His impassioned eloquence brought the sun-bathed palaestra before one with a magic of representment.

Suddenly the younger of the boys asked: "Did you sy they was niked ?" "Of course," Oscar replied, "nude, clothed only in sunshine and beauty." "Oh, my," giggled the lad in his unspeakable Cockney way.

I could not stand it.
"I am in an impossible position," I said to my opponent, who was the amateur chess player, Montagu Gattie.

"Come along and let us have some dinner." With a nod to Oscar I left the place.

On the way out Gattie said to me: "So that's the famous Oscar Wilde." "Yes," I replied, "that's Oscar, but I never saw him in such company before." "Didn't you ?" remarked Gattie quietly; "he was well known at Oxford.