The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Ruler Henry raised his eyebrows, and took a gander at him in wonder through the dainty blue wreaths of smoke that nestled into such whimsical whorls from his weighty opium-spoiled cigarette. ‘Not send it anyplace? My dear individual, why? Have you any explanation? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything on earth to increase a notoriety. When you have one, you appear to need to discard it. It is senseless of you, for there is just a single thing on the planet more awful than being discussed, and that isn’t being discussed. A picture like this would set you far over all the youngsters in England, and make the elderly people men very desirous, if elderly people men are ever able to do any feeling.’

‘I realize you will chuckle at me,’ he answered, ‘however I truly can’t show it. I have placed a lot of myself into it.’

Master Henry extended his long legs out on the divan and shook with chuckling.

‘Indeed, I realized you would snicker; however it is very obvious, in no way different.’

‘A lot of yourself in it! Upon my promise, Basil, I didn’t have any acquaintance with you were so conceited; and I truly can’t perceive any likeness between you, with your tough solid face and your coal-dark hair, and this youthful Adonis, who looks as though he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, obviously you have a scholarly articulation, what not. In any case, excellence, genuine magnificence, closes where a scholarly articulation starts. Astuteness is in itself a distortion, and decimates the amicability of any face …