But here is the orchestra.

It is quite dreadful, but it only lasts for about five minutes.

Then the curtain rises, and you will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me." A quarter of an hour afterwards, amidst an extraordinary turmoil of applause, Sibyl Vane stepped on to the stage.

Yes, she was certainly lovely to look at--one of the loveliest creatures, Lord Henry thought, that he had ever seen.

There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.