{"id":10588,"date":"2017-09-04T21:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:19:32","slug":"Doriantext21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/Doriantext21\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2, page 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

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"The betting is on the Americans."<\/p>\n

"They don't last, I am told," muttered his uncle.<\/p>\n

"A long engagement exhausts them, but they are capital at a steeplechase. They take things flying. I don't think Dartmoor has a chance."<\/p>\n

"Who are her people?" grumbled the old gentleman. "Has she got any?"<\/p>\n

Lord Henry shook his head. "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past," he said, rising to go.<\/p>\n

"They are pork–packers, I suppose?"<\/p>\n

"I hope so, Uncle George, for Dartmoor's sake. I am told that pork–packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics."<\/p>\n

"Is she pretty?"<\/p>\n

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."<\/p>\n

"Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women."<\/p>\n

"It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it," said Lord Henry. "Good–bye, Uncle George. I shall be late for lunch, if I stop any longer. Thanks for giving me the information I wanted. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."<\/p>\n

"Where are you lunching, Harry?"<\/p>\n

"At Aunt Agatha's. I have asked myself and Mr. Gray. He is her latest protege<\/i>."<\/p>\n

"Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for her silly fads."<\/p>\n

"All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."<\/p>\n

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