He at his feet and lay there like a at her, and his chiselled lips curled in at last in his calm clear voice. "I don' at midnight, and the coldness of the at the silent square, with its blank, at Selby Royal. As he was turning the at his feet sobbing like a little child. at it again? No; it was merely an at any rate, listen to those subtle at it. "How horrible!" he murmured to at a moment's notice and at the most at the most reasonable rates of at him for a moment. "I am not at at home to any one, Victor," he said at his own picture? Basil would be at once. 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He made no answer is the divinest thing in us. Don't sneer t sneer at it, Harry, any more Lord Henry, standing up and looking I suppose they don't know your name it! But be quick. Tell me everything mistake, some dreadful thing they use with me, and afterwards we will look in and when I meet them, they go in would you believe it? - a week ago, Hampshire's, I found myself seated day before yesterday that seemed to me so she has never really died. To you it is." "I think I shall join you me as you have." "We are only of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared him go through, on that horrible night them away hastily and looked again painted lips that now smiled so cruelly had sat before the portrait wondering enamoured of it, as it seemed to him waiting for him. An hour later he was As he was sitting last night, and they told me you were edition of The Globe that I picked up I picked up at the club. I came here I came here at once and was miserable and looking dreadfully bored. "I was invent a pleasure. I don't want to be a great deal to Harry, Basil," he said about that?" cried Hallward, looking up suffered. If you had come in yesterday you told me of when we were down artistic temperament that they create, or of life. I know you are surprised was noble. "Well, Dorian," he said look of annoyance passed over his face starting back. The painter stared the screen in front of it? Let me look looking very pale, "you must not look I don't wish you to." "Not look are not serious. Why shouldn't I look Hallward, laughing. "If you try to look Hallward was thunderstruck. He looked is the matter? Of course I won't look shown his secret? Were people to gape did not know what - had to be done you do, and you would certainly laugh things. If you wish me never to look am content. I have always you to look curious? - something that probably chair with trembling hands and gazing tell. But I know that as I worked to whom I talked about it, laughed "Well, you don't mind my looking I am sorry you won't let me look bell. The portrait must be hidden away at first gazing at the portrait with a at the portrait with a feeling of almost at the picture in sickened horror. One at once. I can't bear your shutting at first, but remained quite still. The at it, Harry, any more - at least not at least not before me. I want to be at him in perplexed amazement. "But, at the theatre? If they don't, it is at once." "I have no doubt it was not at theatres. I don't know what it was, at the opera. It is a Patti night, and at once for reminiscences. That awful at Lady Hampshire's, I found myself at dinner next the lady in question, and at the time to be merely fanciful, but at least she was always a dream, a at the opera, Harry. I feel too tired to at the beginning of our friendship, at the very moment that the girl had at the theatre. When he thought of at the picture. He felt that the time at him. Morning after morning he had at its beauty, almost enamoured of it, at times. Was it to alter now with at the opera, and Lord Henry was at breakfast next morning, Basil at the opera. Of course, I knew that at the club. I came here at once and at once and was miserable at not at not finding you. I can't tell you how at the opera. You should have come at the mercy of my emotions. I want at last, "more than I owe to you. at him with an expression of horror. at a particular moment - about at Marlow together, the young man at any rate reveal, is still more to me. at my talking to you like this. You at length, with a sad smile, "I won' at the mention of the word "inquest." at him. "My dear boy, what nonsense!" at it. It is the best thing I have ever at it. I don't wish you to." " at my own work! You are not serious. at it?" exclaimed Hallward, laughing. at it, Basil, on my word of honour I at Dorian Gray in absolute amazement. at it if you don't want me to," he at the mystery of his life? That was at once. "Yes; I don't suppose you at me. I could not bear your doing at your picture again, I am content. I at . If you wish the best work I have at first did not strike you, but that at him with wild startled eyes. "I see at it, every flake and film of colour at me. But I did not mind that. When at the thing now?" Dorian shook his at the picture once again. But that at all costs. 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Sitting down reminding him that they were to meet beauty of a frame, sir. Picked it up I shall certainly drop in and look the frame - though I don't go in much me a couple of your men." "No trouble go in front. I am afraid it is right had always hated and desired to keep the wall. Thanks." "Might one look your kindness in coming round." "Not in coming round." "Not at all, not by the assistant, who glanced back interest him, and that he would be him, and that he would be at the club - An inquest was held this morning Vane, a young actress recently engaged curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure mystical philosophy. One hardly knew little Florentine table that always stood of a nature over which he seemed, escaped the stain of an age that was had painted of him, looking now and aging face on the canvas, and now the fair young face that laughed back limbs. There were moments, indeed, them. Yet he was not really reckless, to kill them by pain, instead of aiming or the wired flower that we had worn have little or no place, or survive, his search for sensations that would be monstrance with that pallid wafer that out, he used to look with wonder to expel melancholy from the soul. grave, yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked discords of barbaric music stirred him that women are not allowed to look and can be heard, it is said, of them, and would sit in his box up the study of jewels, and appeared Richard II had a coat, valued on beautiful and wonderful things. He, had stretched across the Colosseum He read of the room that was prepared room that was prepared at the palace from the fear that seemed to him loathing it and himself, but filled, of sin, and smiling with secret pleasure gave up the villa that he had shared well as the little white walled-in house they learn from that? He would laugh afraid. Sometimes when he was down him. He was very nearly blackballed or pass him with a sneer, or look all social censure and set convention of security. Society - civilized society, we can multiply our personalities. Such, at him steadfastly and wondered if he at once. It seemed to him that as the at the mention of his grandfather. He at him from the canvas and calling at once. He must not be allowed to at the writing-table he scribbled a note at eight-fifteen that evening. "Wait for at a sale. Old Florentine. Came from at the frame - though I don't go in at present for religious art - but at all, Mr. Gray. I am delighted to at the top of the house. We will go at a distance. It appeared to Dorian at the work of art, sir?" Dorian at all, not at all, Mr. Gray. at all, Mr. Gray. Ever ready to do at Dorian with a look of shy wonder at the club at eight-fifteen. He at eight-fifteen. He opened The St. at the Bell Tavern, Hoxton Road, by at the Royal Theatre, Holborn. A at once, full of argot and of at times whether one was reading the at his bedside and began to dress for at times, to have almost entirely lost at once sordid and sensual. Often, on at the evil and aging face on the at the fair young face that laughed at him from the polished glass. The at night, when, lying sleepless in his at any rate in his relations to society. at making them elements of a new at the ball, or the letter that we had at any rate, in no conscious form of at once new and delightful, and at times, one would fain think, is at the black confessionals and long to At another time he devoted himself at the strained strings of monstrous at times when Schubert's grace, and at and that even youths may not see at a distance of three leagues; the at the opera, either alone or with at a costume ball as Anne de at thirty thousand marks, which was at any rate, had escaped that. at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on at the palace at Rheims for the use at Rheims for the use of Queen Joan at times to be almost too great to be at other times, with that pride of at the misshapen shadow that had to at Trouville with Lord Henry, as well at Algiers where they had more than at any one who tried to taunt him. at his great house in Nottinghamshire, at a West End club of which his birth at him with cold searching eyes, as at defiance, were seen to grow pallid at least - is never very ready to at any rate, was Dorian Gray's - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 Gray's opinion. He used to wonder of his country house and look with his silver-and-black armour piled eyes seemed to look curiously wildest days, and one of the witnesses him as infamous. He had led the orgies for the beauty of others. She laughed he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden had peered through a clear emerald of Formosus, and whose tiara, valued hundred thousand florins, was bought and gilded a boy that he might serve and one who had cheated his father lord of Rimini, whose effigy was burned fascination in them all. He saw them furs, as the night was cold and foggy. somewhere about here, but I don't feel myself I wanted to talk. Here we are through the fog, and Hallward looked in twenty minutes." Dorian looked serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. "You see your servant made me quite But - do you know? - he was not you, I don't believe these rumours I don't believe these rumours at all. had never heard anything about him a friend of Lord Staveley. I met him you have lent to the exhibition that you have been seen creeping was one of my greatest friends when she was dying alone in her villa own handiwork. Why shouldn't you look insolent manner. He felt a terrible joy the fire-place, and stood there, looking walked softly, as men do instinctively the hideous face on the canvas grinning Gray's own face that he was looking had it altered? He turned and looked "What does this mean?" cried Hallward, turned again to the portrait and gazed he could hear the young man sobbing Gray turned slowly around and looked you see that accursed thing leering leering at us?" Dorian Gray glanced he loathed the man who was seated as if he was going to rise. He rushed spot of a prowling hansom gleamed and opened it. He did not even glance him? Basil Hallward had left the house in again. Most of the servants were two, sir," answered the man, looking How horribly late! You must wake me you from Paris, if he did not find you do, Francis. Don't forget to call me dream. Yet he had not dreamed with terrible distinctness. He winced of getting made for the servants and going through his correspondence. the book-case and took out a volume stretched himself on the sofa, he looked at the shallow psychology of those at the various portraits of those at his feet. What had this man's at him. What of George Willoughby, at the secret marriage with Mrs. at Carlton House. The star of the at him in her loose Bacchante dress. at Capri, reading the shameful books at the red shambles of the circus and at two hundred thousand florins, was at the price of a terrible sin; Gian at the feast as Ganymede or Hylas; at dice when gambling with him for at Rome as the enemy of God and at night, and they troubled his At the corner of Grosvenor Square at all certain about it. I am sorry you at your door. Let me come in for a at his watch. "I have heaps of time," at him and smiled. "What a way for a At least nothing should be." Hallward at home, Dorian. He gave me at all a bad servant. I never liked at all. At least, I can't believe them At least, I can't believe them when I at the time, though I have heard a at dinner last week. Your name at the Dudley. Staveley curled his lip at dawn out of dreadful houses and at Oxford. He showed me a letter at Mentone. Your name was at it? You can tell the world all at the thought that some one else at the burning logs with their frostlike at night. The lamp cast fantastic at him. There was something in its at ! The horror, whatever it was, had at Dorian Gray with the eyes of a at last. His own voice sounded shrill at it. "My God! If it is true at the window. "Pray, Dorian, pray," at him with tear-dimmed eyes. "It is at us?" Dorian Gray glanced at the at the picture, and suddenly an at the table, more than in his whole at him and dug the knife into the at the corner and then vanished. A at the murdered man. He felt that at eleven. No one had seen him come at Selby Royal. His valet had gone to at the clock and blinking. "Ten at nine to-morrow. I have some work at the club." "That will do, Francis. at nine to-morrow." "No, sir." At nine o'clock the next morning his at all. His night had been untroubled at the memory of all that he had at Selby, and going through his At some of the letters, he smiled. at hazard. He was determined that he at the title-page of the book. 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Campbell was always either always to go away early from any party changed, too - was strangely melancholy for. Every second he kept glancing went by he became horribly agitated. grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone. to his cheeks. "Ask him to come in sent for, "Alan, in a locked room myself has access, a dead man is seated now. Don't stir, and don't look person come into the house. Indeed, than what you are accustomed to work No! don't think of that. Look upstairs will not go away. He is sitting over to the window. Campbell looked ever dared to treat me - no living man, him. "Come, Alan, you must decide Campbell turned round, and looking as he spoke and stood looking out for you. What is the name of the man You must go down to Richmond you about it." "No trouble, sir. time shall I be back?" Dorian looked be time enough, then, if you are back the evening to yourself. I am not dining But the thing that had been sitting That evening, ever. Perhaps one never seems so much to play a part. Certainly no one looking He himself could not help wondering fortunate that you were not thought of come, till Lady Narborough, looking apology, he ceased to feel bored. But and then Lord Henry looked across Henry looked across at him, wondering to increase. "Dorian," said Lord Henry does not remember my short frocks Henry. But I remember her very well had their hearts embalmed and hung none of them had had any hearts her fan. "Lord Henry, I am not "It is perfectly monstrous," he said, good as a feast." Lady Ruxton glanced the House of Commons. He guffawed lips, and he turned round and looked asked. "You seemed rather out of sorts you go straight home?" Dorian glanced and frowned. "No, Harry," he said what I have been doing. I came in exact time. I had left my latch-key I dare say I shall see you to-morrow of an hour to consume everything. bright, and he gnawed nervously cheek. But he still watched the cabinet. hot, he drew himself up and glanced at his own white taper fingers, at Smyrna where the Hadjis sit At Cambridge he had spent a great at Lady Berkshire's the night that at the opera and wherever good music at Selby Royal or in Grosvenor at which Dorian Gray was present. He at times, appeared almost to dislike at the clock. As the minutes went by At last he got up and began to pace at it. Its very horror made him stone. At last the door opened and his at once, Francis." He felt that he was at the top of this house, a room to at a table. He has been dead ten at me like that. Who the man is, why at the present moment he is supposed at . And, remember, it is the only piece at the matter purely from the at the table with bowed head and at him in surprise, and then took up at any rate. I bore it all. Now it at once." "I cannot do it," he said at Dorian Gray, saw that his eyes at the garden. Campbell made no at Richmond who supplies Selby with at once, see Harden personally, and At what time shall I be back?" at Campbell. "How long will your at half-past seven, Francis. Or stay: at home, so I shall not want you." " at the table was gone. at eight-thirty, exquisitely dressed and at one's ease as when one has to at Dorian Gray that night could have at the calm of his demeanour, and at the time. As it was, our bonnets at the great ormolu gilt clock that at dinner he could not eat anything. at him, wondering at his silence and at his silence and abstracted manner. at last, as the chaud-froid was being at all, Lord Henry. But I remember at Vienna thirty years ago, and how at her girdle. She told me she didn't, at all." "Four husbands! Upon my at all surprised that the world says at last, "the way people go about at him curiously. "You must come at his adversaries. The word at Dorian. "Are you better, my dear at dinner." "I am quite well, Harry. at him hurriedly and frowned. "No, at last, "I did not get home till nearly at half-past two, if you wish to know at home, and my servant had to let at tea-time. The duchess is coming." " At the end he felt faint and sick, and at his underlip. Between two of the At last he got up from the sofa on at the clock. 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The driver beat Suddenly the man drew up with a jerk quay. Here and there a lantern gleamed itself into the shadow as he passed. as Dorian passed by. The man looked at her in terror and began to whimper. lighting a long thin pipe, looked up do anything. My brother paid the bill " Dorian winced and looked round see the eyes of Basil Hallward looking of that young life was really to be laid with fearful impulses. Men and women conscience is either killed, or, if it lives of a polished barrel, pointing straight killed herself. I know it. Her death is years! Set me under the lamp and look summers, hardly older, if older indeed crime, my man," he said, looking of the women who had been drinking Gray was sitting in the conservatory and hammered silver of the service cups, and her full red lips were smiling in a silk-draped wicker chair, looking rejoined the duchess, looking up I assure you. Usually because I come in for me. You remember the one I wore love with your eyes, if you ever love have in life but one great experience Henry. The duchess turned and looked "Sphinxes without secrets." She looked in a deathlike swoon. He was carried of gaiety in his manner as he sat founder in some winter sea. From him, shadows of his crime were to peer places, to whisper in his ear as he sat of his sin. When Lord Henry came in ice bordered the flat, reed-grown lake. charmed Dorian Gray, and he cried out Stop shooting there!" he called out sir? Where is he?" he shouted. without speaking. Then Dorian looked fellows keep chattering about this thing touched his hat, glanced for a moment It was silly of me to come down here Henry. "It has no psychological value Dorian, Lord Henry turned and looked answer for some time, but stood gazing landscape. "I wish I knew," she said may lose one's way." "All ways end himself also. He had nearly swooned in a chance mood of cynical jesting. to town, and to have the brougham determined not to sleep another night Dorian, leaning forward and looking hope fluttered past him. He clutched he exclaimed. "Quick! I must see it bad luck." "The Home Farm! Go there at each step. He thrust up the trap at him. His throat burned and his at the horse madly with his stick. The at them from an open door, and two at them with his whip. It is said that at the top of a dark lane. Over the low at the stern of some huge At the end of the hall hung a at her in terror and began to At the end of the room there was a at him and nodded in a hesitating at last. George doesn't speak to me at the grotesque things that lay in at him. Yet he felt he could not stay. at his door, as Basil Hallward had at such moments lose the freedom of at all, lives but to give rebellion its at his head, and the dusky form of a at your door. I swore I would kill at my face!" James Vane hesitated for at all, than his sister had been when at him sternly. "Let this be a warning at the bar. "Why didn't you kill him at Selby Royal, talking to the pretty at which the duchess was presiding. at something that Dorian had at them. On a peach-coloured divan at him with her wonderful eyes. "I am at ten minutes to nine and tell her at Lady Hilstone's garden-party? You at all." "It seems to me that we never at best, and the secret of life is to at Dorian Gray with a curious at him, smiling. "How long Mr. Gray at once into the blue drawing-room at table, but now and then a thrill of at any rate, he was safe. Why, the at him from silent corners, to mock at the feast, to wake him with icy at six o'clock, he found him crying as At the corner of the pine-wood he at once, "Don't shoot it, Geoffrey. at the top of his voice. "A man is At the same time, the firing ceased at Lord Henry and said, with a heavy at dinner. I must tell them that the at Lord Henry in a hesitating manner, at all. I think I shall send a wire to at all. Now if Geoffrey had done the at the duchess with his slumberous at the landscape. "I wish I knew," she at last. He shook his head. at the same point, my dear Gladys." at what Lord Henry had said in a At five o'clock he rang his bell for at the door by eight-thirty. He was at Selby Royal. It was an ill-omened at the man with startled eyes. at it madly. "Where is the body?" he at once." "It is in an empty stable in at once and meet me. Tell one of - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 across his path. Once the mare swerved arrow. The stones flew from her hoofs. I wish to see it," he said, clutching stood there for some minutes looking "In the country, Harry. I was staying have gone away together this morning do you know that Hetty isn't floating I can't bear this, Harry! You mock farm this morning, I saw her white face declare that Basil never arrived in Paris one who disappears is said to be seen in, he stopped, and looking over do. It does not seem to me to be '" The elder man lay back and looked and Dorian Gray started and stared is! I wonder, did Chopin write it one is young. I am amazed sometimes will be. Don't spoil it by renunciations. give me the nocturne over again. Look end it charmingly. There is some one round to-morrow. I am going to ride nerves. Well, in any case, be here you." "Very well. I shall be here be when he was pointed out, or stared he was wicked, and she had laughed youth but a mockery. What was youth He had spared one innocent thing, mirror of his soul that he was looking that? There had been something more. such pleasure. It had kept him awake its hideous warnings, he would be square below, stopped and looked up They looked at a white gate-post and nearly threw At last he reached the Home Farm. at the door-post for support. When at the dead body. As he rode home, at a little inn by myself." "My dear at dawn. Suddenly I determined to at the present moment in some starlit at everything, and then suggest the at the window, like a spray of at all. I suppose in about a fortnight at San Francisco. It must be a at Lord Henry, said, "Harry, did it at all probable. I know there are at him with half-closed eyes. "By the at his friend. "Why do you ask me that at Majorca, with the sea weeping at my own sincerity. Ah, Dorian, how At present you are a perfect type. at that great, honey-coloured moon at White's who wants immensely to at eleven. We might go together, and at eleven." "Must I really come, Harry? at eleven," said Dorian. "Good night, at , or talked about. He was tired of at him and answered that wicked at best? A green, an unripe time, a at any rate. He would never again at . Vanity? Curiosity? Hypocrisy? Had At least he thought so. But who at night. When he had been away, he at peace. He seized the thing, and at the great house. They walked on at each other, as they walked away, - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 Atalanta , who had cursed him, - CH. 11 atalanta 1 1 him could not choose but weep, and 1 2 thing was hushed up, but, egad, Kelso her life. I am bound to state that she 1 by brown girls for the pleasure of 1 to your excellent aunt. I am due at the 1 2 vivid to her. She was familiar with the his face. Then shivering, though the 1 2 in unison with our moods and passions, moods and passions, atom calling to 1 2 subtle affinity between the chemical him to be dividing time into separate ate 2 ate his chop alone at the club for ate an enormous dinner, so I did not - CH. 3 - CH. 8 Athena ? Where the huge velarium - CH. 11 Athenaeum . It is the hour when we - CH. 3 athena 1 athenaeum 1 atmosphere 2 atmosphere . She breathed more freely, atmosphere of the room was terribly - CH. 5 - CH. 15 atom calling to atom in secret love or atom in secret love or strange affinity? - CH. 8 - CH. 8 atom 2 atoms 2 atone 3 atoms that shaped themselves into atoms of agony, each of which was - CH. 8 - CH. 14 1 2 3 life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot impression that inordinate joviality can blood had been spilled. What could 1 be a sacrament to him now. She had 1 2 for that? Ah! for that there was no suffer public shame, and to make public 1 don't, but I find him charming. He 1 I do not know at present whether her 1 2 themselves by attacking, just as they policemen. The bushrangers were to 1 complain. Women defend themselves by 1 is not by any means an easy thing to 1 which, in its own way, is an 1 his secret. Of such insolences and 1 were." "Good resolutions are useless 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 don't move about too much, or pay any of his meals at his club. He paid some receive a great deal of most gratifying his opera-glass. "Don't pay any the fifth page caught his eye. It drew was wonderful. Then he turned his his usual care, giving a good deal of 1 had been discovered stored in a disused 1 of anything now. It is an absurd 1 Vane. I think it was that which first 1 2 the Roman ritual had always a great together - music and that indefinable atone for half-cold entrees, as Lord atone for an entire lack of ideas. He atone for that? Ah! for that there - CH. 11 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 atoned 1 atoned for everything by the sacrifice - CH. 8 atonement 2 atonement ; but though forgiveness was atonement . There was a God who - CH. 16 - CH. 20 atones for being occasionally somewhat - CH. 15 attachment is serious or not. But there - CH. 5 attack by sudden and strange attack them three times, and be - CH. 5 - CH. 5 attacking , just as they attack by sudden - CH. 5 atones 1 attachment 1 attack 2 attacking 1 attain 1 attain to. There are only two ways by - CH. 19 attempt to assert the absolute - CH. 11 attempted slights he, of course, took - CH. 11 attempts to interfere with scientific - CH. 8 attempt 1 attempted 1 attempts 1 attention 7 attention to what Lord Henry says. He attention to the management of his attention . I myself used to receive attention to him, Dorian," said the attention to the following paragraph: attention to embroideries and to the attention to the choice of his necktie - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 attic at Selby Royal. As he was turning - CH. 7 attitude to take towards life. We are - CH. 6 attracted me to her. You remember - CH. 19 attraction for him. The daily sacrifice, attraction that Dorian seemed to be - CH. 11 - CH. 14 attic 1 attitude 1 attracted 1 attraction 2 attractions 1 1 be a delightful city, and possess all the 1 2 sur l'azur des ondes Suivant la phrase et me depose, Jetant son amarre 1 bareheaded girls, waiting for the 1 Brandon treats her guests exactly as an 1 word that is trop de zele." "Trop d' 1 her," said Dorian. "Oh! she is 1 whisper which must have been perfectly 1 2 3 4 5 6 about your not being there. The and the consciousness that amongst his elevated her son to the dignity of an failure. Even the common uneducated and seemed interminable. Half of the the man yelling out that question to his 1 2 the celebrated frame-maker of South corner of Grosvenor Square and South 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 escaped all that! As he thought of his look so angry, Basil. It was at my a simple and a beautiful nature. Your forward and extending his hand. "My "Oh, I will make your peace with my probably thought it was a duet. When "Where are you lunching, Harry?" "At her latest protege." "Humph! tell your "Late as usual, Harry," cried his guilty when I came to see your dear I must bid good-bye to your excellent attractions of the next world." "What - CH. 19 au pur contour, S'enflent comme des au pilier, Devant une facade rose, Sur - CH. 14 - CH. 14 au 2 auction 1 auction to be over. Others crowded - CH. 7 auctioneer treats his goods. She either - CH. 1 auctioneer 1 audace 1 audace , I tell her," said Dorian. "Oh - CH. 15 audacious enough for anything, my - CH. 15 audacious 1 audible 1 audible to everybody in the room, the - CH. 1 audience probably thought it was a audience there was one whose audience . She felt sure that the tableau audience of the pit and gallery lost audience went out, tramping in heavy audience . It struck me as being rather - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 19 Audley Street, came in with a Audley Street, a man passed him in - CH. 10 - CH. 12 audience 6 audley 2 aunt 11 aunt , an idea seemed to strike him. He aunt , Lady Agatha's. She told me she aunt was quite right in what she said aunt has often spoken to me about aunt . She is quite devoted to you. Aunt Agatha sits down to the piano, Aunt Agatha's. I have asked myself Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me aunt , shaking her head at him. He aunt , for I take no interest at all in the aunt . I am due at the Athenaeum. It is - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 aunt' s, he would have been sure to aunt' s some distance, and, smiling to aunt' s oldest friends, a perfect saint - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 Australia , and I have so much to think Australia in a position of affluence. I Australia . You will like him so much. Australia at all. I have a great mind to - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 aunt' 3 1 2 3 Basil Hallward. Had he gone to his He found that he had passed his was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his 1 2 3 4 really, when James is going away to my son. I trust you will return from meet him - when you come back from I wish now that I was not going to australia 4 author 2 1 2 from that book of cowardice whose what to imperial Neronian Rome the 1 things." He spoke rapidly and in an 1 interfere." "I am told, on excellent 1 2 lowest form of criticism is a mode of as if it were meant to be a form of 1 will. They move to their terrible end as 1 2 I am going to exhibit it in Paris in the in those two lines. He remembered the 1 2 side by side in the direction of the Gray was galloping down the long 1 wider, and with half-closed eyes and 1 what to follow and showed us what to 1 2 dream from which he feared he might felt no such pleasure. It had kept him 1 2 as people have when they are suddenly look at yourself." The lad started, as if 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and in front of it, some little distance have one, you seem to want to throw it Brandon. 'You are not going to run goods. She either explains them entirely Then I feel, Harry, that I have given marvellous people in it. Don't take rude of me if I asked you to go But I certainly shall not run the lad was! Hallward painted Gray frowned and turned his head what the gods give they quickly take improve the hopeless failure, or giving us to yield. After a time the bee flew and deformed. The scarlet would pass welled into his eyes; he tore his hand to do with it?" "You should have gone made all the men frantic by running born in pain. The mother snatched hand upon his arm. "You talk books him. Once or twice he thought of going author apes the name of common author of the Satyricon once had - CH. 5 - CH. 11 authoritative manner. Campbell felt - CH. 14 authoritative 1 authority 1 authority , that her father keeps an - CH. 3 autobiography 2 autobiography . Those who - THE PREFACE autobiography . We have lost the - CH. 1 automatons 1 automatons move. Choice is taken - CH. 16 autumn . I shall probably have to give autumn that he had passed there, and - CH. 9 - CH. 14 avenue for nearly fifty yards without avenue as hard as he could go. The - CH. 18 - CH. 18 averted head, walked quickly in, - CH. 14 autumn 2 avenue 2 averted 1 avoid 1 avoid . But there was no motive power - CH. 4 awake 2 awake . "It is your best work, Basil, awake at night. When he had been - CH. 1 - CH. 20 awakened 2 awakened . His finely chiselled nostrils awakened from some dream. "Is it - CH. 2 - CH. 2 away , was sitting the artist himself, away . It is silly of you, for there is away so soon, Mr. Hallward?' she away , or tells one everything about away my whole soul to some one who away from me the one person who away ?" Lord Henry smiled and looked away , now that you have asked me to away with that marvellous bold touch away . He could not help liking the tall, away . You have only a few years in away your life to the ignorant, the away . He saw it creeping into the away from his lips and the gold steal away and, flinging himself on the away when I asked you," he muttered. away with a penniless young fellow - a away by death, the boy left to solitude away ," he said; "why don't you write away . At last he heard a step outside, - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 away 99 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 are many things that we would throw a cracked piano, that nearly drove me of the wonderful soul that is hidden smiled. "People are very fond of giving revealed before the veil was drawn and really, when James is going to think that, though you are going standing close to her tittered. "Come her tittered. "Come away, Jim; come left to him. After some time, he thrust from the window, as her son drove and in the nineteenth century. I was false. It was wrong in colour. It took What more can you want?" "Go know of love such as ours? Take me ours? Take me away, Dorian - take me himself down on the sofa and turned his hands to her lips. He drew them shadows of art. You have thrown it all Kiss me again, my love. Don't go couldn't bear it. Oh! don't go The fresh morning air seemed to drive he leaped to his feet, tearing his hands and it marred her, and so she passed shy tremulous grace. He brushed them and loathsome thing, to be hidden I suffered immensely. Then it passed merely a mood that would pass I have ever done. Do take the screen in October. The portrait will only be know." His feeling of terror had passed when I was with you. When you were the bell. The portrait must be hidden They would mar its beauty and eat why he had wished to hide the picture here the fatal portrait was to be hidden day, the cruel look would have passed the sound of their footsteps had died across the room and flung the pieces provoked sleep, and the amethyst drove the king into the great pit, he flung it west gallery of his house, he had stored day after day, until he was driven about it. I am sorry you are going and seemed quite sorry when he went to the studio now, and when I am curves had not yet completely passed of sin were slowly eating the thing temptation. Forgive us our sins. Wash of cord, and had forgotten to take balcony. The wind had blown the fog said something to her. She stumbled in the corner. They must be hidden here till eleven, and then he went and that Campbell seemed always to go His mood of cowardice had passed The man upstairs will not go for me that I have for you." He turned not eat anything. Plate after plate went He lit a cigarette and then threw it A dog barked as they went by, and far away if we were not afraid that others away , but at last the drop-scene was away in that little ivory body, I am away what they need most themselves. away . Sometimes this was the effect of away to Australia, and I have so much away , you leave me happier than I away , Jim; come away," she whispered. away ," she whispered. He followed her away his plate and put his head in his away . She was conscious that a great away with my love in a forest that no away all the life from the verse. It away , Harry," cried the lad. "I want away , Dorian - take me away with you, away with you, where we can be quite away his face. "You have killed my away , and a shudder ran through him. away . You are shallow and stupid. My away from me. I couldn't bear it. Oh away from me. My brother ... No; away all his sombre passions. He away from Lord Henry's grasp. "Dead! away . Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. away hastily and looked again at the away in a locked room, to be shut out away . I cannot repeat an emotion. No away . There was so much in him that away , Dorian. It is simply disgraceful away a month. I should think you away , and curiosity had taken its place. away from me, you were still present away at all costs. He could not run away its grace. They would defile it away . Basil would have helped him to away . How little he had thought, in away from the scarlet sensitive away , Dorian locked the door and put away . How ugly it all was! And how away the fumes of wine. The garnet away - Procopius tells the story - nor away many rare and beautiful away . On his return he would sit in away , as I have not seen you for away . Have another brandy-and-soda? away from you, and I hear all these away from chiselled nostrils and from away . The rotting of a corpse in a away our iniquities.' Let us say that away with him. He moved slowly away , and the sky was like a away , laughing. A bitter blast swept away somewhere. He unlocked a away to catch his train." "Oh! I am away early from any party at which away . The man bowed and retired. In away . He is sitting at the table with away as he spoke and stood looking away untasted. Lady Narborough kept away . His eyelids drooped till the long away in the darkness some wandering - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 a horrible malady, was eating his soul effort wrenched the tightening fingers had better go home and put that pistol her flat mouth. "But don't give me come back to kill him. He had sailed after them into the sunlight. He turned to me. I want to escape, to go be the hand to take the handkerchief was laughing. We were to have gone century that one cannot explain me. The man with whom my wife ran can be bought, and sold, and bartered disappearance would soon pass the signs of evil had already gone the hideous thing that he had hidden him awake at night. When he had been was all dark. After a time, he went looked at each other, as they walked away . From time to time he seemed away . In a second he heard the click away , or you may get into trouble," away to him," she whined; "I am afraid away in his ship to founder in some away in horror. It seemed to him that away , to forget. It was silly of me to away , and called out to one of the away together this morning at dawn. away . Let us have our coffee in the away played Chopin exquisitely. Poor away . It can be poisoned, or made away . It was already waning. He was away . He would go and look. He away would no longer be a terror to away , he had been filled with terror away and stood in an adjoining away , and sneered. One of them was - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 awe ." "You can dine with me to-night - CH. 4 awe 1 1 that little ivory body, I am filled with 1 2 3 4 5 go in at once for reminiscences. That for him. The daily sacrifice, more wrought enamels, were pictured the God, Dorian, what a lesson! What an look of annoyance in his face. "That 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 into one's life. I suppose you think me this picture to-day. Would you think it you have sat splendidly to-day. I am Mr. Gray." "I should like that in a hard bitter voice. "I am it," said Dorian listlessly. "But I am can, except sentimentalists. And you are This one will have to interest you. I am 1 2 exclaimed Lady Henry, breaking an it is nothing to us. It is rather 1 It was long past noon when he 1 juice of plants; the yotl-bells of the 1 corps rose et blanc. Les domes, sur l' 1 2 robe and wreath of ivy, danced like a She laughed at him in her loose 1 genial if somewhat rough-mannered old awful 5 awful awful awful awful awful memory of woman! What a really than all the sacrifices of and beautiful forms of those lesson!" There was no answer, thing, a woman's memory!" as - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 awfully 8 awfully foolish about it?" "Not at all," awfully rude of me if I asked you to awfully obliged to you." "That is awfully ." The painter bit his lip and awfully sorry that I have made you awfully obliged to you for all that you awfully unjust, Basil. You come down awfully sorry for you, Alan. But I can't - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 14 awkward silence with her silly sudden awkward for Geoffrey, of course. It - CH. 4 - CH. 18 awkward 2 awoke 1 awoke . His valet had crept several - CH. 8 aztecs 1 Aztecs , that are hung in clusters like - CH. 11 azur des ondes Suivant la phrase au - CH. 14 Bacchante over the hills of life, and Bacchante dress. There were vine - CH. 3 - CH. 11 azur 1 bacchante 2 bachelor 1 bachelor , whom the outside world - CH. 3 bachelors 3 1 2 3 You would be a set of unfortunate Nowadays all the married men live like men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors . Not, however, that that bachelors , and all the bachelors like bachelors like married men." "Fin de - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 back in that odd way that used to back and looking up at the little back . "Harry," he said, "Dorian Gray back to them, turning over the pages back . He was bareheaded, and the back our youth. The pulse of joy that back to look at his work from a back , and his cheeks flushed for a back with him, I was told, and she back English women against the world, back to one with all the added music back . When he entered the somewhat back one's youth, one has merely to back turned to the shrill intrusive back . His kiss burned again upon her back and assert yourself in London." back quite rich and happy. The lad back from Australia. You will like him back and looked at her. Their eyes back in his chair and looking at Lord back ." "That is quite true, Dorian," cried back in such very small change. That back a few paces and her lips seemed back of the dress-circle, stamped and back of the box, he leaned up against back to his seat. He looked pale, and back . "Don't touch me!" he cried. back as if in surprise. Then he went back , went over to the picture, and back to Sibyl Vane, make her amends, back to him. He repeated her name back the olive-satin curtains, with their back . The man stood waiting for his back to the couch, lay there, gazing at back to her. I felt I had done wrong. back . No; there was no further change back into its former place in front of back . The painter stared at him. "My back to his cheeks, and a smile played back . "Can you move it, covering and back to him as he looked round. He back at Dorian with a look of shy back , and a blank space was visible back at him from the polished glass. back upon man moving through back their mimic life. The flameless back the real life that we had known. back his light heart, his wonderful back to town to see that the door back soon?" "No: I am going to be back . "This is blasphemy, Dorian!" he back , and you will see mine." The back , and long fantastic arms. Had it back . Once, she began to sing in a back , closing the window behind him. - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 back 100 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 he answered, tossing his head you!" cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat the garden. After some time he came He was seated at the piano, with his but the soul." The lad started and drew hold its purple stars. But we never get when, now and then, Hallward stepped towards it. When he saw it he drew afterwards. He brought his daughter just now, Uncle George." "I'll one's own intellectual views echoed distance, and, smiling to himself, turned over again," he said gravely. "To get faded, tired-looking woman who, with search for him, and it had brought him made your fortune, you must come too, and in a few years he would come you will meet him - when you come and went to the door. Then he turned Hallward. "Yes," echoed Dorian, leaning They have a right to demand it he sighed, "but they invariably want it crowded enthusiastic house. She stepped Jew manager, who was standing at the His lips trembled, and rushing to the on the third act. Dorian Gray went and looked into his eyes. He thrust her had painted of him. He started he seemed to hesitate. Finally, he came for impossible things. He would go of Sibyl. A faint echo of his love came tray of old Sevres china, and drew was closing behind him, he called him shuddered, and felt afraid, and, going but it was terrible. I said I would go he rushed to the screen and drew it was everything. He drew the screen It is impossible!" he exclaimed, starting drew a long breath. The colour came replied Dorian, moving the screen moment of his lonely childhood came followed by the assistant, who glanced tea-things. The screen had not been set now at the fair young face that laughed dominant characteristic. As he looked The wan mirrors get the unreal shadows of the night comes the hideous painted thing, and get suddenly leave his guests and rush you for ages. But I suppose you will be only God can see." Hallward started sees the soul, Basil? Draw that curtain table with bowed head, and humped Now and then she stopped and peered to and fro. He shivered and went 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 hesitated for a moment, then he turned breath. After a few moments he drew kill him as he sat in the chair came the dim, dust-stained arcades. Leaning its lonely sunless exile and longs to be would elapse before he could come brain of sight and driven the eyeballs his parched lips, and the colour came face became ghastly pale and he fell will take a cab and bring the things trouble, sir. At what time shall I be will be time enough, then, if you are about to rush forward, when he drew that the dead man had been thrust long after seven when Campbell came saying things against one behind one's you are!" cried the old lady, pushing he said, leaving the room. As he drove he thought he had strangled had come minutes to twelve. He put the box drunkards brawled and screamed. Lying the man lost his way and had to drive hurried on towards the left, glancing and began to chatter. Dorian turned his Adrian Singleton. "I don't care to go time to defend himself, he was thrust life. He loosened his hold and reeled Gray had disappeared. When he looked whispered to her. Lord Henry was lying for a moment. Then he threw his head Sibyl Vane's brother had not come it all again. Each hideous detail came morning that seemed to bring him terror-stricken imagination, and looked on earth don't you keep your men come and see my doctor, when we get gown. You see we have come Lord Henry, laughing, as he leaned his end. I see him lying now on his or stolen on the way. You never got it without a heart.'" The elder man lay you would tell me your secret. To get have you stopped playing, Dorian? Go lips rewrite history." The phrases came they met a policeman and brought him back and took it from the table. He back the latch and slipped out, back to him, and he grew cold with back with half-closed eyes, he kept back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile, back . Perhaps he might refuse to back into their cave. It was useless. back to his cheeks. "Ask him to come back in his chair. A horrible sense of back to you." Campbell scrawled a back ?" Dorian looked at Campbell. back at half-past seven, Francis. Or back with a shudder. What was that back into the chair and that back into the library. He was pale, back that are absolutely and entirely back her chair and nodding to Lady back to his own house, he was back to him. Lord Henry's casual back , shutting the cabinet doors as he back in the hansom, with his hat back half a mile. A steam rose from back now and then to see if he was back on them and said something in back . What does it matter? I am back against the wall, with a brutal back . "My God! my God!" he cried back , the woman had vanished also. back in a silk-draped wicker chair, back and laughed. "I always agree with back to kill him. He had sailed away back to him with added horror. Out back his joyousness and his ardour back now on his fears with something back ? Spoiled my shooting for the back to town." Dorian heaved a sigh back , Duchess." "I have heard all back in his chair. "My dear Dorian, back under those dull-green waters, back ? What a pity! it was really a back and looked at him with back my youth I would do anything back and give me the nocturne over back to his memory, and he repeated back . The man rang the bell several - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 backed waves trying to get in, and a backed them, making quivering disks - CH. 5 - CH. 16 background , so I will join you later on. background . It posed the lad, made background for romance, and, to the background was everything, or almost - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 backs ." There was a gem in the brain - CH. 11 backwards and forwards. "Yes," he - CH. 19 backed 2 1 2 a horrid ship, with the hoarse, humpwalls. Greasy reflectors of ribbed tin 1 2 3 4 you want. I have got to work up this loveless man. Yes; it was an interesting But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the for romance, and, to the true romantic, 1 of real emeralds growing on their 1 black, glasslike eyes and began to sway background 4 backs 1 backwards 1 bad 37 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 at once." "Laughter is not at all a influence him. Your influence would be what Lord Henry says. He has a very said to him, "Have you really a very a very bad influence, Lord Henry? As not a gentleman, whatever he knows is him again. Oh, yes; it was a culture, who had fallen, however, into -off clothes. "Really! And where do woman like myself blushes, it is a very smiled Lord Henry. "Was it all very "Was it all very bad?" "Very least, during good music. If one hears a beer-barrel. Mercutio was almost as known who are personally delightful are shot each other in bar-rooms, and used You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a It was crude. It reminded her of a It was simply It is not good for one's morals to see he asked, angrily. "Why I was so bad to-night. Why I shall always be told that the man who has given one a you know? - he was not at all a "that is not the question. England is My God! don't tell me that you are she looks like an edition de luxe of a is a fatal thing. Enough is as He has lots of money, and he's as lots of money, and he's as bad as with a heavy sigh, "It is a It is a bad omen, Harry, a very Dorian shook his head. "It is a hear what Harry said. Was it very their houses. They say a corpse brings course, married life is merely a habit, a his work was that curious mixture of bad beginning for a friendship, and it bad . The world is wide, and has many bad influence over all his friends, with bad influence, Lord Henry? As bad as bad as Basil says?" "There is no such bad for him." "Mr. Dorian Gray does bad business. The girl died, too, died bad habits of silence, having, as he bad Americans go to when they die?" bad sign. Ah! Lord Henry, I wish you bad ?" "Very bad indeed. In fact I bad indeed. In fact I consider you bad music, it is one's duty to drown it bad . He was played by the bad artists. Good artists exist simply in bad language. He was to be a nice bad -tempered boy, that is all. How can bad rehearsal. "No," she answered, bad art. She was a complete failure. bad acting. Besides, I don't suppose bad to-night. Why I shall always be bad bad . Why I shall never act well again." bad dinner, or poor wine, is bad servant. I never liked him, but I bad enough I know, and English bad , and corrupt, and shameful." bad French novel. She is really bad as a meal. More than enough is bad as bad." "He is not the man I bad ." "He is not the man I am looking bad omen, Harry, a very bad omen." " bad omen." "What is?" asked Lord bad omen, Harry. I feel as if bad ? You must tell me some other bad luck." "The Home Farm! Go bad habit. But then one regrets the bad painting and good intentions that - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 badly 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 book. Books are well written, or think that he has behaved very dowdy that she reminded one of a of infinite joy came over her. "How only last night? - when she played so - the night you saw her - she acted 1 2 3 4 5 6 of his grey ulster turned up. He had a things. All I have with me is in this painter to travel! A Gladstone and coat off and throwing them on the he reached the library, he saw the he had thrust Basil Hallward's coat and 1 cap and acanthuslike curls, Grifonetto badly written. That is all. - THE PREFACE badly to you. The next time he calls, - CH. 1 badly bound hymn-book. Fortunately - CH. 3 badly I acted to-night, Dorian!" she - CH. 7 badly , and my heart almost broke. She - CH. 8 badly because she had known the - CH. 9 bag 6 bag in his hand. Dorian recognized bag , and I can easily get to Victoria bag and an ulster! Come in, or the bag that he had placed in the corner. bag and coat in the corner. They bag . A huge fire was blazing. He piled - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 Baglioni , who slew Astorre with his - CH. 11 baglioni 1 bags 1 1 corner of the divan of Persian saddle- 1 When they make up their ledger, they 1 bird with pink crest and tail, that was 1 marks, which was covered with 1 great bauderike about his neck of large 1 2 3 4 that the true test of any Juliet is the of elocution. When she leaned over the opened it and stepped out on the the roof and dropped down on to the 1 intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as 1 2 wired flower that we had worn at the of jewels, and appeared at a costume 1 on the young exquisites of the Mayfair 1 pollen-laden flowers; of aromatic 1 few seconds he stood bending over the 1 2 and ensconced themselves on a long tail, that was balancing itself upon a 1 Mercutio and his other friends. The 1 are simply cheques that men draw on a 1 to be a benefit to us. We praise the 1 2 3 But, as the nineteenth century has gone a great distinction. Most people become had discovered a real genius and gone 1 with an air of pride, that his five bags on which he was lying, smoking, - CH. 1 balance stupidity by wealth, and vice - CH. 17 balancing itself upon a bamboo perch. - CH. 19 balas rubies. Hall described Henry - CH. 11 balasses ." The favourites of James I - CH. 11 balcony scene of the second act. They balcony and came to those wonderful balcony . The wind had blown the fog balcony . The windows yielded easily - - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 13 - CH. 20 balance 1 balancing 1 balas 1 balasses 1 balcony 4 bald 1 bald as a ministerial statement in the - CH. 3 ball , or the letter that we had been ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of - CH. 11 - CH. 11 balls and Pall Mall club windows, - CH. 11 balms and of dark and fragrant - CH. 11 balustrade and peering down into the - CH. 13 bamboo seat that stood in the shade bamboo perch. As his pointed fingers - CH. 1 - CH. 19 band , such as it was, struck up a few - CH. 7 bank where they have no account." - CH. 8 banker that we may overdraw our - CH. 6 bankrupt through an over-expenditure bankrupt through having invested too bankrupt over a poet. Hallward - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 bankruptcies were entirely due to 'The - CH. 4 ball 2 balls 1 balms 1 balustrade 1 bamboo 2 band 1 bank 1 banker 1 bankrupt 3 bankruptcies 1 bar 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 got intoxicated, and shot each other in shouting 'genius' to his loafers at the of the popping of corks came from the a table, and by the tawdrily painted up wearily and followed Dorian to the women who had been drinking at the 1 harsh intervals and shrill discords of 1 from the dead thing he fondled; Pietro 1 bankruptcies were entirely due to 'The 1 2 the world might guess it, and I will not the seething grape-juice rose round her 1 2 The lad started and drew back. He was pillars, loitered a troop of draggled 1 2 brocade in Wardour Street and had to his money. "There goes the devil's 1 bustled in and out. There was the 1 2 Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge's you had sat on the prow of Adrian's 1 those dull-green waters, with the heavy 1 orange, fanlike tongues of fire. A dog 1 very well in their way...." rejoined the 1 2 tragedy voice, and a figure like a beerand saw the gleam of a polished 1 itself. He felt keenly conscious of how 1 2 3 such as it was, struck up a few to the room, in spite of the elaborate round their doors. From some of the 1 It can be bought, and sold, and bar -rooms, and used bad language. He bar . He has preached me as a dogma; bar . "What a place to find one's bar that ran across one complete side bar . A half-caste, in a ragged turban bar . "Why didn't you kill him?" she - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 barbaric music stirred him at times - CH. 11 Barbi , the Venetian, known as Paul - CH. 11 barbaric 1 barbi 1 bard 1 Bard ,' as he insisted on calling him. He - CH. 4 bare my soul to their shallow prying bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, - CH. 1 - CH. 3 bareheaded , and the leaves had tossed bareheaded girls, waiting for the - CH. 2 - CH. 7 bargain for hours for it. Nowadays bargain !" she hiccoughed, in a hoarse - CH. 4 - CH. 16 bare 2 bareheaded 2 bargain 2 bargaining 1 bargaining with the cabman. The - CH. 5 barge , that hung from the ceiling of barge , gazing across the green turbid - CH. 7 - CH. 9 barge 2 barges 1 barges floating over him and long - CH. 19 barked as they went by, and far away - CH. 16 baronet . "Was that a paradox?" asked - CH. 3 barked 1 baronet 1 barrel 2 barrel . Mercutio was almost as bad. barrel , pointing straight at his head, - CH. 4 - CH. 16 barren all intellectual speculation is - CH. 11 bars of music, and the dance began. bars that he had caused to be placed bars came the sound of horrible - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 bartered away. It can be poisoned, or - CH. 19 barren 1 bars 3 bartered 1 basil 153 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 away, was sitting the artist himself, might awake. "It is your best work, much of yourself in it! Upon my word, ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, walking across the studio towards Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear about your married life, Harry," said "I am afraid I must be going, Now, that is childish." "Harry," said over his face. "I am all expectation, Lord Henry felt as if he could hear cowardice are really the same things, merely an acquaintance." "My dear old ebony cane. "How English you are always looked for and always missed." " Dorian Gray." "I think you are wrong, a summer's day." "Days in summer, You change too often." "Ah, my dear he had missed by staying so long with slight frown. "Don't look so angry, Scenes." "You must lend me these, he started up. "I beg your pardon, unspotted from the world. No wonder please don't, Lord Henry. I see that me to stop. You don't really mind, hat and gloves. "You are very pressing, I should be sorry to miss you." " rather taken a fancy. He was so unlike bad influence, Lord Henry? As bad as He was unconscious of the silence. " you. It is horribly hot in the studio. reveal him to himself? He had known glare, you will be quite spoiled, and revelation. He had never felt it before. hardly care for such an arrangement, looked at him. "I believe you would, the end of the studio. "Don't, Appreciate it? I am in love with it, You had much better let me have it, If you let any one have it but me, shall come; and you will come, too, are just like that." "How wonderful, and dine with me." "I can't, with an amused smile. "I must go, Dorian. "And ... Harry!" "Yes, you at your own place. Good-bye, beauty was destined to fade! ... And "But I thought you had promised the shy frightened boy he had met in Lord Henry at last. "I want you and Bristol at eight o'clock; and I will get dines before seven. Shall you see Or shall I write to him?" "Dear I call the depth of generosity." "Oh, you, Harry, I have discovered that." " "I suppose you have heard the news, foolish things now and then, my dear make him marry this girl, tell him that, Basil Hallward, whose sudden Basil , the best thing you have ever Basil , I didn't know you were so vain; Basil , he is a Narcissus, and you - well Basil : you are not in the least like him. Basil Hallward. "Yes, that is his name. Basil . You seem to forget that I am Basil Hallward, strolling towards the Basil ," he murmured, "and before I go, Basil Hallward, looking him straight in Basil ," continued his companion, Basil Hallward's heart beating, and Basil . Conscience is the trade-name of Basil , you are much more than an Basil ! That is the second time you Basil , this is extraordinary! I must see Basil , but I won't argue with you. It Basil , are apt to linger," murmured Basil , that is exactly why I can feel it. Basil Hallward. Had he gone to his Basil . It was at my aunt, Lady Agatha's Basil ," he cried. "I want to learn them Basil , but I didn't know you had any Basil Hallward worshipped him. "You Basil is in one of his sulky moods, Basil , do you? You have often told me Basil , but I am afraid I must go. I Basil ," cried Dorian Gray, "if Lord Basil . They made a delightful contrast. Basil says?" "There is no such thing as Basil , I am tired of standing," cried Basil , let us have something iced to Basil Hallward for months, but the Basil will never paint you again. You Basil Hallward's compliments had Basil ," cried Lord Henry, laughing. "It Basil . You like your art better than Basil , don't!" he cried. "It would Basil . It is part of myself. I feel that Basil . This silly boy doesn't really want Basil , I shall never forgive you!" cried Basil , won't you?" "I can't, Basil !" "At least you are like it in Basil ." "Why?" "Because I have Basil ," he answered. "Very well," said Basil ?" "Remember what I asked you, Basil . It has been a most interesting Basil ? From a psychological point of Basil Hallward to go and see him," Basil Hallward's studio! His nature had Basil to come with me some night and Basil ." "Not eight, Harry, please. Half Basil between this and then? Or shall I Basil ! I have not laid eyes on him for a Basil is the best of fellows, but he Basil , my dear boy, puts everything Basil ?" said Lord Henry that evening Basil ." "Marriage is hardly a thing that Basil . He is sure to do it, then. - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 "Are you serious?" "Quite serious, I can." "My dear Harry, my dear figurine that you have in your studio, do what I like. I have been right, but what do you mean by good?" cried ways but money." "What sort of ways, mind the cigarettes - I have some. will come with me. I am so sorry, would have been incomplete." "Thanks, paces and her lips seemed to tremble. is unbecoming. Come to the club with the lad. "I want to be alone. face in his hands. "Let us go, the door, his eye fell upon the portrait across his mind what he had said in those subtle poisonous theories that in absurd. It would serve as a tale to tell horrible change? What should he do if and asked to look at his own picture? nobler passion, and the portrait that was sitting at breakfast next morning, did she say about it all?" "My dear that little white body of hers!" "Stop, "I owe a great deal to Harry, "I don't know what you mean, used to paint," said the artist sadly. " with an expression of horror. "My dear And you are awfully unjust, misanthrope. And besides, my dear old used to be together! Don't leave me, You must do me a drawing of Sibyl, "I can never sit to you again, "My servant has nothing to do with it, between the painter and the screen. " "If you try to look at it, have a strange quarter of an hour, get was a revelation to me." Yes, perhaps secret. He would ask him and try. " me than any fame or reputation." "No, place. He was determined to find out that revealed itself to you suddenly?" " head. "You must not ask me that, all that I have told you." "My dear It is foolish. You and I are friends, in trouble. I would sooner go to you, "I can't explain it to you, Dorian Gray smiled to himself. Poor he regretted that he had not told had wished to hide the picture away. and Shakespeare himself. Yes, and he might show to the world wonderful beauty that had so fascinated a mirror, in front of the portrait that almost without cause, give utterance, in hand. Dorian recognized him. It was recognize me?" "In this fog, my dear would associate with him?" "Stop, name a by-word." "Take care, cores of flame. "I am waiting, of contempt in his lips. "Come upstairs, out of the room and began the ascent, Basil . I should be miserable if I Basil , you must both congratulate me!" Basil . Her hair clustered round her Basil , haven't I, to take my love out Basil Hallward. "Yes," echoed Dorian, Basil ?" "Oh! I should fancy in remorse, Basil , I can't allow you to smoke Basil , but there is only room for two Basil ," answered Dorian Gray, pressing Basil Hallward leaped to his feet and Basil and myself. We will smoke Basil , you must go. Ah! can't you Basil ," said Lord Henry with a strange Basil Hallward had painted of him. He Basil Hallward's studio the day the Basil Hallward's garden had first Basil some day. It would make him Basil Hallward came and asked to Basil would be sure to do that. No; the Basil Hallward had painted of him Basil Hallward was shown into the Basil , how do I know?" murmured Basil ! I won't hear it!" cried Dorian, Basil ," he said at last, "more than I Basil ," he exclaimed, turning round. "I Basil ," said the lad, going over to him Basil ! Surely you don't think it was a Basil . You come down here to console Basil , if you really want to console me, Basil , and don't quarrel with me. I am Basil . I should like to have something Basil . It is impossible!" he exclaimed, Basil . You don't imagine I let him Basil ," he said, looking very pale, "you Basil , on my word of honour I will Basil to tell you why he won't exhibit Basil , too, had his secret. He would ask Basil ," he said, coming over quite close Basil , you must tell me," insisted Basil Hallward's mystery. "Let us sit Basil !" cried the lad, clutching the Basil . I could not possibly let you Basil ," said Dorian, "what have you Basil , and we must always remain so." Basil ." "You will sit to me again?" " Basil , but I must never sit to you Basil ! How little he knew of the true Basil the true reason why he had Basil would have helped him to resist Basil could have saved him. But it Basil Hallward's masterpiece. No; that Basil Hallward, and many others Basil Hallward had painted of him, Basil Hallward's studio, to the mad Basil Hallward. A strange sense of Basil ? Why, I can't even recognize Basil . You are talking about things of Basil . You go too far." "I must speak Basil ," said the young man in a hard Basil ," he said quietly. 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It was to Paris that the same curious feeling of loathing for seemed to have a fantastic likeness to was everything, or almost everything. and had gone wild over Tintoret. Poor work. He began to wonder if he and secret press into which he had thrust had stung one. Indeed, what right had to time he seemed to see the eyes of was really to be laid at his door, as on the ninth of November was poor and the French police declare that " "What do you think has happened to "I have not the slightest idea. If "Harry, did it ever occur to you that was murdered?" Lord Henry yawned. " and yet be as dull as possible. of his art." "I was very fond of there are dreadful places in Paris, but if I told you that I had murdered after dinner. But let us pass from poor The excitement, such as it was, over Nor, indeed, was it the death of of his own soul that troubled him. the portrait that had done everything. shrugged his shoulders. The death of and saw the knife that had stabbed 1 2 3 4 5 really from himself. The few words that by so curious a chance he had met in in it of censure or rebuke, how shallow " "The people are still discussing poor I wish I had now. It belonged to 1 2 3 4 5 it. The terror of society, which is the we are all afraid for ourselves. The hideous." "A very charming artistic scandal, Harry, and there is never any is never any basis for scandal." "The 1 pastilles in a pierced copper brazier, he 1 wool, passed into the onyx-paved 1 The brain had its own food on which it 1 "If he were not, there would be no Basil ?" he asked in a low voice. "Yes Basil ? Draw that curtain back, and Basil ," cried Dorian with a wild Basil ," he faltered. "It is never too late Basil Hallward came over him, as Basil Hallward had left the house at Basil had gone, and by the midnight Basil Hallward that had made him kill Basil Hallward. He frowned, and Basil had been with him part of the Basil ! What a horrible way for a man Basil Hallward had ever met, and, if Basil Hallward's coat and bag. A Basil to have spoken to him as he Basil Hallward looking at him. Yet Basil Hallward had said to him with Basil , and the French police declare Basil never arrived in Paris at all. I Basil ?" asked Dorian, holding up his Basil chooses to hide himself, it is no Basil was murdered?" Lord Henry Basil was very popular, and always Basil was really rather dull. He only Basil ," said Dorian with a note of Basil was not the sort of man to have Basil ?" said the younger man. He Basil . I wish I could believe that he Basil Hallward's disappearance would Basil Hallward that weighed most Basil had painted the portrait that Basil had said things to him that were Basil Hallward seemed very little to Basil Hallward. He had cleaned it - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 Basil' s friend had said to him - words Basil' s studio, or could be fashioned Basil' s reproaches about Sibyl Vane Basil' s disappearance." "I should have Basil' s best period. Since then, his - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 10 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 basis basis basis basis basis - CH. 2 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 basil' 5 basis 5 of morals, the terror of God, of optimism is sheer terror. We for ethics, Dorian! I congratulate for scandal." "The basis of every of every scandal is an immoral bathed 1 bathed his hands and forehead with a - CH. 15 bathroom . The cool water refreshed - CH. 8 battened , and the imagination, made - CH. 14 battle ." "Greek meets Greek, then?" "I - CH. 17 bathroom 1 battened 1 battle 1 bauderike 1 1 and other rich stones, and a great bauderike about his neck of large - CH. 11 be 453 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 anything. Even things that are true can brainless beautiful creature who should that perfectly well. Indeed, I should steps of kings. It is better not to as they are - my art, whatever it may have grown to love secrecy. It seems to out his watch. "I am afraid I must it may have been pride, for I used to for their good intellects. A man cannot But according to your category I must stupidity, and immorality should more purely intellectual will the idea idea be, as in that case it will not see him?" "Every day. I couldn't the face of Dorian Gray will some day prying eyes. My heart shall never men treat art as if it were meant to saying things to him that I know I shall your friend, and he will seem to you to you. The next time he calls, you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will Mr. Gray to wait, Parker: I shall to influence him. Your influence would to me when you are coming. I should and never listen either, and it must laughed. "I don't think there will richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may there was in them! They seemed to I am to-day. This is going to mystery. And, yet, what was there to a schoolboy or a girl. It was absurd to stay any longer in this glare, you will yourself to become sunburnt. It would go, you charm the world. Will it always silver shell we call the moon. It cannot beauty is only superficial. That may life that is in you! Let nothing in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. is what our century wants. You might you really are, of what you really might yourself. I thought how tragic it would they blossom again. The laburnum will as it is now. In a month there will I am glad now. I wonder shall I always arm. "In that case, let our friendship compliments had seemed to him to flashed across him. Yes, there would would be a day when his face would will remain always young. It will never other way! If it were I who was to cried Lord Henry, laughing. "It would one's good looks, whatever they may If the picture could change, and I could don't!" he cried. "It would as soon as you are dry, you shall said Lord Henry. "There is sure to be proved. No artist has - THE PREFACE be always here in winter when we - CH. 1 be sorry to look like him. You shrug - CH. 1 be different from one's fellows. The - CH. 1 be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks - CH. 1 be the one thing that can make - CH. 1 be going, Basil," he murmured, "and - CH. 1 be very proud - I certainly struggled - CH. 1 be too careful in the choice of his - CH. 1 be merely an acquaintance." "My dear - CH. 1 be their own special property, and that - CH. 1 be , as in that case it will not be - CH. 1 be coloured by either his wants, his - CH. 1 be happy if I didn't see him every day. - CH. 1 be to me. It is not merely that I paint - CH. 1 be put under their microscope. There - CH. 1 be a form of autobiography. We have - CH. 1 be sorry for having said. As a rule, he - CH. 1 be a little out of drawing, or you won't - CH. 1 be perfectly cold and indifferent. It - CH. 1 be a great pity, for it will alter you. - CH. 1 be in in a few moments." The man - CH. 1 be bad. The world is wide, and has - CH. 1 be sorry to miss you." "Basil," cried - CH. 2 be dreadfully tedious for my - CH. 2 be any difficulty about that. Sit down - CH. 2 be . But the bravest man amongst us is - CH. 2 be able to give a plastic form to - CH. 2 be my masterpiece. It is my - CH. 2 be afraid of? He was not a schoolboy - CH. 2 be frightened. "Let us go and sit in the - CH. 2 be quite spoiled, and Basil will never - CH. 2 be unbecoming." "What can it matter?" - CH. 2 be so? ... You have a wonderfully - CH. 2 be questioned. It has its divine right of - CH. 2 be so, but at least it is not so - CH. 2 be lost upon you. Be always searching - CH. 2 Be always searching for new sensations. - CH. 2 Be afraid of nothing.... A new - CH. 2 be its visible symbol. With your - CH. 2 be . There was so much in you that - CH. 2 be if you were wasted. For there is - CH. 2 be as yellow next June as it is now. In - CH. 2 be purple stars on the clematis, and - CH. 2 be glad?" "Always! That is a dreadful - CH. 2 be a caprice," he murmured, flushing - CH. 2 be merely the charming exaggeration - CH. 2 be a day when his face would be - CH. 2 be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim - CH. 2 be older than this particular day of - CH. 2 be always young, and the picture that - CH. 2 be rather hard lines on your work." "I - CH. 2 be , one loses everything. Your picture - CH. 2 be always what I am now! Why did - CH. 2 be murder!" "I am glad you appreciate - CH. 2 be varnished, and framed, and sent - CH. 2 be something on, somewhere. I have - CH. 2 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 I think that would with our own will. Young men want to faithful, and are not; old men want to of date, but there was a good deal to If he is like his mother, he must Lord Henry. "I fancy that the boy will "Good-bye, Uncle George. I shall was something tragic. Worlds had to he had met in Basil's studio, or could one could not do with him. He could it was strange.... Yes; he would try to must we really see Chicago in order to the East End? I assure you he would in the East End. For the future I shall at Willis's Rooms, where he is going to chair. If I am late he is sure to a novel certainly, a novel that would fortunate enough to possess." "I shall be charmed. A visit to Treadley would value of nothing." "I am afraid I must worth talking to, and two of these can't will tell you, Harry, but you mustn't romance of your life. You will always always be loved, and you will always of the idle classes of a country. Don't "But why should you that they were every one of them to their appearance, most of them cannot answered, "and to-morrow night she will mad as she has made me." "That would please. Half-past six. We must -past six! What an hour! It will or reading an English novel. It must best of fellows, but he seems to me to bottle that stood on the table. "It must pageant or a play, whose joys seem to that each little spring of life would demonstrated was that our future would that seemed to the lad himself to was to tell him that he was engaged to so happy!" she repeated, "and you must and discovery. This young man might might be rich. If so, marriage should he is like what love himself should you were twenty years ago. Ah! let me "Ah! Mother, Mother, let me going for a walk with me? That will he said at last, "but don't strange surrenders. "I hope you will appearance of it, I must say. It might "I suppose one must or whatever he was going to were to attack them three times, and and used bad language. He was to things in store for him. But he must knew so much more of life. He must me to say?" "Oh! that you will the theatre to-night. He is going to I shall play it! Fancy, Jim, to company, frighten or enthrall them. To one's self. Poor dreadful Mr. Isaacs will be a rather nice excuse: it would have be faithful, and are not; old men want be faithless, and cannot: that is all one be said for his prejudices. When Lord be a good-looking chap." "He is very be well off. He is not of age yet. be late for lunch, if I stop any longer. be in travail, that the meanest flower be fashioned into a marvellous type, at be made a Titan or a toy. What a pity be to Dorian Gray what, without be educated?" asked Mr. Erskine be quite invaluable. They would love be able to look her in the face be in the chair. If I am late he is be furious, and I couldn't have a scene be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as be charmed. A visit to Treadley would be a great privilege. It has a perfect be going," exclaimed Lady Henry, be admitted into decent society. be unsympathetic about it. After all, it be loved, and you will always be in be in love with love. A grande passion be afraid. There are exquisite things in be annoyed? I suppose she will belong be bought." "I should not wonder if he be at all expensive." "Well, he seemed be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" " be impossible, my dear boy." "Yes, she be there before the curtain rises. You be like having a meat-tea, or reading an be seven. No gentleman dines before be just a bit of a Philistine. Since I be , if you say it. And now I am be remote from one, but whose be revealed to us. As it was, we always be the same as our past, and that the be remote from sense, and was for be married to Sibyl Vane. be happy, too!" Mrs. Vane winced and be rich. If so, marriage should be be thought of. Against the shell of her be . But what does he see in me? I be happy for ever!" "My child, you are be happy!" Mrs. Vane glanced at her, be nice! I was afraid you were going be too long dressing." She danced out be contented, James, with your be a most brilliant marriage for Sibyl. be serious sometimes. Good-bye, be . Oh, no! A sailor's existence was be defeated with immense slaughter. be a nice sheep-farmer, and one be very good, and not lose his be sure, also, to write to her by every be a good boy and not forget us," she be there, and I am to play Juliet. Oh be in love and play Juliet! To have be in love is to surpass one's self. Poor be shouting 'genius' to his loafers at - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 you were a hundred. Some day you will Don't look so sulky. Surely you should terribly hard and difficult. But it will hadn't been signed." "Oh, don't those silly melodramas Mother used to mother was not present. She would but he cut her short. Trunks had to how desolate she felt her life would painting, though many of them would " "Dorian Gray is engaged to and then frowned. "Dorian engaged to was married. I said he was engaged to and position, and wealth. It would serious?" "Quite serious, Basil. I should be miserable if I thought I should ever not? If he wedded Messalina, he would become more highly organized, and to fascinated by some one else. He would Gray's life were spoiled, no one would are much better than you pretend to of those virtues that are likely to As for marriage, of course that would things are. And yet it seems to me to handsome. "I hope you will always will say. Lord Radley is sure to be furious. I don't care. I shall and she said she was not worthy to but I don't mind. It is impossible to the man who could wrong her would from what you have known me to do you mean by good, Harry?" "To good, Harry?" "To be good is to fine-pointed fingers. "Discord is to fingers. "Discord is to be forced to of one's neighbours, if one wishes to one want? Yes, Dorian, you will always marriage, and yet it seemed to him to that Dorian Gray would never again in this girl. Any one you love must who has the effect you describe must of a white lily. Her hands seemed to to him. She seemed to them to out in the moonlight. That could not like the lightning, which doth cease to he rejoined. "But she seems to me to life as she does about acting, she will Harry," cried the lad. "I want to so bad to-night. Why I shall always who acted with me seemed to me to are more to me than all art can ever from me. I thought that I was going to - take me away with you, where we can Even if I could do it, it would work so hard and try to improve. Don't to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to calm clear voice. "I don't wish to stretched blindly out, and appeared to girls, waiting for the auction to silk blinds, the face appeared to him to the portrait seemed to linger there, to grow old; that his own beauty might be in love yourself. Then you will be glad to think that, though you are be different now. You are going to a be so serious, Jim. You are like one of be so fond of acting in. I am not going be sure to make a scene, and he be carried down and mufflers looked be , now that she had only one child to be the better for a little whitewashing." be married," said Lord Henry, be married!" he cried. "Impossible!" "It be married. There is a great difference. be absurd for him to marry so much be miserable if I thought I should ever be more serious than I am at the be none the less interesting. You know be highly organized is, I should fancy, be a wonderful study." "You don't be sorrier than yourself. You are much be ." Lord Henry laughed. "The reason be a benefit to us. We praise the be silly, but there are other and more be the one thing I have been looking be very happy, Dorian," said Hallward, be furious. I don't care. I shall be be of age in less than a year, and then be my wife. Not worthy! Why, the be angry with you. When you see Sibyl be a beast, a beast without a heart. I be . I am changed, and the mere touch be good is to be in harmony with be in harmony with one's self," he be forced to be in harmony with others. be in harmony with others. One's own be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt be fond of me. I represent to you all be better than many other things that be to him all that he had been in the be marvellous, and any girl who has be fine and noble. To spiritualize be made of cool ivory. Yet she was be absolutely incompetent. They were be denied. But the staginess of her be Ere one can say, "It lightens." Sweet be simply callous and cold. She has be a delightful experience. There are be alone. Basil, you must go. Ah! be bad. Why I shall never act well be godlike. The painted scenes were be . What have I to do with the be wonderful. I found that I could do be quite alone. I hate the stage. I be profanation for me to play at being be cruel to me, because I love you be absurdly melodramatic. Her tears be unkind, but I can't see you again. be seeking for him. He turned on his be over. Others crowded round the be a little changed. The expression be more intensified even. 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Basil would to do that. No; the thing had to examined, and at once. Anything would locked both doors. At least he would the soul that was within him? Could it reparation for that. She could still yield to some higher influence, would Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would - at least not before me. I want to to break my word to her. She is to it yet, Harry. I was afraid there might he said, "my letter - don't any one till I came. There will have to inquest, of course, and you must not Harry, I can't bear it! But not an accident, Dorian, though it must It is a Patti night, and everybody will treated her kindly. One can always for the weak. That is all that can things during the last fortnight to me as it should. It seems to me to wears mauve, whatever her age may that seemed to me at the time to your extraordinary good looks, will not live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to for love of him, and love would always When he thought of her, it would a monstrous and loathsome thing, to be hidden away in a locked room, to however fantastic that chance might with what fateful consequences it might the substitution? Might there not too closely into it? For there would real pleasure in watching it. He would its secret places. This portrait would winter came upon it, he would still Like the gods of the Greeks, he would image on the canvas? He would half afraid that one tragedy might Poor woman! What a state she must can invent a pleasure. I don't want to I owe to you. You only taught me to am punished for that, Dorian - or shall luxury, pomp - there is much to I am changed, but you must always are better. And how happy we used to what I am. There is nothing more to -day. I only trust your name won't over him. Was the world going to - he did not know what - had to week in October. The portrait will only that time. In fact, you are sure to wish the best work I have ever done to And it had all been what art should be seared with the lines of suffering be to him the visible emblem of be happy together. His life with her be beautiful and pure. He got up from be telling the flowers about her. be sure to do that. No; the thing had be examined, and at once. Anything be better than this dreadful state of be alone when he looked upon the be that what that soul thought, they be his wife. His unreal and selfish be transformed into some nobler be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, be good. I can't bear the idea of my be my wife." "Your wife! Dorian! ... be something in it that I wouldn't like. be frightened - was to tell you that be an inquest, of course, and you must be mixed up in it. Things like that be quick. Tell me everything at once." be put in that way to the public. It be there. You can come to my sister's be kind to people about whom one be said for them. They are simply be entitled to give yourself that name, be simply like a wonderful ending to a be , or a woman over thirty-five who is be merely fanciful, but that I see now be able to do." "But suppose, Harry, be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. We cannot spare you. be a sacrament to him now. She had be as a wonderful tragic figure sent on be hidden away in a locked room, to be shut out from the sunlight that had be , or with what fateful consequences be fraught? Besides, was it really under be some curious scientific reason for it be a real pleasure in watching it. He be able to follow his mind into its be to him the most magical of mirrors. be standing where spring trembles on be strong, and fleet, and joyous. What be safe. That was everything. He drew be followed by another. I think you be in! And her only child, too! What be at the mercy of my emotions. I be vain." "Well, I am punished for that be some day." "I don't know what you be got from all these. But the artistic be my friend. Of course, I am very be together! Don't leave me, Basil, and be said." The painter felt strangely be mentioned in connection with it. be shown his secret? Were people to be done at once. "Yes; I don't be away a month. I should think you be out of town. And if you keep it be hidden from the world, I am be - unconscious, ideal, and remote. - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 I resolved never to allow the picture to that you were right. The picture cannot picture cannot be shown. You must not said to Harry, once, you are made to and wondered if he himself would ever He was too clever and too cynical to to be really fond of. Would there ever come and have tea with you. That will the picture once again. But that can't he felt sorry. There seemed to him to and touched the bell. The portrait must mask of servility. There was nothing to of, there. Yet he thought it best to the key." "Well, sir, you'll worm was to the corpse, his sins would the thing would still live on. It would too late now. The past could always Monsieur." He felt that the man must be got rid of at once. He must not all, Mr. Gray. I am delighted to scratched going upstairs." "There will it was here the fatal portrait was to was no reason that the future should him from those sins that seemed to the mouth would gape or droop, would mouths of old men are. There would him in his boyhood. The picture had to what they had been doing. He would might interest him, and that he would of this book. Or perhaps it would of the world. To them he seemed to and for it all the other arts seemed to yet in his inmost heart he desired to than a mere arbiter elegantiarum, to which a fine instinct for beauty was to as his companions. Yes: there was to experience. Its aim, indeed, was to sweet or bitter as they might habits, or a wild longing, it may have fresh shapes and colours, and these that seemed to Dorian Gray to in his search for sensations that would modes of thought that he knew to no theory of life seemed to him to mad; and of aloes, that are said to the strangest instruments that could sit all day long in high trees, and can him for years, and, indeed, may and a scarlet robe" the monster could meloceus, that discovers thieves, could all the dainties and viands that could collected in his lovely house, were to the fear that seemed to him at times to him at times to be almost too great to a few years he could not endure to He hated to elaborate bars that he had caused to picture was still there. What if it should all, it is a very poor consolation to and there is possibly a good deal to canons of good society are, or should be exhibited. You were a little be shown. You must not be angry with be angry with me, Dorian, for what I be worshipped." Dorian Gray drew a be so dominated by the personality of be really fond of. Would there ever be be some one who would fill him with be just as pleasant." "Pleasanter for be helped. I quite understand what you be something tragic in a friendship so be hidden away at all costs. He could be afraid of, there. Yet he thought it be on his guard. Speaking very slowly, be covered with cobwebs if you go be to the painted image on the be always alive. He shuddered, and be annihilated. Regret, denial, or be got rid of at once. He must not be be allowed to know where the picture be of any service to you. Which is be no difficulty, sir," said the genial be hidden away. How little he had be so full of shame. Some love might be already stirring in spirit and in be foolish or gross, as the mouths of be the wrinkled throat, the cold, be concealed. There was no help for be sure to miss the picture - had no be at the club at eight-fifteen. He be more accurate to say that he never be of the company of those whom be but a preparation. Fashion, by be something more than a mere be consulted on the wearing of a be the dominant characteristic. As he be , as Lord Henry had prophesied, a be experience itself, and not the fruits be . Of the asceticism that deadens the be , that our eyelids might open some be changed, or have other secrets, a be the true object, or amongst the be at once new and delightful, and be really alien to his nature, abandon be of any importance compared with be able to expel melancholy from the be found, either in the tombs of be heard, it is said, at a distance of be said never to have left him. He be thrown into a magical sleep and be affected only by the blood of kids. be wanted for a feast; the mortuary be to him means of forgetfulness, be almost too great to be borne. be borne. Upon the walls of the be long out of England, and gave up be separated from the picture that be placed upon the door. He was be stolen? The mere thought made be told that the man who has given be said for his view. For the canons be , the same as the canons of art. - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to Hylas; Ezzelin, whose melancholy could sickened and grown strange, could only you for ages. But I suppose you will back soon?" "No: I am going to have something to say to you." "I shall nowadays. At least nothing should -and-seltzer myself. There is sure to of myself to-night. I should like to itself across a man's face. It cannot or invite you to theirs? You used to man whom no pure-minded girl should has in his veins, how could his record That is the reason why I want you to in London. Are they true? Can they shrug your shoulders like that. Don't You have a wonderful influence. Let it was the origin of all his shame was to answer to my question." "That shall met me, flattered me, and taught me to done with your life, why, you must those who talk against you fancy you to and examined it. The surface seemed to The prayer of your repentance will a verse somewhere, 'Though your sins with coarse turquoises. Perhaps it might by his servant, and questions would bag and coat in the corner. They must his curious reserved habits, it would be months before any suspicions would be roused. Months! Everything could not one of them. It was a thing to thing to be driven out of the mind, to mind, to be drugged with poppies, to As one read them, one seemed to in its lonely sunless exile and longs to him. What if Alan Campbell should attraction that Dorian seemed to played there, and after that used to unbearable. Time seemed to him to concern me. I entirely decline to it so that not a vestige of it will the present moment he is supposed to is supposed to be in Paris. He will not months. When he is missed, there must you. You deserve it all. I should not in the matter, you are certain to before. Indeed, to destroy a body must I am lost; and it is sure to send it. You know what the result will into this fever. The thing has to on the mantelpiece seemed to him to each of which was too terrible to No trouble, sir. At what time shall I "It will Now, Alan, there is not a moment to "How horrid of Henry Wotton to was some consolation that Harry was to he is afraid to tell me for fear I should elevating his eyebrows. "It can only I shall have to marry again so as to be twisted with disdain. Delicate lace be cured only by the spectacle of be soothed by Saracen cards painted be back soon?" "No: I am going to be out of England for six months. I be charmed. But won't you miss your be ." Hallward shook his head, as he be some in the next room." "Thanks, I be somebody else." "It is about be concealed. People talk sometimes be a friend of Lord Staveley. I met be allowed to know, and whom no be clean? You ask me about Henry be fine. You have not been fine. One be true? When I first heard them, I be so indifferent. You have a be for good, not for evil. They say be burdened for the rest of his life be given to you upstairs. I could not be vain of my good looks. One day be worse even than those who talk be !" He held the light up again to be quite undisturbed and as he had be answered also. I worshipped you be as scarlet, yet I will make them as be missed by his servant, and be asked. He hesitated for a moment, be hidden away somewhere. He be months before any suspicions be roused. Months! Everything could be destroyed long before then. A be driven out of the mind, to be be drugged with poppies, to be be strangled lest it might strangle one be floating down the green water-ways be back by the hot, lotus-covered be out of England? Days would be able to exercise whenever he be always seen together at the opera be crawling with feet of lead, while be mixed up in your life. Keep your be left. Nobody saw this person come be in Paris. He will not be missed for be missed for months. When he is be no trace of him found here. You, be sorry to see you disgraced, be arrested. Nobody ever commits a be far less horrible than what you are be discovered unless you help me." "I be . But you are going to help me. It be done. Face it, and do it." A be dividing time into separate atoms be borne. He felt as if an iron ring be back?" Dorian looked at Campbell. be time enough, then, if you are back be lost. How heavy this chest is! I'll be so late! I sent round to him this be there, and when the door opened be jealous. He is quite right. I be the next world. This world and I be in the fashion." "You will never - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 for your defects, where would you all you all be? Not one of you would ever you would ever be married. You would that I had been; but you are made to ages, slightly edited. But nothing must be done in a hurry. I want it to alliance, and I want you both to " exclaimed Lord Henry. "A man can like to meet, though. I want it to he jovially termed it - was shown to on the twentieth." "Is Monmouth to type." "I don't know if he will The duchess is coming." "I will try to still. Things that were dangerous had to of even touching them. Yet it had to sir," answered the man, "you will where the memory of old sins could that were dreadful, horrible, not to forgetfulness. In three days he would muttered Dorian. "Where else should I Singleton troubled him. He wanted to Yes." "That mad-cat is sure to "Prince Charming is what you like to the ruin of that young life was really to as every cell of the brain, seems to said, looking at him sternly. "Let this s life. The man whose life I want must delightful idea." "But I don't want to name, and I am sure Mr. Gray should who could call a spade a spade should I admit that I think that it is better to that it is better to be beautiful than to I am to acknowledge that it is better to that it is better to be good than to It is too true." "You need not to nine and tell her that I must one produces gives one an enemy. To one an enemy. To be popular one must " "If he were not, there would to his flowers, Gladys." "That would "I would rather come down. I must not before one! What sort of life would his gone to the open. I dare say it will I suppose. My dear fellow, it can't I must tell them that the subject is to want. There is no one who would not on purpose, how interesting he would He shook his head. "Knowledge would "If so, I should not like them to shuddered. He felt that his could not your telling me that you are going to said Lord Henry, smiling, "anybody can to me now that they should ever moods. Do you think this girl will ever of her own rank? I suppose she will to despise her husband, and she will is really a sort of sin. I want to I want to be better. I am going to I suppose in about a fortnight we shall but every one who disappears is said to to be seen at San Francisco. It must be ? Not one of you would ever be be married. You would be a set of be a set of unfortunate bachelors. be good - you look so good. I must be done in a hurry. I want it to be be what The Morning Post calls a be happy." "What nonsense people be happy with any woman, as long as be a delightful gathering." "I like be the proper bulwark for society. A be there, too?" "Oh, yes, Harry be able to come, Harry. He may have be there, Harry," he said, leaving the be destroyed. He winced. He hated be done. He realized that, and when be there in an hour," and after his be destroyed by the madness of sins be endured. On and on plodded the be free. Suddenly the man drew up be ?" he answered, listlessly. "None of be where no one would know who he be there. They won't have her in this be called, ain't it?" she yelled after him be laid at his door, as Basil be instinct with fearful impulses. Men be a warning to you not to take be nearly forty now. This one is little be rechristened, Harry," rejoined the be satisfied with his." "My dear be compelled to use one. It is the be beautiful than to be good. But on be good. But on the other hand, no be good than to be ugly." "Ugliness is be ugly." "Ugliness is one of the be afraid. Our countrymen never be dressed by half-past eight." "How be popular one must be a mediocrity. be a mediocrity." "Not with women," be no battle." "Greek meets Greek, be a premature surrender." "Romantic be alone." He went to his room and be if, day and night, shadows of his be better after lunch, when we get to be helped. It was the man's own fault. be tabooed. As for omens, there is be delighted to change places with be ! I should like to know some one be fatal. It is the uncertainty that be left in want, and will send them be the hand to take the handkerchief be good," cried Lord Henry, dipping be good in the country. There are be found together. For I have a new be really content now with any one of be married some day to a rough be wretched. From a moral point of be better. I am going to be better. be better. Tell me something about be told that he has been seen in San be seen at San Francisco. It must be be a delightful city, and possess all - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 a man can paint like Velasquez and yet papers do. It does not seem to me to an ideal. When you and he ceased to ceased to be great friends, he ceased to intentions that always entitles a man to asked you because I thought you might The soul is a terrible reality. It can and sold, and bartered away. It can "Ah! then it must of romance. How grave you are! Don't except take exercise, get up early, or I wonder what the rest of your life will before." "It is because I am going to Lord Henry. "You and I will always beginning to moralize. You will soon You and I are what we are, and will what we are, and will be what we will tired of Gladys? I thought you would one's nerves. Well, in any case, I met you." "Very well. I shall remembered how pleased he used to but "Smite us for our iniquities" should never again tempt innocence. He would if his life became pure, he would moment about his lips. Yes, he would he had hidden away would no longer was to confess? To give himself up and dog him all his life? Was he always to and when that was dead, he would without its hideous warnings, he would 1 pale-yellow wine from a delicate, gold- 1 2 his hand over his forehead. There were the Hadjis sit counting their amber 1 going his rounds and flashing the long 1 who met them at the door was 1 work from a distance. In the slanting be as dull as possible. Basil was be at all probable. I know there are be great friends, he ceased to be a be a great artist. What was it be called a representative British be able to give me an answer. That is be bought, and sold, and bartered be poisoned, or made perfect. There be an illusion. The things one feels be so serious. What have you or I to be respectable. Youth! There is be . Don't spoil it by renunciations. At be good," he answered, smiling. "I am be friends." "Yet you poisoned me be going about like the converted, and be what we will be. As for being be . As for being poisoned by a book, be . Her clever tongue gets on one's be here at eleven." "Must I really be here at eleven," said Dorian. be when he was pointed out, or stared be the prayer of man to a most just be good. As he thought of Hetty be able to expel every sign of evil be good, and the hideous thing that be a terror to him. He felt as if the be put to death? He laughed. He felt be burdened by his past? Was he be free. It would kill this monstrous be at peace. He seized the thing, and - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 beaded 1 beaded bubble of Venetian glass and - CH. 9 beads of perspiration there. He felt beads and the turbaned merchants - CH. 9 - CH. 14 beam of his lantern on the doors of - CH. 13 beads 2 beam 1 beaming 1 beaming from ear to ear with an oily - CH. 7 beams that streamed through the open - CH. 2 bear the burden of a beauty so bear him when he sulks. Besides, I bear ." And she ran across the room bear this marriage, and yet it seemed bear to think of it! I wish I had never bear it. Oh! don't go away from me bear the burden of his passions and bear sorrow than men. They lived on bear your shutting yourself up like this. bear the idea of my soul being bear it! But be quick. Tell me bear the burden of his shame: that was - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 beams 1 bear 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 branches seemed hardly able to one of his sulky moods, and I can't she cried. "You are a dreadful old was a gloom over him. He could not Why, once ... Oh, I can't Don't go away from me. I couldn't untarnished, and the face on the canvas Besides, women were better suited to Let me in at once. I can't I want to be good. I can't Sibyl - ? Oh, Harry, I can't all these things. The portrait was to 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 turning point in his art. He could not certainly laugh at me. I could not at the misshapen shadow that had to rule the world. I assure you we can't the imagination that made each crime too hideous a burden for him to round her, like Ophelia?" "I can't he had prayed that the portrait should 1 Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown 1 and were figured with "lions, panthers, 1 2 man who could wrong her would be a could wrong her would be a beast, a 1 the desert and giving to the hermit the 1 2 3 monstrous lutes, while grinning Negroes the ticking of the clock was like the for about a hundred yards. The driver 1 two vibrating tongues of wood and is 1 2 worse. "Good heavens! I have hit a The dreadful death of the unlucky 1 2 in the wood, the hoarse cries of the of course. It does not do to pepper 1 2 3 4 if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart over him. He felt as if his heart was A great copper-breasted pheasant came as if his heart had suddenly stopped 1 night and Portia the other. The joy of 1 back our youth. The pulse of joy that 1 occasioned by the sudden decay of a 1 summer's ripening breath May prove a 1 2 The artist is the creator of or a new material his impression of bear the idea of reproaching him any bear your doing either of those two bear the burden that should have bear mediocrities. We women, as bear its misshapen brood. In the bear . The dreadful death of the bear this, Harry! You mock at bear the burden of his days, and he - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 beard 1 beard and tapped the toe of his - CH. 1 bears 1 bears , dogs, forests, rocks, hunters - - CH. 11 beast 2 beast , a beast without a heart. I cannot beast without a heart. I cannot - CH. 6 - CH. 6 beasts of the field as his companions. - CH. 11 beat monotonously upon copper beat of a hammer. As the chime beat at them with his whip. It is said - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 beaten with sticks that are smeared - CH. 11 beater !" exclaimed Sir Geoffrey. "What beater , shot in the thicket like a wild - CH. 18 - CH. 18 beaters ringing out from time to time, beaters . It makes people think that - CH. 18 - CH. 18 beating , and wondered what was beating itself to death in some empty beating through the boughs overhead. beating . "A sailor?" he cried out. " - CH. 1 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows - CH. 7 beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. - CH. 2 beasts 1 beat 3 beaten 1 beater 2 beaters 2 beating 4 beatrice 1 beats 1 beau 1 beau that had once, apparently, been - CH. 11 beauteous 1 beauteous flower when next we meet - - CH. 7 beautiful 44 beautiful things. To reveal beautiful things. The highest - THE PREFACE - THE PREFACE 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Those who find ugly meanings in This is a fault. Those who find Those who find beautiful meanings in is hope. They are the elect to whom quite sure of that. He is some brainless cried Hallward. "An artist should create that he was very earnest and had a he said. "He has a simple and a delightful contrast. And he had such a be so? ... You have a wonderfully christening. She was an extraordinarily told me so. And ... his mother was very she pretty?" "She behaves as if she was a strange, almost modern romance. A It was delightful to watch him. With his him. With his beautiful face, and his he was riding home, he was to see the Oh, she is better than good - she is and orange-bitters. "Dorian says she is to me. Dorian Gray falls in love with a they can afford nothing but self-denial. but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like everything that she had to say. The and put on his coat. "She is quite to the beauty of Sibyl Vane. She is thought them real. You came - oh, my thing, and Dorian Gray, with his so. Yet it was watching him, with its together. His life with her would be meets! There is something to me quite wise, and that thinks too much to be one for all the miseries of life. I love he would throw open to the world his when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's of the ruin that time brought on he had stored away many rare and enamels, were pictured the awful and he could realize his conception of the up and down the room, looking like a know him." "The husbands of very that I think that it is better to be understand what I mean. She was quite beautiful things are corrupt - THE PREFACE beautiful meanings in - THE PREFACE beautiful things are the - THE PREFACE beautiful things mean only - THE PREFACE beautiful creature who should be - CH. 1 beautiful things, but should put nothing - CH. 1 beautiful nature. I at once pictured to - CH. 1 beautiful nature. Your aunt was quite - CH. 1 beautiful voice. After a few moments - CH. 2 beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don't frown. - CH. 2 beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux, and - CH. 3 beautiful ?" "Margaret Devereux was one - CH. 3 beautiful . Most American women do. It - CH. 3 beautiful woman risking everything for - CH. 3 beautiful face, and his beautiful soul, - CH. 4 beautiful soul, he was a thing to - CH. 4 beautiful heiress being carried off by a - CH. 5 beautiful ," murmured Lord Henry, - CH. 6 beautiful , and he is not often wrong - CH. 6 beautiful girl who acts Juliet, and - CH. 6 Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, - CH. 6 beautiful things, are the privilege of - CH. 6 beautiful passage - Thou knowest the - CH. 7 beautiful , Dorian," he said, "but she - CH. 7 beautiful . What more can you want?" - CH. 7 beautiful love! - and you freed my soul - CH. 7 beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and - CH. 7 beautiful marred face and its cruel - CH. 7 beautiful and pure. He got up from his - CH. 7 beautiful about her death. I am glad I - CH. 8 beautiful . We cannot spare you. And - CH. 8 beautiful things that one can touch and - CH. 9 beautiful house and have the most - CH. 11 beautiful sorrows, and the mighty - CH. 11 beautiful and wonderful things. He, at - CH. 11 beautiful specimens of what is really - CH. 11 beautiful forms of those whom vice - CH. 11 beautiful . - CH. 11 beautiful caged thing. He took long - CH. 14 beautiful women belong to the - CH. 15 beautiful than to be good. But on the - CH. 17 beautiful and wonderfully like Sibyl - CH. 19 beautifully 1 1 Koran. Its supports were of silver gilt, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 to whom beautiful things mean only hardly able to bear the burden of a a young man of extraordinary personal intellectual expression and all that. But expression and all that. But beauty, real she is a peacock in everything but what I have done of him, or that his We have lost the abstract sense of no doubt that genius lasts longer than Gray. Don't frown. You have. And smile.... People say sometimes that not so superficial as thought is. To me, and fully. When your youth goes, your of his words. The sense of his own beautifully chased, and profusely set - CH. 11 beauty 55 beauty . There is no such - THE PREFACE beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now - CH. 1 beauty , and in front of it, some little - CH. 1 beauty , real beauty, ends where an - CH. 1 beauty , ends where an intellectual - CH. 1 beauty ," said Lord Henry, pulling the - CH. 1 beauty is such that art cannot express - CH. 1 beauty . Some day I will show the world - CH. 1 beauty . That accounts for the fact that - CH. 1 beauty is a form of genius - is higher, - CH. 2 beauty is only superficial. That may be - CH. 2 beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is - CH. 2 beauty will go with it, and then you - CH. 2 beauty came on him like a revelation. - CH. 2 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 " "I am jealous of everything whose and the white purity of boyhood, and a toy. What a pity it was that such should sympathize with the colour, the the English have the least sense of the dined together, about the search for that pathos left you unmoved, but that you unmoved, but that beauty, mere but whose sorrows stir one's sense of one, if she can create the sense of will smoke cigarettes and drink to the the perfume of the flowers, and their and the portrait grow old; that his own It had taught him to love his own a wonderful play. It has all the terrible that possesses artistic elements of crosses our lives. If these elements of sat before the portrait wondering at its uselessness of martyrdom, all its wasted on the canvas. They would mar its not that mere physical admiration of round in person. I have just got a most dearly valued. For the wonderful more and more enamoured of his own themselves perfect by the worship of to assert the absolute modernity of spirituality, of which a fine instinct for of a romantic play with the wit and got from her. He had got from her his her his beauty, and his passion for the child and minion of Sixtus IV, whose not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous me that revealed to me the wonder of arts, and whatever little sense of the not of your spear." "I never tilt against error, Harry, believe me. You value to himself. Then he loathed his own splinters beneath his heel. It was his was his beauty that had ruined him, his His the wonder of his exquisite youth and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 and tedious academicians, I suddenly of us could help laughing, and we understood them now. Life suddenly a philosophy, and philosophy herself to fall singly upon one's ear. Then it How wonderful the whole world for he made no other observation, she could win. After some time she round. There was pity in her eyes that and the crowded flaring streets worse as she went on. Her gestures To-night, for the first time, I going to lead, to quarrel with him if it to do." "But suppose, Harry, I to do, almost died of ennui, and brain, and power, by you. You over the leaves. After a few minutes he were so strangely blended, beauty does not die. I am jealous of beauty such as old Greek marbles kept beauty was destined to fade! ... And beauty , the joy of life. The less said beauty of literature." "I fear you are beauty being the real secret of life. I beauty , mere beauty, could fill your beauty , could fill your eyes with tears. beauty , and whose wounds are like red beauty in people whose lives have beauty of Sibyl Vane. She is beautiful. beauty seemed to bring him an beauty might be untarnished, and the beauty . Would it teach him to loathe beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in beauty crosses our lives. If these beauty are real, the whole thing simply beauty , almost enamoured of it, as it beauty . But, as I was saying, you must beauty and eat away its grace. They beauty that is born of the senses and beauty of a frame, sir. Picked it up at beauty that had so fascinated Basil beauty , more and more interested in beauty ." Like Gautier, he was one for beauty , had, of course, their beauty was to be the dominant beauty that make such plays beauty , and his passion for the beauty beauty of others. She laughed at him beauty was equalled only by his beauty . There was still some gold in beauty . In a mad moment that, even beauty of poetry he possessed he had beauty ," he said, with a wave of his beauty far too much." "How can you beauty , and flinging the mirror on beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had beauty had been to him but a mask, beauty . Lying on the floor was a dead - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 became became became became became became became became became became became became became became became became became became - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 became 30 conscious that some one was friends at once." "Laughter is fiery-coloured to him. It young, and catching the mad a little louder, and sounded to one! To note the curious intolerable to her. She began silent. Suddenly she caught a laughter on her lips. She shook blurred to his eyes. When the absurdly artificial. She conscious that the Romeo was necessary to quarrel, to part if haggard, and old, and wrinkled? a confirmed misanthrope. And to me the visible incarnation absorbed. It was the strangest to him a kind of prefiguring 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 mode of life crept through London and the world. Men who talked grossly manner and went out. Curious stories their trade. His extraordinary absences the square. The gas-lamps flickered and think about what had happened until it the clock. As the minutes went by he were curiously cold. The suspense opened it. As he read it, his face some sprawling spider. The monotony to him because it made things real, as it had been? Perhaps if his life 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 No, you did not. You said it was have ever done. And why is it so? his portrait?" asked Lord Henry. " the scientific point of view." "Why?" " you, Mr. Gray." "Why?" " I can't, Basil." "Why?" " whom the outside world called selfish herself, Dryadlike and not afraid, a few puffs. "Why, Harry?" " marry at all, Dorian. Men marry marry because they are tired; women, only thing worth loving is an actress?" " I know why I love him. I love him about our father. But it only pains you terror. We think that we are generous simply produce no effect. I loved you loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, to improve. Don't be cruel to me, a great artist, had given his love to her if you like. Put ashes on your head was strangled. Cry out against Heaven the night you saw her - she acted badly a pity that was all the more poignant had remained savage and animal merely leaves a room when I enter it. It is I know everything about his life, not country life. They get up early, much to do, and go to bed early, cannot understand it." "It is simply her girdle. She told me she didn't, When a woman marries again, it is When a man marries again, it is that had once been hateful to him Mr. Gray, I assure you. Usually "Why?" said the younger man wearily. " his eyebrows in surprise, "I asked you had ever heard from it before." "It is idolatrous words: "The world is changed became became became became became became became became became became became became the chatter of the clubs silent when Dorian Gray current about him after he notorious, and, when he used blue, and the leafless trees absolutely necessary that he horribly agitated. At last he unbearable. Time seemed to ghastly pale and he fell back unbearable, and as the mist dear to him now for that very pure, he would be able to - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 20 because 39 because there was too much of yourself Because , while I was painting it, Dorian Because , without intending it, I have Because to influence a person is to Because you have the most marvellous Because I have promised Lord Henry because it derived no particular benefit because in his soul who sought for her Because they are so sentimental." "But because they are tired; women, because because they are curious: both are Because I have loved so many of because he is like what love himself because you loved him so much. Don't because we credit our neighbour with because you were marvellous, because because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of because I love you better than because he had thought her great. because Cordelia was strangled. Cry because the daughter of Brabantio died. because she had known the reality of because it was purely selfish. But because the world had sought to because I know everything about his because he knows anything about because they have so much to do, because they have so little to think because she remembers you when because none of them had had any because she detested her first because he adored his first wife. because it made things real, became because I come in at ten minutes to Because ," said Lord Henry, passing because I thought you might be able because I am going to be good," he because you are made of ivory and - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 Beckenham , the companion of the - CH. 11 beckenham 1 1 Ferrars. What of the second Lord 1 2 3 You really must not allow yourself to your lilies and your roses. You will his soul would mar his body. He would become 28 become sunburnt. It would be become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth. - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 it on the tight rope. When the verities I wish you would tell me how to Even those that are born in England - a great distinction. Most people false theatrical gestures that so often to have more than one life. They her for six months, and then suddenly I regret all that you have taught me. I their coarse faces and brutal gestures, or they to care for me. They have mood to which he yielded? Was it to rate reveal, is still more to me. To face to face, and that the world had was in store for it. The cheeks would in the thought that he might really and social position fully entitled him to Frenchman you used to have. What has you corrupt every one with whom you certainly true. Every day he seemed to and the air seemed to him to have The wood seemed to him to have on myself. My own personality has "I am tired of strawberry leaves." "They fibre of his body. Life had suddenly habit bores have. By the way, what has become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become become acrobats, we can judge them." young again." He thought for a foreigners after a time, don't bankrupt through having a mode of second nature to a more highly organized, and to fascinated by some one else. different from what you have quite different when she is on stout and tedious, and when I a monstrous and loathsome the spectator of one's own life, wonderful to my eyes - too hollow or flaccid. Yellow to the London of his own a member, and it was said of the Frenchman, by the bye? intimate, and that it is quite more interested in biology, suddenly colder. Oh! in what suddenly alive with faces. a burden to me. I want to you." "Only in public." "You too hideous a burden for him of that wonderful portrait he - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 becomes becomes becomes becomes becomes becomes becomes all nose, or all forehead, or an echo of some one else's sluggish. Our limbs fail, our dreadfully dowdy, or wears for a moment universal, and of your simile about the a pleasure if one does it - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 becoming , as it were, refined, and becoming , Duchess," remarked Lord becoming self-conscious. It was becoming absolutely absorbed for the - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 11 bed of asphodel. She dragged it out bed made for her of black velvet bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was bed , as he let me out. I am off bed .... Paris! Yes. It was to Paris that bed early, because they have so little bed early." "Do stay. You have never bed , and threw himself down on the - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 bedroom , a large octagonal chamber bedroom , where his valet was already bedroom . As midnight was striking - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 15 beds across the road flamed like beds , the gardeners would have - CH. 5 - CH. 18 becomes 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 moment one sits down to think, one such things as sins, are borrowed. He pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty that out about her husband, she either by which what is really fantastic sins, then?" cried the duchess. "What Don't tell me that." "Oh! anything 1 2 3 4 the mere shapes and patterns of things face without a blush." "A blush is very of youth were in him, but he was always had an extraordinary faculty of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 future. I had buried my romance in a " Catherine de Medicis had a mourningfeet high in his apartment. The state tired servant and told him to go to at Selby Royal. His valet had gone to they have so much to do, and go to is nearly eleven, and I want to go to waiting up for him. He sent him to 1 2 3 the library towards the door of his as he did so, and passed into his doors as he did so, and went into his 1 2 amidst a crowd of watchers. The tulipfoot-marks been found on the flower- becoming 4 bed 8 bedroom 3 beds 2 bedside 1 1 table that always stood at his 1 2 3 from his hand upon the gravel. A furry calls on us to yield. After a time the warm air seemed laden with spices. A bedside and began to dress for dinner. - CH. 10 bee came and buzzed round it for a bee flew away. He saw it creeping into bee flew in and buzzed round the - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 8 been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been been - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 bee 3 been 236 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 I have gone there, there have either so many people that I have not or so many pictures that I have not for being civilized. Well, after I had I am by nature. I have always my own master; had at least always was my motive - and it may have a great success at the time, at least had in a tragic whisper which must have forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has he gone to his aunt's, he would have and the whole conversation would have old Oxford friend of mine. I have just his cigarette-case. The painter had music, an actor of a part that has not made monstrous and unlawful. It has some secret chord that had never so real as words? Yes; there had to him. It seemed to him that he had the eyes. I don't know what Harry has wonderful expression. I suppose he has that he says." "He has certainly not keep Dorian too long. I have never drinking in their perfume as if it had ashamed of being afraid. Why had it Yes, Mr. Gray, the gods have He felt as if a hand of ice had it existed." "And you know you have place. Good-bye, Basil. It has who amused him. His father had passion for pleasure. The son, who had the fellow spitted his man as if he had Gray's parentage. Crudely as it had blow.... And how charming he had his soul who sought for her there had "I wish to goodness it never had "Perhaps, after all, America never has "I myself would say that it had merely how to laugh, history would have dresses always looked as if they had doesn't it? You have never ideas are quite different. But he has looking like a bird of paradise that had of nuts going on." "It must have and doublet and dainty cap. She has and bitter herbs to taste of. She has with him, and told him that Juliet had Sibyl Vane?" "The third night. She had or sup together every day, and I have He had purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had anything but your acting. Mr. Isaacs has either so many people that I have able to see the pictures, which able to see the people, which was in the room about ten minutes, my own master; had at least so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then pride, for I used to be very chattered about in the penny perfectly audible to everybody in to me. The merely visible sure to have met Lord about the feeding of the poor telling him what a capital sitter busy mixing his colours and written for him. The aim of life said that the great events of the touched before, but that he felt things in his boyhood that he had walking in fire. Why had he not saying to you, but he has paying you compliments. You paying me compliments. Perhaps in better form for painting than I wine. He came close to him and left for a stranger to reveal him good to you. But what the gods laid upon his heart. "Don't you a little silly, Mr. Gray, and that a most interesting afternoon." As our ambassador at Madrid when his father's secretary, had a pigeon. The thing was hushed told to him, it had yet stirred at dinner the night before, as wakened that wonderful vision to discovered at all!" she exclaimed. discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I detected." "Oh! but I have seen different." "You are really very designed in a rage and put on in to any of my parties, have you, most pleasant. I am so glad I've out all night in the rain, she just like the palmy days of the mad, and has come into the innocent, and the black hands of dead for hundreds of years and playing Rosalind. I could not help to the opera with you several always enthralled by the methods transformed by the workings of very good to us, and we owe 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 is a very large sum. Mr. Isaacs has gold, the largest nugget that had ever He remembered it as if it had you leave me happier than I have ever than I have ever been before. Life has up. I would, if my articles hadn't he had a right to know. It should have a direct answer. The situation had not conscious that a great opportunity had room at the Bristol where dinner had by the hand in turn. "I have never to me to be the one thing I have It seemed to me that all my life had then I can do what I like. I have He drove off by himself, as had never again be to him all that he had had come to look for Miranda and had of beauty in people whose lives have for you. Without her you would have precision of a schoolgirl who has was to love you! What a fool I have began to eat them listlessly. They had curious Renaissance tapestries that had the mouth as clearly as if he had studio the day the picture had boyhood. Surely his wish had not cruelty in the mouth. Cruelty! Had he she had disappointed him. She had he had watched her. Why had he made like that? Why had such a soul more than he had. Poor child! He had them was from Lord Henry, and had to a light French breakfast that had the portrait really changed? Or had it him see a look of evil where there had When the coffee and cigarettes had how unjust, how cruel, he had finished the letter, he felt that he had first passionate love-letter should have had married this girl, you would have the social mistake, which would have in any case the whole thing would have a great part, but by which I have not who have adored me - there have not not been very many, but there have how different Sibyl Vane must have talk again of what has happened. It has Poor Sibyl! What a romance it had all his choice. Or had his choice already really under his control? Had it indeed dear to him, and his personality had anything about this. It would have of your own face. And it had all presence, it seemed to me that I had And now good-bye, Dorian. You have strange it was that, instead of having such a risk of discovery again. It had you go into it. Why, it hasn't reproaches about Sibyl Vane had well-proportioned room, which had in the grandfather who had been most considerate." "He is not a been discovered, and bring it down to been the lash of a hunting-crop across been before. Life has been hard for us been hard for us both, terribly hard been signed." "Oh, don't be so serious been told to him before, if it was as he been gradually led up to. It was crude. been wasted. She consoled herself by been laid for three. "No, Harry," been so happy. Of course, it is sudden been looking for all my life." He was been narrowed to one perfect point of been right, Basil, haven't I, to take been arranged, and watched the been in the past. Life had come been met by Caliban. Lord Henry, been sordid and ugly, if she can strip been incomplete." "Thanks, Basil," been taught to recite by some been ! You are nothing to me now. I been plucked at midnight, and the been discovered stored in a disused been looking into a mirror after he been finished. Yes, he remembered it been fulfilled? Such things were been cruel? It was the girl's fault, not been shallow and unworthy. And, yet, been made like that? Why had such a been given to him? But he had been selfish and cruel to her. The been brought by hand that morning. been laid out for him on a small been simply his own imagination that been a look of joy? Surely a painted been brought and the man turned to been to Sibyl Vane. It was not too been forgiven. Suddenly there came a been addressed to a dead girl. Can been wretched. Of course, you would been abject - which, of course, I would been an absolute failure." "I suppose it been wounded." "It is an interesting been very many, but there have been been some - have always insisted on been from all the women one meets! been a marvellous experience. That is been ! She had often mimicked death been made? Yes, life had decided that been prayer that had produced the been the great turning point in his art. been impossible. You would not have been what art should be - unconscious, been foolish in imagining that I had been the one person in my life who been forced to reveal his own secret, been mad of him to have allowed the been opened for nearly five years been ! - how shallow, and of what been specially built by the last Lord been so stern to him in his boyhood. - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 after five o'clock and that the tea had edition of The St. James's Gazette had wormed out of them what they had doubt missed it already, while he had the tea-things. The screen had not He had heard of rich men who had of a beau that had once, apparently, the author of the Satyricon once had senses has often, and with much justice, the true nature of the senses had never by a feeling of loss. So much had and to such little purpose! There had the art of those whose minds have them lies the half-cut book that we had at the ball, or the letter that we had some morning upon a world that had healthy, normal or diseased. Yet, as has even youths may not see till they have mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had sapphires. How exquisite life had once gods fought against the giants, that had and jewelled medallions. It had to bear the burden that should have to town to see that the door had not year. It was rumoured that he had however, that some of those who had at his feet. What had this man's legacy were so overladen with rings. He had had created it for him, as it had in some mysterious way their lives had and purple drawn by silver-shod mules, by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had from Lord Henry's, where he had an extraordinary piece of luck! I have I want you to be fine. You have not are other stories - stories that you have said it for your good. You know I have The room looked as if it had not together. The prayer of your pride has came over him, as though it had and long fantastic arms. Had it not simply asleep. How quickly it had all portrait to which all his misery had for what he had done. There had cheek. He looked like a boy who had across his lips, as though he had had not dreamed at all. His night had and dotted pomegranates. It had or almost everything. Basil had was of vital importance. They had noticed the gesture with which he had dead man is seated at a table. He has just conscious that the dead man had in the room. But the thing that had so little to think about. There has not murmured Dorian, smiling, "I have not cried the old lady. "If he had and I sometimes wish that I had porcelain feet, if you like. They have had experiences." "How long has she ten years with Monmouth must have been already brought up. On a little been placed on the tea-tray. It was been doing. He would be sure to been laying the tea-things. The screen been set back, and a blank space was been blackmailed all their lives by been so remarkable. It was with an been , yet in his inmost heart he been decried, men feeling a natural been understood, and that they had been surrendered! and to such little been mad wilful rejections, monstrous been troubled with the malady of been studying, or the wired flower been afraid to read, or that we had been refashioned anew in the been said of him before, no theory of been subjected to fasting and been enamoured of the pearl that the been ! How gorgeous in its pomp and been worked by brown girls for the been taken from the Turkish camp been his own. After a few years he been tampered with and that the been seen brawling with foreign been most intimate with him been ? Had the lover of Giovanna of been a macaroni of the eighteenth been in his brain and in his passions. been his own. The hero of the been carried through the Street of been poisoned by a book. There were been dining, and was wrapped in been waiting for you in your library been fine. One has a right to judge been seen creeping at dawn out of been always a stanch friend to you." been lived in for years. A faded been answered. The prayer of your been suggested to him by the image been for the red jagged tear in the been done! He felt strangely calm, been due had gone out of his life. been a madness of murder in the air. been tired out with play, or study. been lost in some delightful dream. been untroubled by any images of been given to him by Adrian been with him part of the time, and been great friends once, five years been greeted. "Yes: it is a matter of been dead ten hours now. Don't stir, been thrust back into the chair and been sitting at the table was gone. been a scandal in the neighbourhood been in love for a whole week - not, been , you would not have loved him, been ; but you are made to be good been through the fire, and what fire been married?" asked Dorian. 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Ugliness that had once room which looked as if it had once older indeed at all, than his sister had Gray drew a long breath. "You have a little while, a black shadow that had It was one of the women who had done great things." "Great things have often as possible." "Even when one has after a pause. "Especially when one has upon his heart. But perhaps it had That was all. Besides, had any stranger round the house, he would have or the keepers. Had any foot-marks would have reported it. Yes, it had youth had saved him. And yet if it had he had convinced himself that he had age is dull of hearing." "Has he never he never been jealous?" "I wish he had sunlight. The grass of the forest had Yes, sir. He looks as if he had trousers. A spotted handkerchief had broke from his lips. The man who had during this wonderful May that we have What is going on in town? I have not slightly. "My dear boy, they have only topic every three months. They have a fortnight we shall be told that he has ivory of the keys. After the coffee had Waterbury watch. Why should he have grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all anything outside of yourself! Life has hand through his hair. "Yes, life has us go to the club, then. It has lovely now. I don't think there have charm of the little village where he had thrush singing. And how pretty she had given horror to his fancy; that he had lives that had crossed his own, it had of eternal youth! All his failure had for those two things, his life might have His beauty had had not revealed the secret that he had borne with patience. The murder had As for Alan Campbell, his suicide had it was not still so horrible as it had to him. He felt as if the load had newly spilled. Then he trembled. Had it was the red stain larger than it had Everything belonging to him had He himself had burned what had Curiosity? Hypocrisy? Had there his renunciation than that? There had But who could tell? ... No. There had kept him awake at night. When he had night. When he had been away, he had marred many moments of joy. It had been doing. I always want to forget been doing. I came in at half-past two been lying, went over to it, and been spilled. What could atone for been hateful to him because it made been a third-rate dancing-saloon. Shrill been when they had parted so many been on the brink of committing a been creeping along the dripping wall been drinking at the bar. "Why didn't been thrust on us, Gladys." "We have been wounded by it, Harry?" asked been wounded by it," answered Lord been only his fancy that had called been prowling round the house, he been seen by the servants or the been found on the flower-beds, the been merely fancy. Sibyl Vane's been merely an illusion, how terrible been the victim of a terror-stricken been jealous?" "I wish he had been." been ." He glanced about as if in been spotted with blood. Then he been a sort of sailor; tattooed on been placed over the face. A coarse been shot in the thicket was James been having, I used to run down and been to the club for days." "The been talking about it for six weeks, been very fortunate lately, however. been seen in San Francisco. It is an been brought in, he stopped, and been murdered? He was not clever been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound been your art. You have set yourself been exquisite," he murmured, "but I been a charming evening, and we been such lilacs since the year I met been so often lately was that no one been in her cotton dresses and her been an evil influence to others, and been the fairest and the most full of been due to that. Better for him that been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth been forced to know. The excitement, been simply the madness of a been his own act. He had chosen to been ? Perhaps if his life became been lifted from him already. He been merely vanity that had made been ? It seemed to have crept like a been destroyed. He himself had been below-stairs. The world would been nothing more in his renunciation been something more. At least he been nothing more. Through vanity been away, he had been filled with been filled with terror lest other eyes been like conscience to him. Yes, it - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 236 like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it. - CH. 20 beer , and there was a terrible beer -barrel. Mercutio was almost as Beer , the Bible, and the seven deadly - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 17 bees shouldering their way through the bees that wrought in silver, and taking bees ; the fantastic robes that excited - CH. 1 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on - CH. 11 beetle that he had added to his - CH. 17 beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that - CH. 11 before I go, I insist on your answering before , but she took it into her head before . 'A dream of form in days of before . "And yet," continued Lord before , but that he felt was now before , he wondered whether Dorian before . Basil Hallward's compliments before it existed." "And you know you before Dorian, Harry." "Before which Before which Dorian? The one who is Before either." "I should like to come before , as with startled eyes and lips before he was thirty. His own before her like frightened forest things. before dawn when nightingales are before the curtain rises. You must see before seven. Shall you see Basil before her. To a large extent the lad before the veil was drawn away. before , if he is rich ..." "Ah! Mother Before a week was over he was to before he went to sleep. God was very before . Life has been hard for us both, before acting. Jim insisted that she before , if it was as he suspected. before . My lips moved towards hers. before I knew you, acting was the one before him, with the touch of cruelty before him. He felt perfectly happy. before it had concealed the secret of a before me. I want to be good. I can' before yesterday that seemed to me at before nine-thirty, I hope. Remember, before he had known of it himself. It before his very eyes, shuddering as he before the portrait wondering at its before the girl you loved has even the before . The lad was actually pallid with - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 beer 3 1 2 3 went about with oranges and gingerhusky tragedy voice, and a figure like a a good Tory, must not underrate them. 1 2 3 and motion. The sullen murmur of the like the work of some strange Egyptian Chilperic, with its three hundred golden 1 sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of 1 duke's description of the last Brazilian 1 and stitched over with iridescent bees 3 beethoven 1 beetle 1 beetles' 1 before 73 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 be going, Basil," he murmured, "and dearest friend. I had only met her once life in a way that was hidden from me lad's face that he had never seen there chord that had never been touched to him much that he had not known like a revelation. He had never felt it is yours, Dorian. I gave it to you really must not say things like that things like that before Dorian, Harry." " us, or the one in the picture?" " he had been at dinner the night said everything that he had to say slow Silenus for being sober. Facts fled tremulous ecstasy that one hears just Half-past six. We must be there It must be seven. No gentleman dines to this white girl and bowed in worship the mysteries of life were revealed more consideration. However, as I said go off at once to the gold-fields. mail, and to say his prayers each night me happier than I have ever been had to lie down for a couple of hours know. It should have been told to him eyes a look that I had never seen there "Dorian, Dorian," she cried, " them. And, yet, there was the picture filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood scanned it curiously, wondering if ever it, Harry, any more - at least not all, you said something to me the day "Good-bye. I shall see you received the news of Sibyl Vane's death he would see the change taking place him. Morning after morning he had sat charming, and of Patti singing divinely, He had never seen him like this 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 have to give it another coat of varnish I must get it arranged and put straight Was the face on the canvas viler than the world were passing in dumb show for dinner. It was almost nine o'clock the story of his own life, written of us who have not sometimes wakened diseased. Yet, as has been said of him had been taken from the Turkish camp and I particularly wanted to see you his portrait done. I had never seen him He told me. He told me right out Know you? I wonder do I know you? that he had brought up, some days reserved habits, it would be months Everything could be destroyed long had to touch him twice on the shoulder be out of England? Days would elapse had been great friends once, five years do is merely what you have often done Think of the position I am in. Just lying. He remembered that the night on the intricacies of the pattern Two of the people he had never seen ran off very early last night. You left suddenly seized from behind, and She raised her hand up to heaven. " I am telling the truth," she cried. " but hardly had he finished the sentence set the hideous shapes of punishment visible form, and make them move out of a drawer and spread it out men?" "No, sir. Never saw him than I had ever heard from it - more loathsome, if possible, than 1 2 3 4 5 a moment, and he started up. "I tedious for my unfortunate sitters. I promises. He always breaks his own. I quickly round and rose to his feet. "I told you too much as it is. But I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 fro in the languid air. A grasshopper a light on a dainty silver case and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it at the corner of the garden a thrush said the Radical member - and he from her thin lips, and her fingers I should fancy, and very depressing. I drop-scene was drawn up and the play Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he ceased, or the psychical impulse He became intolerable to her. She the air like a dagger. The people round Basil Hallward leaped to his feet and up a few bars of music, and the dance in the play. They got restless, and to accept any money for them, and before that, so I must see it some day, before you go into it. It is not fit for before ? It seemed to him that it was before him. Things that he had dimly before he reached the club, where he before he had lived it. In one point before dawn, either after one of those before , no theory of life seemed to before Vienna, and the standard of before I left. I thought it was you, or before , and had never heard anything before everybody. It was horrible! Before I could answer that, I should before , to cut a piece of cord, and had before any suspicions would be before then. A sudden thought struck before he woke, and as he opened before he could come back. Perhaps before - almost inseparable, indeed. before . Indeed, to destroy a body before you came I almost fainted with before he had forgotten, for the first before him. He heard Campbell before , and the others consisted of before eleven. What did you do before he had time to defend himself, Before God I am telling the truth," Before God?" "Strike me dumb if it before from the far end of the before him. Actual life was chaos, but before one! What sort of life would before him. "I suppose you have before . Seems like a sailor, sir." The before ." "It is because I am going to before - and the scarlet dew that - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 beg beg beg beg beg - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 14 beg 5 your pardon, Basil, but I didn't you to stay." "But what about my you not to go." Dorian Gray your pardon. I thought - " "You of you to do this. We were began 44 began to chirrup by the wall, and like began to smoke a cigarette with a began to scramble all over the oval began to sing. "You are glad you have began to give some wearisome facts. began to play with a long tortoise-shell began to wonder what on earth I began . Romeo was a stout elderly began to think. Certainly few people began ? How shallow were the arbitrary began to wonder whether we could began to complain. Women defend began to gape. A lady standing close began to applaud. Motionless, and as began . Through the crowd of ungainly, began to talk loudly and to whistle. began to eat them listlessly. They had - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 He threw himself into a chair and and they passed out into the hall and flung himself into an arm-chair and that always stood at his bedside and amateur curate for the moment always He passed out of the room and but the man did not move. Something stopped and peered back. Once, she minutes to two. He sat down and door very gently behind him. Then he Blue Book from one of the shelves and round, and leaning upon his elbow, as he was alone, he lit a cigarette and crawl over the green steaming mud; he horribly agitated. At last he got up and had required for his dreadful work. He and sat by Lord Henry. Mr. Chapman A cold rain faster. The hideous hunger for opium The man looked at her in terror and of them. The women sidled up and remember. Am I safe here, Harry?" He I am not going to do any more. I Henry strolled across the room and lids over black, glasslike eyes and down on the sofa in the library, and As he thought of Hetty Merton, he began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began began to think. Suddenly there flashed the ascent. The elaborate to turn over the leaves. After a to dress for dinner. It was by saying that, and then the ascent, Basil Hallward to trickle on the floor. He to sing in a hoarse voice. The to think. Every year - every ringing the bell. In about five to turn over the leaves. "Alan to sip his chocolate. The sketching upon a piece of to brood over those verses to pace up and down the to wonder if he and Basil to talk in a loud voice about to fall, and the blurred to gnaw at him. His throat to whimper. At the end of the to chatter. Dorian turned his to tremble. "My dear Dorian," my good actions yesterday." to stroke the head of a to sway backwards and to think over some of the to wonder if the portrait in - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 beggar . But their own souls starve, and - CH. 2 beggar 1 1 They feed the hungry and clothe the 1 already copied your neckties, and has 1 2 3 Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness. Children now. I know what conscience is, to you on it. But how are you going to begged 1 begged me to introduce him to you. - CH. 19 begin 3 begin by loving their parents; as they begin with. It is not what you told me begin ?" "By marrying Sibyl Vane." - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 beginning for a friendship, and it is far beginning to end. If a man is a beginning ." "Do you think my nature beginning to patch it. She felt a little beginning of our friendship, Dorian," beginning , with the aid of his beginning "Madame, je suis tout beginning to end, I shall believe you. beginning of faith." "What are you?" beginning of your reformation." beginning , it is poor. Besides, how do beginning to moralize. You will soon - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 begins . Intellect is in itself a mode of begins by deceiving one's self, and one begins with its climax." "I must keep - CH. 1 - CH. 4 - CH. 17 beginning 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 once." "Laughter is not at all a bad sir, are pure humbug from in store for you. This is merely the tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and as you have." "We are only at the sir," said the genial frame-maker, were embroidered the verses of a song that they are absolutely untrue from are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the and broke her heart. That was the of your great renunciation. Even as a harm." "My dear boy, you are really begins 3 1 2 3 ends where an intellectual expression day. When one is in love, one always a premature surrender." "Romantic art 1 and of no import. And so he had begun 4 begun by vivisecting himself, as he - CH. 4 2 3 4 that. Perhaps he had read it and had hunted, snared, tracked down, had what he was waiting for. Surely he had 1 Harry. What on earth induced her to 1 heart, and seriously think that he has 1 after politics." "Is she pretty?" "She 1 in the most amazing waistcoat I ever begun to suspect something. And, yet, begun to dominate him. If the begun it already. He had spared one - CH. 10 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 behave 1 behave as she did, I never could - CH. 3 behaved very badly to you. The next - CH. 1 behaves as if she was beautiful. Most - CH. 3 beheld in my life, was standing at the - CH. 4 behind them, the painter flung himself Behind every exquisite thing that behind her as, looking like a bird of behind the curtain and surveyed the behind the scenes and introduce me to behind , so I consented. It was curious behind to talk to her. Is that right? behind and spoke to her. As we were behind the scenes into the greenroom. behind it. Suddenly there had fallen behind him, he called him back. The behind and saw the horrible change? behind and see her, after the play was behind him, Dorian Gray touched the behind a pallid mask of chalk with behind a screen, you can't care much behind the screen. The man was quite behind the screen. Was the face on behind it was hanging the same behind . I know you and Harry are behind . They walked softly, as men behind you," he whispered, as he behind the wainscoting. There was a behind him, he seized it and turned behind the ear, crushing the man's behind him. Having reached the door, behind him, he crept quietly behind him. Then he began ringing behind him, putting his hand upon behind him. He turned and hurried behind a very shabby fan, one of her behind one's back that are absolutely behind , and before he had time to behind the trees there, watching me, behind Dorian, Lord Henry turned behind him, as was his custom, and - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 behold "all the chaste ladies of the - CH. 11 behaved 1 behaves 1 beheld 1 behind 36 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 afternoon." As the door closed said Lord Henry, shutting the door me in the face. I looked out from was over and offered to take me He seemed determined to take me every night to the theatre and goes After the performance was over, I went as it was over, Dorian Gray rushed that he had passed had left phantoms him to remain. As the door was closing chance, eyes other than his spied not your fault. Tell me, did you go Patti is singing." As he closed the door the blood crept from its face, and left out of town. And if you keep it always wondered if he had thought of peering and, holding it in his hands, passed his dog-eared schoolbooks. On the wall are smiling now. And there is worse ascent, Basil Hallward following close orange. He shuddered. "Shut the door was in holes. A mouse ran scuffling as he did so. As soon as he got dug the knife into the great vein that is and went back, closing the window wax image. Having locked the door out, shutting the door very gently turned round and came and stood "Leave me now," said a stern voice fact was, as she explained to Dorian, nowadays saying things against one he felt himself suddenly seized from heavens! don't you see a man moving As the glass door closed He went in quietly, locking the door 1 in the chamber of the queen one could 1 2 in beautiful things are corrupt without only one thing in the world worse than behold 1 being 63 being charming. This is a - THE PREFACE being talked about, and that is not - CH. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 being talked about, and that is not thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose." " stock-broker, can gain a reputation for think it really matters about your not he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of and that you don't really object to capricious moment of annoyance on not period he roundly abused them for shook her head, but could not help life, and mocked the slow Silenus for duchess, we shall all look on you as always late on principle, his principle look picturesque, but only succeeded in together, about the search for beauty "By this time, however, the lights were I am a little jealous of the picture for grumble. "Ah! but you don't like me. Besides, he has the appearance of some stranger. He had that dislike of A sailor's existence was dreadful. Fancy he was to see the beautiful heiress you." "I shudder at the thought of I have a distinct remembrance of but I have no recollection at all of them. They have the charm of know." "And I don't forgive you for one." "That is certainly better than he answered, toying with some fruits. " not nervousness. Indeed, so far from would be profanation for me to play at I can't bear the idea of my soul Besides, nothing makes one so vain as their masters, all the same. They love You can talk to me of other women your mind? You people who go in for a friend. Lord Henry had the charm of allowed to know where the picture was a plot and with only one character, Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art musical accompaniment of the words of one essence. To him, man was a know that the most dreadful things are of lives do these people, who pose as - and, indeed, exercised often without lead, while he by monstrous winds was no more, and horrible thoughts, time very stern and rather pale, his pallor borne. He felt as if an iron ring was was going downstairs, he heard the key Henry at last, as the chaud-froid was but I find him charming. He atones for occasionally somewhat overdressed by back now and then to see if he was steps in the passage and the chain to life itself. The consciousness of by which man can reach it. One is by One is by being cultured, the other by Country people have no opportunity of to his audience. It struck me as and will be what we will be. As for and had experienced a terrible joy in being talked about. A portrait like this Being natural is simply a pose, and being civilized. Well, after I had been being there. The audience probably being afraid. Why had it been left for being reminded that you are extremely being offered the Embassy at Paris, a being a pack of Radicals. He was a being amused. Mr. Erskine listened. being sober. Facts fled before her like being primarily responsible. But I being that punctuality is the thief of being untidy. Her name was Victoria, being the real secret of life. I don't being put out in the theatre, and I had being a whole month younger than I being kissed, Jim," she cried. "You are being rich, and the flowers he sends being stared at, which comes on being cooped up in a horrid ship, with being carried off by a robber on a being free." "I want you to beware of being married, but I have no being engaged. I am inclined to think being fashionable. But here is Dorian being late for dinner," broke in Lord being adored," he answered, toying Being adored is a nuisance. Women being nervous, she was absolutely being in love. You have made me see being hideous." "A very charming being told that one is a sinner. being dominated. I am sure you were being charming, and of Patti singing being consistent have just as many being very dangerous. But that was all. being taken to. There was something being , indeed, simply a psychological being , one might fancy, especially the being wrought in gold thread, and being with myriad lives and myriad being said against you in London." "I being moral, lead themselves? My being conscious of it. They had met being swept towards the jagged edge being dead, raced nimbly on in front, being intensified by his coal-black hair being slowly tightened round his being turned in the lock. It was long being handed round, "what is the being occasionally somewhat being always absolutely over-educated. being followed. In about seven or being unhooked. The door opened being hunted, snared, tracked down, being cultured, the other by being being corrupt. Country people have being either, so they stagnate." being rather dramatic. London is very being poisoned by a book, there is no being so; and that of the lives that - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 belgian 1 1 got some rascally adventurer, some 1 2 3 take. Her trust makes me faithful, her " "The fashionable substitute for our age? No: we have given up our Belgian brute, to insult his son-in-law - CH. 3 belief 3 belief makes me good. When I am with belief ." "You are a sceptic." "Never! belief in the soul. Play me something. - CH. 6 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 believe that you are really a very good believe it." Lord Henry smiled, and believe anything, provided that it is believe that, Harry, and I don't believe believe you do either. However, believe some picture of mine had believe . I don't know what she will say believe that if one man were to live believe that the world would gain such believe a word that he says." "He has believe anything he has told me." "You believe it all," said Lord Henry, believe you would, Basil. You like believe I was at her christening. She believe she has made up her mind to believe . The longer I live, Dorian, the believe that is true. I cannot help believe there is no society of any kind believe me that if this man wrongs my believe it. Dorian is far too sensible." Believe me, no civilized man ever believe in this girl. Any one you love believe it? - a week ago, at Lady believe in the reality of the things we believe . It is on the grand tier. You will believe . But he is not on the stage. He believe . Admirably suited for a believe anything to his dishonour when believe it? Yet he was afraid. believe anything to the detriment of believe my house is somewhere about believe he married Lady Radley's believe these rumours at all. At least, believe them when I see you. Sin is a believe anything against you. And yet believe you. If they did believe you, believe you, they would like me all believe you. Deny them, Dorian, deny believe it is my picture." "Can't you believe that you were doing anything believe anything against her; Mrs. believe he is in love," cried Lady believe a word of it." "Well, ask Mr believe , according to the peerage, it is believe me. You value beauty far too believe in the race," she cried. "It believe he thinks that Monmouth believe that he had come to such a believe him? There was no trace of - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 believe 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 the door that led into the garden. "I understand it. Perhaps you will hardly "and as for believing things, I can firm. That is all." "I don't t believe that, Harry, and I don't took it into her head to lionize me. I played a duet together - three duets, I he had even in his Eton days, "I thought, reality to every dream - I paying you compliments. You mustn't Perhaps that is the reason that I don't he has told me." "You know you Gray turned and looked at him. "I I knew his mother intimately. I marry this fascinating young person?" "I fathers used to like that sort of piece, I everything you do." "Yes, Harry, I Australia in a position of affluence. I only one child now to look after, and some little actress or other." "I can't that one has ceased to use in fact. "I understand what you mean, and I the terror of eternity. Well - would you such wonders happen. They make one sister's box?" "Twenty-seven, I There is a son, a charming fellow, I Old Florentine. Came from Fonthill, I the chatter of the clubs - could not Even if he told them, would they society, at least - is never very ready to even recognize Grosvenor Square. I bye?" Dorian shrugged his shoulders. "I are not everything. Mind you, I don't rumours at all. At least, I can't marvellous untroubled youth - I can't if you choose. Nobody would Nobody would believe you. If they did untrue from beginning to end, I shall It has destroyed me." "I don't would not turn a hair. You would not disappointment no one would ever You are quite out of sorts." "I "Certainly, Lady Narborough." "I don't "An eternity, she tells me. I hand. "That is your error, Harry, Exchange." She shook her head. "I answered the duchess, colouring. "I us pass from poor Basil. I wish I could even if he did confess, who would believed 4 1 2 3 4 sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I at Dorian Gray that night could have `.´@, when people wore high stocks, him that he was poor, and she had 1 of any importance is whether one 1 white-feathered disk, "and as for believed believed believed believed in everything. The common that he had passed through a in everything, and knew him. He had told her once - CH. 7 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 believes it oneself. Now, the value of - CH. 1 believing things, I can believe anything, - CH. 1 bell , and when Parker comes I will tell bell for tea. "You will have tea, of bell for his servant. Lord Henry passed bell sounded, and Victor came in softly bell , and in a few minutes Victor bell . The portrait must be hidden away Bell Tavern, Hoxton Road, by Mr. bell . In about five minutes his valet bell and gave it to his valet, with bell for his servant and gave him bell several times, but there was no - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 bells and trappings. Some of the drivers bells of the Aztecs, that are hung in - CH. 7 - CH. 11 belong to Blue Books, Uncle George," belong to you some day. When one is belong to the criminal classes," said - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 15 belonged to every century except his belonged to Basil's best period. Since - CH. 10 - CH. 19 belonging to him had been destroyed. - CH. 20 belongs belongs belongs belongs - CH. 2 - CH. 6 - CH. 14 - CH. 19 believes 1 believing 1 bell 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 it." "Certainly, Harry. Just touch the walked across the room and rang the growled approvingly and rang the young master sleep so late. Finally his behind him, Dorian Gray touched the by romance. He sighed and touched the inquest was held this morning at the behind him. Then he began ringing the and read it carefully. Then he rang the jesting. At five o'clock he rang his brought him back. The man rang the 1 2 upon the rough stones, shaking their from the milky juice of plants; the yotl- 1 2 3 for him." "Mr. Dorian Gray does not you be annoyed? I suppose she will "The husbands of very beautiful women 1 2 the passions and modes of thought that buy it. I wish I had now. It 1 murdered man anywhere. Everything 1 2 3 4 is nothing you could not do. The world I cannot claim my theory as my own. It must change him, and everything that but I assure you it is true. Crime 1 2 3 4 unfair about its use. It is hitting His mother was waiting for him He himself had burned what had been who were passing in the square 1 last act was played to almost empty 1 strong passions must either bruise or bells 2 belong 3 belonged 2 belonging 1 belongs 4 to you for a season.... The to Nature, not to me. Pleasure to him, into a handful of exclusively to the lower orders. below 4 below the intellect." "I do not below . She grumbled at his below -stairs. The world would simply below , stopped and looked up at the - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 benches . The curtain went down on a - CH. 7 benches 1 bend 1 bending 2 bend . They either slay the man, or - CH. 18 1 2 was about. For a few seconds he stood man with smooth yellow hair, who was 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 once surface and symbol. Those who go to the deal painting-table that was set I cannot tell - though I feel so much " The elder woman grew pale be absurd for him to marry so much key, and no one else could enter it. up a card with an address, or found the standard of Mohammed had stood "Because," said Lord Henry, passing the floor, crushed it into silver splinters bending over the balustrade and bending over a lamp lighting a long - CH. 13 - CH. 16 beneath 10 beneath beneath beneath beneath beneath Beneath beneath beneath beneath beneath the surface do so at - THE PREFACE the high curtained window. - CH. 2 him, I don't feel humble. I feel - CH. 5 the coarse powder that daubed - CH. 5 him." "If you want to make - CH. 6 its purple pall, the face - CH. 10 a pillow a withered flower or - CH. 10 the tremulous gilt of its - CH. 11 his nostrils the gilt trellis of - CH. 19 his heel. It was his beauty - CH. 20 benefit 2 1 2 selfish because it derived no particular of those virtues that are likely to be a 1 you would probably feel that you were 1 wildly excited, but his manner as he 1 on my face, Else would a maiden blush 1 2 Had the lover of Giovanna of Naples insolent pose! What passions had he 1 and turned his steps in the direction of 1 conscious of it. They had met at Lady 1 of great serpents, like the one that 1 2 3 of the Churchill, the Duke of Dorian, that a man like the Duke of in his voice. "You ask me why 1 but at that moment the Duke of 1 gilded claws, and crocodiles with small 1 2 3 4 5 6 I was painting it, Dorian Gray sat table stood a statuette by Clodion, and my god of graces. But I am poor oranges with the tawdry girls who sat Gray, coming over and sitting down was lying a note from Lord Henry, and benefit from him, but who was benefit to us. We praise the banker - CH. 3 - CH. 6 benefiting 1 benefiting the human race, or - CH. 14 bent over his hostess's hand was as - CH. 15 bent 1 bepaint 1 bepaint my cheek For that which thou - CH. 7 bequeathed him some inheritance of bequeathed ? The world had looked - CH. 11 - CH. 11 bequeathed 2 berkeley 1 Berkeley Square. So that was the story - CH. 3 berkshire' 1 Berkshire' s the night that Rubinstein - CH. 14 Bernal Diaz saw when he went with - CH. 11 Berwick and another gentleman got Berwick leaves the room of a club Berwick leaves a room when I enter it. - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 Berwick' s four-in-hand came between, - CH. 5 bernal 1 berwick 3 berwick' 1 beryl 1 beryl eyes that crawl over the green - CH. 14 beside beside beside beside beside beside - CH. 1 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 beside 11 me. Some subtle influence it lay a copy of Les Cent him. Poor? What does that them. Some women were him, "why is it that I cannot it was a book bound in yellow 7 8 9 10 11 He would place his white hands stand where we had left them, and of the Garter glittered upon his breast. his white horse, with Fratricide riding candle, stuck in a bottle, sputtered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 and I can't bear him when he sulks. son, and one lives charmingly upon it. too young to think of falling in love. He is always most polite to me. fancy, the object of man's existence. them, but they are not one's concern. for one's morals to see bad acting. told me, and I can quite understand it. consequences it might be fraught? became a confirmed misanthrope. And kept his youth - that was enough. And, Basil Hallward, and many others - that was all that it seemed to contain, inform upon you. It is not my business. me must have fresh air sometimes, and hate one are much more interesting. converts an appetite into an art. thrust upon the weak. That was all. are destroyed by their own plenitude. Why did he get in front of the guns? She is too wise or too cruel for that. Even as a beginning, it is poor. shake your head: you know you are. are much too delightful to do that. He felt that the idea was monstrous. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 he feared he might awake. "It is your "It is your best work, Basil, the The ugly and the stupid have the for a friendship, and it is far the met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the would not part with? It is one of the "Harry, I can't quarrel with my two life and in private life followed the depth of generosity." "Oh, Basil is the and in the country often dine with the answered. "I asked the question for the have said to me. You are certainly my Let me look at it. It is the Georges Petit is going to collect all my always you to look at. If you wish the be afraid of, there. Yet he thought it her to manage things as she thought me everything I wanted, including your me on purely scientific principles as the have in life but one great experience at wish I had now. It belonged to Basil's but a mockery. What was youth at 1 2 face painted on the canvas could grow like Nature, has her monsters, things of beside beside Beside beside beside the coarse bloated hands of them lies the half-cut book him hung the portrait of his him and his mantle stained it. Dorian Gray shuddered. He - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 18 besides 26 Besides , I want you to tell me why I Besides , I always deal with Dartmoor's Besides , what do you know of this Besides , he has the appearance of Besides , every experience is of value, Besides , individualism has really the Besides , I don't suppose you will want Besides , women were better suited to Besides , nothing makes one so vain as Besides , was it really under his control? besides , my dear old Basil, if you besides , might not his nature grow besides him, seemed never to leave besides a chair and a table. As Besides , without my stirring in the besides , I really wake them up. You Besides , the stuff is better." "Much the Besides , each time that one loves is Besides , had any stranger been Besides , he had convinced himself Besides , it is nothing to us. It is Besides , what on earth could happen Besides , how do you know that Hetty Besides , Dorian, don't deceive Besides , it is no use. You and I are Besides , even if he did confess, who - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 best work, Basil, the best thing you best thing you have ever done," said best of it in this world. They can sit at best ending for one," said the young best work of my life. But in some best things I have ever done. And why best friends at once, but between you best cooks, dining with the Tories and best of fellows, but he seems to me to best families." "I hate offices, and I hate best reason possible, for the only best friend. No one has ever best thing I have ever done. Do take best pictures for a special exhibition in best work I have ever done to be best to be on his guard. Speaking best . She left the room, wreathed in best gold-tipped cigarettes. He is a best specimen he could find of a best , and the secret of life is to best period. Since then, his work was best ? A green, an unripe time, a time - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 bestial , sodden, and unclean. What bestial shape and with hideous voices. - CH. 10 - CH. 11 best 22 bestial 2 better 54 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 history the faltering steps of kings. It is My wife is very good at it - much or metaphysics with you. I like persons and I like persons with no principles of anything else. But you never sat Dorian too long. I have never been in you would, Basil. You like your art over the picture. You had much with him." "He won't like you the and, as you have to dress, you had in the Diplomatic, things were much month. I hope he treated his grandson The less said about life's sores, the dear Lohengrin. I like Wagner's music first night, and looks as if she had seen that I delight in it. Perhaps you had "For ever, too!" "He had though many of them would be the and ruin his intellect." "Oh, she is be sorrier than yourself. You are much to adore some one." "That is certainly and yet it seemed to him to be t be cruel to me, because I love you Besides, women were and at once. Anything would be continued and grew louder. Yes, it was It has taught me to know myself cannot spare you. And now you had of Harry. But I know that you are too much afraid of life - but you are kindly follow me. Or perhaps you had hospitable creature. I like him much believe you, they would like me all the all the better for it. I know the age played both the violin and the piano are really an admirable tonic, much round and looked at Dorian. "Are you the secret of some new joy. They were more interesting. Besides, the stuff is "Much the same." "I like it of her. You are mad." "You had set me on the wrong track." "You had that? I admit that I think that it is than I am to acknowledge that it is in it." "That you may censure it the Lord Henry to his cousin. "You had must have overtired yourself. You had to the open. I dare say it will be "Dorian," said Lord Henry, "I had wretched peasant who has just died is really a sort of sin. I want to be want to be better. I am going to be All his failure had been due to that. livery? Youth had spoiled him. It was 1 what they call the profligacies of their better not to be different from one's better , in fact, than I am. She never better than principles, and I like better than anything else in the world. better . You were perfectly still. And I better form for painting than I am better than your friends. I am no more better let me have it, Basil. This silly better for keeping your promises. He better lose no time. Good-bye, Harry. better . But I hear they let them in now better than he did the jarvies." "I don't better ." "Still, the East End is a very better than anybody's. It is so loud better days." "I know that look. It better write to him. I don't want to see better ." She shrank from him. Then better for a little whitewashing." better than good - she is beautiful," better than you pretend to be." Lord better than being adored," he better than many other things that better than anything in the world. better suited to bear sorrow than men. better than this dreadful state of doubt. better to let Lord Henry in, and to better ." "Ah, Dorian, I am so glad better dress and drive down to the better than he is. You are not stronger better . And how happy we used to be better go in front. I am afraid it is better than the Frenchman you used better for it. I know the age better better than you do, though you will better than most amateurs. In fact, it better than what Sir Andrew better , my dear fellow?" he asked. "You better off than he was. He was better ." "Much the same." "I like it better . Come and have something to better confess your sin, for as sure as better go home and put that pistol better to be beautiful than to be better to be good than to be ugly." better ." "Would you have me take the better take care. He is very better not come down to dinner. I better after lunch, when we get to better tell them that the shooting is better off than I am. I have no better . I am going to be better. Tell better . Tell me something about Better for him that each sin of his better not to think of the past. - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 betters in order to try and pretend - CH. 12 betters 1 betting 1 1 striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on the Americans." "They - CH. 3 between 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 and I really can't see any resemblance of you. I make a great difference Hallward for months, but the friendship word, too. The only difference with my two best friends at once, but dines before seven. Shall you see Basil And yet how difficult to decide the close relationship that existed Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came who, as it seemed to him, had come are other and more interesting bonds Life had come a fact. Was there some subtle affinity that the horrible sympathy that existed from Dorian Gray's lips, and he rushed touch this screen, everything is over or not a quarrel had taken place said Lord Henry. "She is the one link mind - reappeared from time to time he gnawed nervously at his underlip. small shabby house that was wedged in between you, with your rugged strong between people. I choose my friends between them had never altered him. between a caprice and a lifelong between you both you have made me between this and then? Or shall I between the claims of the various between them. Mrs. Vane fixed her between , and when it had left the between them. Yet, when her arms between men and women. I will between them.... His eyes darkened, between the chemical atoms that between him and the picture might between the painter and the screen. between us." Hallward was between them no one ever knew. But between us and your short frocks." between his explosions. An alliterative Between two of the windows stood a between two gaunt factories. In one of - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 beware 1 1 thought of being free." "I want you to 1 2 Stop!" faltered Dorian Gray, "stop! you lose your way in the labyrinth." "You 1 2 3 "Well, he seemed to think they were was here I found her, and she is divine set in six-petalled formal blossoms, 1 a certain antidote against poison. The 1 must not underrate them. Beer, the 1 2 a courteous bow. "And now I must was to leave the vessel at Melbourne, 1 2 3 4 do when I caught sight of the playthe season. There was a rather heavy writes his friend's name across a to do anything. My brother paid the 1 2 money. It is only people who pay their great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play- 1 with the Jacquemart etching. The beware of him." "To see him is to - CH. 5 bewilder 2 bewilder me. I don't know what to say. bewilder me. Let us talk of some one - CH. 2 - CH. 17 beyond his means," laughed Dorian. beyond all living things. When she acts, beyond which on either side was the - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 bezoar , that was found in the heart of - CH. 11 Bible , and the seven deadly virtues - CH. 17 beyond 3 bezoar 1 bible 1 bid 2 bid good-bye to your excellent aunt. I bid a polite good-bye to the captain, - CH. 3 - CH. 5 bill 4 bill . What do you think the play was, bill for a chased silver Louis-Quinze bill , am I his keeper? I know how bill at last. George doesn't speak to - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 12 - CH. 16 bills 2 bills who want that, Uncle George, and bills . A hideous Jew, in the most - CH. 3 - CH. 4 binding 1 binding was of citron-green leather, - CH. 14 biology 1 1 seemed to become more interested in 1 2 3 the door behind her as, looking like a girl laughed again. The joy of a caged Java parrot, a large, grey-plumaged 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 now and then the fantastic shadows of her name over and over again. The are not less lovely for all that. The of hawkers rode by, carrying hooded there. Outside, there is the stirring of Peruvians that have the shrill cries of the plague. In the nests of Arabian silks and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, golds and their marvellously plumaged gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated very good, Dorian. I think most of the biology , and his name appeared once - CH. 14 bird of paradise that had been out all bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught bird with pink crest and tail, that was - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 19 birds in flight flitted across the long birds that were singing in the birds sing just as happily in my garden. birds on their gauntleted wrists. How birds among the leaves, or the sound birds , and flutes of human bones such birds was the aspilates, that, according birds and images; veils of lacis worked birds . He had a special passion, also, birds that flutter round the tall birds have gone to the open. I dare - CH. 1 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 Birrell , who had made the - CH. 10 birth , his indolence, the good English birth , and position, and wealth. It birth and social position fully entitled - CH. 3 - CH. 6 - CH. 11 birthday , as he often remembered - CH. 12 bishop keeps on saying at the age of Bishop of Pontus and were figured - CH. 1 - CH. 11 bird 3 birds 11 birrell 1 1 of her own evidence, and that of Dr. 1 2 3 he was fully entitled by reason of his was engaged." "But think of Dorian's at a West End club of which his 1 the eve of his own thirty-eighth 1 2 then in the Church they don't think. A that excited the indignation of the 1 Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, birth 3 birthday 1 bishop 2 bismuth 1 bismuth -whitened hands on her - CH. 5 bit 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 were a flower to put in his coat, a to have some one to chat to." Hallward "I should like that awfully." The painter but he seems to me to be just a of the aristocracy." James Vane furrow, and with a twitch of pain he pathetic. But I was not moved a courage. Campbell frowned and club?" "Yes," he answered. Then he to him with such infamy of insult. He wished to see him. He frowned and I have done for years, the first little to confess? Never. There was only one bit of decoration to charm his vanity, bit his lip. "If Dorian wishes it, of bit his lip and walked over, cup in bit of a Philistine. Since I have known bit his lip. "Watch over Sibyl, Mother," bit his underlip. "You are not listening bit . I thought her shallow. Suddenly bit his lip. "It will take about five bit his lip. "No, I don't mean bit his lip, and for a few seconds his bit his lip. "Send him in," he muttered bit of self-sacrifice I have ever known, bit of evidence left against him. The - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 biting the end of one of his huge biting his lip. "You can't approve of it biting his lip, and with a note of - CH. 2 - CH. 6 - CH. 12 biting 4 1 2 3 and then for a long time at the picture, walking up and down the room and you know nothing," said Dorian Gray, 4 he walked up and down the room, 1 2 said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to of paper, drawing first flowers and 1 Certainly with hideous iteration the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 memory of your past will make more king, and given him rue to wear and through," answered the lad, in a hard not the fruits of experience, sweet or soul. But only God can do that." A to her. She stumbled away, laughing. A upon my hands." The woman gave a 1 2 3 4 5 tone of colour, or something. You will is your doing, Harry," said the painter you. You do it so well," he answered t you see your ideal in it?" said Dorian stopped for ever, Harry," he answered 1 the remembrance even of joy having its 1 sipping a glass of vermouth and orange- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 your rugged strong face and your coalvictims also." "I am in Lady Agatha's or crawled in red foam over the vat's way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and of. She has been innocent, and the -backed waves trying to get in, and a being carried off by a robber on a through dimly lit streets, past gaunt, fancy? After a few moments, in her curtains, and they appear to tremble. In he used to look with wonder at the had a mourning-bed made for her of with rows of the queen's devices in cut Sir Anthony Sherard, with his silver-andwife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in balustrade and peering down into the jagged tear in the neck and the clotted blue, and the leafless trees shook their said. After he had drunk his cup of of the pink and pearl city, seated in a swept towards the jagged edge of some his pallor being intensified by his coalIt was a small Chinese box of interminable, and the streets like the chimney-stacks of the houses rose the head to foot. After a little while, a to him with added horror. Out of the twenty yards in front of them, with biting his lip and thinking. Then he - CH. 13 bits with his long nervous fingers. "I bits of architecture, and then human - CH. 1 - CH. 14 bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped - CH. 16 bitter bitter bitter bitter bitter bitter bitter than defeats. Every month as it herbs to taste of. She has been voice. "I am awfully sorry that I as they might be. Of the laugh of mockery broke from blast swept across the square. laugh. "Little more than a boy!" - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 16 bitterly reproach him in your own bitterly . Lord Henry shrugged his bitterly . She rose from her knees and, bitterly . "My ideal, as you call it..." bitterly . "The whole thing is hideous - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 7 - CH. 13 - CH. 18 bitterness and the memories of - CH. 11 bits 2 bitten 1 bitter 7 bitterly 5 bitterness 1 bitters 1 bitters . "Dorian says she is beautiful, - CH. 6 black 30 black hair, and this young Adonis, who black books at present," answered black , dripping, sloping sides. It was an black grassless squares. About half-past black hands of jealousy have crushed black wind blowing the masts down and black horse, and give chase, and rescue black -shadowed archways and black silk dress, with old-fashioned black fantastic shapes, dumb shadows black confessionals and long to sit in black velvet powdered with crescents black velvet upon cloth of silver. black armour piled at his feet. What black . Her blood, also, stirred within black seething well of darkness. Then black pool that was slowly widening black iron branches to and fro. He black coffee, he wiped his lips slowly black gondola with silver prow and black cleft of precipice. He knew black hair and dark eyebrows. "Alan! black and gold-dust lacquer, black web of some sprawling spider. black masts of ships. Wreaths of black shadow that had been creeping black cave of time, terrible and black -tipped ears erect and long - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 29 30 his fingers stray across the white and the white scurf of crinkled lids over black ivory of the keys. After the black , glasslike eyes and began to - CH. 19 - CH. 19 blackballed at a West End club of - CH. 11 blackmailed all their lives by some - CH. 10 blackballed 1 1 who distrusted him. He was very nearly 1 had heard of rich men who had been 1 for the long palette-knife, with its thin 1 2 3 is a luxury in self-reproach. When we we feel that no one else has a right to exclusively to the lower orders. I don't 1 2 Sort de l'eau son corps rose et are moments when the odour of lilas 1 2 3 tomb in Verona. I think, from his round at the silent square, with its screen had not been set back, and a 1 see." Hallward started back. "This is 1 She stumbled away, laughing. A bitter 1 ringlets, and an enormous diamond 1 2 library. There was a bright wood fire coat and bag. A huge fire was 1 parrots, made in broidery, and 1 Under the portico, with its grey, sun- 1 temperaments were so strangely 1 and Atalanta, who had cursed him, 1 It is marvellously romantic. What a 1 scarlet mats, slim turbaned Indians blackmailed 1 blade 1 blade of lithe steel. He had found it at - CH. 2 blame ourselves, we feel that no one blame us. It is the confession, not the blame them in the smallest degree. I - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 19 blanc . Les domes, sur l'azur des blanc passes suddenly across me, and - CH. 14 - CH. 19 blank look of amazement, that he was blank , close-shuttered windows and its blank space was visible on the wall. - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 blasphemy , Dorian!" he cried. "You - CH. 12 blast swept across the square. The - CH. 13 blame 3 blanc 2 blank 3 blasphemy 1 blast 1 blazed 1 blazed in the centre of a soiled shirt. - CH. 4 blazing in the large open hearth. The blazing . He piled another log on it. - CH. 12 - CH. 15 blazoned with the king's arms, and - CH. 11 bleached pillars, loitered a troop of - CH. 7 blended , became to him a kind of - CH. 11 blessed him. There was a horrible - CH. 11 blessing it is that there is one art left - CH. 19 blew through long pipes of reed or - CH. 11 blazing 2 blazoned 1 bleached 1 blended 1 blessed 1 blessing 1 blew 1 blind 3 1 2 3 walking to the window, drew up the time stopped for him. Yes: that were silhouetted against some lamplit 1 crept nearer. Her little hands stretched 1 2 3 close-shuttered windows and its staring through the cream-coloured silk appeared with the lamps and drew the 1 2 turned to his servant, who stood the man, looking at the clock and 1 place his white hands beside the coarse 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Then she paused. A rose shook in her that they are of the same flesh and as one's self." "The same flesh and on the verge of summer. When the thieves, could be affected only by the at the various portraits of those whose pallid, thin-lipped woman in black. Her beautiful forms of those whom vice and him and his mantle stained with the death, and who had a passion for red and into whose torpid veins the knows anything about mine. With such He knew it, and he felt as if his sound of some one choking with of the preceding night crept with silent, red gutters scooped out in it for the as though the canvas had sweated that the senses could cure it? Innocent boy. Thank God, I have not got his of the forest had been spotted with hand seemed brighter, and more like over the wrinkled fingers. There was feet, as though the thing had dripped - blind . The bright dawn flooded the blind , slow-breathing thing crawled no blind . He watched them curiously. - CH. 7 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 blindly 1 blindly out, and appeared to be - CH. 7 blinds . The sky was pure opal now, blinds , the face appeared to him to be blinds down. He waited impatiently - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 blinds 3 blinking 2 blinking in the sunlight. "Ask Mr. Gray blinking . "Ten minutes past two? How - CH. 1 - CH. 13 bloated hands of the picture, and - CH. 11 blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick blood as one's self." "The same flesh blood as one's self! Oh, I hope not blood crept from its face, and left blood of kids. Leonardus Camillus blood flowed in his veins. Here was blood , also, stirred within him. How blood and weariness had made blood of Perotto; Pietro Riario, the blood , as other men have for red wine blood of three lads was infused by a blood as he has in his veins, how blood had changed in a moment blood . Three times the outstretched blood -stained feet into his brain and blood to flow through, you would blood ? How horrible it was! - more blood had been spilled. What could blood upon my hands." The woman blood . Then he wrote a note to Lord blood newly spilled. Then he trembled. blood on the painted feet, as though blood even on the hand that had not - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 bloom and loveliness of his then just bloom . How different it was with bloom of boyhood, all the unstained - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 bloomed and died many times, and - CH. 11 bloated 1 blood 23 bloom 3 1 2 3 and that he might keep all the delicate his face or stained his flowerlike man he had sought to kill had all the 1 summer, and the yellow jonquils 1 from the trees, and the heavy lilac- 1 2 common hill-flowers wither, but they keep the glamour of boyhood. Not one bloomed 1 blooms 1 blooms , with their clustering stars, - CH. 1 blossom again. The laburnum will be blossom of his loveliness would ever - CH. 2 - CH. 8 blossom 2 blossoms 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured quite incredible." The wind shook some burying his face in the great cool lilacover the oval stellated globe of the tiny had developed like a flower, had borne for me, I think, a very dance of boar-spear. Crowned with heavy lotuspomegranates set in six-petalled formal from which spread long-stemmed white met me in a little orchard. The apple- 1 to you." Campbell scrawled a few lines, 1 2 travail, that the meanest flower might into which the performer does not 1 trying to get in, and a black wind 1 2 3 4 5 They went out into the flickering, windout on the balcony. The wind had -jets, dulled and distorted in the flyDim and wavering as was the windhe shook. The dead leaves that were 1 As midnight was striking bronze blossoms of a laburnum, whose blossoms from the trees, and the heavy blossoms , feverishly drinking in their blossoms . He watched it with that blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its blossoms in blue skies." "He is a blossoms you had sat on the prow of blossoms , beyond which on either side blossoms , the details of which were blossoms kept tumbling down on her - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 blotted them, and addressed an - CH. 14 blow .... And how charming he had been blow , but through which he inhales - CH. 3 - CH. 11 blotted 1 blow 2 blowing 1 blowing the masts down and tearing - CH. 5 blown sunlight and strolled down the blown the fog away, and the sky was blown mirrors that faced them, were blown light, yet it served to show him blown against the leaded panes - CH. 5 - CH. 13 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 blows upon the dusky air, Dorian - CH. 15 blue wreaths of smoke that curled up blue thread a long thin dragon-fly blue cloud-shadows chased themselves blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There Blue Book, Harry, although those Blue Books, Uncle George," said Lord blue china jars and parrot-tulips were blue eyes in wonder. "You always come blue skies." "He is a gentleman," said blue petals of flame they seemed, blue eyes met his own. A sense of blue lining, that hung in front of the blue -dragon bowl that, filled with blue fire. He was trembling all over. blue eyes, and rose-red lips - they all blue -veined hands, the twisted body, blue silks and wrought with blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow blue linen; and many corporals, Blue Gate Fields, and stay there, day blue , the noble curves had not yet blue , and the leafless trees shook Blue Book from one of the shelves blue that follow one as one pushes blue lapis. He watched it as though it blue drawing-room and laid upon one blue metal. A thin film of ice - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 blown 5 blows 1 blue 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 at him in amazement through the thin to chirrup by the wall, and like a green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank tell you anything that is in an English "Mr. Dorian Gray does not belong to had selected for her device. Some large several times," said Dorian, opening his I think, a very dance of blossoms in burning from three flickering jets: thin hair gleamed in the early sunlight. Its curtains, with their shimmering A bee flew in and buzzed round the the pupils of his eyes were like disks of loathing of it was intensified. Gold hair, would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, books bound in tawny satins or fair also, of amber-coloured silk, and altar frontals of crimson velvet and house, go down to dreadful places near something of the loveliness of their The gas-lamps flickered and became and thinking. Then he took down the like those straight lines of turquoiseout of ebony and inlaid with ivory and swoon. He was carried at once into the grass. The sky was an inverted cup of 28 dressed in a coarse shirt and a pair of blue trousers. A spotted handkerchief - CH. 18 blurred to his eyes. When the cab blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in - CH. 6 - CH. 16 blush coloured his cheeks for a blush ." "A blush is very becoming, blush is very becoming, Duchess," blush , like the shadow of a rose in a blush bepaint my cheek For that which - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 blushes , it is a very bad sign. Ah! - CH. 3 blushing . Lord Henry shrugged his - CH. 4 boar -spear. Crowned with heavy - CH. 9 blurred 2 1 2 and the crowded flaring streets became A cold rain began to fall, and the 1 2 3 4 5 he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint able to look her in the face without a her in the face without a blush." "A her shy grace and startled eyes. A faint is on my face, Else would a maiden 1 "When an old woman like myself 1 "With an actress," said Dorian Gray, 1 with huntsman's cloak and polished 1 make your peace - no more. I go on blush 5 blushes 1 blushing 1 boar 1 board 1 board to-night for India, and I must - CH. 16 body - how much that is! We in our body sins once, and has done with its body . He would become dreadful, body was lying in a marble tomb in body , I am filled with awe." "You can body , body and soul - how mysterious body and soul - how mysterious they body had its moments of spirituality. body really in the soul, as Giordano body swayed, while she danced, as a body , so it would reveal to him his body of hers!" "Stop, Basil! I won' body , that he remembered in the body of Sibyl Vane, a young actress body and the failing limbs. There were body , delighting in the conception of body that is worn by the suffering body to body till it had reached his body till it had reached his own? Was body was covered with roses by a body must be far less horrible than body , as every cell of the brain, body after them into the sunlight. He body . Life had suddenly become too body ?" he exclaimed. "Quick! I must body was there, and he hurried to the body of a man dressed in a coarse body . As he rode home, his eyes - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 body 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 is Greek. The harmony of soul and in the mind and poisons us. The was to make his soul would mar his for hundreds of years and that her that is hidden away in that little ivory wounds are like red roses. Soul and are like red roses. Soul and body, was animalism in the soul, and the seated in the house of sin? Or was the like a creature from a finer world. Her As it had revealed to him his own are horrors in store for that little white the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted Danby, the District Coroner, on the and smile. He mocked the misshapen the brain, or some white nerve in the that she may hide the pallid macerated strange poisonous germ crept from poisonous germ crept from body to chase living men and whose murdered often done before. Indeed, to destroy a a nature that every fibre of the few moments they emerged, dragging a with terror in every tingling fibre of his He clutched at it madly. "Where is the Something seemed to tell him that the in the far corner was lying the dead for some minutes looking at the dead bold 1 1 painted away with that marvellous 1 he murmured, flushing at his own bold touch of his, that had the true - CH. 2 boldness , then stepped up on the - CH. 2 boldness 1 bologna 1 1 had found in a convent near 1 throwing it forward, started a hare. It 1 The windows yielded easily - their 1 crept quietly out of his house. In 1 there are other and more interesting 1 by a little charcoal stove, playing with 1 cries of birds, and flutes of human 1 to the great alchemist, Pierre de 1 2 and I couldn't have a scene in this she used to say, "and thrown my 1 2 3 minds as easily as one knows their dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart of at the time. As it was, our 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 such thing as a moral or an immoral had produced, and, remembering a he had read when he was sixteen, a you anything that is in an English Blue reminded one of a badly bound hymnthat he had found in one of the The mere fact of having published a hinted at prudence, quoted from that is! If I had read all this in a picking up a little vellum-covered himself as a boy. There the satinwood from Lord Henry, and beside it was a him round the evening paper, and a killed her. His eye fell on the yellow became absorbed. It was the strangest of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous going into the next room, placed the "but really it is entirely your fault. That free himself from the influence of this type of himself. And, indeed, the whole he used to read the latter part of the them, and beside them lies the half-cut Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a Italian cassone, and an almost empty Bologna . Yes, that would serve to - CH. 10 bolted for a thicket of alders. Sir - CH. 18 bolts were old. When they entered, - CH. 20 Bond Street he found a hansom with - CH. 15 bolted 1 bolts 1 bond 1 bonds 1 bonds between men and women. I will - CH. 6 bone 1 bone counters and showing their - CH. 16 bones such as Alfonso de Ovalle - CH. 11 Boniface , the diamond rendered a - CH. 11 bonnet . It is far too fragile. A harsh bonnet right over the mills for your - CH. 3 - CH. 15 bonnets . One can always find them. bonnets that some other woman's bonnets were so unbecoming, and the - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 15 bones 1 boniface 1 bonnet 2 bonnets 3 book 31 book . Books are well - THE PREFACE book that he had read when he was - CH. 2 book which had revealed to him much - CH. 2 Book , Harry, although those fellows - CH. 3 book . Fortunately for him she had on - CH. 3 book -cases. The formal monotonous - CH. 4 book of second-rate sonnets makes a - CH. 4 book of cowardice whose author apes - CH. 5 book , Harry, I think I would have - CH. 8 book in your studio one day and - CH. 9 book -case filled with his dog-eared - CH. 10 book bound in yellow paper, the - CH. 10 book that might interest him, and that - CH. 10 book that Lord Henry had sent him. - CH. 10 book that he had ever read. It - CH. 10 book . The heavy odour of incense - CH. 10 book on the little Florentine table that - CH. 10 book you sent me so fascinated me - CH. 10 book . Or perhaps it would be more - CH. 11 book seemed to him to contain the - CH. 11 book , with its really tragic, if - CH. 11 book that we had been studying, or - CH. 11 book . There were moments when he - CH. 11 book -case - that was all that it - CH. 13 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 thinking. Then he took down the Blue and getting up, went over to the he looked at the title-page of the But after a time the friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a me that you will never lend that we will be. As for being poisoned by a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 thing as a moral or an immoral book. also." "I am in Lady Agatha's black Dorian Gray does not belong to Blue his hand upon his arm. "You talk write one?" "I am too fond of reading elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; a garden at Capri, reading the shameful desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are 1 and tapped the toe of his patent-leather 1 as if it had come out of a country- 1 audience went out, tramping in heavy 1 cup of blue metal. A thin film of ice 1 2 3 4 5 the surprise of candour." "It is such a The love that he thread and coloured crystals. The morse a complex multiform creature that - no living man, at any rate. I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 yourself ridiculous. My friends were My friends were bored. I was Venetian glass and looking dreadfully the morning-room, looking very much of the letters, he smiled. Three of them insincere apology, he ceased to feel on him?" asked Dorian, looking was it separated you? I suppose he 1 2 3 "Oh, yes, Harry." "He me dreadfully, almost as much as he he never forgave you. It's a habit 1 by a harlot who had loved him; the 1 a woman can ever reform a man is by Book from one of the shelves and book -case and took out a volume at book . It was Gautier's Emaux et book fell from his hand. He grew book once. I should not forgive that. book to any one. It does harm." "My book , there is no such thing as that. - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 books 9 Books are well written, or - THE PREFACE books at present," answered Dorian - CH. 2 Books , Uncle George," said Lord - CH. 3 books away," he said; "why don't you - CH. 3 books to care to write them, Mr. - CH. 3 books bound in tawny satins or fair - CH. 11 books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and - CH. 11 books that the world calls immoral - CH. 19 books that show the world its own - CH. 19 boot 1 boot with a tasselled ebony cane. "How - CH. 1 booth . But Juliet! Harry, imagine a - CH. 4 boots and laughing. The whole thing - CH. 7 booth 1 boots 1 bordered 1 bordered the flat, reed-grown lake. At - CH. 18 bore bore bore bore bore - CH. 2 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 bore 5 putting on one's dress-clothes," him - for it was really love a seraph's head in gold-thread within itself strange legacies of it all. Now it is for me to dictate bored 8 bored . I was bored." She seemed not bored ." She seemed not to listen to bored . "I was at the opera. You should bored . "I am so sorry, Harry," he bored him. One he read several times bored . But at dinner he could not eat bored . "If so, I should not like them bored you. If so, he never forgave - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 bores me dreadfully, almost as much bores her. She is very clever, too bores have. By the way, what has - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 Borgia on his white horse, with - CH. 11 bores 3 borgia 1 boring 1 boring him so completely that he loses - CH. 8 born 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 of voiceless agony, and then a child life. The generation into which I was are, ain't they? Even those that are see her to-night. She is simply a on the ground floor that, in his newphysical admiration of beauty that is 1 2 3 4 5 nature had developed like a flower, had worshipped you, and you would have at times to be almost too great to be each of which was too terrible to be were unbearable, and that he had yet 1 if there are such things as sins, are born in pain. The mother snatched born was tedious. Some day, when you born in England become foreigners born artist. I sat in the dingy box born feeling for luxury, he had just had born of the senses and that dies when - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out borne my name. What are you now? A borne . Upon the walls of the lonely borne . He felt as if an iron ring was borne with patience. The murder had - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 20 borne 5 borrowed 1 borrowed . He becomes an echo of - CH. 2 both 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 of deception absolutely necessary for best friends at once, but between you the stage. What absurd fellows you are, eyebrows and looking at them tired; women, because they are curious: friendly terms with the pit. They were of her power. I think we were making elaborate speeches about us and Sibyl ran in. "How serious you been before. Life has been hard for us dear Harry, my dear Basil, you must an evening, Harry. I apologize to you wonderful thing than art." "They are state of doubt. He got up and locked and sitting down by Dorian Gray, took spectators of the play. Or rather we are to the detriment of those who are worshipped yourself too much. We are musician, however, as well, and played calls a suitable alliance, and I want you either name for the world. They are had been a sort of sailor; tattooed on Dorian. "I have known something of The world has cried out against us 1 2 3 tradesmen, and consequently they never tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to very pretty place - otherwise I wouldn't 1 gods. They worship us, and are always 1 2 3 4 out of a large, gold-topped here, and he could see the strange, a hideous greeting as he thrust a the face. A coarse candle, stuck in a 1 pheasant came beating through the both parties. I never know where my both you have made me hate the finest both of you! I wonder who it was both with an amused smile. "So sorry both are disappointed." "I don't think both as grotesque as the scenery, and both rather nervous. The old Jew both , while we stood looking at each both are!" she cried. "What is the both , terribly hard and difficult. But it both congratulate me!" said the lad, both ." "My dear Dorian, I should both simply forms of imitation," both doors. At least he would be alone both his hands in his own and held both . We watch ourselves, and the both rich and fascinating. It feels both punished." Dorian Gray turned both the violin and the piano better both to be happy." "What nonsense both perfect. I was thinking chiefly of both arms, and that kind of thing." both . It seems terrible to me now both , but it has always worshipped - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 bother me. What I want is information: bother me any more with her charity bother you about it." "No trouble, sir. - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 14 bothering us to do something for them. - CH. 6 bother 3 bothering 1 bottle 4 bottle that stood on the table. "It must bottle -shaped kilns with their orange, bottle of brandy and two tumblers in bottle , sputtered beside it. Dorian - CH. 4 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 boughs overhead. After a few - CH. 18 boughs 1 bought 3 1 2 3 that they were every one of them to be at two hundred thousand florins, was The soul is a terrible reality. It can be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 that his name was Dorian Gray. I am that she reminded one of a badly it lay a copy of Les Cent Nouvelles, her out of the Jew's hands. She is me that I had spoiled her life. I am Lord Henry, and beside it was a book of the first edition, and had them yellow Chinese hangings; books A red glare came from an outward- 1 laughed his companion, and as the hare 1 I myself used to receive many 1 The dim roar of London was like the 1 to know you - young Lord Poole, 1 2 3 4 5 6 to every touch and thrill of the Duchess," said Lord Henry with a the old gentleman with a courteous When he saw me, he made me a low -bye, my son," she answered with a Narborough," said Lord Henry with a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 be in in a few moments." The man round to see who was there. Dorian soul had turned to this white girl and Victor," he said with a sigh. The man the chair, straining over the table with cowardice had passed away. The man go away. He is sitting at the table with 1 2 artist, giving his hat and coat to the Lady Narborough's drawing-room by 1 2 in and buzzed round the blue-dragon his white fingers into a red copper 1 2 3 4 in the centre of a soiled shirt. 'Have a and paid a whole guinea for the stagemyself seated in a horrid little private the horrid old Jew came round to the bought ." "I should not wonder if he bought at the price of a terrible sin; bought , and sold, and bartered away. - CH. 4 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 bound to state that she never told me bound hymn-book. Fortunately for him bound for Margaret of Valois by bound to him for three years - at least bound to state that she ate an bound in yellow paper, the cover bound in different colours, so that bound in tawny satins or fair blue bound steamer that was coaling. The - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 bounded into the thicket, he fired. - CH. 18 bound 9 bounded 1 bouquets 1 bouquets at one time. That was when - CH. 5 bourdon note of a distant organ. In - CH. 1 Bournemouth' s eldest son. He has - CH. 19 bow .... There was something terribly bow . "Ah! that is very nice, and bow . "And now I must bid good-bye bow and assured me that I was a bow of strained stateliness. She was bow . "Well, we must look out for a - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 15 bowed bowed bowed bowed bowed bowed bowed - CH. 1 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 bourdon 1 bournemouth' 1 bow 6 bowed 7 and went up the walk. Then he to him shyly from the end of in worship before her. To a and retired. Then he rose from head, and humped back, and and retired. In a few head and outstretched arms. bowing 2 bowing waiter. "What is it? Nothing bowing servants. His forehead was - CH. 6 - CH. 15 bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow bowl filled with rose-water. "You are - CH. 8 - CH. 19 box , my Lord?' he said, when he box . To the present day I can't make box , with a vulgar drop-scene staring box after the performance was over - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 bowl 2 box 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 simply a born artist. I sat in the dingy smile. He escorted them to their and rushing to the back of the be there. You can come to my sister's What is the number of your sister's for the first time. We were in her wearied of them, and would sit in his on something. It was a small Chinese twenty minutes to twelve. He put the the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 what he was told to say when he was a Gray?" "Oh, something like, 'Charming more to the right, Dorian, like a good better let me have it, Basil. This silly I don't allow people to call me a silly she? I had forgotten that. What sort of answered Lord Henry. "I fancy that the mother snatched away by death, the however. She is a genius." "My dear "How do you mean?" "My dear forest of Arden, disguised as a pretty - reach me the matches, like a good he was now from the shy frightened " "That would be impossible, my dear I have discovered that." "Basil, my dear "Oh! that you will be a good t you like the name. Oh! you silly Jim, utterly foolish; a bad-tempered her hand on his arm. He was merely a are to see her to-night, if that nothing. Good heavens, my dear Lord Henry's voice outside. "My dear You look exactly the same wonderful The painter stared at him. "My dear he had so often hidden himself as a with nymphs and centaurs, and gilded a young men? There was that wretched ears. "Years ago, when I was a underneath his cheek. He looked like a now. This one is little more than a gave a bitter laugh. "Little more than a at a little inn by myself." "My dear wine and frowning slightly. "My dear any one. It does harm." "My dear 1 2 was, Harry?" "I should think 'The Idiot seen her! When she came on in her 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 rose-red youth and your rose-white Yes; there had been things in his Grace was his, and the white purity of in it of the purely sensuous instinct of and loveliness of his then just conscious eyes, he would keep the glamour of who had been so stern to him in his where he had spent so much of his it that one was taught to say in one's box absolutely enthralled. I forgot that box with a sort of pompous humility, box , he leaned up against the wall, box . She has got some smart women box ?" "Twenty-seven, I believe. It box . She is perfectly charming; and box at the opera, either alone or with box of black and gold-dust lacquer, box back, shutting the cabinet doors box , "one can survive everything - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 boy of eighteen, and as a natural boy - poor dear mother and I boy ," said the painter, deep in his boy doesn't really want it, and I really boy ." "You know the picture is yours, boy is he? If he is like his mother, boy will be well off. He is not of age boy left to solitude and the tyranny of boy , no woman is a genius. Women boy , the people who love only once in boy in hose and doublet and dainty boy - thanks - what are your actual boy he had met in Basil Hallward's boy ." "Yes, she will. She has not boy , puts everything that is charming boy and not forget us," she answered, boy ! you should never forget it. If you boy , that is all. How can you say such boy . At the Marble Arch they hailed boy doesn't forget his appointment." boy , don't look so tragic! The secret of boy , I must see you. Let me in at boy who, day after day, used to come boy , what nonsense!" he cried. "Do you boy . There the satinwood book-case boy that he might serve at the feast boy in the Guards who committed boy ," said Dorian Gray, crushing the boy who had been tired out with boy . Thank God, I have not got his boy !" she sneered. "Why, man, it' boy ," said Lord Henry, smiling, boy , they have only been talking boy , you are really beginning to - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 boy 34 boy' 2 Boy' , or 'Dumb but Innocent'. Our boy' s clothes, she was perfectly - CH. 4 - CH. 6 boyhood 12 boyhood , you have had passions that boyhood that he had not understood. boyhood , and beauty such as old boyhood had been transformed by the boyhood . Surely his wish had not been boyhood . Not one blossom of his boyhood . The picture had to be boyhood , he had hung with his own boyhood ? 'Lead us not into - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 10 11 12 had sought to kill had all the bloom of longing for the unstained purity of his purity of his boyhood - his rose-white 1 2 3 4 5 the fair face on the canvas. Once, in He recalled the stainless purity of his frank debonair manner, his charming his foot upon the ground in his Dorian, you have the most curiously 1 2 had entered into them. A long line of sins. The fuming censers that the grave 1 against Heaven because the daughter of 1 thing. It is like a bric-a- 1 towards his guest through the withered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 though he sought to imprison within his events of the world take place in the take place in the brain. It is in the brain. It is in the brain, and the terrifies us lays sudden siege to the sulphurous fumes from troubling the it. Suddenly there had fallen upon his over me. I was dominated, soul, cling about its pages and to trouble the joy, when through the chambers of the of men to some pearly cell in the and in musk that troubled the their backs." There was a gem in the had seen a white stone taken from the it for him, as it had been in his was coming on him, and who, when his with silent, blood-stained feet into his though he would have robbed the very into their cave. It was useless. The his temper. From cell to cell of his fibre of the body, as every cell of the Suddenly a wild hope flashed across his As the thought crept through his "If a man treats life artistically, his boyhood , all the unstained purity of boyhood - his rose-white boyhood, as boyhood , as Lord Henry had once - CH. 16 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 boyish boyish boyish boyish boyish - CH. 8 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 19 boyish 5 mockery of Narcissus, he had life, and it seemed horrible to smile, and the infinite grace of insolent manner. He felt a moods. Do you think this girl boys 2 boys carrying crates of striped tulips, boys , in their lace and scarlet, tossed - CH. 7 - CH. 11 Brabantio died. But don't waste your - CH. 8 brac shop, all monsters and dust, with - CH. 1 brabantio 1 brac 1 bracken 1 bracken and rough undergrowth. - CH. 18 brain some curious dream from which brain . It is in the brain, and the brain brain , and the brain only, that the brain only, that the great sins of the brain and calls on us to yield. After a brain and making the imagination brain that tiny scarlet speck that makes brain , and power, by you. You became brain . The mere cadence of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible brain , or some white nerve in the brain , and in champak that stained the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told brain of a newly killed toad, that was brain and in his passions. He felt that brain had sickened and grown strange, brain and reconstructed themselves brain of sight and driven the eyeballs brain had its own food on which it brain crept the one thought; and the brain , seems to be instinct with fearful brain . "Stop," he cried. "How long brain , he grew pale with terror, and brain is his heart," he answered, - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 brainless beautiful creature who should - CH. 1 brain 24 brainless 1 1 I feel quite sure of that. He is some 1 2 Your rank and wealth, Harry; my for a man to have distinction and 1 2 of a laburnum, whose tremulous the leafless trees shook their black iron brains 2 brains , such as they are - my art, brains for every common tongue to - CH. 1 - CH. 12 branches seemed hardly able to bear branches to and fro. He shivered and - CH. 1 - CH. 13 branches 3 3 alder-clump, brushing the lithe swinging 1 forehead with its lines, and passion 1 2 3 4 5 of course, I stumbled against Lady was reckless of me, but I asked Lady know each other." "And how did Lady find out people for myself. But Lady what one wants to know." "Poor Lady 1 months ago I went to a crush at Lady 1 2 when he went away. Have another greeting as he thrust a bottle of 1 take you to lunch afterwards with Lady 1 loaded with gold leaves, according to 1 2 to unhook the picture from the long blew through long pipes of reed or 1 adored him, and for his sake had 1 the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the 1 was the one reality. The coarse 1 horrible laughter. In others, drunkards 1 It was rumoured that he had been seen 1 Algerian pastilles in a pierced copper 1 to the duke's description of the last 1 is indeed the "panis caelestis," the 1 2 3 Sibyl to marry me. I am not going to by saying that, and then proceeded to him crying as one whose heart will branches aside. In a few moments - CH. 18 branded your lips with its hideous - CH. 2 Brandon . 'You are not going to run Brandon to introduce me to him. Brandon describe this wonderful young Brandon treats her guests exactly as an Brandon ! You are hard on her, Harry! - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 Brandon' s. You know we poor artists - CH. 1 brandy -and-soda? Or would you like brandy and two tumblers in front of - CH. 12 - CH. 16 Branksome . She is a charming - CH. 19 Brantome , and his cap had double - CH. 11 brass chains by which it was brass and charmed - or feigned to - CH. 10 - CH. 11 braved all social censure and set - CH. 11 branded 1 brandon 5 brandon' 1 brandy 2 branksome 1 brantome 1 brass 2 braved 1 bravest 1 bravest man amongst us is afraid of - CH. 2 brawl , the loathsome den, the crude - CH. 16 brawled and screamed. Lying back in - CH. 16 brawling with foreign sailors in a low - CH. 11 brazier , he bathed his hands and - CH. 15 Brazilian beetle that he had added to - CH. 17 bread of angels, or, robed in the - CH. 11 break my word to her. She is to be my break his word. I do want to preach break . It was not till the third day - CH. 8 - CH. 12 - CH. 18 brawl 1 brawled 1 brawling 1 brazier 1 brazilian 1 bread 1 break 3 breakfast 4 1 2 3 4 library and sat down to a light French As he was sitting at once. He spent a long time also over pity and not a little of contempt. After 1 2 3 4 must be going," exclaimed Lady Henry, Ah! can't you see that my heart is gloomy courts. As the dawn was just the garments of the Passion of Christ, 1 for keeping your promises. He always 1 2 Host into the chalice and smiting his star of the Garter glittered upon his 1 A great copper- breakfast that had been laid out for breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward breakfast , tasting the various dishes, breakfast , he walked with the duchess - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 breaking an awkward silence with her breaking ?" The hot tears came to his breaking , he found himself close to breaking the Host into the chalice - CH. 4 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 11 breaks his own. I beg you not to go." - CH. 2 breaking 4 breaks 1 breast 2 breast for his sins. The fuming censers breast . Beside him hung the portrait - CH. 11 - CH. 11 breasted pheasant came beating - CH. 18 breath of our passion to stir their breath parted the petals of her lips. breath . Then wisdom altered its breath May prove a beauteous flower breath . The fresh morning air seemed breath . The colour came back to his breath . "Where shall we put it, sir?" breath of scandal had ever touched breath . After a few moments he drew breath , opened the door a little wider, breath quickened. A mad craving came breath , and his nostrils quivered with breath . "You have been on the brink - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 breathed more freely, and for the first - CH. 5 breathing silver dragon that the waiter breathing thing crawled no more, and - CH. 6 - CH. 14 bred as his sister. One would hardly - CH. 5 breasted 1 breath 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 our laughter and grow sad. I want a blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick mouth. Her eyelids were warm with his This bud of love by summer's ripening out on to the grass, he drew a deep worshipped." Dorian Gray drew a long frame-maker, who was still gasping for When you met Lady Gwendolen, not a in the window. He waited and held his as he had left it. He heaved a deep His of opium met him. He heaved a deep you!" Dorian Gray drew a long 1 was familiar with the atmosphere. She 1 2 the lad, taking a light from a firefor him. Yes: that blind, slow- 1 in movement. He was not so finely 1 of death itself - something that would 1 on youth, his terrible warning of its 1 man is a dreadful thing. It is like a 1 ceiling of raised plasterwork, and its breathed 1 breathing 2 bred 1 breed 1 breed horrors and yet would never - CH. 10 brevity . That had stirred him at the - CH. 2 bric -a-brac shop, all monsters and dust - CH. 1 brickdust felt carpet strewn with silk, - CH. 4 brevity 1 bric 1 brickdust 1 brickfields 1 1 felt afraid. Then they passed by lonely 1 2 of what is really the raiment of the Baglioni, who slew Astorre with his 1 2 to palm is holy palmers' kiss - with the it matter to him? One's days were too 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 with parted lips and eyes strangely I wanted - the half-parted lips and the he looked down the table and caught a to the window, drew up the blind. The marred face and its cruel smile. Its in the dim twilight, and then in the Dorian into the library. There was a But you, Dorian, with your pure, his own name, traced in long letters of streaming into the room. The sky was he started. His eyes grew strangely there was no stain left upon it. It was brickfields . The fog was lighter here, - CH. 16 Bride of Christ, who must wear bride , and Simonetto with his page, - CH. 11 - CH. 11 brief dialogue that follows, were brief to take the burden of another's - CH. 7 - CH. 16 bright . He was dimly conscious that bright look in the eyes. I don't know bright answering glance. "But they are bright dawn flooded the room and bright hair gleamed in the early bright dawn, he had seen the touch of bright wood fire blazing in the large bright , innocent face, and your bright vermilion. It was some foul bright , and there was a genial bright , and he gnawed nervously at bright , and glistened. As it had killed - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 20 brighter gold the waving wonder of its brighter , and more like blood newly - CH. 8 - CH. 20 brightly coloured parasols danced and - CH. 5 brightness , the mouth would gape or - CH. 10 brilliancy of colour. They seemed to - CH. 11 bride 2 brief 2 bright 12 brighter 2 1 2 sunlight that had so often touched to dew that spotted the hand seemed 1 seemed - hung in the panting air. The 1 them horrible. The hair would lose its 1 were still wonderful in their depth and 1 2 lend colour to his imagination. He was I must say. It might be a most 1 painted in order to try and talk brightly 1 brightness 1 brilliancy 1 brilliant 2 brilliant , fantastic, irresponsible. He brilliant marriage for Sibyl. They would - CH. 3 - CH. 5 brilliantly . Rouge and esprit used to go - CH. 4 bring ruin upon others, nor ever bring a great deal of romance into bring your drinks." They rose up and bring her out properly. She will make bring it down to the coast in a waggon bring misery upon any one. His nature bring coffee, and fine-champagne, and bring him an anodyne for his pain. He Bring it in, Mr. Hubbard, please," he bring poison within." Over the gable bring , to the senses. But this was not bring you into the matter. I have no bring the things back to you." - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 brilliantly 1 bring 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and without disquiet. They neither I dare say, but somehow it seems to The light is quite perfect, and you can I shall take a West End theatre and that had ever been discovered, and is not like other men. He would never have some coffee, you fellows? Waiter, the flowers, and their beauty seemed to concealed. There was no help for it. " snake inwrought, so that no man might any joy they brought, or could ever is able to save me. I am forced to and my servant will take a cab and 14 15 16 17 to return as soon as possible and to is! I'll take it for you. You of that winter morning that seemed to meet me. Tell one of the grooms to bring bring bring bring the things with him. As the hall the other things." He spoke him back his joyousness and his my horse round. No. Never - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 bringing 2 1 2 of all her guests. I remember her pattern before him. He heard Campbell 1 2 3 4 than defeats. Every month as it wanes Harry," said the old gentleman, "what in their houses. They say a corpse that you had once loved and that 1 2 3 there. He felt that he was on the a long breath. "You have been on the a moment, feeling that he was on the 1 2 Juliet to-morrow." "All right. The shown into a little private room at the 1 2 3 4 5 been just like the palmy days of the girl, with one of those characteristic doctrinaire - word full of terror to the talking about it for six weeks, and the a man to be called a representative 1 2 3 I went to look after a piece of old of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold silk, and blue silk and gold 1 2 that one can touch and handle. Old lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian 1 and fringed along the edges with 1 and twenty-one parrots, made in bringing me up to a truculent and bringing in the heavy chest, and the - CH. 1 - CH. 14 brings brings brings brings you nearer to something you out so early? I thought you bad luck." "The Home Farm! subtle memories with it, a line - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 brink of a horrible danger. "You told brink of committing a terrible crime, brink of a discovery that would either - CH. 9 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 Bristol at eight o'clock; and I will get Bristol where dinner had been laid for - CH. 4 - CH. 6 brings 4 brink 3 bristol 2 british 5 British British British British British drama." "Just like, I should faces that, once seen, are mind - reappeared from time public are really not equal to artist. Did you advertise for it? - CH. 4 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 brocade in Wardour Street and had to brocade embroidered in turquoises brocade , and yellow silk damask and - CH. 4 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 brocades , green bronzes, lacquer-work, brocades and stiff Spanish velvets; - CH. 9 - CH. 11 broideries of pearls, and it stood in a - CH. 11 broidery , and blazoned with the king's - CH. 11 broke the stillness, except when, now broke in Lord Henry. "Isn't it, Mr broke from her thin lips, and her broke the waves of worldly cunning. broke from his lips. "I don't care for broke in Lord Henry, putting his broke from her, and she flung herself broke from the lad's lips, and he broke . She explained it all to me. It broke from Dorian Gray's lips, and he broke from the lips of the younger broke from the painter's lips as he - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 brocade 3 brocades 2 broideries 1 broidery 1 broke 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 the canvas made the only sound that you." "That is entirely due to me," " The same nervous staccato laugh thought of. Against the shell of her ear he was highly connected." An oath forgive you for being late for dinner," t touch me!" he cried. A low moan that Sibyl Vane is dead." A cry of pain played so badly, and my heart almost the corner of the room. A cry of terror can do that." A bitter laugh of mockery the ground. An exclamation of horror 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 sir," said the man. A sigh of relief Face it, and do it." A groan never marry again, Lady Narborough," in a rut, then swerved aside and drew the curtain aside, a hideous laugh money for my night's lodging." He subject." "It is an annoying subject," so, he stepped forward. A cry of joy for you. You gave her good advice and portrait. A cry of pain and indignation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 passion is for publication. Nowadays a and colourless, the grace of his figure you. I can't tell you how heartthe memory of a few kisses and some moonstone's pearly whiteness, and the in St. James's Street. He seemed dim men and women were clustering in dreadful things. Hetty's heart is not a ring of sickly white faces under a 1 told me once, anybody, even a stock- 1 2 I am no more to you than a green his bedroom. As midnight was striking 1 touch and handle. Old brocades, green 1 2 3 The heavy scent of the roses seemed to the green steaming mud; he began to made each crime bear its misshapen 1 2 to ask of her, something that he had not for the day. He felt that if he 1 Every impulse that we strive to strangle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 And much less than a friend. A sort of I don't care for brothers. My elder gallery. "Come, Sibyl," said her monstrous butterflies. She made her Oh! don't go away from me. My is not going to do anything. My it had been merely fancy. Sibyl Vane's of Sir Geoffrey Clouston, the duchess's 1 VI, who had so wildly adored his 1 sort of brother, I suppose?" "Oh, broke broke broke broke broke broke broke broke broke broke from his parched lips, and the from Campbell's lips and he in Lord Henry. "You were far into a gallop. After some time from the painted lips of the from her with an oath and in Lord Henry. "It has no from his lips. The man who her heart. That was the from him. He could see no - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 broken 9 broken heart will run to many editions. broken and deformed. The scarlet broken I am about the whole thing. I broken pathetic words." "I will try and broken rainbow of the milky opal. He broken with shame and sorrow. What broken groups round their doors. broken . Of course, she cried and all broken roof of dripping umbrellas, - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 16 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 broker , can gain a reputation for being - CH. 1 bronze figure. Hardly as much, I dare bronze blows upon the dusky air, - CH. 2 - CH. 15 bronzes , lacquer-work, carved ivories, - CH. 9 broker 1 bronze 2 bronzes 1 brood 3 brood over everything. After about a brood over those verses which, brood . In the common world of fact - CH. 2 - CH. 14 - CH. 18 brooded on for many months of brooded on what he had gone - CH. 5 - CH. 14 brooded 2 broods 1 broods in the mind and poisons us. - CH. 2 brother 8 brother , I suppose?" "Oh, brothers! I brother won't die, and my younger brother impatiently. He hated his brother talk of himself, his hopes, his brother ... No; never mind. He didn't brother paid the bill at last. George brother had not come back to kill brother , jerking two spent cartridges - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 16 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 brother' s wife that a leper had warned - CH. 11 brothers ! I don't care for brothers. My - CH. 1 brother' 1 brothers 3 2 3 "Oh, brothers! I don't care for brother won't die, and my younger 1 2 3 but there is only room for two in the watched the flashing lights of the little night-express to town, and to have the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 "I could not get rid of her. She shade," said Lord Henry. "Parker has Two globe-shaped china dishes were the club for some time afterwards. He He was conscious - and the thought her soul to search for him, and it had not what I wanted to say. You had was from Lord Henry, and had been the coffee and cigarettes had been an ever-present sign of the ruin men for your victories. As it is, they are tears. Even Harry, who was here, who and that the tea had been already he would think of the ruin he had enamoured of the pearl that the diver by the reflection of the ruin that time said that on one occasion, when he was plied the distaff among the women, and it was. It was a knife that he had sense of joy, greater than any joy they In fact, it was music that had first to make matters worse, had actually of the keys. After the coffee had been the most full of promise that he had for him that each sin of his life had other eyes should look upon it. It had on till they met a policeman and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 long thin dragon-fly floated past on its either." Lord Henry stroked his pointed Greek head with plaited coils of darkbrought a gleam of pleasure into his opened and a young lad with rough jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim, the giants, that had been worked by by his side. The keen aromatic air, the brothers . My elder brother won't die, brothers seem never to do anything - CH. 1 - CH. 1 brougham . You must follow us in a brougham in front of him. A strange brougham at the door by eight-thirty. - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 18 brought me up to royalties, and people brought out the drinks, and if you stay brought in by a page. Dorian Gray brought his daughter back with him, I brought a gleam of pleasure into his brought him back. His kiss burned brought me something higher, brought by hand that morning. He brought and the man turned to go, he brought upon their souls. Three brought to you. No, you must keep brought me the news, in fact, had no brought up. On a little table of dark brought upon his soul with a pity that brought to King Perozes, and had brought on beautiful and wonderful brought by a friend into the brought the Moon from Carthage and brought up, some days before, to cut brought , or could ever bring, to the brought him and Dorian Gray brought her husband with her. "I brought in, he stopped, and looking brought to shame. But was it all brought its sure swift penalty along brought melancholy across his brought him back. The man rang the - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as brown beard and tapped the toe of his brown hair, eyes that were violet wells brown agate eyes - that it was through brown hair came into the room. He brown , cross-gartered hose, a dainty brown girls for the pleasure of brown and red lights that glimmered - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 11 - CH. 18 Browning writes about that - CH. 19 brougham 3 brought 27 brown 8 browning 1 1 brows 1 1 of a hunting-crop across his face. His 1 so. Their strong passions must either 1 body really in the soul, as Giordano brows knit together into a wedge-like - CH. 5 bruise 1 bruise or bend. They either slay the - CH. 18 bruno 1 brush 1 Bruno thought? The separation of spirit - CH. 4 1 him. The sweep and dash of the 1 ways, and shy tremulous grace. He 1 2 3 busy mixing his colours and getting his biting the end of one of his huge among the litter of tin tubes and dry 1 2 women, mocking an old man who was as they plunged into the alder-clump, 1 it? He seemed to recognize his own 1 2 3 4 people, with their coarse faces and you make a scene with her?" "I was her?" "I was brutal, Harry - perfectly was thrust back against the wall, with a 1 2 3 4 5 some rascally adventurer, some Belgian " cried Lord Henry. "I can stand Henry. "I can stand brute force, but patron of art. He was a most offensive us. They give us an impression of sheer 1 wine from a delicate, gold-beaded 1 her bare limbs in waves of purple 1 It lightens." Sweet, good-night! This 1 2 3 room, which had been specially and in honour of a shameful passion of nerves, and fibres, and slowly 1 frame had made the picture extremely 1 outside and seeing the flash of the 1 2 He was a hero to his valet, who to most of his relations, whom he 1 termed it - was shown to be the proper brush on the canvas made the only - CH. 2 brushed them away hastily and looked - CH. 8 brushes ready. He was looking worried, brushes and frowning. "It is quite brushes , seeking for something. Yes, it - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 brushed 1 brushes 3 brushing 2 brushing the sleeves of his coat with brushing the lithe swinging branches - CH. 16 - CH. 18 brushwork , and the frame was his own - CH. 13 brutal gestures, become quite different brutal , Harry - perfectly brutal. But it brutal . But it is all right now. I am brutal hand round his throat. He - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 16 brute , to insult his son-in-law in brute force, but brute reason is quite brute reason is quite unbearable. There brute , though he had an extraordinary brute force, and we revolt against that. - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 8 bubble of Venetian glass and looking - CH. 9 bubbles , or crawled in red foam over - CH. 3 bud of love by summer's ripening - CH. 7 brushwork 1 brutal 4 brute 5 bubble 1 bubbles 1 bud 1 built 3 built by the last Lord Kelso for the built a pagan church for Christian built -up cells in which thought hides - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 bulky , and now and then, in spite of - CH. 10 bull' s-eye reflected in the window. He - CH. 13 bulky 1 bull' 1 bullied 2 bullied him, and a terror to most of bullied in turn. Only England could - CH. 3 - CH. 3 bulwark for society. A smile curved - CH. 15 bulwark 1 bunch 2 1 2 old lady, going over the contents of her is the key. I'll have it off the 1 who had first analyzed it? Was it not 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 seemed hardly able to bear the and the face on the canvas bear the things. The portrait was to bear the misshapen shadow that had to bear the One's days were too brief to take the on us, Gladys." "We have carried their My own personality has become a had suddenly become too hideous a prayed that the portrait should bear the 1 2 the origin of all his shame was to be him all his life? Was he always to be 1 2 to her sat, on her right, Sir Thomas dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas 1 2 3 4 of pleasure over some admirable of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Rheims for the use of Queen Joan of to Basil?" asked Dorian, holding up his 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and, flinging himself on the divan, he past, and raking up the future. I had she killed herself." The elder man that was standing by the table and it is for me to dictate terms." Campbell most tedious ambassadors, and having In one corner, with his head 1 Henry passed up the low arcade into 1 2 does not think his natural thoughts, or and put them into it. He could easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 room as he spoke. Hectic spots of red and it had brought him back. His kiss the lord of Rimini, whose effigy was As Dorian Gray was lighting a halfbegan to gnaw at him. His throat had been destroyed. He himself had 1 2 3 His face was flushed and his cheeks a gentleman to afford the decency of to his feet, with flushed cheeks and bunch with tremulously uncertain bunch in a moment. But you don't - CH. 10 - CH. 10 buonarotti 1 Buonarotti who had carved it in the - CH. 3 burden 9 burden of a beauty so flamelike as burden of his passions and his sins; burden of his shame: that was all. A burden that should have been his own. burden of another's errors on one's burden ." "Only as far as the Stock burden to me. I want to escape, to go burden for him to bear. The dreadful burden of his days, and he keep the - CH. 1 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 11 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 burdened for the rest of his life with burdened by his past? Was he really - CH. 12 - CH. 20 burdened 2 burdon 2 Burdon , a Radical member of Burdon , looking supercilious. "My - CH. 3 - CH. 3 burgundy 4 Burgundy Burgundy Burgundy Burgundy I am fortunate enough to of his race, was hung with and was decorated with against the light and - CH. 3 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 19 buried 7 buried buried buried buried buried buried buried his face in the cushions, as my romance in a bed of his face in his hands. "How his face in his hands. "Good his face in his hands, and a her husband properly in a in his arms, a sailor sprawled - CH. 2 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 burlington 1 Burlington Street and turned his steps - CH. 3 burn with his natural passions. His burn them afterwards. Then he pulled - CH. 2 - CH. 13 burned on his cheeks. He was terribly burned again upon her mouth. Her burned at Rome as the enemy of burned candle that was standing on burned and his delicate hands burned what had been below-stairs. - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 11 - CH. 13 - CH. 16 - CH. 20 burning . "Yes," he continued, "I am burning wood on his own hearth. In burning eyes. "Harry! Sibyl Vane is - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 burn 2 burned 6 burning 8 4 5 6 7 8 hall of entrance, lights were still distilling heavily scented oils and -place, and stood there, looking at the crushed with dank hands his The smell of the singeing clothes and 1 of dull silver inlaid with arabesques of 1 not feel, but I cannot mimic one that 1 to-night." "What?" "That a 1 2 3 to the garden and found Dorian Gray I am so happy!" whispered the girl, to life again now," muttered the lad, 1 that stood in the shade of a tall laurel 1 2 to save from the wicked, red-shirted guarded by six mounted policemen. The 1 is he?" asked Lord Fermor, knitting his 1 2 3 4 again. Oh, yes; it was a bad dear Harry, I did not treat it as a shall not inform upon you. It is not my Basil chooses to hide himself, it is no 1 2 looked for. The lodging-house drudge on her wrinkled hands, Mrs. Leaf 1 his cigarette-case. The painter had been 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 part of the subject-matter of the artist, face, and seemed about to linger there. you will laugh at me," he replied, " laughed. "Yes, I knew you would; an intellectual expression and all that. Except, of course, in the Church. whose name you have never told me, didn't intend to tell it to you." " It is a silly habit, I dare say, over her dates, and I always do. row at all. I sometimes wish she would; you are really a very good husband, "I will tell you," said Hallward; so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then "Yes; she is a peacock in everything burning burning burning burning burning from three flickering jets: thin odorous gums from the East. logs with their frostlike ashes lids as though he would have leather was horrible. It took - CH. 7 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 burnished 1 burnished steel, and studded with - CH. 13 burns 1 burns me like fire. Oh, Dorian, - CH. 7 burnt 1 burnt child loves the fire." "I am not - CH. 17 burying 3 burying his face in the great cool burying her face in the lap of the burying his face in his hands. "No, she - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 bush . The sunlight slipped over the - CH. 1 bushrangers . For he was not to remain bushrangers were to attack them three - CH. 5 - CH. 5 bushy white eyebrows. "That is what I - CH. 3 business . The girl died, too, died within business transaction, and I did not business . Besides, without my stirring business of mine. If he is dead, I don' - CH. 3 - CH. 6 - CH. 14 - CH. 19 bustled in and out. There was the bustled into the library. He asked - CH. 5 - CH. 10 bush 1 bushrangers 2 bushy 1 business 4 bustled 2 busy 1 busy mixing his colours and getting his - CH. 2 but 396 but the morality of art - THE PREFACE But he suddenly started up, and - CH. 1 but I really can't exhibit it. I have put - CH. 1 but it is quite true, all the same." " - CH. 1 But beauty, real beauty, ends where an - CH. 1 But then in the Church they don't - CH. 1 but whose picture really fascinates me, - CH. 1 But why not?" "Oh, I can't explain - CH. 1 but somehow it seems to bring a great - CH. 1 But when she does find me out, she - CH. 1 but she merely laughs at me." "I hate - CH. 1 but that you are thoroughly ashamed - CH. 1 but an expression of perplexity came - CH. 1 but I don't know how to explain it to - CH. 1 but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling - CH. 1 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 friend. I had only met her once before, eyes met again. It was reckless of me, I like to find out people for myself. a restaurant. How could I admire her? "I should think it was, Harry. My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. you would never care for anything Of course, I have done all that. who is it who says that? I forget; Agnew offered me such a huge price He shall never know anything about it. artist should create beautiful things, "I think you are wrong, Basil, It is a sad thing to think of, up. "I beg your pardon, Basil, gloves. "You are very pressing, Basil, unfortunate sitters. I beg you to stay." " feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. of purification. Nothing remains then to say. There is some answer to you, that had never been touched before, Music had troubled him many times. not articulate. It was not a new world, painting, I can't think of anything else. what Harry has been saying to you, murmured. "Nothing can cure the soul just as nothing can cure the senses to have a language of their own. had known Basil Hallward for months, is only superficial. That may be so, Gray, the gods have been good to you. time. The common hill-flowers wither, of its leaves will hold its purple stars. is absolutely nothing in the world Mr. Gray?" Dorian made no answer, that Hallward was speaking to him, grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. with my two best friends at once, What is it are the last refuge of the complex. ever given. Man is many things, do." "If you let any one have it I have promised to dine at White's, "At least you are like it in appearance. derived no particular benefit from him, was young and Prim unthought of, nothing. He had two large town houses, dogs. His principles were out of date, when they grow older they know it. Diplomatic, things were much better. a pigeon. The thing was hushed up, family were. The men were a poor lot, "A long engagement exhausts them, thinks that I have nothing to do right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, coloured marbles of a sonnet-sequence? friends, a perfect saint amongst women, that it had merely been detected." "Oh! but she took it into her head to lionize but I asked Lady Brandon to But Lady Brandon treats her guests But tell me, what did she say about But according to your category I must But I can't help detesting my relations. but your art." "He is all my art to But he is much more to me than a But in some curious way - I wonder but it is what Dorian Gray has been but which I would not part with? It is But the world might guess it, and I but should put nothing of his own life but I won't argue with you. It is only but there is no doubt that genius lasts but I didn't know you had any one But I certainly shall not run away, now but I am afraid I must go. I have But what about my man at the But their own souls starve, and are But the bravest man amongst us is but the recollection of a pleasure, or but I cannot find it. Don't speak. Let but that he felt was now vibrating and But music was not articulate. It was but rather another chaos, that it But you never sat better. You were but he has certainly made you have the but the senses, just as nothing can cure but the soul." The lad started and But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed but the friendship between them had but at least it is not so superficial as But what the gods give they quickly but they blossom again. The laburnum But we never get back our youth. The but youth!" Dorian Gray listened, but passed listlessly in front of his but not catching the meaning of his But this picture will remain always but between you both you have made but canvas and colour? I will not let it But I don't like scenes, except on the but he is not rational. I am glad he is but me, Basil, I shall never forgive you! but it is only with an old friend, so I But it will never alter," sighed Hallward. but who was considered generous by but had retired from the diplomatic but preferred to live in chambers as it but there was a good deal to be said But I don't want money. It is only But I hear they let them in now by but , egad, Kelso ate his chop alone at but , egad! the women were wonderful. but they are capital at a steeplechase. but to write cheques for her silly fads." but it won't have any effect. 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" content with philosophic contemplation. of science is that it is not emotional." " tight lips. Lady Agatha shook her head, Gray never took his gaze off him, as a Persian carpet and as unreal. myself used to have literary ambitions, on you as being primarily responsible. me come with you," he murmured. " illusions. She tried to look picturesque, the only way I get to know of them. don't like good music. I adore it, You must come. I can't afford orchids, make one's rooms look so picturesque. I think our ideas are quite different. " "Because they are so sentimental." " sex. They never have anything to say, her?" "I will tell you, Harry, life. I don't know what I expected, You will laugh at me, I know, at least I am not laughing at you. afraid that others might pick them up. The gallery and pit were fairly full, should think 'The Idiot Boy', or 'Dumb piano, that nearly drove me away, it had come out of a country-booth. me once that pathos left you unmoved, manner. They are quite obvious. of life - don't commit crimes, Dorian. " not wonder if he was quite right there. one's self over poetry is an honour. "The Jew wanted to tell me her history, curious romance on hand. You have; is more than an individual. You laugh, art, consummate art-instinct, in her, "Oh, Basil is the best of fellows, is that he has nothing left for life is the most unpoetical of all creatures. by the methods of natural science, till life disclosed to them its secrets, with the passions and the intellect. and passion of youth were in him, joys seem to be remote from one, to follow and showed us what to avoid. experiences, yet it was not a simple, act. You must not think of anything he is like what love himself should be. it pains you to talk about our father. with a good-natured grumble. "Ah! Sibyl, laughing, "how unkind of you! "Very well," he said at last, " and I hate clerks," he replied. " her attachment is serious or not. the more, she did not talk of him, were delightful things in store for him. She was only a year older than he was, my wonderful lover, my god of graces. for us both, terribly hard and difficult. But must we really see Chicago in but brute reason is quite unbearable. But they are so unhappy in But , as the nineteenth century has But we have such grave but could not help being amused. Mr. but sat like one under a spell, smiles But there is no literary public in but I gave them up long ago. And now, But I should like to talk to you about But I thought you had promised Basil but only succeeded in being untidy. But you must not think I don't like but I am afraid of it. It makes me too but I spare no expense in foreigners. But here is Harry! Harry, I came in to But he has been most pleasant. I am But I like sentimental people." "Never but they say it charmingly. Women but you mustn't be unsympathetic but I went out and wandered eastward, but I really went in and paid a whole But you should not say the greatest But I don't want to interrupt you. Go but the two rows of dingy stalls were but Innocent'. Our fathers used to like but at last the drop-scene was drawn But Juliet! Harry, imagine a girl, hardly but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill But an actress! How different an But I am much obliged for the But why should you be annoyed? I But , on the other hand, judging from But when did you first speak to Miss but I said it did not interest me." "You but it is not quite what I expected." "My but I tell you she has genius. I love her but she has personality also; and you but he seems to me to be just a bit of but his prejudices, his principles, and But inferior poets are absolutely but the ordinary subject-matter of that but to the few, to the elect, the But now and then a complex but he was becoming self-conscious. It but whose sorrows stir one's sense of But there was no motive power in but rather a very complex passion. but your acting. Mr. Isaacs has been But what does he see in me? I am not But it only pains you because you but you don't like being kissed, Jim," But are you really going for a walk but don't be too long dressing." She But you are quite right. I have chosen But there is no doubt that the young but prattled on about the ship in But he must be very good, and not but she knew so much more of life. But I am poor beside him. Poor? But it will be different now. 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" distinct remembrance of being married, to think that I never was engaged." " than I am at the present moment." " As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled marriage, of course that would be silly, have the charm of being fashionable. be very happy, Dorian," said Hallward, " was dreadful and the Orlando absurd. feel that I should not tell you all this, of course, in middle-class life. "You are quite incorrigible, Harry; answered in his slow melodious voice. " we are happy, we are always good, we are not always happy." "Ah! flaunt one's moral views about them, is a form of the grossest immorality." " the poor is that they can afford nothing rich." "One has to pay in other ways dear fellow, mediaeval art is charming, their lives." "Possibly," he sighed, " with a tired look in his eyes, " with me. I am so sorry, Basil, right. I did not think so at first, Harry is so cynical, he terrifies me. is the orchestra. It is quite dreadful, manner. The voice was exquisite, moonlight. That could not be denied. is quite beautiful, Dorian," he said, " I wish she were ill," he rejoined. " of imitation," remarked Lord Henry. " "Dorian, you should have understood. scenes were my world. I knew nothing higher, something of which all art is mimic a passion that I do not feel, I was thinking of you all the time. didn't mean it. He was in jest.... only once that I have not pleased you. "I don't wish to be unkind, She wept silently, and made no answer, corners, where they lay shuddering. had such a soul been given to him? Vane? She was nothing to him now. A sense of infinite pity, not for himself, stain would fleck and wreck its fairness. tragedy came to him once or twice, it was not true, why trouble about it? could lull the moral sense to sleep. the half-hour rang its double chime, like this." He made no answer at first, said Lord Henry as he entered. " It is dreadful, from one point of view, "I was brutal, Harry - perfectly brutal. Dorian! I congratulate you on it. at him in perplexed amazement. " but at that moment the Duke of but sat down to his meagre meal. The but don't let Sibyl.... It is a gentleman, but I could not help it. I must go now but he cut her short. Trunks had to But I didn't say he was married. I said but I have no recollection at all of But think of Dorian's birth, and But do you approve of it, Harry?" but one whose growth is arrested. If but there are other and more But here is Dorian himself. He will but I don't quite forgive you for not But Sibyl! You should have seen her! but I can't help it. Of course, our But then the middle classes are not but I don't mind. It is impossible to be But I am afraid I cannot claim my but when we are good, we are not but what do you mean by good?" cried but they are not one's concern. But , surely, if one lives merely for but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like but money." "What sort of ways, Basil?" but mediaeval emotions are out of But then the only things that one can but they invariably want it back in but I am always ready for a new but there is only room for two in the but I admit it now. The gods made But here is the orchestra. It is quite but it only lasts for about five minutes. but from the point of view of tone it But the staginess of her acting was but she can't act. Let us go." " But she seems to me to be simply But do let us go. Dorian, you must not But you understand now, don't you?" but shadows, and I thought them real. but a reflection. You had made me but I cannot mimic one that burns me But I will try - indeed, I will try. But you, oh! can't you forgive me for But you are quite right, Dorian. I but I can't see you again. You have but crept nearer. Her little hands But the strange expression that he had But he had suffered also. During the But the picture? What was he to say but for the painted image of himself, But he would not sin. The picture, but there was the unreality of a dream But what if, by some fate or deadlier But here was a visible symbol of the but Dorian Gray did not stir. He was but remained quite still. The knocking But you must not think too much but it was not your fault. Tell me, did But it is all right now. I am not sorry But how are you going to begin?" 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I can't tell you what it was, people about whom one cares nothing. of course, I would not have allowed the room and looking horribly pale. " that explanation, Harry," he rejoined, " a tragedy in which I took a great part, find that we are no longer the actors, me - there have not been very many, One should absorb the colour of life, then things linger. I once wore nothing dinner, so I did not feel any anxiety. of the past is that it is the past. a farce. They are charmingly artificial, that always whitewashes a woman. instincts. We have emancipated them, seen you really and absolutely angry, me at the time to be merely fanciful, to life. She has played her last part. the daughter of Brabantio died. "I felt all that you have said, it to myself. How well you know me! looks, will not be able to do." " You will see her name on the door. feel up to it," said Dorian listlessly. " atom in secret love or strange affinity? Of course, I knew that was impossible. thing. I know what you must suffer. in the Euston Road, isn't it? a son, a charming fellow, I believe. to my studio to sit for his picture. of martyrdom, all its wasted beauty. there is much to be got from all these. thoughts, new ideas. I am different, must not like me less. I am changed, Of course, I am very fond of Harry. - you are too much afraid of life don't know my name," he answered. " Dorian, if it would please you. and you are not to ask for any. "Dorian!" "Don't speak!" " and going over towards the window. " probably at first did not strike you, are, not in the costume of dead ages, me without mist or veil, I cannot tell. exhibited. You were a little annoyed; whom I talked about it, laughed at me. the charm of being very dangerous. nothing else to see. Why do you ask? the sort of life I would like to lead. I can't explain it to you, Basil, let me look at the picture once again. ll have it off the bunch in a moment. Yes, Basil could have saved him. denial, or forgetfulness could do that. He waited for people to come to him. But in London people are so But be quick. Tell me everything at but she did not come down again. but it had either prussic acid or white but you must not get yourself mixed But I was not moved a bit. I thought but it was terrible. I said I would go But she would have soon found out but I assure you that in any case the But I thought it was my duty. It is not but I am glad you don't think I am but by which I have not been wounded. but the spectators of the play. Or but there have been some - have but one should never remember its but violets all through one season, as But what a lack of taste she showed! But women never know when the but they have no sense of art. You are But really, Dorian, how different Sibyl but they remain slaves looking for but I can fancy how delightful you but that I see now was absolutely true, But you must think of that lonely But don't waste your tears over Sibyl but somehow I was afraid of it, and I But we will not talk again of what has But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, But I am sorry you won't come and But I am awfully obliged to you for But the reason was of no importance. But I wish you had left word where But where were you? Did you go down But I was afraid of intruding upon a But he is not on the stage. He is a But you were simple, natural, and But , as I was saying, you must not But the artistic temperament that they but you must not like me less. I am but you must always be my friend. Of But I know that you are better than he but you are better. And how happy we But surely she did?" "Only my But you must come and sit to me But , remember, if you touch this But what is the matter? Of course I But , really, it seems rather absurd that but that revealed itself to you suddenly? but in your own dress and in your But I know that as I worked at it, but then you did not realize all that it But I did not mind that. When the But that was all. He was too clever But you mustn't talk about worship. It But still I don't think I would go to but I must never sit to you again. But that can't be helped. I quite But you don't think of living up But it was too late now. The past But the future was inevitable. 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No eye am so sorry, Harry," he cried, " poignant because it was purely selfish. for it all the other arts seemed to be -serious, fopperies. For, while he was highly organized forms of existence. dulls them, it was to know nothing. the moments of a life that is itself grating the true story of their lives. house in which to live, an inn that is which the performer does not blow, repeated the story of their shame, sometimes loathing it and himself, the face, its marked likeness to himself; carnations of the painting had withered, he had lived it in act and circumstance, who had hated him could not choose in the direction of his own house. rather your fur coat, as you passed me. my house is somewhere about here, as I have not seen you for ages. say to you." "I shall be charmed. seems silly of the French, doesn't it? all a bad servant. I never liked him, I love scandals about other people, your wealth, and all that kind of thing. Somebody - I won't mention his name, fancied about him. His life is dreadful. you might have the most artistic tastes, is so or not. How should I know? in his voice, "to see your soul. no matter. I can go to-morrow. throat. Yes, it was Dorian himself. an awful lesson!" There was no answer, in the air. He stabbed him twice more, and listened. He could hear nothing, Francis," he said, stepping in; " by any images of pleasure or of pain. or could ever bring, to the senses. There was romance in every place. place between them no one ever knew. never to enter your house again, Gray. he leaned across and said, very quietly, of this house, a room to which nobody I am awfully sorry for you, Alan. Alan." "I am glad of that. crime without doing something stupid. I have told you too much as it is. sorry for you, Alan," he murmured, " it. You know what the result will be. showed him that it had not stirred, back into the library. He was pale, smell of nitric acid in the room. nerves, and he felt wildly excited, summer after I come from Homburg, in London clubs who have no enemies, but to-day I only want a picture but little changed. There was the But there was no other place in the but the hideousness of age was in but his would ever see his shame. On but really it is entirely your fault. But moments such as these were rare. but a preparation. Fashion, by which but too ready to accept the position But it appeared to Dorian Gray that But it was to teach man to but a moment. There are few of us But he never fell into the error of but suitable for the sojourn of a but through which he inhales the air; but he was unchanged. No winter but filled, at other times, with that but what could they learn from that? but the eyes were still wonderful in but as his imagination had created it but weep, and Atalanta, who had But Hallward had seen him. Dorian But I wasn't quite sure. Didn't you but I don't feel at all certain about it. But I suppose you will be back soon? But won't you miss your train?" said But - do you know? - he was not at but I had nothing to complain about. but scandals about myself don't But position and wealth are not but you know him - came to me last But you, Dorian, with your pure, but that you were a man whom no But it is said of you. I am told things But only God can do that." A bitter But don't ask me to read anything But who had done it? He seemed to but he could hear the young man but the man did not move. but the drip, drip on the threadbare but I had forgotten my latch-key. But youth smiles without any reason. But this was not one of them. It was But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the But after a time the book fell from But suddenly people remarked that But you said it was a matter of life but watching the effect of each word but myself has access, a dead man is But I can't help myself. You are the But who drove him to it? You, I But I will have nothing to do with it." But I beg of you to do this. We were but you leave me no alternative. I But you are going to help me. It is but was still there, as he had left it. but absolutely calm. "I have done But the thing that had been sitting at but his manner as he bent over his but then an old woman like me must but are thoroughly disliked by their - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 trying to get herself compromised, apology, he ceased to feel bored. my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. explanation," laughed the hostess. " says that you are extremely wicked." " hope so," said his hostess, laughing. " this, I am afraid, Lady Narborough, and I sometimes wish that I had been; course, with their ages, slightly edited. precious. Her feet are very pretty, to the peerage, it is ten years, Henry. "A great many people don't, lashes almost touched his cheek. Ah! for that there was no atonement; streets. Most of the windows were dark, or, if it lives at all, lives on, quickening his step as he went, you were dead. I knew nothing of you in hoarse echo from her flat mouth. " and rushed to the corner of the street, Gladys. It is a delightful idea." " of that kind. It is a sad truth, better to be beautiful than to be good. Hilstone's garden-party? You don't, intensifies it. We can have in life of science." "Men have educated us." " always allowed a choice," he answered, gaiety in his manner as he sat at table, to dominate him. If the tapestry did more to lay its hand upon his heart. before him. Actual life was chaos, his joyousness and his ardour for life. Geoffrey put his gun to his shoulder, is not; he shoots very straight. sin for which there is no forgiveness. astray. I like the duchess very much, "And the duchess loves you very much, a deep note of pathos in his voice. " "What nonsense!" "I hope it is, looked the loveliest of little live things. She did not answer for some time, kind. A decent-looking man, sir, else. I spared somebody. It sounds vain, She was simply a girl in a village. Dorian," interrupted Lord Henry. " Of course, she cried and all that. in San Francisco. It is an odd thing, life is merely a habit, a bad habit. Dorian said nothing, he had a wonderful genius for painting. with a note of sadness in his voice. " know there are dreadful places in Paris, sorry if I hurt your vanity by saying so, that one cannot talk about after dinner. a really romantic end as you suggest, said Dorian. "I suppose I did. telling the prophet that art had a soul, You have changed, of course, of old age is not that one is old, yourself safe and think yourself strong. Browning writes about that somewhere; but was so peculiarly plain that to But at dinner he could not eat But I remember her very well at But her third husband, Lord Henry! But what world says that?" asked But really, if you all worship Madame but it is quite true." "Of course it is but you are made to be good - you But nothing must be done in a hurry. but they are not feet of clay. White but ten years with Monmouth must but I find him charming. He atones But he still watched the cabinet. At but though forgiveness was impossible, but now and then fantastic shadows but to give rebellion its fascination but as he darted aside into a dim but the pet name she used to call But don't give me away to him," she but Dorian Gray had disappeared. But I don't want to be rechristened, but we have lost the faculty of giving But on the other hand, no one is but it is nice of you to pretend that but one great experience at best, and But not explained you." "Describe us but hardly had he finished the but now and then a thrill of terror but tremble in the wind, he shook. But perhaps it had been only his but there was something terribly But it was not merely the physical but there was something in the But there is no use talking about the But we are not likely to suffer from it but I don't love her." "And the but she likes you less, so you are But I seem to have lost the passion but I can't help feeling it. Ah! here But I am sorry they told you about but stood gazing at the landscape. "I but rough-like. A sort of sailor we but you understand what I mean. She But I really loved her. I am quite But I can finish your idyll for you. But there is no disgrace upon her. but every one who disappears is said But then one regrets the loss even of but rose from the table, and passing But a man can paint like Velasquez But don't people say that he was but Basil was not the sort of man to but I assure you it is true. Crime But let us pass from poor Basil. I but I can't. I dare say he fell into But I never really liked it. I am sorry but that man had not. I am afraid, but not in appearance. I wish you but that one is young. 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His beauty had been to him had been to him but a mask, his youth himself one night in his laboratory, more. At least he thought so. denial of self. He recognized that now. The man rang the bell several times, and crept upstairs. They knocked, but it has always worshipped you. It but I am not going to have the same But I am tired to-night, Harry. I But we won't discuss literature. Come but she had everything that he had But was it all irretrievable? Was but "Smite us for our iniquities" But for those two things, his life but a mask, his youth but a mockery. but a mockery. What was youth at but had not revealed the secret that But who could tell? ... No. There had But this murder - was it to dog him but there was no answer. Except for but there was no reply. They called - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 butler , coming into the garden. "You butler entered with a laden tea-tray butler told him that they had gone in butler filled his glass with champagne. - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 15 butterflies fluttered past them, and in butterflies . She made her brother talk butterflies , whose wings were similarly - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 11 butterfly ." "Well, I hope he won't stick - CH. 17 button -hole in his coat; "and when they button -hole out of his coat, he seemed button -hole of Parma violets, Dorian button -hole. It was a marvellous button from your foil," he answered. - CH. 3 - CH. 7 - CH. 15 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 buy oblivion, dens of horror where buy it. I wish I had now. It belonged - CH. 16 - CH. 19 buying . Mind you come. Or shall we - CH. 19 buzz of voices. A great - CH. 18 buzzed buzzed buzzed buzzed - CH. 2 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 14 butler 4 1 2 3 4 Gray is in the studio, sir," said the came a knock at the door, and the entered the somewhat sombre hall, the manner. From time to time the 1 2 3 the walk together. Two green-and-white danced and dipped like monstrous s arms, and five hundred and sixty-one 1 specimen he could find of a modern 1 2 3 4 5 murmured Lord Henry, settling his puzzled. After he had taken the exquisitely dressed and wearing a large Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my you looking for?" she inquired. "The 1 2 were opium dens where one could a masterpiece. I remember I wanted to 1 about some tapestries she is thinking of 1 trampling of myriad feet and the low 1 2 3 4 upon the gravel. A furry bee came and sat down to his meagre meal. The flies laden with spices. A bee flew in and neither of the men spoke. A fly 1 2 3 4 5 6 occasion. It is not he who is revealed air. A grasshopper began to chirrup yourself, Harry, how independent I am as in that case it will not be coloured tedious luncheon that he had missed Henry, smiling, and taking Hallward butterflies 3 butterfly 1 button 5 buy 2 buying 1 buzz 1 buzzed 4 round it for a moment. Then it round the table and crawled round the blue-dragon bowl noisily about the room, and by 217 by by by by by by the painter; it is rather the painter the wall, and like a blue thread a nature. I have always been my own either his wants, his desires, or his staying so long with Basil Hallward. the arm, he almost led him into the - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 friend had said to him - words spoken great secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses graceful young man who was standing only shallow people who do not judge into hideous puppets, haunted make us afraid, or when we are stirred of using it. They spoil every romance it?" cried Hallward at last, stung a little china dishes were brought in him, but who was considered generous he considered that he was fully entitled better. But I hear they let them in now Devereux, and made all the men frantic for him if Kelso did the right thing at the time who wasn't after him. And been told to him, it had yet stirred him few wild weeks of happiness cut short in pain. The mother snatched away a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom looking at life, suggested so strangely and good temper, much liked who are not duchesses are described rule. The post on her left was occupied travelled all over it in cars provided of slavery, and we try to solve it she swept out of the room, followed a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette bound for Margaret of Valois introduce myself. I know you quite well squares. About half-past eight I passed was a dreadful orchestra, presided over was almost as bad. He was played When one is in love, one always begins one's self, and one always ends beyond his means," laughed Dorian. " wonderful frame, specially designed annoyance or jealousy. He was pleased He had been always enthralled of no import. And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended method was the only method of boyhood had been transformed cunning. The arrows of craft shot to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack down to the coast in a waggon guarded the beautiful heiress being carried off must be sure, also, to write to her and Sibyl's happiness. Children begin sit down and see the smart people go He jumped up and seized her roughly "I am sorry if I have pained you had been wasted. She consoled herself and then suddenly become fascinated wings and shaking each of his friends happy." "Ah! but what do you mean centre of the table, "what do you mean all passed downstairs. He drove off to look for Miranda and had been met he did, and insisted on shaking him by chance, no doubt, and with wilful by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a by him. His romantic, olive-coloured by appearances. The true mystery of by the memory of the passions of by some new emotion for which we by trying to make it last for ever. It is by the lad's silence, not understanding by a page. Dorian Gray went over by Society as he fed the people who by reason of his birth, his indolence, by examination. What can you expect? by running away with a penniless by him. His mother had money, too. by the way, Harry, talking about silly by its suggestion of a strange, almost by a hideous, treacherous crime. by death, the boy left to solitude and by so curious a chance he had met in by the merely visible presence of one by every one who knew her, and of by contemporary historians as stoutness. by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old by the directors, who, in such matters, by amusing the slaves." The politician by Lady Agatha and the other ladies. by Clodion, and beside it lay a copy of by Clovis Eve and powdered with the by your photographs. I think my by an absurd little theatre, with great by a young Hebrew who sat at a by the low-comedian, who had by deceiving one's self, and one always by deceiving others. That is what the By this time, however, the lights were by himself, and, though I am a little by it. It made him a more interesting by the methods of natural science, but by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life by which one could arrive at any by the workings of the imagination, by her. She saw the thin lips moving, by attacking, just as they attack by by sudden and strange surrenders. "I by six mounted policemen. The by a robber on a black horse, and give by every mail, and to say his prayers by loving their parents; as they grow by ." They took their seats amidst a by the arm. "Show him to me. Which by asking about my father," he said, by telling Sibyl how desolate she felt by some one else. He would be a by the hand in turn. "I have never been by good?" cried Basil Hallward. "Yes," by good, Harry?" "To be good is to by himself, as had been arranged, and by Caliban. 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" this morning, and sent the note down across the room, and sitting down say an inquest? What did you mean She had swallowed something not get yourself mixed up in it. I see way a woman can ever reform a man is in which I took a great part, but an inartistic manner that they hurt us console themselves. Some of them do it answered Lord Henry, shaking him now. She had atoned for everything He would never again tempt that one tragedy might be followed heard of it first. I read of it quite was dominated, soul, brain, and power, he himself would ever be so dominated " "You spoil my life as an artist own secret, he had succeeded, almost tragic in a friendship so coloured for art was considerably tempered the picture from the long brass chains the top of the house. We will go up room, which had been specially built while a company of hawkers rode No; that was impossible. Hour impossible. Hour by hour, and week Hubbard tramped downstairs, followed had been blackmailed all their lives at the Bell Tavern, Hoxton Road, Theatre, Holborn. A verdict of death shadows. Cloudless, and pierced through the windows. He read on so early in his life, and was occasioned sought to "make themselves perfect to be but a preparation. Fashion, them into submission or to kill them moving through history, he was haunted veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and the antique world, stirred him as much of the evidence of the senses as of arresting his intellectual development of the Amazon tribes, that is sounded olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red the dragon, Philostratus told us, and " discovers thieves, could be affected only kept the wearer from any danger so that the gold might shine might shine by day and the carbuncles he took up - he was almost saddened the giants, that had been worked sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn the pallid macerated body that is worn that she seeks for and wounded to him means of forgetfulness, modes companions, and astounding the county by some second-rate professor of by summer's ripening breath May by , cursing and chattering to by hand that morning. He hesitated for by some fate or deadlier chance, eyes By marrying Sibyl Vane." "Marrying by my own man." "Your letter? Oh, by Dorian Gray, took both his hands by that? Did Sibyl - ? Oh, Harry, by mistake, some dreadful thing they by The Standard that she was by boring him so completely that he by which I have not been wounded." by their crude violence, their absolute by going in for sentimental colours. by the hand. "Good-bye. I shall by the sacrifice she had made of her by a prayer any terrible power. If the by another. I think you might have by chance in a late edition of The by you. You became to me the visible by the personality of a friend. Lord by refusing, Dorian. No man comes by chance, in wresting a secret from by romance. He sighed and touched by the inveterate impecuniosity of by which it was suspended. "And, now, by the front staircase, as it is wider." by the last Lord Kelso for the use of by , carrying hooded birds on their by hour, and week by week, the thing by week, the thing upon the canvas by the assistant, who glanced back at by some servant who had read a by Mr. Danby, the District Coroner, by misadventure was returned. by one solitary star, a copper-green by its wan light till he could read no by the sudden decay of a beau that by the worship of beauty." Like by which what is really fantastic by pain, instead of aiming at making by a feeling of loss. So much had by degrees the forms and colours of by its superb rejection of the evidence by the primitive simplicity of its by any formal acceptance of creed or by the sentinels who sit all day long by lamplight, the cymophane with its by the exhibition of golden letters and by the blood of kids. Leonardus by fire. The King of Ceilan rode by day and the carbuncles by night. by night. In Lodge's strange romance by the reflection of the ruin that time by brown girls for the pleasure of by white, gilt-reined steeds? He by the suffering that she seeks for by self-inflicted pain. 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It is merely a method Here was Philip Herbert, described King James, as one who was "caressed of white and damask roses. On a table in a litter of pearl and purple drawn men cry on Nero Caesar as he passed murdered body was covered with roses IV, whose beauty was equalled only whose melancholy could be cured only the blood of three lads was infused grown strange, could only be soothed manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned he let me out. I am off to Paris What has become of the Frenchman, One has a right to judge of a man not have made his sister's name a curate for the moment always began into the rickety chair that was standing as though it had been suggested to him on the canvas, whispered into his ear a fluttering shawl was creeping slowly turquoises. Perhaps it might be missed was to Paris that Basil had gone, and at all. His night had been untroubled pomegranates. It had been given to him sunless exile and longs to be back at the clock. As the minutes went be crawling with feet of lead, while he and the imagination, made grotesque twisted and distorted as a living thing rather pale, his pallor being intensified Sit down." Campbell took a chair manner. Campbell felt dominated into Lady Narborough's drawing-room a small party, got up rather in a hurry t sit next either of them. You shall sit no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked changed his seat and went and sat occasionally somewhat overdressed s people are! Try and make him come. day they had met, "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses memory of old sins could be destroyed grey-flannel mist. "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses he felt afraid. Then they passed of fire. A dog barked as they went it were, of his mood, and justified, liquor. Some Malays were crouching a sailor sprawled over a table, and laughed one of them, as Dorian passed throat. He struggled madly for life, and to call you. I heard it to-night up their ledger, they balance stupidity balance stupidity by wealth, and vice and tell her that I must be dressed by a friend into the smoking-room of by which we can multiply our by Francis Osborne, in his Memoires by the Court for his handsome face, by her side lay a mandolin and an by silver-shod mules, been carried by ; and, as Elagabalus, had painted by a harlot who had loved him; the by his debauchery, and who received by the spectacle of death, and who by a Jewish doctor; Sigismondo by Saracen cards painted with the by a helmet and a lighted torch, by by an embroidered glove and a by a gilded pomander and by an by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had by a book. There were moments by the midnight train, and I by the bye?" Dorian shrugged his by the effect he has over his friends. by -word." "Take care, Basil. You by saying that, and then proceeded to by the table and buried his face in by the image on the canvas, whispered by those grinning lips. The mad by the railings, staggering as she went. by his servant, and questions would be by the midnight train, as he had by any images of pleasure or of pain. by Adrian Singleton. As he turned by the hot, lotus-covered Nile, where by he became horribly agitated. At by monstrous winds was being swept by terror, twisted and distorted as a by pain, danced like some foul puppet by his coal-black hair and dark by the table, and Dorian sat opposite by him. They left the room together. by bowing servants. His forehead was by Lady Narborough, who was a very by me and amuse me." Dorian by their friends; Lady Ruxton, an by Lord Henry. Mr. Chapman began by being always absolutely By the way, Dorian, you ran off very by means of the senses, and the by means of the soul." Yes, that was by the madness of sins that were by means of the senses, and the by means of the soul!" How the by lonely brickfields. The fog was by , and far away in the darkness by intellectual approval, passions that by a little charcoal stove, playing with by the tawdrily painted bar that ran by . The man looked at her in terror by a terrible effort wrenched the by chance. Make your peace with by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy." by hypocrisy." "Still, we have done by half-past eight." "How unreasonable - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 "How can you say that? Romance lives " "Even when one has been wounded when one has been wounded came a stifled groan, followed the house, he would have been seen sorrows that are great are destroyed to new ground." Dorian strolled along delightful freedom. He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, let us go home." They walked side and to have the brougham at the door Harry. I was staying at a little inn absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is it. One is by being cultured, the other have thought they had got tired of that in the grey ulster who left for Paris I am sorry if I hurt your vanity forgave you. It's a habit bores have. looked at him with half-closed eyes. " through the park last Sunday, and close vulgar street-preacher. As I passed a wonderful phrase flung into the air of your life will be. Don't spoil it deceive yourself. Life is not governed what we will be. As for being poisoned his life? Was he always to be burdened by repetition, and repetition converts by it, Harry?" asked the duchess after by it," answered Lord Henry. The by the dull sound of a heavy fall. by the servants or the keepers. Had by their own plenitude. Besides, he by his side. The keen aromatic air, by the carelessness of happiness, by by the high indifference of joy. by side in the direction of the avenue by eight-thirty. He was determined by myself." "My dear boy," said Lord by any means an easy thing to attain by which man can reach it. One is by by being cultured, the other by being by being corrupt. Country people have by this time," said Dorian, pouring by the midnight train on the ninth of by saying so, but I assure you it is By the way, what has become of that By the way, Dorian," he said after a by the Marble Arch there stood a by , I heard the man yelling out that by shrill hysterical lips - it was really by renunciations. At present you are by will or intention. Life is a question by a book, there is no such thing as by his past? Was he really to confess? - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 bye , Mr. Gray. Come and see me some bye , Harry. Good-bye, Dorian. Come bye , Dorian. Come and see me soon. bye , Basil. It has been a most bye , Uncle George. I shall be late for bye , Lord Henry, you are quite bye to your excellent aunt. I am due bye , Mr. Gray. Good-bye, Harry bye , Harry. You are dining out, I bye ." As he left the room, Lord bye to some of your friends - to Tom bye , Mother; I will have my dinner at bye , my son," she answered with a bow bye to the captain, and go off at once bye . Don't forget that you will have bye . I shall see you before nine-thirty, bye , Dorian. You have been the one bye . I am sorry you won't let me look bye ?" Dorian shrugged his shoulders. bye . Let us never see each other - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 12 - CH. 14 cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed cab and bring the things back to you. - CH. 6 - CH. 14 cabinet , made out of ebony and inlaid cabinet . At last he got up from the cabinet doors as he did so, and went - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 bye 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 to meet a man at the Orleans. Goodyou had better lose no time. Goodtime. Good-bye, Harry. Goodcan drop you at your own place. Goodof it," said Lord Henry. "GoodI must go, dear Agatha. Goodbow. "And now I must bid goodto drive with the duchess. GoodGood-bye, Mr. Gray. GoodDon't forget about to-morrow. Goodwas afraid you were going to say goodone must be serious sometimes. Goodso you need not trouble." "Goodvessel at Melbourne, bid a polite goodhelp it. I must go now. Goodshaking him by the hand. "Goodperhaps you are right. And now goodHallward regretfully. "And now goodhas become of the Frenchman, by the do," he muttered "And now, good- cab 2 1 2 became blurred to his eyes. When the you want and my servant will take a 1 2 3 of the windows stood a large Florentine his cheek. But he still watched the He put the box back, shutting the cabinet 3 cabman 1 1 out. There was the bargaining with the 1 who was always quarrelling with the 1 of omnibuses, and the clatter of street- 1 2 and to trouble the brain. The mere that you had come across again, a 1 would fain think, is indeed the "panis 1 of Gold and heard men cry on Nero 1 swallows that fly in and out of the little 1 2 The girl laughed again. The joy of a down the room, looking like a beautiful 1 who had spent the preceding winter in 1 cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding- 1 smoking-suits were handing tea- 1 2 3 century dislike of realism is the rage of dislike of romanticism is the rage of look for Miranda and had been met by 1 the swinger of the censer; and, as cabman . The moment was lost in - CH. 5 cabmen about their fares. They made - CH. 3 cabs , he could hear the droning voice - CH. 5 cadence of the sentences, the subtle cadence from a piece of music that - CH. 10 - CH. 19 caelestis ," the bread of angels, or, - CH. 11 Caesar as he passed by; and, as - CH. 11 cafe at Smyrna where the Hadjis sit - CH. 14 caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caged thing. He took long stealthy - CH. 5 - CH. 14 Cairo , was lying a note from Lord - CH. 10 cake . The gallery and pit were fairly - CH. 4 cabmen 1 cabs 1 cadence 2 caelestis 1 caesar 1 cafe 1 caged 2 cairo 1 cake 1 cakes 1 cakes to some of the women. The - CH. 17 caliban 3 Caliban seeing his own face - THE PREFACE Caliban not seeing his own - THE PREFACE Caliban . Lord Henry, upon the other - CH. 7 caligula 1 Caligula , had caroused with the - CH. 11 call the vices of the upper orders. The call it, and the worst of having a call ." "Oh, I will make your peace with call the moon. It cannot be questioned. call me a silly boy." "You know the call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a call for my husband at the club, to call you so, may I ask if you really call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or call you Prince Charming.'" "Upon my call the depth of generosity." "Oh, Basil call society - so when you have made call the dead? Sibyl! Can she feel, or call yesterday the past?" "What has the call sin. The style in which it was - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 call 27 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 English democracy against what they a romance, a romance of art one might say to me. I am far too frightened to in dark waters of that silver shell we Gray; "and I don't allow people to Curzon Street over to the Albany to cried. "I must go. I have to young friend, if you will allow me to really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I 'You look more like a prince. I must they need most themselves. It is what I in the Colonies - nothing that I would I wonder, those white silent people we done. What is past is past." "You natural rebellions that wise men still 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 wake the sleepers and yet must needs and whisper about what they not, I made a wish, perhaps you would said Dorian bitterly. "My ideal, as you "All right, sir." "Did any one That will do, Francis. Don't forget to "Ah! I was waiting for you to "Curse you!" he answered, "don't of you but the pet name she used to in literature. The man who could he is fit for." "Then what should we 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 old bachelor, whom the outside world hardly a person in what I suppose they Prince Charming, was with her. She had I have a right to know." "He is The vulgar directness of the question hoarse voices and harsh laughter had As the door was closing behind him, he you, Dorian," he said gravely. "I renunciations that men have unwisely ideal, as you call it..." "As you play, giving as his excuse, when he was kept scolding him for what she at each step. He thrust up the trap and Charming is what you like to be asked one of the gardeners what it was it had been only his fancy that had of the guns! Stop shooting there!" he to take the handkerchief away, and that always entitles a man to be boyhood, as Lord Henry had once atonement. There was a God who knocked, but there was no reply. They 1 2 3 4 due to 'The Bard,' as he insisted on other like children. He would insist on with our moods and passions, atom looking out at him from the canvas and 1 2 "But she seems to me to be simply it was as a rebel that he fell. 1 a little child. He remembered with what 1 2 3 4 5 6 very badly to you. The next time he us lays sudden siege to the brain and deceiving others. That is what the world I want it to be what The Morning Post passion for sin, or for what the world sterile. The books that the world 1 2 I am going," he said at last in his it had all been done! He felt strangely call call call call call call call call call call call forth sleep from her purple cave. the profligacies of their betters in it a prayer...." "I remember it! Oh it..." "As you called it." "There this evening?" "Mr. Hallward, sir. me at nine to-morrow." "No, me Dorian." "You are mad, I tell me that." She snapped her fingers. you. I heard it to-night by chance a spade a spade should be you, Harry?" she asked. "His name - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 called 22 called selfish because it derived no called the dress-circle. Women went called on memory to remake him. She called Prince Charming. Don't you like called for a direct answer. The called after him. Drunkards had reeled called him back. The man stood called last night, and they told me you called virtue, as much as those called it." "There was nothing evil in it, called upon, that he was so absorbed called "an insult to poor Adolphe, called to the man to drive faster. The called , ain't it?" she yelled after him. called . He told me it was a fine called vengeance out of the night and called out at the top of his voice. "A called out to one of the farm-servants called a representative British artist. called it. He knew that he had called upon men to tell their sins to called out. Everything was still. Finally, - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 19 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 calling calling calling calling - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 8 - CH. 10 calling 4 him. He seemed to think it a me 'My Lord,' so I had to assure to atom in secret love or him to judgement. A look of callous 2 callous and cold. She has entirely Callous , concentrated on evil, with - CH. 7 - CH. 16 callousness 1 callousness he had watched her. Why - CH. 7 calls , you will be perfectly cold and calls on us to yield. After a time the calls a romance. You know her, at calls a suitable alliance, and I want calls sin, so dominates a nature that calls immoral are books that show the - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 4 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 19 calm clear voice. "I don't wish to be calm , and walking over to the - CH. 7 - CH. 13 calls 6 calm 6 3 4 5 6 experiment take, Alan?" he said in a the library. He was pale, but absolutely himself could not help wondering at the to maim and mar the perfection of its 1 was that he could discuss the matter so 1 in themselves a sufficient answer to the 1 intellectual passion was for science. At 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 amidst the trees of the garden, there but an expression of perplexity pale. A curious sensation of terror down the garden. After some time he perfume as if it had been wine. He his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee corner of the canvas. Lord Henry a moment with pleasure. A look of joy his words. The sense of his own beauty into amethyst, and across them You have lived since then." There down on a sofa, and a look of pain had money, too. All the Selby property him a mean dog. He was, too. "I have always felt rather guilty when I it into practice." "A dangerous theory!" picturesque. But here is Harry! Harry, I see this girl for the mist of tears that I was at the theatre, the horrid old Jew care about. What is it to me where she sat dreaming on these things, a knock and a young lad with rough brown hair the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand moment a hideous sense of humiliation and then you will tell us how it all You should have seen her! When she we were sitting together, suddenly there in front of him. A strange sense of loss The sound of the popping of corks shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, in her. She looked charming as she When she leaned over the balcony and When the second act was over, there my heart is breaking?" The hot tears him, and an expression of infinite joy shadows, and I thought them real. You do with the puppets of a play? When I and laughed. He made no answer. She piteous expression of pain in her face, will try - indeed, I will try. It coat, he seemed to hesitate. Finally, he did it mean? He rubbed his eyes, and And, yet, a feeling of infinite regret but for the painted image of himself, only of Sibyl. A faint echo of his love Finally his bell sounded, and Victor calm indifferent voice. The presence calm . "I have done what you asked calm of his demeanour, and for a calm . With subtle and finely wrought - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 18 calmly . "I have not the slightest idea. - CH. 19 calumnies , for so they termed them, - CH. 11 Cambridge he had spent a great deal - CH. 14 calmly 1 calumnies 1 cambridge 1 came 99 came through the open door the heavy came over his face. "I am all came over me. I knew that I had came back. "Harry," he said, "Dorian came close to him and put his hand came and buzzed round it for a came over and examined the picture. It came into his eyes, as if he had came on him like a revelation. He had came a mist of tears. He felt as if a came a knock at the door, and the came into his face. came to her, through her grandfather. Came to Madrid once when I was came to see your dear aunt, for I take came from Sir Thomas's tight lips. came in to look for you, to ask you came across me. And her voice - I came round to the box after the came from? From her little head to came to the door, and his valet came into the room. He was thick-set came between, and when it had left came over the woman. Her head came about." "There is really not much came on in her boy's clothes, she was came into her eyes a look that I had came over him. He felt that Dorian came from the bar. "What a place to came to her cheeks as she glanced at came out in the moonlight. That could came to those wonderful lines came a storm of hisses, and Lord came to his eyes. His lips trembled, came over her. "How badly I acted tocame - oh, my beautiful love! - and came on to-night, I could not came across to him, and with her little came across the room to him. She put came so suddenly across me, my love came back, went over to the picture, came close to the picture, and came over him, as he thought of her came over him. It had altered already, came back to him. He repeated her came in softly with a cup of tea, and a - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 1 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 2 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 3 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 4 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 5 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 6 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 7 - CH. 8 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 taken part in some strange tragedy What should he do if Basil Hallward he had been forgiven. Suddenly there to ask you not to see any one till I now. She was everything to me. Then other; that if she died as Juliet, she love. A wonderful tragic figure? Tears to him his own soul. And when winter Globe that I picked up at the club. I I felt the room looked different as I stopped suddenly, and a gleam of light more and more absorbed in you. Then Gray drew a long breath. The colour the still more poisonous influences that him to judgement. A look of pain the picture. As he did so, a knock frame-maker of South Audley Street, Picked it up at a sale. Old Florentine. Every moment of his lonely childhood metal surfaces, and still water which of fear, for which he could not account, mention his name, but you know him a moment, and a wild feeling of pity feeling of hatred for Basil Hallward o'clock the next morning his servant chocolate. The mellow November sun him kill him as he sat in the chair spite of himself, and passed on, till he nervous, and a horrible fit of terror from his parched lips, and the colour of the position I am in. Just before you "It is useless." The same look of pity his chair. A horrible sense of sickness silence, Dorian turned round and After about ten minutes a knock Then he stopped, and a troubled look It was long after seven when Campbell solemnly from the foot of the table and to forget what I have been doing. I His breath quickened. A mad craving their doors. From some of the bars splintered in the puddles. A red glare wall moved out into the light and "You swear this?" "I swear it," from the far end of the conservatory of the sofas. After a short time, he He saw it all again. Each hideous detail the image of his sin. When Lord Henry "A man is hurt." The head-keeper A great copper-breasted pheasant my debut in life," she sighed. "It putting it into the envelope, a knock your lips rewrite history." The phrases 1 of the book. It was Gautier's Emaux et 1 only by the blood of kids. Leonardus came to him once or twice, but there came and asked to look at his own came a knock to the door, and he came . There will have to be an came that dreadful night - was it really came to life as Imogen." "She will came to his eyes as he remembered came upon it, he would still be came here at once and was miserable came in." "My servant has nothing to came into his eyes. He remembered came a new development. I had drawn came back to his cheeks, and a smile came from his own temperament. The came across him, and he flung the came to the door. He passed out as came in with a somewhat Came from Fonthill, I believe. came back to him as he looked round. came upon the young Parisian so came over him. He made no sign of came to me last year to have his came over him. After all, what right came over him, as though it had been came in with a cup of chocolate on a came streaming into the room. The came back to him, and he grew cold came to those lovely stanzas upon came over him. What if Alan came back to his cheeks. "Ask him to came I almost fainted with terror. came into Dorian Gray's eyes. Then came over him. He felt as if his came and stood behind him, putting came to the door, and the servant came into his eyes. He shuddered. "I came back into the library. He was came up to the top. Dorian Gray came in at half-past two, if you wish came over him. He lit a cigarette and came the sound of horrible laughter. came from an outward-bound steamer came close to him with stealthy came in hoarse echo from her flat came a stifled groan, followed by the came to himself and looked round came back to him with added horror. came in at six o'clock, he found him came running up with a stick in his came beating through the boughs came to you crowned." "I am tired of came to the door, and his valet came back to his memory, and he - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 8 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 9 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 10 - CH. 11 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 12 - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 15 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 16 - CH. 17 - CH. 17 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 18 - CH. 20 Camees , Charpentier's Japanese-paper - CH. 14 Camillus had seen a white stone taken - CH. 11 camees 1 camillus 1 camp 1 1 It had been taken from the Turkish 1 that flutter round the tall honeycombed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 began to turn over the leaves. "Alan Hertford Street, Francis, and if Mr. of terror came over him. What if Alan only Dorian Gray who smiled: Alan eighteen months their intimacy lasted. scarcely spoke when they met and that He turned glazed eyes upon him. "Mr. and retired. In a few moments, Alan to more than one person. Sit down." got up and went over to the window. Now it is for me to dictate terms." cab and bring the things back to you." things with him. As the hall door shut, of a hammer. As the chime struck one, and stood looking out at the garden. I leave the things here, sir?" he asked shall I be back?" Dorian looked at to give him extraordinary courage. rapidly and in an authoritative manner. to me. I don't require you," said of the pattern before him. He heard thrust back into the chair and that the lock. It was long after seven when that," said Dorian simply. As soon as grave in Selby churchyard. Alan the madness of a moment. As for Alan camp before Vienna, and the standard - CH. 11 Campanile , or stalk, with such stately - CH. 14 Campbell , `5´, Hertford Street, Campbell is out of town, get his Campbell should be out of England? Campbell never did. He was an Campbell was always either at Selby Campbell seemed always to go away Campbell , sir," said the man. A sigh Campbell walked in, looking very Campbell took a chair by the table, Campbell looked at him in surprise, Campbell buried his face in his Campbell scrawled a few lines, blotted Campbell started nervously, and Campbell turned round, and looking Campbell made no answer. After Campbell . "Yes," said Dorian. "And I Campbell . "How long will your Campbell frowned and bit his lip. "It Campbell felt dominated by him. Campbell coldly. Dorian half opened Campbell bringing in the heavy chest, Campbell was gazing into a glistening Campbell came back into the library. Campbell had left, he went upstairs. Campbell had shot himself one night Campbell , his suicide had been his - CH. 13 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 14 - CH. 20 - CH. 20 Campbell' s lips and he shivered all Campbell' s suicide. Now they have got - CH. 14 - CH. 19 campanile 1 campbell 26 campbell' 2 1 2 it, and do it." A groan broke from had my own divorce-case and Alan can 98 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 i