1 She spoke of me as her dearest friend.
2 A curious sensation of terror came over me.
3 "You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist.
4 But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all.
5 It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice.
6 It was reckless of me, but I asked Lady Brandon to introduce me to him.
7 I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture.
8 I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it.
9 I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.
10 Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life.
11 I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
12 Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
13 Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.
14 She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.
15 With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
16 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.
17 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.
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