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1  I have promised to drive with the duchess.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The little duchess is quite devoted to you.
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3  "I recognize him in a flash," exclaimed the duchess.
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4  "You are really very comforting," warbled the duchess.
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5  "A blush is very becoming, Duchess," remarked Lord Henry.
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6  The duchess sighed and exercised her privilege of interruption.
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7  "Well, I hope he won't stick pins into you, Duchess," laughed Dorian.
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8  "For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess," said Lord Henry with a bow.
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9  It is nothing, Duchess," he murmured; "my nerves are dreadfully out of order.
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10  "Let me get you some orchids, Duchess," cried Dorian, starting to his feet and walking down the conservatory.
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11  "But I don't want to be rechristened, Harry," rejoined the duchess, looking up at him with her wonderful eyes.
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12  "We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry," cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly to him across the table.
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13  In fact I consider you extremely dangerous, and if anything happens to our good duchess, we shall all look on you as being primarily responsible.
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14  At last, liveried in the costume of the age, reality entered the room in the shape of a servant to tell the duchess that her carriage was waiting.
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15  It was tea-time, and the mellow light of the huge, lace-covered lamp that stood on the table lit up the delicate china and hammered silver of the service at which the duchess was presiding.
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16  A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal, talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband, a jaded-looking man of sixty, was amongst his guests.
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17  Opposite was the Duchess of Harley, a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
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