What if Basil Hallward came and asked to look at his own picture?

3 seconds sound clip from the The Picture of Dorian Gray movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:42:17.264 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- There was no such expression on his face.

- If only the picture could change, and I could be always as I am now. For that I would give everything.

- Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give. I would give my soul for that.

- But, surely, his wish had not been fulfilled. Such things were impossible. It was monstrous even to think of it.

- What if someone else observed the horrible change, his valet, perhaps?

- What if Basil Hallward came and asked to look at his own picture?

- But he was being ridiculous. This was a mere hallucination. An illusion brought on by his troubled senses.

- The picture had not changed. He was mad to think so. A painted canvas could not alter.

- He would look at it again after he had slept, when he was calmer, and he would laugh at this fantastic idea.

- But in the afternoon when he returned to examine the portrait again, fantastic as the idea was, his memory of that cruel look was disturbingly vivid.

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