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chapter-006At the very door Mrs. Jeune came up to me:"Have you ever met Mr. Oscar Wilde?
chapter-006Why should any taste be ostracised?
chapter-026Oscar stopped on the sidewalk:"And what have I to live for, Bobbie?"
chapter-026What indeed had he to live for who had abandoned all the fair uses of life?
chapter-002''You silly fellow,''I exclaimed,''of course not; I''m always glad to be with you: but perhaps you will be coming up to Trinity too; wo n''t you?'' chapter-002 ''You will write to me, Oscar, wo n''t you, and tell me about everything?''
chapter-002Did you go in for games?
chapter-002My friend was very silent, I remember, and only interrupted me to ask:''When do you go, Oscar?''
chapter-002Surely you went about with some younger boy, did you not, to whom you told your dreams and hopes, and whom you grew to care for?
chapter-002To my surprise he was cold and said, a little bitterly, I thought:"''You seem glad to go?''
chapter-027Who would deny to- day that he was a quickening and liberating influence?
chapter-027Why should he deny himself the immediate enjoyment for a very vague and questionable future benefit?
chapter-004Still she could not give him much; the difficulty was only postponed; what was to be done?
chapter-004What was to be done next?
chapter-004What will this professor of sthetics make of it?
chapter-004Where Whistler had missed the laurel how could he or indeed anyone be sure of winning?
chapter-005And then the last verse would be quoted:--"Divine, do n''t ye think?"
chapter-005On all sides one was asked:"Have you seen Oscar''s latest?"
chapter-005Subtle, was n''t it?"
chapter-005What was to be done?
chapter-005Willie''s friend seemed amused at the lyrical outburst of the green spinster, for smiling a little she questioned him:"''Speranza''is Lady Wilde?"
chapter-005Would he bridle his desires, live savingly, and write assiduously till such repute came as would enable him to launch out and indulge his tastes?
chapter-007Nothing,I answered,"why should I bother?
chapter-007The prophet must proclaim himself, eh? chapter-007 Here you have the opportunity of making your name known just as widely; why not avail yourself of it? chapter-007 What would you give, when a book of yours comes out, to be able to write a long article drawing attention to it in The Pall Mall Gazette? chapter-007 Why is Pears''soap successful? chapter-007 and declare his own mission?
chapter-008Do you think so, really?
chapter-008How wonderful of you, Frank; what do you like so much?
chapter-008They are pork- packers, I suppose?
chapter-008What on earth can you see in him to admire?
chapter-008Why not?
chapter-008The uncle wonders why Lord Dartmoor wants to marry an American and grumbles about her people:"Has she got any?"
chapter-010Did n''t you?
chapter-010What are you laughing at, Frank?
chapter-010And I went on arguing, if Gattie were right, why two boys?
chapter-010But why not boys of his own class?
chapter-010Could more be desired than perfection perfected?
chapter-010His reputation was always rather--''high,''shall we call it?"
chapter-010Suddenly the younger of the boys asked:"Did you sy they was niked?"
chapter-009Come now, really,cried Knight,"you can not think much of the play?"
chapter-009I was not at any of the rehearsals; but so far it is surely the best comedy in English, the most brilliant: is n''t it?
chapter-009Is that going in a book, Oscar?
chapter-009But after all how could he help it?
chapter-009I asked, smiling,"or in an article?
chapter-009I wonder can I do it in a week, or will it take three?
chapter-009Seeing that I did not respond he challenged me:"What do you think of it?"
chapter-009That is our duty to our neighbour, Frank; but sometimes we mislay it, do n''t we?"
chapter-003And did you find any teacher there like Mahaffy?
chapter-003Did you make friends with any of them?
chapter-003He was the Gamaliel then?
chapter-003Loves?
chapter-003Then they knew you as a great talker even at Oxford?
chapter-003What about the inside of the platter, Oscar?
chapter-003What were the students like in Dublin?
chapter-003I asked,"any professor with a touch of the poet?"
chapter-003I questioned,"at whose feet you sat?"
chapter-003What would people think if they saw you?''
chapter-014And how can this man have a fair trial now when the papers for weeks past have been filled with violent diatribes against him and his works?"
chapter-014But at the time all such matters were lost for me in the questions: would the authorities arrest Oscar?
chapter-014English judges always resent and resist such popular outbursts: why not in this case?
chapter-014Had not Wilde also rendered distinguished services to his country?
chapter-014Had the police asked for a warrant?
chapter-014Oscar then rose and asked,"Where shall I be taken?"
chapter-014Robert Ross urged him to accept Mathew''s offer; but he would not: why?
chapter-014Was it worth while to stir up all the foul mud again, in order to beat the beaten?
chapter-014Where did he get this new knowledge?
chapter-014or would they allow him to escape?
chapter-001After the second offence you went back?
chapter-001And you took money from this man who had violated you against your will?
chapter-001But you went back to Dr. Wilde''s study after the awful assault?
chapter-001Did he ever attempt to repeat the offence?
chapter-001Did he ever repeat it again?
chapter-001Did you tell anyone of what had taken place?
chapter-001Had he kept it in his hands, then, all the time you were unconscious?
chapter-001Just to show it to you?
chapter-001Not even your father?
chapter-001This is the first time you have told about this second and third assault, is it not?
chapter-001Why did you not answer Miss Travers when she wrote telling you of your husband''s attempt on her virtue?
chapter-001Why not?
chapter-001Yet you returned again?
chapter-001You asked him for money?
chapter-001You went again and again, did you not?
chapter-001Again the judge interposed with the probing question:"Did you say anything about chloroform in your pamphlet?"
chapter-001But was there a seduction?
chapter-001The judge here interposed with the crucial question:"Did you know that you had been violated?"
chapter-018But if I got you a petition from men of letters, asking you to release Wilde for his health''s sake: would that do?
chapter-018If you were justified in coming to me, I should do it; but I am no one; why do n''t you go to Meredith, Swinburne or Hardy?
chapter-018Surely,I said,"Oscar will not be imprisoned for the full term; surely four or five months for good conduct will be remitted?"
chapter-018What books have you?
chapter-018Wo n''t you see what can be done?
chapter-018By the by, I hear that you have been reconciled to your wife; is that true?
chapter-018Do you want to know what this new world is?
chapter-018How could I help feeling sure?
chapter-018How many names should I get?"
chapter-018It would not be an avowable reason that we hoped Wilde would write new plays and books, would it?
chapter-018My father got into trouble once in Dublin, perhaps you have heard about it?"
chapter-018That is the book[6] of pity and of love which I am writing now-- a terrible book...."I wonder would you publish it, Frank?
chapter-018Women have infinitely more courage than men, do n''t you think?
chapter-018[ 4] Extraordinary, was it not?
chapter-021But why should he have fame and state and power?
chapter-021Do you know that my wife is dead, Frank? chapter-021 Do you see that?"
chapter-021After all why should anyone help you, if you will not help yourself?
chapter-021After all, what have they done in comparison with what I have done?
chapter-021But as soon as I pressed him to write he would shake his head:"Oh, Frank, I can not, you know my rooms; how could I write there?
chapter-021Do you wonder that I can not write, Frank?
chapter-021Surely, I am better worth knowing than Shakespeare?"
chapter-021We are fated to suffer, do n''t you think?
chapter-021What do you know of the average man or of his opinions?
chapter-021Why ca n''t you?"
chapter-021Why not make the effort?"
chapter-021Why should I write any more?
chapter-019Have you ever learned how wonderful a thing pity is? chapter-019 Really?"
chapter-019What about the verse?
chapter-019Who could resist it, Frank? chapter-019 At length she began to expatiate on the cheapness of things in France; did Mr. Melmoth know how wonderfully cheap and good the living was? chapter-019 Could Oscar Wilde have won and made for himself a new and greater life? chapter-019 Do you know what Liesse is? chapter-019 Do you know, my dear fellow, it was pity which prevented my killing myself? chapter-019 Do you mind? chapter-019 Do you think the idea absurd? chapter-019 Have you got my silver spoon[15] from Reggie? chapter-019 How could you frighten me as you did? chapter-019 Is n''t it extraordinary? chapter-019 It is quite clear that he must adopt orphans, is it not? chapter-019 Need I say that this is a miracle? chapter-011 ''How could you help loving Narcissus?''
chapter-011''Was he beautiful?'' chapter-011 ''Who should know that better than you?''
chapter-011''Why does he give it back to me?'' chapter-011 ''Would n''t let you''?
chapter-011But how did he come to know a creature like Wood?
chapter-011But how did such a letter,I cried,"ever get into the hands of a blackmailer?"
chapter-011But the letter?
chapter-011How do you mean?
chapter-011What can I do, Frank?
chapter-011What could I say, Frank? chapter-011 What is it, Frank?"
chapter-011What''s it all about?
chapter-011Who is Bosie?
chapter-011Almost immediately scandalous stories came into circulation concerning them:"Have you heard the latest about Lord Alfred and Oscar?
chapter-011Being a little short- sighted, I asked:"Is n''t that Mr. Oscar Wilde?"
chapter-011Had he acted out of aristocratic insolence, or was he by any possibility high- minded?
chapter-011How could I verify this impression, I asked myself, so as to warn him effectually?
chapter-011What can I do?"
chapter-011What do I care?
chapter-011Why are you alone in London, and when do you go to Salisbury?
chapter-011Why should I belabour the beaten?
chapter-011Why should I cringe to this madman?"
chapter-020Au revoir, n''est- ce pas? chapter-020 Do you remember Verlaine, Frank?
chapter-020How absurd such schools are, are they not?
chapter-020I do n''t agree with you, Frank,he said, resenting my tone,"did you notice his eyes?
chapter-020I wonder if any punishment will teach humanity to such people, or understanding of their own baseness?
chapter-020In Naples?
chapter-020Rather dirty, do n''t you think?
chapter-020Then what would you do,asked someone,"about the lower education of man?"
chapter-020Vous tes Jules, n''est- ce pas?
chapter-020You are not offended, Frank, are you, with me, for making you meet two caryatides of the Parisian temple of pleasure?
chapter-020( you are Jules, are n''t you?)
chapter-020As soon as the means of life were straitened, he became sullen and began reproaching me; why did n''t I write?
chapter-020Charing Cross, n''est- ce- pas, Monsieur?
chapter-020Vous ne m''oublierez pas?..."
chapter-020What should I do?"
chapter-020What was the good of me?
chapter-020Why did n''t I earn money?
chapter-012''How dared you say such a thing about your son and me?'' chapter-012 ''You said you were sorry,''questioned his mother, leaning over him,''and asked God to make you a good boy?''
chapter-012But what can I do, Frank?
chapter-012Did I say anything in the heat of argument that could have offended Oscar or Douglas?
chapter-012I said to him,''I suppose, Lord Queensberry, you have come to apologise for the libellous letter you wrote about me?'' chapter-012 Is it possible?"
chapter-012It is impossible, Frank, and ridiculous; why should I give up my friends for Queensberry?
chapter-012May I bring Bosie?
chapter-012Much smoke, then,I queried,"and no fire?"
chapter-012Of course he defied you?
chapter-012Oh, Frank,he cried,"how can I do that?"
chapter-012The Wood letters to Lord Alfred Douglas I told you about? chapter-012 Then why not cease to see Bosie?"
chapter-012Then, Oscar,I said,"perhaps you wo n''t mind Shaw hearing what I advise?"
chapter-012What do you mean?
chapter-012What happened?
chapter-012What has happened since?
chapter-012What is one to do with such a madman?
chapter-012What letters do you mean, Frank?
chapter-012Alfred Douglas?
chapter-012Frank, would you?
chapter-012He must be mad, Frank, do n''t you think?
chapter-012He questioned me:"What is the alternative, Frank, the wisest thing to do in your opinion?
chapter-012Is this true, or do you not know of it?
chapter-012The man turned round, recognised Him and said,''I was blind; Thou didst heal me; what else should I do with my sight?''"
chapter-012What am I to do?"
chapter-012What could I say?"
chapter-012Who was inspiring him?
chapter-012Would you in your position as editor of The Fortnightly come and give evidence for me, testify for instance that''Dorian Gray''is not immoral?"
chapter-024And what is such a prejudice?
chapter-024And your''Ballad of a Fisher Boy''?
chapter-024Do you believe I should be left to suffer? chapter-024 He is charming, Frank, and well read, and he admires me very much: you wo n''t mind his dining with us, will you?"
chapter-024I''ve always wondered why you gave Alexander a play? chapter-024 Then you wo n''t help me for the rest of the winter?"
chapter-024Then, Frank, you only cared for me in so far as I agreed with you?
chapter-024What argument have you against cannibalism; what reason is there why we should not fatten babies for the spit and eat their flesh? chapter-024 What do you think has happened, Frank?"
chapter-024Why do you argue against me, Frank? chapter-024 But I was not angry with him for that, though he might have behaved as well as Wyndham,[29] who owed me nothing, do n''t you think? chapter-024 But was n''t it mean of him?
chapter-024Do you think I should dread the issue or allow myself to be silenced by a judge?
chapter-024Do you think he could have silenced me?
chapter-024How else was a silly, narrow judge able to wave you to silence?
chapter-024If you do n''t bear fruit why should men care for you?"
chapter-024Suppose I like a food that is poison to other people, and yet quickens me; how dare they punish me for eating of it?"
chapter-024Surely you did n''t think him an actor?"
chapter-024The difference was Frank was proud of meeting Balfour while Balfour was proud of meeting me: d''ye see?"
chapter-024What am I to do?"
chapter-024What can Americans know about English literature?...
chapter-024What can it matter to me whether you write or not?
chapter-024What difference is there between one form of sexual indulgence and another?
chapter-024What hinders us from indulging in this appetite but prejudice, sacred prejudice, an instinctive loathing at the bare idea?
chapter-024What is the good of it?
chapter-024What right has society to punish us unless it can prove we have hurt or injured someone else against his will?
chapter-024Who shall say they are wrong?
chapter-024Who shall sneer at their instinctive repulsion hallowed by ages of successful endeavour?"
chapter-024Why?
chapter-024Would n''t you be angry, Frank?"
chapter-023All her suffering did not endear her to you?
chapter-023And Ellen?
chapter-023And Wells?
chapter-023And what of your compatriot, George Moore? chapter-023 Did you ever care for Hardy?"
chapter-023Do you know my word for them, Frank? chapter-023 How can you talk of such intimacy as love?
chapter-023How dared those little wretches condemn me and punish me? chapter-023 It is,"I said,"a great scene; why do n''t you write it?"
chapter-023Oh, yes, Frank, of course; but how could Shakespeare with his beautiful nature love a woman to that mad excess?
chapter-023Shall we get a boat and row across the bay?
chapter-023Tired after a mile?
chapter-023What about Bernard Shaw?
chapter-023What do you think of Arthur Symons?
chapter-023What religion is mine? chapter-023 Where are we going?
chapter-023Do you know her history?"
chapter-023Do you remember how Browning''s Sarto defends himself?
chapter-023He has no passion, no feeling, and without passionate feeling how can one be an artist?
chapter-023How can one desire what is shapeless, deformed, ugly?
chapter-023How can you idealise it?
chapter-023How dared they?"
chapter-023I asked in amazement;"did not call forth that pity in you which you used to speak of as divine?"
chapter-023Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good?"
chapter-023Suppose we stop and get some?"
chapter-023Suppose you had been Jesus, what religion would you have preached?"
chapter-023Was his punishment making him a little spiteful or was it the temptation of the witty phrase?
chapter-023What an absurdity it all was, Frank: how dared they punish me for what is good in my eyes?
chapter-023What belief have I?
chapter-023When we got into the train again he began:"We stop next at Marseilles, do n''t we, Frank?
chapter-015But what good is it, Frank, what good is it?
chapter-015But what will people say?
chapter-015But where to?
chapter-015But why not?
chapter-015But you are innocent,I cried in amaze,"are n''t you?"
chapter-015But, Frank, what about the people who have stood bail for me? chapter-015 Have n''t you a watch?"
chapter-015I hope the warders are kind to you?
chapter-015Is the food good?
chapter-015Is there nothing I can do for you, nothing you want?
chapter-015Nonsense,I cried;"now where are we going?"
chapter-015Oh, Frank, how could I?
chapter-015Thank God,I said,"but why did n''t Sir Edward Clarke bring that out?"
chapter-015Where are you going?
chapter-015Why not?
chapter-015Yes, Frank, where to?
chapter-015You really would not like the Caf Royal?
chapter-015You should have gone,I cried in French, hot with indignation;"why did n''t you go, the moment you came out of the court?"
chapter-015But why on earth did Alfred Douglas, knowing the truth, ever wish you to attack Queensberry?"
chapter-015Did Jesus suffer in vain?
chapter-015Do you remember Wordsworth speaks''of the wind in the trees''?
chapter-015How can I get evidence or think in this place of torture?
chapter-015I asked him could I charter it?
chapter-015Is it not dreadful the way they insult the fallen?"
chapter-015They allow you books, do n''t they?"
chapter-015Why give up like that?
chapter-015Will civilisation never reach humane ideals?
chapter-015Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold for them no temptation?
chapter-025And so the great romantic passion comes to this tame conclusion?
chapter-025As I can do no good,I said,"do you mind letting me sleep?
chapter-025But suppose he retorted and said you led him astray, what could I answer?
chapter-025But,I said,"will you?"
chapter-025Have you consulted a doctor?
chapter-025Have you written any of it?
chapter-025He''s got his money back; what more can he want? chapter-025 How did I know how the case would go?...
chapter-025I''m sorry,he said, looking for his hat;"will you come out in the morning and see the''gees''?"
chapter-025Is there anyone else?
chapter-025May I come in?
chapter-025Of course,I said,"what is it?"
chapter-025What do you mean?
chapter-025What would you, Frank? chapter-025 Why not?"
chapter-025Wo n''t you tell me what you''ve done?
chapter-025A day or two later Lord Alfred Douglas told me that he had bought some racehorses and was training them at Chantilly; would I come down and see them?
chapter-025Could you do the first act?"
chapter-025Do n''t you think that is all anyone can ask of me?"
chapter-025Has it come to that between you?"
chapter-025His weakness was pathetic, or was it that his affection was still so great that he wanted to blame himself rather than his friend?
chapter-025How could I help believing him, how could I keep away from him?
chapter-025I asked,"or have you learned reason at last?"
chapter-025I think he ought to give me that at the very least, do n''t you?
chapter-025Is it my fault?
chapter-025Surely it is not too much to ask him to give me a tenth when I gave him all?
chapter-025Then suddenly:"Why do n''t you buy the scenario and write the play yourself?"
chapter-025Was he wrong or was I wrong?"
chapter-025When are you going to reach that serenity?"
chapter-025Why did he take my advice, if he did n''t want to?
chapter-025Wo n''t you ask him?"
chapter-025Wo n''t you speak to him, Frank?"
chapter-016Difficult to explain, Frank, is n''t it, without the truth?
chapter-016Do you know the meaning of the word, sir?
chapter-016Do you mean it really?
chapter-016Do you mean you will not come and spend a week yachting with me?
chapter-016Do you see those lights yonder?
chapter-016Do you understand?
chapter-016No, no,I said,"why should I be angry?
chapter-016Nonsense,I replied,"who would arrest you?
chapter-016What do you say, Oscar, will you come and try a homely French bourgeois dinner to- morrow evening at an inn I know almost at the water''s edge? chapter-016 What on earth''s the matter?"
chapter-016What''s impossible?
chapter-016What''s the matter, Oscar?
chapter-016Why let your imagination run away with you?
chapter-016Your brother?
chapter-016*****"Do n''t you want to make them all speak of you and wonder at you again?
chapter-016As we turned into Oakley Street, Oscar said to me:"You are not angry with me, Frank?"
chapter-016Did he postpone the sentence in order not to frighten the next jury by the severity of it?
chapter-016Do you happen to know where Erith is?"
chapter-016Does not the prospect tempt you?"
chapter-016Examining Oscar as to his letters to Lord Alfred Douglas, Sir Frank Lockwood wanted to know whether he thought them"decent"?
chapter-016Foreman:"Or ever contemplated?"
chapter-016He surprised me by saying:"A year, Frank, they may give me a year?
chapter-016How did he know Dogberry and Pistol, Bardolph and Doll Tearsheet?
chapter-016I gasped; what had happened?
chapter-016If you were in France, everyone would be asking: will he come back or disappear altogether?
chapter-016In one hour she would be free of the Thames and on the high seas--(delightful phrase, eh?)
chapter-016Mr. Justice Wills:"Were you agreed as to the charge on the other counts?"
chapter-016To my astonishment he faced me and said:"And my sureties?"
chapter-016What did he mean by saying that Oscar was a"centre of extensive corruption of the most hideous kind"?
chapter-016Why?
chapter-016Wilde rose and cried,"Can I say anything, my lord?"
chapter-016Would vanity do anything?
chapter-016You''ve never seen the mouth of the Thames at night, have you?
chapter-016half the possible sentence: the middle course, that English Judges always take: the sort of compromise they think safe?"
chapter-016or will he manifest himself henceforth in some new comedies, more joyous and pagan than ever?"
chapter-028Why was Wilde so good a subject for a biography that none of the previous attempts which you have just wiped out are bad? chapter-028 And that I knew that for the future my art and life would be freer and better and more beautiful in every possible way? chapter-028 But do you really think that you were worthy of the love I was showing you then, or that for a single moment I thought you were? chapter-028 But how in that case could Oscar have felt quite safe with you? chapter-028 Can I pay this and get them out? chapter-028 Do you ever think of that? chapter-028 Do you really think that any period of our friendship you were worthy of the love I showed you, or that for a single moment I thought you were? chapter-028 Do you still say, as you said to Robbie in your answer, that Iattribute unworthy motives"to you?
chapter-028Do you think I exaggerate?
chapter-028Do you want to learn what it was?
chapter-028Every day I said to myself,"I must keep love in my heart to- day, else how shall I live through the day?"
chapter-028I pray thee speak me sooth What is thy name?"
chapter-028I spoke of your conduct to me on three successive days three years ago, did I not?
chapter-028I suppose I said,''Then what on earth has happened to you?''
chapter-028If I go into prison without love, what will become of my soul?"
chapter-028MY DEAR FRANK: How are you?
chapter-028May I have it again this month?
chapter-028Need I tell you what I thought of you during the two lonely wretched days of illness that followed?
chapter-028Or have you ever compared the aforesaid First edition with the original?
chapter-028She wrote again, saying that she had paid 100 for the scenario: would I see Mr. Kyrle Bellew on the matter?
chapter-028That I recognised that the ultimate moment had come and recognised it as being really a great relief?
chapter-028That you were"very young"when our friendship began?
chapter-028Then why did he allow himself to be hag- ridden to his ruin by such a creature?
chapter-028What was there, as a mere matter of fact, in you that I could influence?
chapter-028When people asked,''What has Frank Harris been?''
chapter-028Will you ask me why then, when I was in prison, I accepted with grateful thanks your offer?
chapter-028Your brain?
chapter-028Your heart?
chapter-028Your imagination?
chapter-028or has gold flown away from you?
chapter-017''Why?'' chapter-017 And now?"
chapter-017Are n''t you a little deaf still?
chapter-017Are you talking of Oscar Wilde?
chapter-017But they could give you some cotton wool or something to put in it?
chapter-017I should rebel,I cried;"why do you let it break the spirit?"
chapter-017Is n''t she a dear old lady?
chapter-017Is there nothing I can do?
chapter-017Is there nothing else I can do? chapter-017 Of course I began to obey him; then I asked:"''What is it?
chapter-017The first period was the worst?
chapter-017The interview is over,I said;"will you take me downstairs?"
chapter-017Was the food the worst of it?
chapter-017What about the warders?
chapter-017You were an intimate friend of his, were you not?
chapter-017At Wandsworth I thought I should go mad; Wandsworth is the worst: no dungeon in hell can be worse; why is the food so bad?
chapter-017But after all no one can hurt us but ourselves; prison, hard labour, and the hate of men; what are these if they make you truer, wiser, kinder?
chapter-017But what of defeat?
chapter-017But you wo n''t say anything I have said to you, you promise me you wo n''t?"
chapter-017Did you lack respect for others?
chapter-017Do you remember talking to me, Frank, of France?"
chapter-017Hammer or anvil-- which?
chapter-017Hammer or anvil?
chapter-017Have you come to grief through self- indulgence and good- living?
chapter-017His friends came to me, asking: could anything be done?
chapter-017How would Oscar Wilde take punishment?
chapter-017I could not guess; but then I was often punished for nothing: what was it?
chapter-017I do n''t care what they say, I likes him; and he do talk beautiful, sir, do n''t he?"
chapter-017I hope you have made it up with her?"
chapter-017Were you careless of others''sufferings?
chapter-017What had I done?
chapter-017What sweet is there in its bitter?
chapter-017What will you make of it?
chapter-017What would he make of two years''hard labour in a lonely cell?
chapter-017Why do they do it, Frank?
chapter-017Why do they want to make my life here one long misery?"
chapter-017Why must I take off my boots?''
chapter-022But I will give you more,I cried,"what will clear you?"
chapter-022I think, I believe... would another fifty be too much?
chapter-022In notes please, will you? chapter-022 Is that what you are suffering from?"
chapter-022Might he come?
chapter-022Now you have talked about romance and companionship,I went on,"but can you really feel passion?"
chapter-022Now, Frank, would any girl have come to see you enjoying yourself with other people? chapter-022 On Thursday?"
chapter-022Really?
chapter-022The same champagne, Frank, do n''t you think?
chapter-022What is it now?
chapter-022What is it now?
chapter-022What is the matter?
chapter-022What on earth do you mean?
chapter-022What on earth''s the matter?
chapter-022What shall we drink?
chapter-022Why did he not wait? chapter-022 Why will you not be frank with me, and tell me what you owe?
chapter-022Would any girl take a parting like that? chapter-022 You will turn up to- morrow at lunch at one?"
chapter-022Are you sure that will be enough?"
chapter-022Before parting I said to him:"You wo n''t forget that you are going on Thursday night?"
chapter-022Did I ask you for it at the end?
chapter-022Do you really mean it?"
chapter-022Do you remember how Socrates says he felt when the chlamys blew aside and showed him the limbs of Charmides?
chapter-022How can you have the flower of romance without a brotherhood of soul?"
chapter-022I can understand how you have opened to him a new heaven and a new earth, but what has he given you?
chapter-022I laughed;"who has inspired this new devotion?"
chapter-022I stared at him; I had given him a cheque at the beginning of the dinner: had he forgotten?
chapter-022I want you to have a perfect six months, and how can you if you are bothered with debts?"
chapter-022Is n''t poverty dreadful?"
chapter-022Or did he perchance want to keep the hundred pounds intact for some reason?
chapter-022That night I said to him:"You know we are going away to- morrow evening: I hope you''ll be ready?
chapter-022When he got me three or four paces away he said, hesitatingly:"Frank, could you... can you let me have a few pounds?
chapter-022Wo n''t Sunday do, Frank?"
chapter-022Would any girl have stared through the window and been glad to see you inside amusing yourself with other men and women?
chapter-022Would you be ready to start South on Thursday next?"
chapter-013Among the five men Taylor introduced you to, was one named Parker?
chapter-013But will Carson call witnesses?
chapter-013But you did know that Parker was not a literary character or an artist, and that culture was not his strong point?
chapter-013Did Charlie Parker go and have tea with you there?
chapter-013Did Mr. Wilde ever consider the effect in his writings of inciting to immorality?
chapter-013Did Taylor bring Scarfe to you at St. James''s Place?
chapter-013Did Taylor''s rooms strike you as peculiar?
chapter-013Did he tell you that he was employed by a firm of bookmakers?
chapter-013Did that cause you to drop your acquaintance with Taylor?
chapter-013Did they give you anything?
chapter-013Did you ask him to dinner at Kettner''s?
chapter-013Did you call him''Charlie''and allow him to call you''Oscar''?
chapter-013Did you call him''Fred''and let him call you''Oscar''?
chapter-013Did you ever kiss him?
chapter-013Did you get Taylor to arrange dinners for you to meet young men?
chapter-013Did you get on friendly terms with him?
chapter-013Did you give Charlie Parker a silver cigarette case at Christmas?
chapter-013Did you give Scarfe a cigarette case?
chapter-013Did you give him money or a cigarette case?
chapter-013Did you give him money?
chapter-013Did you give him money?
chapter-013Did you give money or presents to these five?
chapter-013Did you go to Paris with him?
chapter-013Did you know Parker was a gentleman''s servant out of work, and his brother a groom?
chapter-013Did you know Taylor was being watched by the police?
chapter-013Did you know Walter Grainger?...
chapter-013Did you know that Charlie Parker had enlisted in the Army?
chapter-013Did you know that Taylor was arrested with a man named Parker in a raid made last year on a house in Fitzroy Square?
chapter-013Did you meet him afterwards?
chapter-013Did you say that in support of your statement that you never kissed him?
chapter-013Did you visit him one night at 12:30 at Park Walk, Chelsea?
chapter-013Did you write him any beautiful prose- poems?
chapter-013Had Mr. Wilde written in a publication called The Chameleon?
chapter-013Had he written there a story called''The Priest and the Acolyte''?
chapter-013Had you chambers in St. James''s Place?
chapter-013Has Taylor been to your house and to your chambers?
chapter-013Have you been to Taylor''s rooms to afternoon tea parties?
chapter-013Have you ever met Sidney Mavor there at tea?
chapter-013Have you ever met there a young man called Wood?
chapter-013Have you ever seen them lit by anything else but candles even in the day time?
chapter-013How many young men has Taylor introduced to you?
chapter-013How old was Parker?
chapter-013Not a literary man or an artist, was he?
chapter-013Scarfe was out of work, was he not?
chapter-013The question is,said someone,"will Wilde face the music?"
chapter-013Then why did you mention his ugliness, I ask you?
chapter-013Was Taylor at the dinner?
chapter-013Was that a reason why you should say the boy was ugly?
chapter-013Was that story immoral?
chapter-013Was that the reason why you did not kiss him?
chapter-013Was there ever any impropriety between you?
chapter-013What age was he?
chapter-013What did he give you in return?
chapter-013What do you think of this view?
chapter-013What was there in common between you and Charlie Parker?
chapter-013What was your connection with Taylor?
chapter-013When did you first meet Ernest Scarfe?
chapter-013When did you first meet Fred Atkins?
chapter-013When did you first meet Mavor?
chapter-013When you heard that Taylor was arrested what did you do?
chapter-013Where did you first meet Parker?
chapter-013Who introduced him to you?
chapter-013Why did you mention his ugliness?
chapter-013You say that the defendant is''not guilty,''and that is the verdict of you all?
chapter-013But Carson was not to be warded off; like a terrier he sprang again and again:"Why, sir, did you mention that this boy was extremely ugly?"
chapter-013Could anything be done?
chapter-013Did you ever adore any man?"
chapter-013Do you still hold to that assertion?"
chapter-013Gill:"And Lord Queensberry may be discharged?"
chapter-013His efforts to collect his ideas were not aided by Mr. Carson''s sharp staccato repetition:"Why?
chapter-013I have also got a new sitting- room.... Why are you not here, my dear, my wonderful boy?
chapter-013Mr. Carson:"Of course the costs of the defence will follow?"
chapter-013My contempt for Courts of law deepened: those twelve jurymen were anything but the peers of the accused: how could they judge him?
chapter-013Shall I come to Salisbury?
chapter-013The issue had narrowed down to terrible straits: would it be utter ruin to Oscar or merely loss of the case and reputation?
chapter-013The jury having consulted for a few moments, the Clerk of Arraigns asked:"Do you find the plea of justification has been proved or not?"
chapter-013Who had given him the new and precise information?
chapter-013Why did he not tell him his case could not possibly be won?
chapter-013Why had he taken the risk?
chapter-013Why had not Mr. Carson put some of the young men he spoke of in the box?
chapter-013Why not?
chapter-013Why on earth did Sir Edward Clarke not advise Oscar in this way weeks before?
chapter-013Would Sir Edward Clarke fight the case as it should be fought?
chapter-013Would he be able to do that?
chapter-013Would he put Taylor in the box?
chapter-013Would the huntsman give the word?
chapter-013why did you add that?")
chapter-013why?