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Chapter 14

At nine o'clock the next morning, his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray

and opened the shutters. Dorian was sleeping quite peacefully, lying on his right side,

with one hand underneath his cheek. He looked like a boy had been tired out with play,

or steady. The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his

eyes a faint smile passed across his lips as though he had been lost in some delightful dream.

Yet he had not dreamed at all. His night had been untroubled by any images of pleasure or of pain.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

He turned round and leaning upon his elbow began to sip his chocolate. The mellow November sun

came streaming into the room. The sky was bright and there was a genial warmth in the air.

It was almost like a morning in May. Gradually the events of the preceding night

crept with silent, blood-stained feet into his brain and reconstructed themselves there with

terrible distinctness. He went at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment

the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him,

as he sat in the chair, came back to him, and he grew cold with passion.

The dead man was still sitting there too, and in the sunlight now. How horrible that was.

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