Cer 11

        For years, Dorian Gray could not free    e to say t    to free .    edition, and    colours, so t t suit ure over imes, to    entirely lost trol. tid tific temperaments rangely blended, became to ype of o o tain tory of ten before .

        In one point uastic o kno someesque dread of mirrors, and polisal surfaces, and still er     cruel joy-- and perainly in every pleasure, cruelty s place--t o read tter part of ts really tragic, if some    dearly valued.

        For ty t ed Basil o leave    evil t ime to time strange rumours about    tter of t believe anyto    ted from talked grossly became silent y of    rebuked to recall to t tarnisain of a    once sordid and sensual.

        Often, ourning erious and prolonged abse gave rise to suge jecture among t t tairs to t never left and,    of trait t Basil ed of    t t laug rast used to qui y, more and more ied in tion of e care, and sometimes rous and terrible delig seared times we ed ure, and smile. he failing limbs.

        ts, indeed, at nigely sted ctle ill-famed taver o frequent,    upon y t    because it s suc curiosity about life irred in    togeto increase ification. to know.    grew more ravenous as hem.

        Yet    really reckless, at any rate in ions to society. Once or ter, and on eaced, o tiful    celebrated musis of to cs . tle dinners, in ttling of ed, as for te taste sion of table, s subtle symps of exotic floique plate of gold and silver. I true realization of a type of on or Oxford days, a type t o bine someture of tin and perfect manner of a citizen of to to be of te describes as    to "make t by ty." Like Gautier, ;ted."

        And, certainly, to self , test, of ts, and for it all ts seemed to be but a preparation. Fas is really fantastic bees for a moment universal, and dandyism, tempt to assert te modernity of beauty, ion for icular styles t from time to time ed, es of t ried to reproduce tal    only half-serious fopperies.

        For, oo ready to accept tion t    immediately offered to le pleasure in t t    really bee to t to imperial Neronian Rome tyri once    in     o be someter elegantiarum, to be sulted on tting of a ie, or t of a e.    to elaborate some neualizing of ts    realization.

        ten, and ice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions aions t seem stro tence. But it appeared to Dorian Gray t true nature of tood, and t t to starve to submission or to kill tead of aiming at making ts of a neuality, of    for beauty o be t ceristic. As ory, ed by a feeling of loss. So muco suctle purpose! tions, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, ion infinitely more terrible t fancied degradation from o escape; Nature, io feed    and giving to t ts of the field as his panions.

        Yes: to be, as Lord    o recreate life and to save it from t anism t is s curious revival. It o s service of tellect, certainly, yet it o accept a e experies aim, indeed, o be experieself, and not ts of experience, s or bitter as t be. Of ticism t deadens t dulls t o kno it o teaco trate s of a life t is itself but a moment.

        t sometimes er one of ts t make us almost enamoured of deats of oms more terrible ty itself, and instinct    vivid life t lurks in all grotesques, and t lends to Got its enduring vitality, t being, one mig of troubled e fingers creep tains, and to tremble. In black fantastic so tside, tirring of birds among to t    feared to    must needs call forter veil of ted, and by degrees tored to ttique pattern. t back tapers stand    book t    ter t    en. Noto us c of t es back t    eals over us a terrible sense of ty for tinuance of energy iyped s, or a    may be, t our eyelids mig s, a le or no place, or survive, at any rate, in no scious form of obligatiret, ts bitterness and their pain.

        It ion of suc seemed to Dorian Gray to be true objeongst true objects, of life; and in ions t    one of stra is so essential to romance, en adopt certain modes of t t o be really alien to ure, abandon o tle influences, and t ual curiosity, leave t curious indiffere is not inpatible emperament, and t, indeed, acc to certain modern psycs, is often a dition of it.

        It o join tainly tual    attra for ique irred s superb reje of tive simplicity of its elements and ternal patragedy t it sougo symbolize. o kneel do and    iff floic, sloe abernacle, or raising aloft tern-srance    pallid    at times, one ;panis caelestis," ts of t, breaking t into ting    for    t, tossed into t gilt floion for , o look    to sit io men and rue story of their lives.

        But o ting ellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a o live, an inn t is but suitable for t, or for a feravail. Mysticism, s marvellous pe to us, and tle antinomianism t alo apany it, moved o terialistic does of t in Germany, and found a curious pleasure in trag ts and passions of men to some pearly cell in te nerve in ting in tion of te dependence of t oain pions, morbid or , as o o be of any importanpared self.    keenly scious of ellectual speculation is ion and experiment.    tual mysteries to reveal.

        And so udy perfumes and ts of ture, distilling ed oils and burning odorous gums from t.    t    its terpart in t o discover true relations,    made one mystical, and in ambergris t stirred ones passions, and in violets t    troubled t staiion; and seeking often to elaborate a real psyco estimate t-smelling roots and sted, pollen-laden floic balms and of dark and fragrant    sis; of    makes men mad; and of aloes, t are said to be able to expel melanche soul.

        At anotime ed irely to musid in a long latticed room, o give curious certs iunisians plucked at trairings of monstrous lutes, onously upon copper drums and, ats, slim turbaned Indians bleo c ervals and sirred    times y ed togets est instruments t could be fouombs of dead nations or among tribes t act ern civilizations, and loved to toucry terious juruparis of t    alloo look at and t even yout see till ted to fasting and sc, and t es of    are found near Cuzd give forte of singular sness. ed gourds filled    rattled    ture of tribes, t is sounded by tinels    a distance of teponaztli, t ing tongues of en icks t are smeared ic gum obtained from ts; tl-bells of tecs, t are ers like grapes; and a    serpents, like t Bernal Diaz saes into temple, and of ion. tastic cer of truments fasated    a curious delig t art, like Nature, ers, tial s, after some time,    in    tening in rapt pleasure to "tann; and seeing in to t great    a presentation edy of his own soul.

        On one occasion ook up tudy of je a e ball as Anne de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, in a dress covered y pearls. taste ento    en spend a tling in to be ed, suc turns red by lampligs ac, rose-pink and opazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet remulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red amon-stones, e and violet spinels, and amets ernate layers of ruby and sappone, and tones pearly erdam traordinary size and ricurquoise de la vieille roc he oisseurs.

        ories, also, about jeioned ic ory of Alexao ;; tratus told us, and "by tion of goldeers and a scarlet robe" ter could be to a magical sleep and slain. Acc to t alc, Pierre de Boniface, te of India made . t drove a cast out demons, and te    discovers ted only by te stoaken from toad, t ain antidote against poison. t    of t could cure ts of Arabian birds es, t, acc to Democritus, kept the wearer from any danger by fire.

        ty ion. tes of t ;made of sardius, , so t no man mig; Over t;t; so t t s. In Lodges strange romance A Margarite of America, it ated t in t;all te ladies of t of silver, looking tes, carbuncles, sapps." Marco Polo ants of Zipangu place rose-coloured pearls i to King Perozes, and s loss. o t pit,    aells tory--nor    ever found again, tasius offered five    of gold pieces for it. to a certaiian a rosary of t he worshipped.

        inois, son of Alexander VI, visited Louis XII of France, o Brantome, and    t a great ligirrups y-one diamonds. Ric, valued at ty to too ion, as ;a jacket of raised gold, tones, and a great bauderike about ; tes of James I    in gold filigrane. Edo Piers Gaveston a suit old armour studded    urquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parsemé o ty-t orients. t of C Duke of Burgundy of udded h sapphires.

        e life s pomp and decoration! Even to read of the dead was wonderful.

        turention to embroideries and to tapestries t performed tions of Europe. As igated t-- and raordinary faculty of being absolutely absorbed for t in ion of t time brougiful and    any rate, . Summer folloimes, and ory of t er marred ained    it erial to?    crocus-coloured robe, on    ts, t    Nero rete, t titan sail of purple on arry sky, and Apollo driving a c dra-reieeds? o see table-napkins ies and viands t could be ed for a feast; tuary clots tastic robes t excited tion of tus and ;lions, pants, rocks, ers--all, in fact, t a painter    copy from nature"; and t t C;Madame, je suis tout joyeux," t of t in gold te, of square s    t Red ;teen y-one parrots, made in broidery, and blazoned y-oterflies, ; Cat pos and suns. Its curtains    stood in a room    black velvet upon clotides fiftee ment. tate bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, urquoises s supports , beautifully c    aken from turkisandard of Moood beremulous gilt of its opy.

        And so, for a o accumulate t exquisite spes t extile and embroidered ting ty Del es and stitc beetles    from transparency are kno as "; and "running er," and "evening de;; strange figured clote yelloins or fair blue silks and iff Spaniss; Geian s gilt s, and Japanese Foukousas, oned golds and their marvellously plumaged birds.

        ical vestments, as indeed ed s t li gallery of ored aiful spes of    of t,    sed body t is    sed pain. ing pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond o panels representing ses from tion of taliaury. Anot, embroidered -semmed ails of als. tarred s and martyrs, among ian. ations of t, and embroidered ics of in and pink silk damask, decorated ulips and dolpar frontals of crimso and blue linen; and many corporals, cic offices to    quied ion.

        For treasures, and everyt ed in o be to fulness, modes by o    times to be almost too great to be borne. Upon t so mucerrible portrait    ain. For    ted t back    , e absorption in mere existe    of to dreadful plaear Blue Gate Fields, and stay ter day, until urn    in front of times,    pride of individualism t is ion of sin, and smiling    pleasure at t o bear t should have been his own.

        After a feo be long out of England, and gave up t    trouville tle er. ed to be separated from ture t o te of te bars t o be placed upon the door.

        e scious t tell t rue t trait still preserved, under all ts marked likeo    ?    any oaunt    pai.     to    looked? Even if old t?

        Yet imes iaining tounding ty by ton luxury and geous splendour of s and ruso too see t t been tampered    ture ill t if it solen? t made    ted it.

        For,    a feed    a est End club of itled o bee a member, and it    on one occasion, o tleman got up in a marked manner and    out. Curious stories became current about er y-fift    ant parts of ec ed eries of trade. raordinary absences became notorious, and, y, men o discover .

        Of suctempted sligook no notice, and in t people e grace of t    seemed o leave    anso termed t ed about     intimate er a time, to s vention at defiance, o groered the room.

        Yet trange and dangerous    element of security. Society--civilized society, at least-- is never very ready to believe anyto triment of ting. It feels instinctively t manners are of more importas opinion, t respectability is of mucer all, it is a very poor solation to be told t te life. Even tues ot atone for rées, as Lord , and to be said for y are, or s. Form is absolutely essential to it. It sy of a ceremony, as s uy, and ser of a romantic play    ay t make sucful to us. Is insiy sucerrible t. It is merely a metiply our personalities.

        Suy rate,    t, reliable, and of one esseo ions, a plex multiform creature t bore self strange legacies of t and passion, and ed rous maladies of to stroll t cold picture-gallery of ry    traits of t, described by Francis Osborne, in ;caressed by t for     long pany." as it young s life t imes led? range poisonous germ crept from body to body till it    some dim sense of t ruined grace t     cause, give utterance, in Basil udio, to t , je, and gilt-edged ruff and bands, stood Sir Ant .    ance of sin and sions merely t t dared to realize? omac    clasped an enamelled collar of able by tes upon tle pointed sraories t old about emperament in o look curiously at    of Gee illougastic patine and so be ted e lace ruffles fell over t eentury, and t of t in    days, and one of t t marriage z? nut curls and i pose!    passions    Carlton ar of ter glittered upon . Beside rait of irred    all seemed! And on fad ,    e dress. tions of ting    till o follow .

        Yet one ors in literature as emperament, many of tainly ely scious. times o Dorian Gray t tory    as    in ad circumstance, but as io for     t raerrible figures t age of tlety. It seemed to    in some mysterious heir lives had been his own.

        t er ells    lig strike , as tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading tis, ted round e-player mocked ted jockeys in tables and supped in an ivory manger leted ian, ion of t o end    ennui, t terrible taedium vitae, t es on to ter of pearl and purple dra of Pomegrao a ed aff among t tic marriage to the Sun.

        Over and ain Doriao read tastic cer, and tely follories or ingly iful forms of trous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan,     suck deatro Barbi, tian, kno in y to assume title of Formosus, and    t terrible sin; Gian Maria Visti, aio; Pietro Riario, tus IV, aurs, and gilded a boy t    serve at t as Ganymede or acle of deated, and oa Cibo,    and into or; Sigismondo Malatesta, tta and t Rome as trangled Polyssena o Ginevra dEste in a erald, and in    a pagan     ed rimmed jerkin ao Baglioni, to , as ed    c alanta, who had cursed him, blessed him.

        tion in t nigroubled ion in trange manners of poisoning-- poisoning by a    and a ligorcs iful.
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