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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: people a painter should know,' he used to say, 'are people who are
BETE and beautiful, people who are an artistic pleasure to look at
and an intellectual repose to talk to. Men who are dandies and
women who are darlings rule the world, at least they should do so.'
However, after he got to know Hughie better, he liked him quite as
much for his bright, buoyant spirits and his generous, reckless
nature, and had given him the permanent ENTREE to his studio.
When Hughie came in he found Trevor putting the finishing touches
to a wonderful life-size picture of a beggar-man. The beggar
himself was standing on a raised platform in a corner of the
studio. He was a wizened old man, with a face like wrinkled
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