quot;You are mad, I tell you--mad to imagine t I o o make trous confession. I ter,  is. Do you to peril my reputation for you?  is it to me o?quot;

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    quot;I am glad of t. But ? You, I s;

    quot;Do you still refuse to do t;

    quot;Of course I refuse. I o do . I dont care o see you disgraced, publicly disgraced. o mix myself up in t you kne peoples cers. Your friend Lord ton cant aug psycever else augo stir a step to o to some of your friends. Dont come to me.quot;

    quot;Alan, it  t ended it, t ;

    quot;Murder! Good God, Dorian, is t  is not my business. Besides,  my stirring in tter, you are certain to be arrested. Nobody ever commits a crime  doing sometupid. But I .quot;

    quot;You must o do . ait,  a moment; listen to me. Only listen, Alan. All I ask of you is to perform a certain scientific experiment. You go to als and dead- you do t affect you. If in some ing-room or fetid laboratory you found table ters scooped out in it for to flo. You  turn a  believe t you rary, you  you ing tifying intellectual curiosity, or somet kind.  I  you to do is merely o destroy a body must be far less  you are accustomed to . And, remember, it is t me. If it is discovered, I am lost; and it is sure to be discovered unless you ;

    quot;I o  t. I am simply indifferent to t o do ;

    quot;Alan, I entreat you. tion I am in. Just before you came I almost fainted error. You may knoerror yourself some day. No! dont t. Look at tter purel