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while we stood looking at each other like children. He would insist on calling me 'My Lord,' so I had to assure Sibyl that I was not anything of the kind. She said quite simply to me, 'You look more like a prince. I must call you Prince Charming.'"

      "Upon my word, Dorian, Miss Sibyl knows how to pay compliments."

      "You don’t understand her, Harry. She regarded me merely as a person in a play. She knows nothing of life. She lives with her mother, a faded tired woman who played Lady Capulet in a sort of magenta dressing–wrapper on the first night, and looks as if she had seen better days."

      "I know that look. It depresses me," murmured Lord Henry, examining his rings.

      "The Jew wanted to tell me her history, but I said it did not interest me."

      "You were quite right. There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies."

      "Sibyl is the only thing I care about. What is it to me where she came from? From her little head to her little feet, she is absolutely and entirely divine. Every night of my life I go to see her act, and every night she is more marvellous."

      "That is the reason, I suppose, that you never dine with me now. I thought you must have some curious romance on hand. You have; but it is not quite what I expected."

      "My dear Harry, we either lunch or sup together every day, and I have been to the Opera with you several times," said Dorian, opening his blue eyes in wonder.

      "You always come dreadfully late."

      "Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play," he cried, "even if it is only for a single act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe."

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