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I asked him jokingly what the O'Flahertie stood for. To my astonishment he answered me gravely: "The O'Flaherties were kings in Ireland, and I have a right to the name; I am descended from them." I could not help it; I burst out laughing. "What are you laughing at, Frank?" he asked with a touch of annoyance.
He was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; but he appears to have suffered from the pompous string only in extreme youth. At school he concealed the "Fingal," as a young man he found it advisable to omit the "O'Flahertie." In childhood and early boyhood Oscar was not considered as quick or engaging or handsome as his brother, Willie.
His little weaknesses, too, began to show themselves and they grew rankly in the sunshine. He always wanted to do himself well, as the phrase goes, but now he began to eat and drink more freely than before. His vanity became defiant. I noticed one day that he had signed himself, Oscar O'Flahertie Wilde, I think under some verses which he had contributed years before to his College magazine.
"It was some little time before he left Portora that the boys got to know of his full name, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Just at the close of his school career he won the 'Carpenter' Greek Testament Prize, and on presentation day was called up to the dais by Dr. Steele, by all his names much to Oscar's annoyance; for a great deal of schoolboy chaff followed.
He was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; but he appears to have suffered from the pompous string only in extreme youth. At school he concealed the "Fingal," as a young man he found it advisable to omit the "O'Flahertie." In childhood and early boyhood Oscar was not considered as quick or engaging or handsome as his brother, Willie.
His little weaknesses, too, began to show themselves and they grew rankly in the sunshine. He always wanted to do himself well, as the phrase goes, but now he began to eat and drink more freely than before. His vanity became defiant. I noticed one day that he had signed himself, Oscar O'Flahertie Wilde, I think under some verses which he had contributed years before to his College magazine.
I asked him jokingly what the O'Flahertie stood for. To my astonishment he answered me gravely: "The O'Flaherties were kings in Ireland, and I have a right to the name; I am descended from them." I could not help it; I burst out laughing. "What are you laughing at, Frank?" he asked with a touch of annoyance.
"It was some little time before he left Portora that the boys got to know of his full name, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Just at the close of his school career he won the 'Carpenter' Greek Testament Prize, and on presentation day was called up to the dais by Dr. Steele, by all his names much to Oscar's annoyance; for a great deal of schoolboy chaff followed.
"It seems humorous to me," I explained, "that Oscar Wilde should want to be an O'Flahertie," and as I spoke a picture of the greatest of the O'Flaherties, with bushy head and dirty rags, warming enormous hairy legs before a smoking peat-fire, flashed before me. I think something of the sort must have occurred to Oscar, too, for, in spite of his attempt to be grave, he could not help laughing.
"It seems humorous to me," I explained, "that Oscar Wilde should want to be an O'Flahertie," and as I spoke a picture of the greatest of the O'Flaherties, with bushy head and dirty rags, warming enormous hairy legs before a smoking peat-fire, flashed before me. I think something of the sort must have occurred to Oscar, too, for, in spite of his attempt to be grave, he could not help laughing.
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