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After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his watch. "I am afraid I must be going, Basil," he murmured, "and before I go, I insist on your answering a question I put to you some time ago."<\/p>\n

"What is that?" said the painter, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground.<\/p>\n

"You know quite well."<\/p>\n

"I do not, Harry."<\/p>\n

"Well, I will tell you what it is. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason."<\/p>\n

"I told you the real reason."<\/p>\n

"No, you did not. You said it was because there was too much of yourself in it. Now, that is childish."<\/p>\n

"Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul."<\/p>\n

Lord Henry laughed. "And what is that?" he asked.<\/p>\n

"I will tell you," said Hallward; but an expression of perplexity came over his face.<\/p>\n

"I am all expectation, Basil," continued his companion, glancing at him.<\/p>\n

"Oh, there is really very little to tell, Harry," answered the painter; "and I am afraid you will hardly understand it. Perhaps you will hardly believe it."<\/p>\n

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