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The Picture of Dorian Gray

CHAPTER 3
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"American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past," he said, rising to go.
"They are pork-packers, I suppose ?" "I hope so, Uncle George, for Dartmoor's sake.

I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics." "Is she pretty ?" "She behaves as if she was beautiful.

Most American women do.

It is the secret of their charm." "Why can't these American women stay in their own country?
They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women." "It is.

That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it," said Lord Henry.


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