THE+PICTURE+OF+DORIAN+GRAY

'l am going to stay until the end,'answered the boy in a coldvoice.'I am awfully sorry that I have made you waste an evening,Harry. I apologize to you both.,'My dear Dorian, perhaps Miss vane is ill,' said Hallward. 'wewill come some other night.''come to the club with Basil and myself. 'we will smokecigarettes and drink to the beaury of sibyl vane. She is beautiful.-What more do you want?''Go away, Harry,'cried the boy.'I want to be alone. cant yousee my heart is breaking?'Hot tears came to his eyes as Lord Henryand Hallward left the rheatre.when it was over, Dorian Gray rushed ro see sibylvane. The girlwas standing there alone, with a look of extraordinary happiness onher face.'How badly I acted tonight, Dorian!,she cried.'Horribly!' he answered, staring at her.'lt was terrible. Are youill? Why did you make me sufler like that?'The girl smiled.'Dorian, don't you understand?''tJnderstand what?' he asked, angrily.'x7hy I was so bad tonight. why I will always be bad. why I willnever act well agaín.''You are ill, I suppose. when you are ill, you should.n't act. Myfriends were bored, I was bored.''Dorian, Dorian,' she cried,'before I knew you, acting was theone importanr thing in my life.It was only in the rhearre that I lived.I thought that it was all rrue. Tonight, for the first time in my life Isaw that I was playing at love. our love for each other is the onlytrue love. Thke'me away with you, Dorian! I don't want to be anactress any more.'He threw himself down on the sofa, and turned away his face.'You have killed *y love,' he said quietly. Then he jumped ,pand went to the door. 'My God! How mad I was to love you!what a fool I have been! you are nothing to me now. I will24