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Late in this year he spoke to me of his own accord about Lord Queensberry. He wanted my advice: "Lord Queensberry is annoying me," he said; "I did my best to reconcile him and Bosie. One day at the Café Royal, while Bosie and I were lunching there, Queensberry came in and I made Bosie go over and fetch his father and bring him to lunch with us.
Hichens had taken down Oscar's talks evening after evening and simply reproduced them. I asked Oscar if this was true. "True enough, Frank," he replied with a certain contempt which was foreign to him. "Hichens got to know Bosie Douglas in Egypt. They went up the Nile together, I believe with 'Dodo' Denson. Naturally Bosie talked a great deal about me and Hichens wanted to know me.
"'I am the vicar of the parish, he bowed pompously. "'I'm delighted to see you, I said, getting up and draping myself carefully, 'you have come just in time to enjoy a perfectly Greek scene. I regret that I am scarcely fit to receive you, and Bosie there' and I pointed to Bosie lying on the grass.
You refuse to fight with a father under these circumstances." Oscar seemed to be inclined to do as I proposed. I appealed to Shaw, and Shaw said he thought I was right; the case would very likely go against Oscar, a jury would hardly give a verdict against a father trying to protect his son. Oscar seemed much moved. I think it was about this time that Bosie Douglas came in.
The summer was very warm and beautiful, as you know, and I was up at Goring with Bosie. Often in the middle of the day we were too hot to go on the river. One afternoon it was sultry-close, and Bosie proposed that I should turn the hose pipe on him.
"Bernard Shaw is lunching with me to-morrow," I replied, "at the Café Royal." He made an impatient movement of his head. "He usually goes early," I went on, "and if you like to come after three o'clock we can have a talk and consider it all." "May I bring Bosie?" he enquired. "I would rather you did not," I replied, "but it is for you to do just as you like.
The idea of Oscar "standing up" to Queensberry or "shooting at sight" was too absurd. Who was inspiring him? Alfred Douglas? "What has happened since?" I enquired. "Nothing," he replied, "perhaps he will be quiet now. Bosie has written him a terrible letter; he must see now that, if he goes on, he will only injure his own flesh and blood." "That won't stop him," I replied, "if I read him aright.
At this Wyndham grew more civil, though still "frightfully agitated," and begged Ross to get Oscar to leave the country at once to avoid scandal. Ross replied that he and Turner had been trying to bring that about for hours. In the middle of the conversation Bosie, having returned, burst into the room with: "I want to see my cousin," and Ross rejoined Oscar.
Hichens had taken down Oscar's talks evening after evening and simply reproduced them. I asked Oscar if this was true. "True enough, Frank," he replied with a certain contempt which was foreign to him. "Hichens got to know Bosie Douglas in Egypt. They went up the Nile together, I believe with 'Dodo' Benson. Naturally Bosie talked a great deal about me and Hichens wanted to know me.
If he has made a mistake, it is only through excess of laudable zeal; you would have to prove yourself a religious maniac in order to have any chance against him in England." "How terrible you are, Frank. You know it is Bosie Douglas who wants me to fight, and my solicitors tell me I shall win." "Solicitors live on quarrels.
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