I at once offered to purchase it of the landlordbut this person made no claim to itknew nothing of ithad never seen it before. This, then, was the very creature of which I was in search. Upon my touching him, he immediately arose, purred loudly, rubbed against my hand, and appeared delighted with my notice. Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his bodybut this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast. It was a black cata very large onefully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect but one. I approached it, and touched it with my hand. I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon. One night as I sat, half stupified, in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of Gin, or of Rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment. I thought the police never could have seen through our dodge.ĭorian Gray? Is that his name? asked Lord Henry, walking across the studio towards Basil Hallward. Was a benign immensity of unstained lightthe very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Remarkable case, that Hullo Good old index. I have some recollection that you made a record of it, Watson, though I was unable to congratulate you upon the result. Sluiced from the lake, a second multitudeĪren't you glad of it, Guy, you wouldn't have liked to have killed him dead, would you? Recognising the value to the bank of a spotless reputation for its officers, the President drew his check for the amount of the shortage and the Cashier was restored to favourĪh but suppose, he said, that you should be rich and happy to-morrow, suppose that a vast fortune dropped down from the clouds for you, would you still love the man whom you loved in your days of poverty? The Englishmen, quite interested, immediately asked: The day came at last when Pinocchios master wasable to announce an extraordinary performance Theannouncements, posted all around the town, and writtenin large letters, read thus: There were things in me that were wrong, and I should like to make up for them if I can. I loved him once better than all the world, and I have never had any children to love. Something seems to tell me that I must go back to Robert some timeafter a little while. I have a different feeling this morning from what I had yesterday. O, mother, we must do nothing yet I must think about it a little longer.
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