A NEW APOSTLE.
Mr Oscar Wilde, the apostle of sestheticism, is described by a New York reporter as having “a pale, smoothsbaven face, blue eyes and a bluer neck.tie, patent-leather shoes, and an enormous fur-coat, ‘of heaviest fur, surpassing aught that imaasthetio man can reach,’ and far heavier than what ordinary men would wear in Arctic winter.” He made the voyage to America on the Arizona, and it is related of the great aesthete that he was disappointed with the Atlantic.” “The sea,” he observed somewhat slightly, “seems tame to me. The roaring ocean does not roar. The Atlantic is not what I though it was. I wish that I could see a storm arise and sweep the bridge from off the ship. I care not for this tame, monotonous trip. I would that I could see a storm arise.”
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Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3
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140A NEW APOSTLE. Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3
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