1 Perhaps we never really had it.
2 And he had such a beautiful voice.
3 One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
4 She said that he was very earnest and had a beautiful nature.
5 The painter had been busy mixing his colours and getting his brushes ready.
6 I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.
7 I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
8 I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
9 Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
10 He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
11 She told me she had discovered a wonderful young man who was going to help her in the East End, and that his name was Dorian Gray.
12 Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
13 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.
14 As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
15 Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
16 I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
17 I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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