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The oval portrait
part5
The image he had seen was an oval-shaped portrait showing the head and shoulders of a very beautiful young woman.
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part6
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She was married to the painter. She loved him very much but for him painting was more important than any in the world.
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After some time, the wife began to hate her husband's work.
part8
When the painter was about to finish his work, he didn't want to receive anyone.
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The way he paints the painting is as if he is taking his wife's life by putting her in the painting.
The painter does not realize that his wife is sick and when he finishes the painting he sees that she is dead.
part4
The narrator read the book. Midnight arrived and his eyes became tired and he found difficult to read.
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The narrator saw other pictures, including a portrait of a young woman. As soon as he saw it, he closed his eyes.
part2
The narrator's servant Pedro entered in the house through a small door at the back and took the narrator carefully inside.
They passed through many beautiful and richly decorated rooms and arrived in a smaller room in a corner of the house.
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part3
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The narrator had found on the bed a small book that described the pictures in the room and told their stories.
part7
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For a week the woman sat smiling and not moving in the dark room while her husband worked. Every day she became weaker and sadder. Unfortunately, her husband did not notice anything. He had become a famous painter.
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The story begins when a man and his servant after walking in the forest arrived at a house in the middle of the night.
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If he had stayed outside, he would have died.
The house was sad but beautiful, hundreds of years old.
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Characters: the narrator,Pedro,the woman and the painter