There are things more terrifying to a soul like Oscar's than an as yet unrealized possibility of a sentence of hard labor.

A voyage with Captain Kidd may have been one of them.

Wilde was a conventional man: his unconventionality was the very pedantry of convention: never was there a man less an outlaw than he.

You were a born outlaw, and will never be anything else.
"That is why, in his relations with you, he appears as a man always shirking action--more of a coward (all men are cowards more or less) than so proud a man can have been.

Still this does not affect the truth and power of your portrait.