id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-013 chapter-013 .txt text/plain 5401 398 86 When I pointed out to him that the defence was growing bolder--it was announced one morning in the newspapers that Lord Queensberry, instead of pleading paternal privilege and minimising his accusation, was determined to justify the libel and declare that it was true in every particular--Oscar could only say weakly: While waiting for the judge, the buzz of talk in the court grew loud; everybody agreed that the presence of Sir Edward Clarke gave Oscar an advantage. The libel was in the form of a card which Lord Queensberry had left at a club to which Mr. Oscar Wilde belonged: it could not be justified unless the statements written on the card were true. Mr. Carson brought out that Oscar Wilde was forty years of age and Lord Alfred Douglas twenty-four. Mr. Carson read another letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, which paints their relations with extraordinary exactness. ./cache/chapter-013.txt ./txt/chapter-013.txt