Lord Henry had the charm of being very dangerous.

But that was all.

He was too clever and too cynical to be really fond of.
Would there ever be some one who would fill him with a strange idolatry?
Was that one of the things that life had in store?
"It is extraordinary to me, Dorian," said Hallward, "that you should have seen this in the portrait.

Did you really see it ?" "I saw something in it," he answered, "something that seemed to me very curious." "Well, you don't mind my looking at the thing now ?" Dorian shook his head.

"You must not ask me that, Basil.