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1  After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his watch.
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2  "You must introduce me now," cried Lord Henry, laughing.
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3  Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
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4  Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil.
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5  "Days in summer, Basil, are apt to linger," murmured Lord Henry.
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6  This is Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian, an old Oxford friend of mine.
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7  And Lord Henry flung himself down on the divan and opened his cigarette-case.
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8  "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly.
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9  Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
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10  Lord Henry smiled, and leaning down, plucked a pink-petalled daisy from the grass and examined it.
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11  When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up.
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12  Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent-leather boot with a tasselled ebony cane.
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13  "You have not spoiled my pleasure in meeting you, Mr. Gray," said Lord Henry, stepping forward and extending his hand.
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14  "Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long nervous fingers.
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15  And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
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16  Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.
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17  "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush.
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