[24] One of the prettiest daughters of the game to be found in Paris at the time.
[25] Cfr. [Appendix].
[26] See [Appendix].
[27] He lived till November, 1910.
[28] Cfr. [Appendix]: ["Criticisms by Robert Ross."]
[29] The incident is worth recording for the honour of human nature. At the moment of Oscar's trial Charles Wyndham had let his theatre, the Criterion, to Lewis Waller and H.H. Morell to produce in it "An Ideal Husband" which had been running for over 100 nights at the Haymarket. When Alexander took Oscar's name off the bill, Wyndham wrote to the young Managers, saying that, if under the altered circumstances they wished to cancel their agreement, he would allow them to do so. But if they "put on" a play of Mr. Wilde's, the author's name must be on all the bills and placards as usual. He could not allow his theatre to be used to insult a man who was on his trial.
[30] Cfr. end of [Appendix]:—[A Last Word].
[31] Cfr. end of [Appendix]:—[A Last Word].
[32] This was written years before a Home Secretary, Mr. Reginald MacKenna, tortured women and girls in prison in England by forcible feeding, because they tried to present petitions in favour of Woman's Suffrage. He afterwards defended himself in Parliament by declaring that "'forcible feeding' was not unpleasant." The torturers of the Inquisition also befouled cruelty with hypocritical falsehood: they would burn their victims; but would not shed blood.
[33] The rest of this story concerns me chiefly and I have therefore relegated it to the [Appendix] for those who care to read it.