Devant une fa?ade rose,
Sur le marbre dun escalier.
e to be floating doer-y, seated in a black gondola railing curtains. to raigurquoise-blue t folloo ted birds t flutter round tall alk, ately grace, t-stained arcades. Leaning back saying over and over to himself:
Devant une fa?ade rose,
Sur le marbre dun escalier.
t irred o mad delig Venice, like Oxford, to true romantic, background everyt of time, and intoret. Poor Basil! a o die!
ook up tried to forget. fly in and out of ttle cafe at Smyrna ing turbaned mercs smoke tasselled pipes and talk gravely to eac ears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by t, lotus-covered Nile, ures craeaming mud; o brood over tained marble, tell of t curious statue t Gautier compares to a contralto voice, t;monstre cquot; t couc after a time t of terror came over if Alan Campbell s of England? Days o come. could al importance.
t friends once, five years before-- almost inseparable, indeed. timacy o an end. in society no was only Dorian Gray who smiled: Alan Campbell never did.
remely clever young man, tion of ts, and tle sense of ty of poetry irely from Dorian. intellectual passion Cambridge a great deal of ime ory, and aken a good class in tural Science tripos of ill devoted to tudy of cry, and ory of o s ly to t on anding for Parliament and a c er t amateurs. In fact, it brougoget indefinable attraction t Dorian seemed to be able to exercise being conscious of it. t at Lady Berks t Rubinstein played ter t used to be aloget teen montimacy lasted. Campbell Selby Royal or in Grosvenor Square. to o many otype of everyt is ing in life. a quarrel aken place bet suddenly people remarked t t and t Campbell seemed alo go ay at rangely melanc times, appeared almost to dislike ime left in ise. And tainly true. Every day o become more interested in biology, and ific revieion ain curious experiments.
ting for. Every second glancing