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It was long past noon when he awoke. His valet had crept several times on tiptoe into the room to see if he was stirring, and had wondered what made his young master sleep so late. Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sevres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering1 blue lining2, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
"Monsieur has well slept this morning," he said, smiling.
"What o'clock is it, Victor?" asked Dorian Gray drowsily3.
"One hour and a quarter, Monsieur."
How late it was! He sat up, and having sipped4 some tea, turned over his letters. One of them was from Lord Henry, and had been brought by hand that morning. He hesitated for a moment, and then put it aside. The others he opened listlessly. They contained the usual collection of cards, invitations to dinner, tickets for private views, programmes of charity concerts, and the like that are showered on fashionable young men every morning during the season. There was a rather heavy bill for a chased silver Louis-Quinze toilet-set that he had not yet had the courage to send on to his guardians5, who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities; and there were several very courteously6 worded communications from Jermyn Street money-lenders offering to advance any sum of money at a moment's notice and at the most reasonable rates of interest.
After about ten minutes he got up, and throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom. The cool water refreshed him after his long sleep. He seemed to have forgotten all that he had gone through. A dim sense of having taken part in some strange tragedy came to him once or twice, but there was the unreality of a dream about it.
As soon as he was dressed, he went into the library and sat down to a light French breakfast that had been laid out for him on a small round table close to the open window. It was an

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v.闪闪发光,发微光( shimmer的现在分词 ) | |
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adv.睡地,懒洋洋地,昏昏欲睡地 | |
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exquisite
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luxuriously
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luxurious
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gilt
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curiously
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affinity
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scarlet
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labyrinth
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confession
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inevitable
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brutal
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harry
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fatality
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tempt
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interfere
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nil
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brute
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迷住,吸引住( enthrall的第三人称单数 ); 使感到非常愉快 | |
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stagnation
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eternity
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entirely
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culminate
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farce
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delightful
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Ford
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inorganic
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unison
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