Chapter 27

"The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly," I heard Mr Aebischer say animatedly along with the actor. 

I don't think I've ever seen this man as content and happy as he is now. His face was still stoic but the wide smile on his face and the sparkle in his eye was one that anyone could see from a mile away. 

We were watching the famous, Picture of Dorian Gray play. Of course we started the day out with the very first play, a beautiful interesting