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Chapter 4

One afternoon, a month later, Doriangrave was reclining in a luxurious armchair in the little library

of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair. It was, in its way, a very charming room, with a

tie-panelled wanescoating of olive-stained oak. Its cream-colored frisee and ceiling of raised

plasterwork. And its brick dust-felt carpet strewn with silk, long-fringed Persian rugs.

On a tiny satinwood table, sort of statuette by Clodion, and beside it lay a copy of

Les Saint-Nouvelle, bound for Margaret of Walla by Clovis Eve, and powdered with the guilt

daisies that Queen had selected for her device. Some large blue china jars and parrot tulips

were ranged on the mantle shelf, and through the small-letted pains of the window

streamed the apricot-colored light of a summer day in London.

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always laid on principle. His principle being that

punctuality is the thief of time. So the lad was looking rather sulky.

As with listless fingers, he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition

of Menol Escort that he had found in one of the bookcases.

The formal monotonous ticking of the Louis Quartet's clock annoyed him.

Once or twice he thought of going away. At last he heard a step outside, and the door opened.

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