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"It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,"

said Lord Henry languidly. "You must certainly send it next year

to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar.

Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people

that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was

dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see

the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only

place."

"I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing

his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh

at him at Oxford. "No, I won't send it anywhere."