[The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde]@TWC D-Link bookThe Picture of Dorian Gray CHAPTER 18 28/37
The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to pre-figure death for himself also.
He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting. At five o'clock he rang his bell for his servant and gave him orders to pack his things for the night-express to town, and to have the brougham at the door by eight-thirty.
He was determined not to sleep another night at Selby Royal.
It was an ill-omened place.
Death walked there in the sunlight.
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