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stories to help you get a good night's rest.

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Tonight, we dive back in to the picture of Dorian Gray, which is a book that I'm hoping

to do a complete reading of.

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This is the third time that we have revisited this book on the sort of main episode,

the Spotify and podcast app episode.

So let's jump in at Chapter 9. Go ahead and take a nice

deep breath. Get yourself comfortable. Let's tuck you in and begin. The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde. Chapter 9. As he was sitting at breakfast next morning basil hallward was shown into the room i am so glad i have found you dorian he said gravely

i called last night and they told me you were at the opera of course i knew that was impossible but I wish you had left word where you had really

gone to. I passed a dreadful evening half afraid that one tragedy might be followed by another.

I think you might have telegraphed for me when you heard of it first. I read of it quite by chance

in the late edition of the globe that I picked up at the club. I came here at once and was miserable at not finding you.

I can't tell you how heartbroken I am about the whole thing.

I know what you must suffer.

But where were you?

Did you go down and see the girl's mother?

For a moment I thought of following you there. They gave the address

in the paper somewhere in the Houston Road, isn't it? But I was afraid of intruding upon a sorrow

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