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The case for the prosecution had been badly prepared, and witness after witness took the stand to confuse the issue fur ther. There were police officers to tell how Gaston's younger son had first accused his father of the killings, then retracted his accusations, then repeated them, then...
A Confession. But from that point on, wrote Phyllis, her husband's attitude changed. "He was afraid to go to sleep at night, and every time I came near him he would instinctively put his arms up to protect his head and face. Sometimes I would wait as long...
As the laughs and questions swirled about her head, Post Lovelorn Editor Jane Sterling (real name: Doris Hilton) put a notice in her column: "Phyllis C.: Please call my office." Next day, Editor Sterling got a phone call from a man, who refused to give his name. Yes, he knew...
But he insisted that the story was true. It had been told him by his father, a Chicago lawyer, who heard it from the lips of Phyllis C. herself, a client. Whether the letter was true or not, the confession had come too late. The Story of the Woman Who...
Wilde himself, of course, was haunted by morality. As it pursued him, he either laughed at it or grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality...