CHAPTER ONEAN EXPERIMENT IN EMOTION
"… A genial … bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him.…"
Oscar Wilde: "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
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Eric Lane, visible only from ear to chin above the water-line, peered through the steam of the bathroom at a travelling-clock on his dressing-table. The bath would have been improved by another half handful of verbena...
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