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I, too, must say that in the first period of our friendship, I never noticed anything that could give colour even to suspicion of him; but the belief in his abnormal tastes was widespread and dated from his life in Oxford. From about 1886-7 on, however, there was a notable change in Oscar Wilde's manners and mode of life.
My work dropped out of my hands. He laughed. "Yes. Dear mother, since you never have seen him, I don't know that I can hope to convey any right conception of Wilde's truly remarkable character. He is, to begin with, the best of men. Picture, if you can, a nature with a soul completely beautiful and selfless, and a nervous surface quite as pachydermatous and indiscriminating as that of an ox.
In one corner a man sat on a rickety chair. His back was turned to the room. He faced the two walls of his corner. The position struck me as odd until I noticed that he sat that way in order to get a little light on the pages of the book he read. It was Oscar Wilde's De Profundis. It was, I suppose, part of my business to make friends of the men round me.
Sir Edward Clarke, interposing, said: "That's not Mr. Wilde's, Mr. Gill." Mr. Gill: "I am not aware that I said it was." Sir Edward Clarke: "I thought you would be glad to say it was not." Mr. Gill insisted that Mr. Wilde should explain the poem in "Praise of Shame." Mr.
The skilful advocate, therefore, always watches the crowd of eager faces without the bar, with eye as anxious and far more prophetic than that with which he studies the formal countenances of the panel whom he directly addresses. There was one circumstance, arising indirectly from his public employment, that exercised no trivial influence upon Captain Wilde's fate.
One cannot dine off a recipe, however good and ingenious it may be. It is like reading a guide-book at home instead of travelling. Dear me, it is too hot! I shall go and lie down and read Oscar Wilde's 'Decay of Lying. That always sends me to sleep. It is like himself, all artfulness and no art." She strolled languidly away, still fanning herself.
Fortunately for the schoolmaster, Chips's indiscretion had been a mild one indeed compared with those of the forecastle hands, and he therefore accepted Wilde's rebukes with a tolerably good grace and in silence; but Wilde was one of those enthusiasts who carry even their virtues to excess, and his denunciations of Chips were of so virulent and extravagant a character that they did more harm than good, and as I discovered later on converted Tudsbery from a blindly faithful disciple into a sullen, more than half-doubting, and reluctant follower.
Ernest Beckett, now Lord Grimthorpe, a lover of all superiorities, who has known the ablest men of the time, takes pleasure in telling a story which shows Oscar Wilde's influence over men who were anything but literary in their tastes. Mr.
The winning smile shone out again, and Treat noticed how it transfigured the worn, sallow face under the thin brown hair. "Well, you may comfort yourself with the reflection that it's easy to be human but hard to edit a magazine," laughed the younger man, adding, as he went toward the door and paused near the threshold, "I haven't seen you, by the way, since Miss Wilde's last poems are out.
"The fact is, Mr Troubridge, that now, when that horrid man Wilde's scheme seems to be nearing fruition, I am beginning to realise that I am in a very awkward and difficult position; and I am feeling very anxious. I have heard much talk, lately, that has greatly alarmed me; and I have been compelled to ask myself what is to be the outcome of this attempt to found a colony upon Socialistic lines.
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