1 After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his watch.
2 "You must introduce me now," cried Lord Henry, laughing.
3 Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
4 Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil.
5 "Days in summer, Basil, are apt to linger," murmured Lord Henry.
6 This is Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian, an old Oxford friend of mine.
7 "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly.
8 Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
9 Lord Henry smiled, and leaning down, plucked a pink-petalled daisy from the grass and examined it.
10 When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up.
11 Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent-leather boot with a tasselled ebony cane.
12 "You have not spoiled my pleasure in meeting you, Mr. Gray," said Lord Henry, stepping forward and extending his hand.
13 "Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long nervous fingers.
14 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.
15 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.
16 Had he gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses.
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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