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1  The duchess stood motionless in horror.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I have promised to drive with the duchess.
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3  The little duchess is quite devoted to you.
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4  "I recognize him in a flash," exclaimed the duchess.
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5  "You are really very comforting," warbled the duchess.
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6  The duchess sighed and exercised her privilege of interruption.
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7  "Our host is rather horrid this evening," answered the duchess, colouring.
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8  Not with women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.
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9  The duchess turned and looked at Dorian Gray with a curious expression in her eyes.
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10  As the glass door closed behind Dorian, Lord Henry turned and looked at the duchess with his slumberous eyes.
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11  "But I don't want to be rechristened, Harry," rejoined the duchess, looking up at him with her wonderful eyes.
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12  "We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry," cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly to him across the table.
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13  After breakfast, he walked with the duchess for an hour in the garden and then drove across the park to join the shooting-party.
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14  At the corner of the pine-wood he caught sight of Sir Geoffrey Clouston, the duchess's brother, jerking two spent cartridges out of his gun.
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15  In fact I consider you extremely dangerous, and if anything happens to our good duchess, we shall all look on you as being primarily responsible.
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16  At last, liveried in the costume of the age, reality entered the room in the shape of a servant to tell the duchess that her carriage was waiting.
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17  It was tea-time, and the mellow light of the huge, lace-covered lamp that stood on the table lit up the delicate china and hammered silver of the service at which the duchess was presiding.
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