Reading Gaol told warders dock gentle kind, visit chaplain first priso — Charles S. Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections Jean Paul Raymond

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When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?''I am sorry… I fear not.''You see where you are now!

Charles S. Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond

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