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1  I have a letter written already.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  At some of the letters, he smiled.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Dorian put the letter into his pocket.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  When Dorian had finished the letter, he felt that he had been forgiven.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  In the left-hand corner was his own name, traced in long letters of bright vermilion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  He showed me a letter that his wife had written to him when she was dying alone in her villa at Mentone.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The man touched his hat, glanced for a moment at Lord Henry in a hesitating manner, and then produced a letter, which he handed to his master.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  "It is quite finished," he cried at last, and stooping down he wrote his name in long vermilion letters on the left-hand corner of the canvas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Finally, he went over to the table and wrote a passionate letter to the girl he had loved, imploring her forgiveness and accusing himself of madness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Once, some one who had terribly loved him had written to him a mad letter, ending with these idolatrous words: "The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold."
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  After he had drunk his cup of black coffee, he wiped his lips slowly with a napkin, motioned to his servant to wait, and going over to the table, sat down and wrote two letters.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and "by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe" the monster could be thrown into a magical sleep and slain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  He had heard of rich men who had been blackmailed all their lives by some servant who had read a letter, or overheard a conversation, or picked up a card with an address, or found beneath a pillow a withered flower or a shred of crumpled lace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sevres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8