We needed it.

For outside at first there was an icy atmosphere of hatred and contempt.

The mere mention of his name was met with expressions of disgust, or frozen silence.
One bare incident will paint the general feeling more clearly than pages of invective or description.

The day after Oscar's sentence Mr.Charles Brookfield, who, it will be remembered, had raked together the witnesses that enabled Lord Queensberry to "justify" his accusation; assisted by Mr.Charles Hawtrey, the actor, gave a dinner to Lord Queensberry to celebrate their triumph.

Some forty Englishmen of good position were present at the banquet--a feast to celebrate the ruin and degradation of a man of genius.
Yet there are true souls in England, noble, generous hearts.