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It was nearly six o'clock when Lavinia stood on the broad steps of Queensberry House behind Burlington Gardens. Now that she was staring at the big door between the high railings with their funnel shaped link extinguishers pointing downward at her on either side her courage seemed to be slipping from her.
Your disgusted so-called father, In reply to this letter Lord Alfred Douglas telegraphed: "What a funny little man you are! This telegram was excellently calculated to drive Queensberry frantic with rage. There was feminine cunning in its wound to vanity. A little later Oscar told me that Queensberry accompanied by a friend had called on him. "What happened?" I asked.
He will hesitate to condemn you, and once he hesitates you'll win. "You fought badly because you did not show your own nature sufficiently; you did not use your brains in the witness box and alas " I did not continue; the truth was I was filled with fear; for I suddenly realised that he had shown more courage and self-possession in the Queensberry trial than in the trial before Mr.
"The love of learning and poetry made him not the less fit for business, and nobody applied himself closer to it when it required his attendance. The late Duke of Queensberry, when he was Secretary of State, made him his secretary for public affairs; and when that truly great man came to know him well, he was never so pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company.
The present ministry, consisting of the duke of Queensberry, the earls of Marchmont, Melvil, Seafield, Hyndford, and Selkirk, were devoted to revolution principles, and desirous that the parliament should continue, in pursuance of a late act for continuing the parliament that should be then in being, six months after the death of the king, and that it should assemble in twenty days after that event.
Irritated at this cold reception, the old Laird rode on to Sanquhar Castle, then the residence of the Duke of Queensberry, who no sooner heard his name, than, knowing well he had a will to make, the drawbridge dropped, and the gates flew open the table was covered anew his grace's bachelor and intestate kinsman was received with the utmost attention and respect; and it is scarcely necessary to add, that upon his death some years after, the visitor's considerable landed property went to augment the domains of the Ducal House of Queensberry.
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.
It seemed that Chester had not met him for many years, and after a short and characteristic conversation of "God bless me, how long since I saw you! d d good horse you're on you look thin admirable condition what have you been doing? grand action a'n't we behind hand? famous fore-hand recollect old Queensberry? hot in the mouth gone to the devil what are the odds?"
"Do you know the meaning of the word, sir?" was this gentleman's retort. I went out of the court feeling certain that the case was lost. Oscar had not shown himself at all; he had not even spoken with the vigour he had used at the Queensberry trial. He seemed too despairing to strike a blow. The summing up of the Judge on May 25th was perversely stupid and malevolent.
I knew nothing of Lord Alfred Douglas, and had no inkling of his poetic talent. I did not like several of Oscar's particular friends, and I had a special dislike for the father of Lord Alfred Douglas. I knew Queensberry rather well.
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