[The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde]@TWC D-Link bookThe Picture of Dorian Gray CHAPTER 19 25/45
As I passed by, I heard the man yelling out that question to his audience.
It struck me as being rather dramatic.
London is very rich in curious effects of that kind. A wet Sunday, an uncouth Christian in a mackintosh, a ring of sickly white faces under a broken roof of dripping umbrellas, and a wonderful phrase flung into the air by shrill hysterical lips--it was really very good in its way, quite a suggestion.
I thought of telling the prophet that art had a soul, but that man had not.
I am afraid, however, he would not have understood me." "Don't, Harry.
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