1 I believe I was at her christening.
2 Carlington went on his knees to her.
3 She spoke of me as her dearest friend.
4 She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do.
5 All the Selby property came to her, through her grandfather.
6 I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests.
7 "Late as usual, Harry," cried his aunt, shaking her head at him.
8 All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect.
9 What on earth induced her to behave as she did, I never could understand.
10 I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.
11 But Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly as an auctioneer treats his goods.
12 "That is very horrid to her, and not very nice to me," answered Dorian, laughing.
13 I promised to go to a club in Whitechapel with her last Tuesday, and I really forgot all about it.
14 He invented a facile excuse, and having taken the vacant seat next to her, looked round to see who was there.
15 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.
16 I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
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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