X. Translate into English using the vocabulary of the chapters:

1. I am inclined to think that I never was engages.

2. The fat man was beaming from ear to ear with an oily tremulous smile.

3. She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent.

4. You don’t even stir my curiosity.

5. It is not too late to make reparation for that.

6. It seemed to me that I had been foolish in imagining that.

7. I can’t get on without you.

8. But he always made an exception in favor of his cousin.

9. His mother-in-law has always hated the boy and desired to keep him at a distance.

10. The color came to his cheeks???

XI. Summary (chapters 6-10):

That evening Lord Henry announces to Basil Dorian’s plan to marry Sibyl. Basil expresses concern that Dorian has decided to marry so far beneath his social position. Lord Henry claims that he is simply interested in observing the boy and his experiences.

Dorian enters, and he tells them the story of his engagement, which was precipitated by his seeing Sibyl play Rosalind in Shakespeare’s play «As You Like It». Dorian remarks that his love for Sibyl and his desire to live only for her have shown him the falsehood of all of Lord Henry’s theories about the virtues of selfishness. Lord Henry defends his point of view by claiming that it is nature, not he who dictates the pursuit of pleasure. The three men go to the theatre where Sibyl Vane is going to perform that night.

Dorian continues speaking about Sibyl’s beauty, and Basil assures Dorian that he will support the marriage because Dorian is so obviously in love. When the play begins, however, Sibyl’s acting is terrible. Dorian is heartbroken because he is unable to understand the change that has come over his beloved. Basil and Lord Henry leave him, and he goes backstage to find Sibyl, who is happy despite her dreadful acting. She explains that before she has met Dorian, she has been able to play other characters. Now, however, these pretend emotions no longer interest her, because they are pale in relation to her real feelings for Dorian. As a result, she says that her career on the stage is over. Dorian tells her that he doesn’t want to see her again because he has been in love not with her but with her acting.

At last, Dorian returns to his home. He is astonished because he notices that Basil’s portrait of him has changed- a faint sneer has appeared at the corner of his mouth. Dorian is ashamed with his behavior toward Sibyl. And he makes decision to meet Sibyl in the morning.

When Dorian gets up in the afternoon, he goes to cheek the painting. He realizes that the face in the portrait crueler. While he tries to come up with some rational explanation for the charge, Lord Henry arrives with terrible news: Sibyl has committed suicide. Dorian is shocked, but Lord Henry convinces him that he should not go to the police and explain his part in the girl’s death. He persuades Dorian that Sibyl’s suicide is a perfect artistic representation of undying love. Dorian is convinced by his friend’s words and agrees to go to the opera with him that very night. When Lord Henry has gone, Dorian thinks that this incident is a turning point in his life. He wants to accept a life of « (e) ternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joy and wilder sins»б because he realizes that his portrait, rather than his own body will bear the marks of age and experience. Having made this resolution, he joins Lord Henry at the opera.

The next day, Basil comes to offer his condolences to Dorian, but Dorian dismisses the memory of Sibyl lightly and remarking, «What is done is done. What is past is past». Basil is horrified at the change in Dorian. He blames Lord Henry for Dorian’s heartless attitude. Dorian asks Basil to do a drawing of Sibyl so that he has something to remember her. Basil asks it he is displeased with his portrait. When Basil goes to remove the screen with which Dorian has covered the painting, Dorian can’t control his feelings anymore and insists that the work never appears in public and pledges not to speak to Basil again if he touches the screen. Dorian asks why Basil has changed his mind and wants to show the painting to public. Basil answers that now he believes that the painting, like all art, «conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him». Basil again asks Dorian to sit for him, and Dorian refuses again. When Basil leaves, Dorian decides to hide his portrait.

When Basil has gone Dorian asks his housekeeper Mrs. Leaf for the key to the schoolroom, which is at the top of the house. This room has not been used for 5 years. Dorian covers with a coverlet and employs two men from a nearby frame-maker to carry it to the schoolroom. Dorian hopes that in this room the painting will be safe people’s eyes.

Then he returns to his study and reads a newspaper account of Sibyl’s death. Horrified by the report, Dorian decides to read a book that Lord Henry has sent him. After reading a few pages about the life of a young Parisian, Dorian finds the book to be «poisonous», because it confuses the boundaries between vice and virtue. When Dorian meets Lord Henry later that evening, he says that the book is fascinating.