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After he had left Oxford and was living in town Oscar Wilde one afternoon visited a friend of his, an artist’ well known at the time, who had a studio somewhere in Chelsea. He found his friend in a state of great distress and alarm, making hasty preparations as if for flight. He asked him what had occurred, and his friend said: ‘Oh, it’s all up with me, Oscar. I am a ruined man.’ He described an offence he had committed, and added: ‘I am sure the parents have laid an information and that I am liable to be arrested at any moment. I am trying to get away before the police come.’
The Real Oscar Wilde (London: T. Werner Laurie [1915] pp. 110–12. Editor’s title.
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Sherard, R.H. (1979). Oscar Wilde’s Courage. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_10
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