Show OSCAR OSCAS Aa WILDE D FULL OP OF PENITENCE About three weeks ago aso I was scouring Paris to discover the th address add res of a M 11 Sebastien for the purpose of verifying a It statement that thai he be had been unjustly deprived of or certain dramatic rights of or authorship says aa Y a writer in iii inthe inthe I the London Chronicle At length a French literary friend informed mc me that the object of my m search was lying hIng ill at itt a little hotel botel in the Rue des Beaux Arts Art To save time he had call called called ed Cd UDon him hint in mv my name AT lI was Oscar Wilde On the same evening I received a n letter in answer to my petit bleu Instantly I answered this in person The once I brilliant and adulated though t in bed looked well in the face f The first part of the conversation on his side was a mixture of defiance and bitterness I f did my best to console him and he suddenly burst into tears I felt deeply moved as he told the sad sod tale of blight and ml misery ery through which he had bad pa d Men who had ld been the recipients of or sterling gen generosity had betrayed him and trodden him under their feet Perhaps there was some justice in his wailing w Then he turned to religious subjects and muttered almost savagely Much lluch of my moral obliquity is due dU to the fact set that my father would not allow me meto meto meto to become a Catholic The artistic side of the church and the fragrance of its teachings would hae have curbed my m de tie I intend to be received be before before fore long He spoke almost smilingly of his operation saying that it would cost him 40 adding that he owed nearly hearly 2000 francs franca to the th hotel The operation in question was intes intestinal intestinal intestinal and then symptoms s of cerebral meningitis set in Leeches were applied to the ears cars but the patient sank away rapidly Two kind friends Robert Ross and Sir Mr Turner nursed him while Father Cuthbert Dunn one of he the Brit British British I ish Catholic chaplains from the Ave Aye Avenue nue Hoche Roche administered the custom customary customary customary ary rites of the church Oscar Wilde Wildet tried t ri ed to articulate the prayers which accompany extreme unction and his I deathbed was one of repentance |