Lord Arthur Savile's Crime谷月社, 30. 10. 2015 It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere’s best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solemnly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary, and began to talk to the Duchess of Paisley. She looked wonderfully beautiful with her grand ivory throat, her large blue forget-me-not eyes, and her heavy coils of golden hair....
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... marriages ; but as she had never changed her lover , the world had long ago ceased to talk scandal about her . She was now forty years of age , childless , and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining ...
... is a a very good thing , ' remarked the Duchess complacently ; ' when I married Paisley he had eleven castles , and not a single house fit to live in . ' ' And now he has twelve houses , and not a single castle , ' cried Lady Windermere .
... marriage is a mutual misunderstanding . No , I am not at all cynical , I have merely got experience , which , however , is very much the same thing . Mr. Podgers , Lord Arthur Savile is dying to have his hand read . Don't tell him that ...
... marry her, with the doom of murder hanging over his head, would be a betrayal like that of Judas, a sin worse ... marriage must be postponed, at all costs. Of this he was quite resolved. Ardently though he loved the girl, and the ...
... marriage if there was anything like a scandal , though he felt certain that if he told them the whole facts of the case they would be the very first to appreciate the motives that had actuated him . He had every reason , then , to ...
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