Now indignantly, now with contempt, men spoke of him as abandoned, a creature of unnatural viciousness.

There were certain houses in the best set of London society the doors of which were closed to him.
[Illustration: Oscar Wilde] FOOTNOTES: [7] By way of heaping coals of fire on the students' heads Oscar presented a cast of the Hermes (then recently unearthed) to the University of Harvard.
[8] Cfr.

Appendix: "Criticisms by Robert Ross.".