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Subscribe to our free eBooks blog  \nemail newsletter  \nChapter I  \nThe studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and  \nwhen the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pinkflowering thorn.  \nFrom the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as usual, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-colored blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters who, in an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the black-crocketed spires ofthe early June hollyhocks, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive, and the dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.  \nIn the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordi-  \n􀀓 The Picture of Dorian Gray  \nnary personal beauty, and in front ofit, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement, and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.  \nAs he looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.  \n‘It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,’ said Lord Henry, languidly. ‘You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. The Grosvenor is the only place.’  \n‘I don’t think I will send it anywhere,’ he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford.‘No: I won’t send it anywhere.’  \nLord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opiumtainted cigarette.‘Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀍  \nA portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.’  \n‘I know you will laugh at me,’ he replied, ‘but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.’  \nLord Henry stretched his long legs out on the divan and shook with laughter.  \n‘Yes, I knew you would laugh; but it is quite true, all the  \n’same.  \n‘Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn’t know you were so vain; and I really can’t see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual express","cbCaitA3OI9QArjx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitA3OI9QArjx","pdf",819597,198,"English","# Chapter I\n## Studio atmosphere and portrait reveal\n## Lord Henry’s arguments for exhibiting art\n## Basil’s reluctance and fear of self-exposure\n## Beauty versus intellect","[{\"question\":\"What idea about beauty and intellect emerges from their conversation?\",\"answer\":\"The conversation contrasts beauty with intellectual expression, suggesting that real beauty ends where intellect begins and that thinking can distort harmony in a face.\"}]","The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 1 - studio description and conversation | PDF",305]