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is one of the great secrets of life — to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the sense by means of the soul. You are a wonderful boy. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not keep liking the tall graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic olive-coloured face, and worn weary expression, interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was fascinating. him. His cool, white, flower-like hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, and made a like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? He has known Basil Hallward for months, but the friendship between them had never altered him. Suddenly there had come some one across his life who seemed to hand disclosed to him life's mysterya new beast. And yet what was there to be afraid of? He was not a schoolboy, or a girl. It was absurd to be frightened.
"Let us go and sit inon the shadeseat,"
