The Key to the Past

Dorian looked around the room and saw a large purple satin coverlet, heavily embroidered with gold. It was a late 17th century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna. Dorian shuddered as he took up from the couch the great purple and gold texture that covered it,. holding it in his hands, passed behind the screen. It was the face on the canvas, viler than before. The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet - dreams that would make the shadow of their evil

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