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1  The gods made Sibyl Vane for you.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Sibyl Vane tossed her head and laughed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  James Vane looked into his sister's face with tenderness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Mrs. Vane fixed her eyes on him and intensified her smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  We will smoke cigarettes and drink to the beauty of Sibyl Vane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  It was to tell him that he was engaged to be married to Sibyl Vane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  "My dear Dorian, I should think Miss Vane was ill," interrupted Hallward.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two things that I shall never forget.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter's head.
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11  He would go back to Sibyl Vane, make her amends, marry her, try to love her again.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  A quarter of an hour afterwards, amidst an extraordinary turmoil of applause, Sibyl Vane stepped on to the stage.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  When you see Sibyl Vane, you will feel that the man who could wrong her would be a beast, a beast without a heart.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
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