3.2 ::'89 :=Jack: pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, '89; a wine I was specially reserving for 1.1 ::A :=Lane: Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint. 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably 1.1 ::A :=Lane: households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. 1.1 ::A :=Lane: I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very 1.1 ::A :=Lane: once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young 1.1 ::A :=Lane: a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: That is quite a different matter. She is my aunt. Have 1.1 ::A :=Algernon: It isn't. It is a great truth. It accounts for the extraordinary 1.2 ::A :=Jack: about it. I was very nearly offering a large reward. 1.2 ::A :=Jack: There is no good offering a large reward now that the thing is fou 1.2 ::A :=Jack: it's mine. You have seem me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever 1.2 ::A :=Jack: to read what is written inside. It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private 1.2 ::A :=Jack: is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: cigarette case. This cigarette case is a present from someone of the name of Cecily, 1.2 ::A :=Jack: tall, some aunts are not tall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: B. 4, The Albany." I'll keep this as a proof that your name is Ernest if ever 1.2 ::A :=Jack: Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like 1.2 ::A :=Jack: It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces 1.2 ::A :=Jack: to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impressio 1.2 ::A :=Jack: when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am 1.2 ::A :=Jack: What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist? 1.2 ::A :=Jack: Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian 1.2 ::A :=Jack: position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It's 1.2 ::A :=Jack: It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce 1.2 ::A :=Jack: town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! 1.2 ::A :=Jack: That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the daily 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: daily papers. What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: You have invented a very useful young brother called Ernest, 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and send down with 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: in public. Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist, I naturally 1.2 ::A :=Jack: I'm not a Bunburyist at all. If Gwendolen accepts 1.2 ::A :=Jack: I'll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested in him. It is 1.2 ::A :=Jack: much interested in him. It is rather a bore. So I am going to get rid of Ernest. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. 1.2 ::A :=Jack: That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: realize, that in married life three is a company and two is none. 1.2 ::A :=Algernon: to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. Ah! that 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: I'm sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: her poor husband's death. I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: years younger. And now I'll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: cannot say. Thank you. I've quite a treat for you tonight, Algernon. I am going 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: down with Mary Farquahar. She is such a nice woman, and so attentive to her husband. 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on Saturday, for I 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: by Saturday. Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays 1.3 ::A :=Algernon: kindly come into the next room for a moment. 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. French songs I cannot 1.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: which is worse. But German sounds a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: advise you to do so. Mamma has a way of coming back suddenly into a room 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: has a way of coming back suddenly into a room that I have often had to speak to 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: It suits you perfectly. It is a divine name. It has a music of its own. 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: perfectly. It is a divine name. It has a music of its own. It produces vibratio 1.3 ::A :=Jack: names. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called 1.3 ::A :=Gwendolen: John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: allowed to arrange for herself . . . . And now I have a few questions to put to 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: your name, should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents 1.4 ::A :=Jack: I have a country house with some land, of course, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Oh, she goes about very little. She is a lady considerably advanced in years. 1.4 ::A :=Jack: I am afraid I really have none. I am a Liberal Unionist. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Worthing, because he happened to have a first- class ticket for Worthing in his 1.4 ::A :=Jack: in his pocket at the time. Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resor 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort 1.4 ::A :=Jack: In a handbag. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: A handbag? 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Yes, Lady Bracknell. I was in a handbag Q a somewhat large, black leather 1.4 ::A :=Jack: Lady Bracknell. I was in a handbag Q a somewhat large, black leather handbag, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had handles or not, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: in which the handbag was found, a cloakroom at a railway station might serve 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: the handbag was found, a cloakroom at a railway station might serve to conceal 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion Q has probably, indeed, 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in good society. 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: dream of allowing our only daughter Q a girl brought up with the utmost care Q 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: with the utmost care Q to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a 1.4 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing! 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: Gwendolen refused you? I know it is a way she has. She is always refusing people. 1.5 ::A :=Jack: Oh, Gwendolen is as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, we 1.5 ::A :=Jack: perfectly unbearable. Never met such a gorgon . . . I don't really know what a 1.5 ::A :=Jack: Never met such a gorgon . . . I don't really know what a gorgon is like, but I 1.5 ::A :=Jack: that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, 1.5 ::A :=Jack: is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got 1.5 ::A :=Jack: any chance of Gwendolen becoming like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, 1.5 ::A :=Jack: nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. 1.5 ::A :=Jack: quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice sweet refined girl. What extraordinary 1.5 ::A :=Jack: you have about the way to behave to a woman! 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: it's hereditary, my dear fellow. It's a sort of thing that runs in families. You 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: in families. You had much better say a severe chill. 1.5 ::A :=Jack: You are sure a severe chill isn't hereditary, or anything 1.5 ::A :=Jack: is carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill. That gets rid of him. 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: But I thought you said that . . . Miss Cardew was a little too much interested 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: in your poor brother Ernest? Won't she feel his loss a good deal? 1.5 ::A :=Jack: Oh, that is all right. Cecily is not a silly romantic girl, I am glad to say. 1.5 ::A :=Jack: girl, I am glad to say. She has got a capital appetite, goes long walks, and 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. Now, my dear 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: Now, my dear boy, if we want to get a good table at Willis's, we really must 1.5 ::A :=Gwendolen: Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude toward life. 1.5 ::A :=Gwendolen: There is a good postal service, I suppose? It may 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: A glass of sherry, Lane. 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane. 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. 1.5 ::A :=Jack: There's a sensible, intellectual girl! The only girl 1.5 ::A :=Algernon: Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that 1.5 ::A :=Jack: your friend Bunbury will get you into a serious scrape some day. 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! Surely such a utilitarian occupation as the watering 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: young as he is. I know no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibilit 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: I suppose that is why he often looks a little bored when we three are togethe 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: down here sometimes. We might have a good influence over him, Miss Prism. I 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: and things of that kind influence a man very much. 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: even I could produce any effect on a character that according to his own brother's 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap. You must put 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: Dr. Chasuble! This is indeed a pleasure. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I think it would do her 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: it would do her so much good to have a short stroll with you in the Park, Dr. 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. Indeed I was thinking about that, 2.1 ::A :=Chasuble: A classical allusion merely, drawn from the 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you. I find I have a headache 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: have a stroll with you. I find I have a headache after all, and a walk might do 2.1 ::A :=Miss Prism: find I have a headache after all, and a walk might do it good. 2.1 ::A :=Merriman: anxious to speak to you privately for a moment. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: better talk to the housekeeper about a room for him. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: first train on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: You are looking a little worse. 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: Thank you. Might I have a button-hole first? I never have any appetite 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: never have any appetite unless I have a button-hole first. 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: A Marechal Niel? 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: No, I'd sooner have a pink rose. 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: Because you are like a pink rose, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: Then Miss Prism is a short-sighted old lady. You are the prettiest 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare. 2.1 ::A :=Algernon: They are a snare that every sensible man would like 2.1 ::A :=Cecily: Oh! I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. A misanthrope I can understand Q a womanthrope, 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: A misanthrope I can understand Q a womanthrope, never! 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: me, I do not deserve so neologistic a phrase. The precept as well as the practice 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when marrie 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: This is indeed a surprise. We did not look for you till 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit 2.2 ::A :=Jack: He had some many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow. 2.2 ::A :=Jack: died abroad; in Paris, in fact. I had a telegram last night from the manager of 2.2 ::A :=Jack: A severe chill, it seems. 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: As a man sows, so shall he reap. 2.2 ::A :=Jack: He seemed to have expressed a desire to be buried in Paris. 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society 2.2 ::A :=Jack: you in any way, or if you think I am a little too old now. 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: and indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice. 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: ceremonies to perform at that time. A case of twins that occurred recently in 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: own estate. Poor Jenkins the carter, a most hard-working man. 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you 2.2 ::A :=Miss Prism: This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. 2.2 ::A :=Cecily: you had toothache, and I have got such a surprise for you. Who do you think is in 2.2 ::A :=Jack: What nonsense! I haven't got a brother! 2.2 ::A :=Algernon: given you, and that I intend to lead a better life in the future. 2.2 ::A :=Cecily: the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain. 2.2 ::A :=Algernon: me is peculiarly painful. I expected a more enthusiastic welcome, especially considering 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: pleasant, is it not, to see so perfect a reconciliation? I think we might leave 2.2 ::A :=Chasuble: You have done a beautiful action today, dear child. 2.3 ::A :=Merriman: Yes sir. Three portmanteaus, a dressing-case, two hat boxes, and a large 2.3 ::A :=Merriman: a dressing-case, two hat boxes, and a large luncheon-basket. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: I am afraid I can't stay more than a week this time. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: What a fearful liar you are, Jack. I have not 2.3 ::A :=Jack: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: Well, Cecily is a darling. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: a whole week with you in your house as a guest. 2.3 ::A :=Jack: are certainly not staying with me for a whole week as a guest anything else. You 2.3 ::A :=Jack: staying with me for a whole week as a guest anything else. You have got to leave 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: If I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make up for it by 2.3 ::A :=Jack: four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey back to town. This Bunburying, 2.3 ::A :=Jack: as you call it, has not been a great success for you. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: I think it has been a great success. I'm in love with Cecily, 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: Oh, is he going to take you for a nice drive? 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: I am afraid so. It is a very painful parting. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: Oh no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: in volume form I hope you will order a copy. But pray, Ernest, don't stop. I delight 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: Jack first confessed to us that he had a younger brother who was very wicked and 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: myself and Miss Prism. And of course a man who is much talked about is always 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: always given for your leading such a bad life. And this is the box in which 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: for you. I always wrote three times a week, and sometimes oftener. 2.3 ::A := I can hardly read them without crying a little. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: What a perfect angel you are, Cecily. 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: Yes, darling, with a little help from others. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone whose 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: the name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In fact, it is rather an aristocratic 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: I must see him at once on a most important christening Q I mean on 2.3 ::A :=Algernon: I shan't be away more than a half an hour. 2.3 ::A :=Cecily: that you should leave me for so long a period as half an hour. Couldn't you make 2.4 ::A :=Merriman: A Miss Farifax has just called to see Mr. 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: Cecily Cardew? What a very sweet name! Something tells me that 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: after we have known each other such a comparatively short time. Pray sit dow 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: Perhaps this might be a favourable opportunity for my mentioning 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: You are here on a short visit I suppose. 2.4 ::A := he never mentioned to me that he had a ward. How secretive of him! He grows more 2.4 ::A := ward, I cannot help expressing a wish you were Q well just a little older 2.4 ::A := expressing a wish you were Q well just a little older than you seem to be Q and 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: usually plain for your age. Ernest has a strong upright nature. He is the very soul 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: never mentioned to me that he had a brother. 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: they have not been on good terms for a long time. 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: to most men. Cecily, you have lifted a load from my mind. I was growing almost 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: terrible if any cloud had come across a friendship like our, would it not? Of course 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: there is no reason why I should make a secret of it to you. Our little county 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: duty to rescue him at once, and with a firm hand. 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres 2.4 ::A :=Cecily: Oh! yes! a great many. From the top of one of the 2.4 ::A :=Gwendolen: Quite a well-kept garden this is, Miss Cardew. 2.5 ::A :=Gwendolen: A moment! May I ask if you are engaged to 2.5 ::A :=Cecily: A moment, Ernest! May I ask you Q are you 2.5 ::A :=Cecily: A gross deception has been practised on both 2.5 ::A :=Gwendolen: to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know 2.5 ::A :=Jack: that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite 2.5 ::A :=Jack: I have no brother at all. I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have 2.5 ::A :=Gwendolen: Had you never a brother of any kind? 2.5 ::A :=Cecily: It is not a very pleasant position for a young girl 2.5 ::A :=Cecily: It is not a very pleasant position for a young girl suddenly to find herself in. 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. 2.5 ::A :=Jack: as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very good thing too. 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: Your brother is a little off colour, isn't he, dear Jack? 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: as your wicked custom was. And not a bad thing either. 2.5 ::A :=Jack: Cardew, I must say that your taking in a sweet, simple, innocent girl like that 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, thoroughly experienced 2.5 ::A :=Jack: Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own 2.5 ::A :=Jack: you, under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter of six under the name of Ernes 2.5 ::A :=Jack: Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, I have a perfect right to be christened if I like. 2.5 ::A :=Algernon: carried off this week in Paris by a severe chill. 2.5 ::A :=Jack: Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. 3.1 ::A :=Cecily: But I haven't got a cough. 3.1 ::A :=Gwendolen: Let us preserve a dignified silence. 3.1 ::A :=Cecily: A most distasteful one. 3.1 ::A :=Cecily: That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? 3.1 ::A :=Gwendolen: you offer to me for pretending to have a brother? Was it in order that you might 3.1 ::A :=Gwendolen: us should tell them? The task is not a pleasant one. 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: immediately. Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: confidence I purchased by means of a small coin, I followed her at once by a 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: small coin, I followed her at once by a luggage train. Her unhappy father is, I 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: the impression that she is attending a more than usually lengthy lecture by the 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Extension Scheme on the influence of a permanent income on thought. I do not propose 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: families or persons whose origin was a Terminus. 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Markby, Markby, and Markby? A firm of the very highest position in their 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Ah! A life crowded with incident, I see; thought 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: perhaps somewhat too exciting for a young girl. I am not myself in favour of 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: for our departure. We have not a moment to lose. As a matter of form, Mr. 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: We have not a moment to lose. As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I had better 3.1 ::A :=Jack: Oh! about a hundred and thirty thousand pounds in the 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: A moment, Mr. Worthing. A hundred and thirty 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: A moment, Mr. Worthing. A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: And in Funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: it. But we can soon alter all that. A thoroughly experienced French maid produces 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: experienced French maid produces a really marvelous result in a very brief 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: produces a really marvelous result in a very brief space of time. I remember recommending 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: and its want of profile. The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends 3.1 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my 3.2 ::A :=Jack: bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, '89; a wine I was specially reserving for myself. 3.2 ::A :=Jack: I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don't intend to have 3.2 ::A :=Jack: and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: think your guardian's consent is, after all, a matter of any importance. 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty five is a very 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: be a grave objection. Thirty five is a very attractive age. London society is 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property. 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: cannot wait till she is thirty- five Q a remark which I am bound to say seems to 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: I am bound to say seems to me to show a somewhat impatient nature Q I would beg 3.2 ::A :=Jack: Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of 3.2 ::A :=Chasuble: Both these gentlemen have expressed a desire for immediate baptism. 3.2 ::A :=Chasuble: pew-opener that for the last hour and a half Miss Prism has been waiting for me 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Miss Prism! Did I hear you mention a Miss Prism? 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Pray allow me to detain you for a moment. This matter may prove to be one 3.2 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: and myself. Is this Miss Prism a female repellent aspect, remotely connected 3.2 ::A :=Chasuble: I am a celibate, madam. 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: Upper Grosvenor Street, in charge of a perambulator that contained a baby, of 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: of a perambulator that contained a baby, of the male sex. You never returned. 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: of the male sex. You never returned. A few weeks later, though, through the elaborate 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: It contained the manuscript of a three-volume novel of more than usually 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is for ever branded on my memory, 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: its perambulator. I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag, in 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: during my few unoccupied hours. In a moment of mental abstraction, for which 3.3 ::A :=Jack: Miss Prism, this is a matter of no small importance to me. I 3.3 ::A :=Jack: I must retire to my room for a moment. Gwendolen, wait here for me. 3.3 ::A :=Chasuble: Your guardian has a very emotional nature. 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: it received through the upsetting of a Gower Street omnibus in younger and happier 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred 3.3 ::A :=Miss Prism: restored to me. It has been a great inconvenience being without it all 3.3 ::A :=Jack: Unmarried! I do not deny that is a serious blow. But after all, who has the 3.3 ::A :=Jack: after all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot 3.3 ::A :=Jack: Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! 3.3 ::A :=Jack: have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! 3.3 ::A :=Jack: I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily, Q how could you have ever 3.3 ::A :=Jack: could you have ever doubted that I had a brother? Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. 3.3 ::A :=Jack: You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your life. 3.3 ::A :=Cecily: What a noble nature you have, Gwendolen! 3.3 ::A :=Jack: be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. At the time when Miss Prism left 3.3 ::A :=Algernon: speaking terms. He died before I was a year old. 3.3 ::A :=Lady Bracknell: The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. 3.3 ::A :=Jack: Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly 3.3 ::A :=Jack: Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life 2.1 ::ABANDONED :=Miss Prism: no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned. I use the word in the sense of 1.2 ::ABLE :=Jack: Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand my real motives. You are 1.2 ::ABLE :=Algernon: Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. 1.2 ::ABLE :=Algernon: called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever 1.2 ::ABLE :=Algernon: health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's tonight, 2.3 ::ABLE :=Cecily: but I fear that I should not be able to give you my undivided attention. 2.5 ::ABLE :=Jack: is quite exploded. You won't be able to run down to the country quite so 2.5 ::ABLE :=Algernon: isn't he, dear Jack? You won't be able to disappear to London quite so frequently 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Jack: I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it. I was very nearly offering a large 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: fellow, there is nothing improbable about my explanation at all. In fact it's 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: I know. You're absurdly careless about sending out invitations. It is very 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: Bunburyist, I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying. I want to tell 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: such a lot of beastly competition about. Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: Yes, but you must be serious about it. I hate people who are not serious 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: it. I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Gwendolen: Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Gwendolen: Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Gwendolen: that I have often had to speak to her about. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Jack: quite candidly, I don't much care about the name Ernest . . . I don't think 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Gwendolen: me yet. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject has not even 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Gwendolen: will, darling. How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very little 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Lady Bracknell: it up. That's all that can be said about land. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Jack: some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Oh, she goes about very little. She is a lady considerably 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: rather unfair . . . I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn't talk about your 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Well, I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: the matter. You always want to argue about things. 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: is any chance of Gwendolen becoming like her mother in about a hundred and fifty 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: like to meet them. What do they talk about? 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: The fools! Oh! about the clever people, of course. 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: way, did you tell Gwendolen the truth about your being Ernest in town, and Jack 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Jack: What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman! 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: What about your brother? What about the profligate 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: What about your brother? What about the profligate Ernest? 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that is all. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Miss Prism: You must remember his constant anxiety about that unfortunate young man his bro 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: them down I should probably forget all about them. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Miss Prism: Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Miss Prism: Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: had a headache. Indeed I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, when the Rector came 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: you had better talk to the housekeeper about a room for him. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: About my what? 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: I don't remember anything about it. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Oh, I might trot round about five if that would suit you. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: Your brother Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend Mr. Bunbury 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Oh! he has been talking about Bunbury, has he? 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: Yes, he has told me all about poor Mr. Bunbury, and his terrible 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Well, I won't have him talk to you about Bunbury or about anything else. It 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: have him talk to you about Bunbury or about anything else. It is enough to drive 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Cecily: And of course a man who is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: in life. I happen to be serious about Bunburying. What on earth you are serious 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea. About 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: about I haven't got the remotest idea. About everything, I should fancy. You have 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: If is was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: stand it. If you are not quite sure about your ever having been christened, I 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Jack: Oh! about a hundred and thirty thousand pounds 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Algernon: whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities. 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell, about your nephew, but the fact is that I 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Jack: I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon, during 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Lady Bracknell: no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. . 3.1 ::ABOVE :=Lady Bracknell: that go on seems to me considerably above the proper average that statistics 2.2 ::ABROAD :=Jack: No. He died abroad; in Paris, in fact. I had a telegram 1.3 ::ABSENCE :=Jack: of Lady Bracknell's temporary absence . . . . 2.1 ::ABSENCE :=Miss Prism: will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee 2.3 ::ABSENCE :=Cecily: for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with 3.2 ::ABSENCE :=Jack: This afternoon, during my temporary absence in London on an important question 1.3 ::ABSOLUTE :=Gwendolen: something in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon 1.5 ::ABSOLUTE :=Jack: clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness 2.3 ::ABSOLUTE :=Algernon: way the visible personification of absolute perfection. 2.3 ::ABSOLUTE :=Cecily: down from dictation. I have reached "absolute perfection." You can go on. I am 2.3 ::ABSOLUTE :=Cecily: in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married 3.1 ::ABSOLUTE :=Cecily: His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity. 1.1 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Algernon: them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibil 1.3 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Gwendolen: if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations 1.3 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Jack: led me to believe, Miss Fairfax, that you were not absolutely indifferent to m 2.5 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Algernon: I should fancy. You have such an absolutely trivial nature. 3.1 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Cecily: courage of which we women know absolutely nothing. 3.2 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Jack: until she comes of age. That consent I absolutely decline to give. 3.3 ::ABSTRACTION :=Miss Prism: hours. In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive 1.2 ::ABSURD :=Algernon: Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about 1.2 ::ABSURD :=Jack: be exactly like your aunt! That is absurd! For Heaven's sake give me back my 1.2 ::ABSURD :=Algernon: I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest. 1.2 ::ABSURD :=Jack: with Mr. . . . . with your invalid friend who has the absurd name. 1.3 ::ABSURD :=Lady Bracknell: shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the 2.2 ::ABSURD :=Jack: it all means. I think it is perfectly absurd. 2.3 ::ABSURD :=Jack: your presence in my garden, utterly absurd. However, you have got to catch the 2.5 ::ABSURD :=Algernon: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere 2.5 ::ABSURD :=Algernon: to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No 2.5 ::ABSURD :=Jack: can't both be christened Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, I have a perfect right to 3.1 ::ABSURD :=Algernon: I am! RESP Gwendolen. How absurd is talk of the equality of the sexes! 1.2 ::ABSURDLY :=Algernon: I know. You're absurdly careless about sending out invitations. 1.5 ::ABUSED :=Algernon: dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me 1.3 ::ACCEPT :=Gwendolen: that I am fully determined to accept you. 1.1 ::ACCEPTED :=Algernon: a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then 2.3 ::ACCEPTED :=Cecily: after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree here. 1.2 ::ACCEPTS :=Jack: not a Bunburyist at all. If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, 1.3 ::ACCOMPANY :=Lady Bracknell: I believe is so. Gwendolen, you will accompany me. 2.1 ::ACCORDING :=Miss Prism: produce any effect on a character that according to his own brother's admission 3.2 ::ACCORDING :=Jack: but it is only fair to tell you that according to the terms of her grandfather's 1.2 ::ACCOUNT :=Algernon: Yes, but that does not account for the fact that your small Aunt 1.1 ::ACCOUNTS :=Algernon: It isn't. It is a great truth. It accounts for the extraordinary number of 2.1 ::ACCOUNTS :=Chasuble: sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young man his 2.1 ::ACCOUNTS :=Algernon: Oh, well! The accounts I have received of Australia and 2.4 ::ACCOUNTS :=Gwendolen: Ah! that accounts for it. And now that I think of 3.2 ::ACCUMULATION :=Lady Bracknell: is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property. 3.2 ::ACCURATE :=Lady Bracknell: Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. 1.1 ::ACCURATELY :=Lane: for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately Q anyone can play accurately Q 1.1 ::ACCURATELY :=Lane: play accurately Q anyone can play accurately Q but I play with wonderful expression. 1.3 ::ACCUSTOMED :=Lady Bracknell: to dine upstairs. Fortunately he is accustomed to that. 1.4 ::ACQUIRE :=Lady Bracknell: advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, 1.4 ::ACRES :=Jack: attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don't depend on that 1.2 ::ACROSS :=Algernon: who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very 1.4 ::ACROSS :=Lady Bracknell: this Mr. James, or Thomas, Cardew come across this ordinary handbag? 2.4 ::ACROSS :=Gwendolen: been terrible if any cloud had come across a friendship like our, would it not? 3.3 ::ACT :=Jack: Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law 3.1 ::ACTED :=Lady Bracknell: to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice. And now 2.2 ::ACTION :=Chasuble: You have done a beautiful action today, dear child. 3.1 ::ACTION :=Lady Bracknell: at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice. 1.4 ::ACTS :=Lady Bracknell: upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. What 1.3 ::ACTUAL :=Gwendolen: very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know th 1.4 ::ACTUALLY :=Jack: my parents seem to have lost me . . . . I don't actually know who I am by birth. 2.3 ::ACTUALLY :=Algernon: be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you 2.3 ::ACTUALLY :=Algernon: Darling! And when was the engagement actually settled? 2.3 ::ACTUALLY :=Cecily: I could break it off now that I have actually met you. Besides, of course, there 2.2 ::ADAPTED :=Chasuble: of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, 1.5 ::ADDRESS :=Gwendolen: incomprehensible to me. Your town address at the Albany I have. What is your 1.5 ::ADDRESS :=Gwendolen: at the Albany I have. What is your address in the country? 3.2 ::ADDRESS :=Lady Bracknell: You may also address me as Aunt Augusta for the futur 1.2 ::ADDRESSES :=Jack: Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of 3.1 ::ADDRESSES :=Lady Bracknell: That sounds unsatisfactory. Three addresses always inspire confidence, even 1.2 ::ADMIRABLE :=Jack: in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism. 1.3 ::ADMIRABLE :=Gwendolen: I think it would be an admirable opportunity. And to spare you any 2.5 ::ADMIRABLE :=Gwendolen: An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing there is just 2.2 ::ADMIRABLY :=Chasuble: Admirably! Admirably! And now, dear Mr. Worthing, 2.2 ::ADMIRABLY :=Chasuble: Admirably! Admirably! And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I 2.3 ::ADMIRE :=Cecily: I might respect you, Ernest, I might admire your character, but I fear that I 1.3 ::ADMIRED :=Jack: Fairfax, ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl . . . I have 2.1 ::ADMISSION :=Miss Prism: that according to his own brother's admission is irretrievably weak and vacillating. 3.2 ::ADMISSION :=Jack: question of romance, he obtained admission to my house by means of the false 1.2 ::ADMIT :=Algernon: Uncle Jack." There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but 1.4 ::ADMIT :=Jack: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. 2.2 ::ADMIT :=Algernon: Of course I admit that the faults were all on my side. 3.2 ::ADMIT :=Cecily: am really only eighteen, but I always admit to twenty when I go to evening par 3.3 ::ADMIT :=Miss Prism: Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know. I only 3.3 ::ADMIT :=Algernon: Well, not till today, old boy, I admit. I did my best, however, though I was 3.3 ::ADMIT :=Lady Bracknell: doubt he had one. He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that 3.2 ::ADMITTING :=Lady Bracknell: her age. It looks so calculating. . . Eighteen, but admitting to twenty at evening 1.2 ::ADOPT :=Jack: the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. 1.5 ::ADOPT :=Gwendolen: Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude toward 1.2 ::ADOPTED :=Jack: ordinary. Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made 1.3 ::ADORE :=Gwendolen: I adore you. But you haven't proposed to me 2.5 ::ADORE :=Algernon: wanted to be engaged to Cecily. I adore her. 2.2 ::ADULTS :=Chasuble: and indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice 2.4 ::ADVANCE :=Gwendolen: no doubt, or some female relative of advance years, resides here also? 1.2 ::ADVANCED :=Algernon: a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know. 1.4 ::ADVANCED :=Jack: little. She is a lady considerably advanced in years. 1.3 ::ADVANTAGE :=Jack: And I would like to be allowed to take advantage of Lady Bracknell's temporary absence 3.1 ::ADVICE :=Lady Bracknell: action, and acted under proper medical advice. And now that we have finally got 2.2 ::ADVISABLE :=Chasuble: that is necessary, or indeed I think advisable. Our weather is so changeable. 3.2 ::ADVISABLE :=Lady Bracknell: marriage, which I think is never advisable. 1.2 ::ADVISE :=Jack: to get rid of Ernest. And I strongly advise you to do the same with Mr. . . . 1.3 ::ADVISE :=Gwendolen: I would certainly advise you to do so. Mamma has a way of coming 1.4 ::ADVISE :=Jack: May I ask you then what you would advise me to do? I need hardly say I would 1.4 ::ADVISE :=Lady Bracknell: I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire 3.1 ::AFFECT :=Cecily: I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answe 1.4 ::AFFECTIONATE :=Lady Bracknell: should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smo 3.2 ::AFFECTIONS :=Jack: of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only ward. He subsequently 3.3 ::AFFECTIONS :=Gwendolen: I never change, except my affections. 2.2 ::AFFLICTION :=Chasuble: allusion to this tragic domestic affliction next Sunday. My sermon on the 1.1 ::AFRAID :=Algernon: Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve of 1.3 ::AFRAID :=Algernon: I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to give 1.3 ::AFRAID :=Gwendolen: How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very little experience 1.4 ::AFRAID :=Jack: Well, I am afraid I really have none. I am a Liberal 1.4 ::AFRAID :=Jack: I am afraid I really don't know. The fact is, 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Cecily: Oh, I am afraid I am. 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Cecily: I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else. 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Algernon: I'm afraid I'm not that. That is why I want you 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Cecily: I'm afraid I've no time, this afternoon. 2.3 ::AFRAID :=Algernon: I am afraid I can't stay more than a week this 2.3 ::AFRAID :=Algernon: I am afraid so. It is a very painful parting. 2.4 ::AFRAID :=Cecily: I am afraid you must be under some misconception. 2.4 ::AFRAID :=Gwendolen: is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim. 2.5 ::AFRAID :=Gwendolen: I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither 3.3 ::AFRAID :=Lady Bracknell: I am afraid that the news I have to give you will 1.2 ::AFTER :=Algernon: I find that the thing isn't yours after all. 1.3 ::AFTER :=Algernon: pleasure of dining with you tonight after all. 1.3 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. French songs I 1.4 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be 1.5 ::AFTER :=Jack: anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling 1.5 ::AFTER :=Algernon: What shall we do after dinner? Go to the theatre? 2.1 ::AFTER :=Cecily: perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson. 2.1 ::AFTER :=Miss Prism: with you. I find I have a headache after all, and a walk might do it good. 2.2 ::AFTER :=Miss Prism: After we had all been resigned to his loss, 2.3 ::AFTER :=Cecily: feels there must be something in him after all. I daresay it was foolish of me, 2.3 ::AFTER :=Cecily: the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted 2.3 ::AFTER := too conceited. The three you wrote me after I had broken off the engagement are 2.4 ::AFTER :=Cecily: How nice of you to like me so much after we have known each other such a comparatively 2.4 ::AFTER :=Cecily: Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me. 2.4 ::AFTER :=Cecily: I will never reproach him with it after we are married. 2.5 ::AFTER :=Gwendolen: They will hardly venture to come after us there. 3.1 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: one to young Lady Lancing, and after three months her own husband did not 3.1 ::AFTER :=Jack: and after six months nobody knew her. 3.2 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided 3.2 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: So I don't think your guardian's consent is, after all, a matter of any i 3.3 ::AFTER :=Jack: not deny that is a serious blow. But after all, who has the right to cast a stone 3.3 ::AFTER :=Jack: elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always 3.3 ::AFTER :=Lady Bracknell: son you were naturally christened after your father. 3.3 ::AFTER :=Jack: my name was Ernest, didn't I? Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean it naturally 1.3 ::AFTERNOON :=Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are 2.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Miss Prism: We do not expect him till Monday afternoon. 2.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Cecily: Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon. 2.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Cecily: I'm afraid I've no time, this afternoon. 2.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Algernon: you mind my reforming myself this afternoon? 2.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Miss Prism: We did not look for you till Monday afternoon. 2.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Jack: like to be christened myself, this afternoon, if you have nothing better to 2.4 ::AFTERNOON :=Gwendolen: he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30. If you would care to verify 3.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Jack: But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Algernon: But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Algernon: Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this 3.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Algernon: I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. 3.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Jack: possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon, during my temporary absence in 3.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Jack: he succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of 3.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Jack: told him so myself yesterday afternoon. 3.2 ::AFTERNOON :=Chasuble: are to be no christenings at all this afternoon? 1.4 ::AFTERWARDS :=Lady Bracknell: Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? 1.3 ::AGAIN :=Algernon: my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. They seem to think I should be with 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Algernon: You'll never break off our engagement again, Cecily? 2.5 ::AGAIN :=Algernon: Jack, you are at the muffins again! I wish you wouldn't. There are only 3.2 ::AGAIN :=Jack: Lady Bracknell, for interrupting you again, but it is only fair to tell you that 2.2 ::AGAINST :=Chasuble: of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony. 3.3 ::AGAINST :=Jack: all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance 1.3 ::AGE :=Gwendolen: I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age of ideals. The fact is constantly mentioned 1.4 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been 1.5 ::AGE :=Gwendolen: I ever had over Mamma, I lost at the age of three. But although she may prevent 2.1 ::AGE := I am more than unusually tall for my age. But I am you cousin Cecily. You, I see 2.4 ::AGE :=Gwendolen: and more than usually plain for your age. Ernest has a strong upright nature. 3.1 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: time. We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces. Come over here, dear. Pretty 3.1 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: profile. The two weak points in our age are its want of principle and its want 3.2 ::AGE :=Jack: without my consent until she comes of age. That consent I absolutely decline to 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. . . Eighteen, 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: it will not be very long before you are of age and free from the restraints of 3.2 ::AGE :=Jack: Miss Cardew does not come legally of age till she is thirty-five. 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: Thirty five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was so many years ago 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she is at present. There 3.2 ::AGE :=Lady Bracknell: At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious! 2.5 ::AGITATED :=Algernon: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably 3.3 ::AGITATED :=Cecily: Uncle Jack seems strangely agitated. 2.2 ::AGO :=Cecily: Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago. 2.4 ::AGO :=Merriman: the direction of the Rectory some time ago. 2.4 ::AGO :=Cecily: proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago. 3.2 ::AGO :=Lady Bracknell: age of forty, which was so many years ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily 3.3 ::AGO :=Lady Bracknell: Where is that baby? Twenty-eight years ago, Prism, you left Lord Bracknell's house, 2.4 ::AGRICULTURAL :=Cecily: Ah! This is what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? I believe 1.2 ::AH :=Algernon: a lot of beastly competition about. Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, 1.3 ::AH :=Gwendolen: Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, 1.4 ::AH :=Lady Bracknell: Ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability 2.1 ::AH :=Chasuble: Ah yes, he usually likes to spend his Sunday 2.2 ::AH :=Jack: Ah! that reminds me, you mentioned christenings, 2.3 ::AH :=Algernon: make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there she is. 2.4 ::AH :=Gwendolen: Ah! that accounts for it. And now that I 2.4 ::AH :=Cecily: Ah! This is what the newspapers call agricultural 3.1 ::AH :=Lady Bracknell: Ah! A life crowded with incident, I see; 2.1 ::AHEM :=Chasuble: Q My metaphor was drawn from bees. Ahem! Mr. Worthing, I suppose, has not returned 2.3 ::AHEM :=Algernon: Ahem, Ahem! 2.3 ::AHEM :=Algernon: Ahem, Ahem! 2.3 ::AHEM :=Algernon: Ahem! Cecily! Your Rector here is, I suppose, 3.1 ::AHEM :=Merriman: Ahem! Ahem! Lady Bracknell! 3.1 ::AHEM :=Merriman: Ahem! Ahem! Lady Bracknell! 3.2 ::AHEM :=Lady Bracknell: Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration 1.3 ::AILMENTS :=Lady Bracknell: take much notice . . . as far as any improvement in his ailments goes. I should 2.1 ::AIM :=Chasuble: in London. He is not one of whose sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that 3.1 ::AIR :=Lady Bracknell: is anything peculiarly exciting in the air of this particular part of Hertfordshire, 2.1 ::ALAS :=Miss Prism: Alas! no. The manuscript unfortunately was 1.2 ::ALBANY :=Algernon: them. "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B. 4, The Albany." I'll keep this as a proof that your 1.2 ::ALBANY :=Jack: the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes. 1.5 ::ALBANY :=Gwendolen: to me. Your town address at the Albany I have. What is your address in the 2.1 ::ALBANY :=Cecily: "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B.4 The Albany, W." Uncle Jack's brother! Did you 1.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lane: think it polite to listen, sir. RESP Algernon. I'm sorry for that, for your sake. 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very w 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: I'm sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: It really makes no matter, Algernon. I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: I've quite a treat for you tonight, Algernon. I am going to send you down with 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: I hope not, Algernon. It would put my table completely 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Thank you, Algernon. It is very thoughtful of you. I'm 1.3 ::ALGERNON :=Gwendolen: absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had 1.5 ::ALGERNON :=Jack: Nothing! RESP Algernon. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. 2.3 ::ALGERNON :=Algernon: Oh, any name you like Q Algernon Q for instance . . . . 2.3 ::ALGERNON :=Cecily: But I don't like the name Algernon. 2.3 ::ALGERNON :=Algernon: why you should object to the name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In 2.3 ::ALGERNON :=Algernon: get into Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But seriously, Cecily . . . if 2.5 ::ALGERNON :=Gwendolen: is now embracing you is my cousin, Mr. Algernon Moncrieff. 2.5 ::ALGERNON :=Cecily: Algernon Moncrieff! Oh! 2.5 ::ALGERNON :=Cecily: Are you called Algernon? 2.5 ::ALGERNON :=Jack: Algernon! I have already told you to go.I 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: of the kind, sir. And now, as regards Algernon! . . . Algernon! 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: sir. And now, as regards Algernon! . . . Algernon! 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: that young person whose hand my nephew Algernon is now holding in what seems to 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: are worn very high, just at present. Algernon! 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into 3.1 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend 3.2 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: better take place quite soon. RESP Algernon. Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Upon what grounds may I ask? Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say 3.2 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian. 3.2 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: the destiny I propose for Gwendolen. Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. 3.2 ::ALGERNON :=Lady Bracknell: The idea is grotesque and irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. I 3.3 ::ALGERNON'S :=Lady Bracknell: Mrs. Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brother. 1.1 ::ALGY :=Jack: one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy! 1.1 ::ALGY :=Jack: I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially invented 1.1 ::ALGY :=Jack: earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know anyone of the 1.2 ::ALGY :=Jack: Wells. Just give it back to me, Algy. 1.2 ::ALGY :=Jack: My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. 1.2 ::ALGY :=Jack: My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will be able 1.2 ::ALGY :=Jack: most dreadful scrapes. That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple 1.4 ::ALGY :=Jack: sake don't play that ghastly tune, Algy! How idiot you are! 1.5 ::ALGY :=Jack: being a myth, which is rather unfair . . . I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I 1.5 ::ALGY :=Jack: like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, do you, Algy? 1.5 ::ALGY :=Gwendolen: Algy, kindly turn your back. I have something 1.5 ::ALGY :=Gwendolen: Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral 1.5 ::ALGY :=Gwendolen: Good! Algy, you may turn round now. 1.5 ::ALGY :=Jack: Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsen 2.3 ::ALGY :=Jack: You young scoundrel, Algy, you must get out of this place as soon 2.3 ::ALGY :=Algernon: But seriously, Cecily . . . if my name was Algy, couldn't you love me? 2.5 ::ALGY :=Jack: quite so often as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very good thing too. 2.5 ::ALGY :=Jack: Algy, I wish to goodness you would go. 3.2 ::ALGY :=Cecily: Algy, could you wait for me till I was thirty- 3.3 ::ALGY :=Jack: Gwendolen, my unfortunate brother. Algy, you young scoundrel, you will have 3.3 ::ALGY :=Jack: Algy! Can't you recollect what our father's 3.3 ::ALGY'S :=Jack: Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother 3.2 ::ALIENATING :=Jack: in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only ward. 1.1 ::ALL :=Jack: Shropshire? Yes, of course. Hallo! Why all these cups? Why cucumber sandwiches? 1.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta 1.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is 1.1 ::ALL :=Jack: Well, you have been eating them all the time. 1.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: not eat as if you were going to eat it all. You behave as if you were married to 1.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: number of bachelors that one sees all over the place. In the second place, 1.2 ::ALL :=Jack: to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness you had 1.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: find that the thing isn't yours after all. 1.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: out. Besides, your name isn't Jack at all, it is Ernest. 1.2 ::ALL :=Jack: improbable about my explanation at all. In fact it's perfectly ordinary. Old 1.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions. 1.2 ::ALL :=Jack: has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It's one's duty to do so. And 1.2 ::ALL :=Jack: That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. 1.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: and send down with either no woman at all, or two. In the third place, I know perfectly 1.2 ::ALL :=Jack: I'm not a Bunburyist at all. If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going 1.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: of dining with you tonight after all. 1.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: and I think I can promise you he'll be all right by Saturday. Of course the music 1.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as 1.3 ::ALL :=Jack: Ernest . . . I don't think the name suits me at all. 1.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. 1.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: absolutely no vibrations . . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, 1.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: to me yet. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject has not even 1.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: I know my brother Gerald does. All my girl-friends tell me so. What wonderfully 1.4 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? You don't mean to say 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: All women become like their mothers. That 1.5 ::ALL :=Jack: Oh, that is all right. Cecily is not a silly romantic 1.5 ::ALL :=Jack: long walks, and pays no attention at all to her lessons. 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: I don't think I can allow this at all. 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: dress clothes, my smoking jacket, and all the Bunbury suits . . . . 1.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: anxious about poor Bunbury, that is all. 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: But I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language. I know perfectly 2.1 ::ALL :=Miss Prism: see why you should keep a diary at all. 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: them down I should probably forget all about them. 2.1 ::ALL :=Miss Prism: my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: that memory is responsible for nearly all the three- volume novels that Mudie sends 2.1 ::ALL :=Chasuble: of whose sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young man 2.1 ::ALL :=Miss Prism: you. I find I have a headache after all, and a walk might do it good. 2.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: I can't understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday 2.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: outfit. He has no taste in neckties at all. 2.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare. 2.2 ::ALL :=Jack: I suppose you know how to christen all right? I mean of course, you are continually 2.2 ::ALL :=Chasuble: Not at all. The sprinkling, and indeed, the immersion 2.2 ::ALL :=Chasuble: have no apprehensions. Sprinkling is all that is necessary, or indeed I think 2.2 ::ALL :=Miss Prism: After we had all been resigned to his loss, his sudden 2.2 ::ALL :=Jack: the dining-room? I don't know what it all means. I think it is perfectly absur 2.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: to tell you that I am very sorry for all the trouble I have given you, and that 2.2 ::ALL :=Cecily: Yes, he has told me all about poor Mr. Bunbury, and his terrible 2.2 ::ALL :=Algernon: Of course I admit that the faults were all on my side. But I must say that I think 2.3 ::ALL :=Merriman: next to yours, sir. I suppose that is all right. 2.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: I have not been called back to town at all. 2.3 ::ALL :=Cecily: there must be something in him after all. I daresay it was foolish of me, but 2.3 ::ALL :=Cecily: And this is the box in which I keep all your dear letters. 2.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: What had I done? I had done nothing at all. Cecily, I am very much hurt indeed to 2.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: to the name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In fact, it is rather an 2.3 ::ALL :=Algernon: experienced in the practice of all rites and ceremonies of the Church? 2.4 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: Then that is all quite settled, is it not? 2.4 ::ALL :=Cecily: Oh! not at all, Gwendolen. I am very fond of being looked 2.5 ::ALL :=Jack: brother Ernest. I have no brother at all. I never had a brother in my life, and 2.5 ::ALL :=Cecily: No brother at all? 2.5 ::ALL :=Algernon: I can see no possible defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, 2.5 ::ALL :=Jack: to be engaged to Gwendolen, that is all. I love her. 2.5 ::ALL :=Jack: heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. 2.5 ::ALL :=Jack: is no reason why you should eat them all in that greedy way. 2.5 ::ALL :=Jack: if I like. There is no evidence at all that I ever have been christened by anybody. 3.1 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: They don't seem to notice us at all. Couldn't you cough? 3.1 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.1 ::ALL :=Cecily: still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.1 ::ALL :=Jack: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this 3.1 ::ALL :=Algernon: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this 3.1 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: you will clearly understand that all communication between yourself and my 3.1 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: moment. On this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm. 3.1 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: place. Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway 3.1 ::ALL :=Jack: thousand pounds in the Funds. That is all. Good-bye, Lady Bracknell. So pleased 3.1 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: have left it. But we can soon alter all that. A thoroughly experienced French 3.2 ::ALL :=Jack: the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect him 3.2 ::ALL :=Jack: muffin. And what makes his conduct all the more heartless is, that he was perfectly 3.2 ::ALL :=Lady Bracknell: I don't think your guardian's consent is, after all, a matter of any importanc 3.2 ::ALL :=Cecily: it instinctively, but I couldn't wait all that time. I hate waiting even five minutes 3.2 ::ALL :=Jack: Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. 3.2 ::ALL :=Chasuble: there are to be no christenings at all this afternoon? 3.3 ::ALL :=Gwendolen: not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. 3.3 ::ALL :=Miss Prism: a great inconvenience being without it all these years. 3.3 ::ALL :=Jack: deny that is a serious blow. But after all, who has the right to cast a stone against 3.3 ::ALL :=Jack: brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said 3.3 ::ALL :=Jack: never behaved to me like a brother in all your life. 3.3 ::ALL :=Jack: my name was Ernest, didn't I? Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean it naturally 3.3 ::ALL :=Jack: for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing 1.4 ::ALLIANCE :=Lady Bracknell: to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. 3.2 ::ALLIANCE :=Jack: gladly allow your nephew to form an alliance with my ward. 1.1 ::ALLOW :=Algernon: is my first cousin. And before I allow you to marry her, you will have to 1.3 ::ALLOW :=Lady Bracknell: French songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem to think that they 1.5 ::ALLOW :=Algernon: Really, Gwendolen, I don't think I can allow this at all. 2.1 ::ALLOW :=Cecily: I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, 2.3 ::ALLOW :=Jack: place as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying here. 2.3 ::ALLOW :=Cecily: you great credit, Ernest. If you will allow me I will copy your remarks into my 2.5 ::ALLOW :=Algernon: Why on earth then do you allow tea-cake to be served up for your guests? 3.2 ::ALLOW :=Jack: with Gwendolen, I will most gladly allow your nephew to form an alliance with 3.2 ::ALLOW :=Lady Bracknell: Pray allow me to detain you for a moment. This 1.2 ::ALLOWED :=Jack: is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. You seem to 1.3 ::ALLOWED :=Jack: And I would like to be allowed to take advantage of Lady Bracknell's 1.3 ::ALLOWED :=Gwendolen: pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be 1.4 ::ALLOWED :=Lady Bracknell: is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . . And 2.5 ::ALLOWED :=Cecily: just one question I would like to be allowed to ask my guardian. 1.4 ::ALLOWING :=Lady Bracknell: I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter Q a girl brought 3.1 ::ALLOWING :=Lady Bracknell: But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my way. Well, I 2.4 ::ALLUDE :=Gwendolen: Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? 2.4 ::ALLURING := you seem to be Q and not quite so very alluring in appearance. In fact, if I may 2.1 ::ALLUSION :=Chasuble: A classical allusion merely, drawn from the pagan authors. 2.2 ::ALLUSION :=Chasuble: no doubt wish me to make some slight allusion to this tragic domestic affliction 1.1 ::ALMOST :=Algernon: Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. Is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts 2.2 ::ALMOST :=Chasuble: in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the 2.3 ::ALMOST :=Cecily: whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable. 2.4 ::ALMOST :=Gwendolen: a load from my mind. I was growing almost anxious. It would have been terrible 2.4 ::ALMOST :=Cecily: from it just at the present. It is almost an epidemic amongst them, I have been 3.1 ::ALMOST :=Lady Bracknell: is sadly simple, and your hair seems almost as nature might have left it. But 3.2 ::ALMOST :=Lady Bracknell: I ask? Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say ostentatiously, eligible young 2.2 ::ALONE :=Miss Prism: You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get 3.1 ::ALONE :=Cecily: what Mr. Moncrieff said. His voice alone inspires one with absolute creduli 2.2 ::ALONG :=Jack: don't see much fun in being christened along with other babies. It would be childish. 1.1 ::ALREADY :=Algernon: behave as if you were married to her already. You are not married to her already, 1.1 ::ALREADY :=Algernon: already. You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will 1.5 ::ALREADY :=Algernon: Thanks, I've turned round already. 2.1 ::ALREADY := I will. I feel better already. 2.2 ::ALREADY :=Chasuble: Mr. Worthing, you have been christened already? 2.4 ::ALREADY :=Gwendolen: going to be great friends. I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions 2.5 ::ALREADY :=Jack: in your case. You have been christened already. 2.5 ::ALREADY :=Jack: Algernon! I have already told you to go.I don't want you here. 3.2 ::ALREADY :=Lady Bracknell: for himself. Come, dear; we have already missed five; if not six, trains. 3.3 ::ALREADY :=Jack: in the handbag, had I been christened already? 1.5 ::ALSO :=Gwendolen: You may also ring the bell. 2.4 ::ALSO :=Gwendolen: of advance years, resides here also? 3.1 ::ALSO :=Jack: kind of you, Lady Bracknell! I have also in my possession, you will be pleased 3.2 ::ALSO :=Lady Bracknell: You may also address me as Aunt Augusta for the 3.3 ::ALSO :=Miss Prism: baby out in its perambulator. I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious 1.5 ::ALTER :=Gwendolen: nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you. 3.1 ::ALTER :=Lady Bracknell: might have left it. But we can soon alter all that. A thoroughly experienced 3.2 ::ALTERATION :=Lady Bracknell: perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever 1.3 ::ALTERED :=Lady Bracknell: death. I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. 1.4 ::ALTERED :=Lady Bracknell: However, that could easily be altered. 1.4 ::ALTHOUGH :=Lady Bracknell: down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list as the dear 1.5 ::ALTHOUGH :=Gwendolen: Mamma, I lost at the age of three. But although she may prevent us from becoming 3.3 ::ALTOGETHER :=Lady Bracknell: the news I have to give you will not altogether please you. You are the son of 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: Well, that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the whole 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: whole thing. I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: I am always smart! Aren't I, Mr. Worthing? 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: is the primary duty of life. I am always telling that to your poor uncle, but 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem to think that they are improper, 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain they mean something 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: more demonstrative. For me you have always had an irresistible fascination. Even 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: pulpits I am told: and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: are quite, quite blue. I hope you will always look at me just like that, especially 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires 1.5 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: I know it is a way she has. She is always refusing people. I think it is most 1.5 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. 1.5 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: Oh!, it always is nearly seven. 1.5 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Miss Prism: leaving for town yesterday. Indeed, he always lays stress on your German when he 2.2 ::ALWAYS :=Miss Prism: sympathies of the woman. Maturity can always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. 2.2 ::ALWAYS :=Chasuble: consolation of knowing that you were always the most generous and forgiving of 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: at any rate, that is better than being always overdressed as you are. 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: It is always painful to part from people whom one 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: a man who is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: the true lovers' knot I promised you always to wear. 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: taste, Ernest. It's the excuse I've always given for your leading such a bad 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: to write your letters for you. I always wrote three times a week, and sometimes 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love 2.4 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: And you will always call me Gwendolen, won't you? 2.4 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid 2.4 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read 2.4 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death. 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Algernon: Q but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: Oh, that is nonsense; you are always talking nonsense. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Gwendolen: An excellent idea! I nearly always speak at the same time as other people. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: sounds unsatisfactory. Three addresses always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen. 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit to twenty when I go to evening 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Cecily: even five minutes for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual 3.3 ::ALWAYS :=Lady Bracknell: arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. 3.3 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily, Q how 3.3 ::ALWAYS :=Jack: General 1869, Christian names, Ernest John. I always told you, Gwendolen, 1.1 ::AM :=Algernon: I don't know that I am much interested in your family life, 1.1 ::AM :=Algernon: Very natural, I am sure. That will do, Lane, thank you. 1.1 ::AM :=Algernon: Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve 1.1 ::AM :=Jack: I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up 1.2 ::AM :=Jack: I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose 1.2 ::AM :=Algernon: a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am quite sure of it now. 1.2 ::AM :=Algernon: place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, 1.2 ::AM :=Jack: at all. If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think 1.2 ::AM :=Jack: in him. It is rather a bore. So I am going to get rid of Ernest. And I strongly 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: I am always smart! Aren't I, Mr. Worthing? 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: Mamma, I'm quite comfortable where I am. 1.3 ::AM :=Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about 1.3 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: a treat for you tonight, Algernon. I am going to send you down with Mary Farquahar. 1.3 ::AM :=Algernon: I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to 1.3 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: Health is the primary duty of life. I am always telling that to your poor uncle, 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: I thought so. In fact, I am never wrong. 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: Yes, I am quite aware of the fact. And I often wish 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: has reached the provincial pulpits I am told: and my ideal has always been to 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: you quite frankly beforehand that I am fully determined to accept you. 1.3 ::AM :=Gwendolen: How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very little experience 1.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: I am engaged to Mr. Worthing, Mamma. 1.4 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: I have a few questions to put to you, Mr. Worthing. While I am making these inquiries, 1.4 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: We work together, in fact. However, I am quite ready to enter your name, should 1.4 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have 1.4 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of 1.4 ::AM :=Jack: Well, I am afraid I really have none. I am a Liberal 1.4 ::AM :=Jack: Well, I am afraid I really have none. I am a Liberal Unionist. 1.4 ::AM :=Jack: I am afraid I really don't know. The fact is, 1.4 ::AM :=Jack: seem to have lost me . . . . I don't actually know who I am by birth. I was . 1.5 ::AM :=Jack: . I don't really know what a gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell 1.5 ::AM :=Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody 1.5 ::AM :=Jack: Cecily is not a silly romantic girl, I am glad to say. She has got a capital appetite, 2.1 ::AM :=Miss Prism: Cecily! I am surprised at you. Mr. Worthing has many 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: good influence over him, Miss Prism. I am sure you certainly would. You know German, 2.1 ::AM :=Miss Prism: weak and vacillating. Indeed I am not sure that I would desire to reclaim 2.1 ::AM :=Miss Prism: that I would desire to reclaim him. I am not in favor of this modern mania for 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: Oh, I am afraid I am. 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: Oh, I am afraid I am. 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone 2.1 ::AM := You are under some strange mistake. I am not little. In fact, I believe I am more 2.1 ::AM := I am not little. In fact, I believe I am more than unusually tall for my age. But 2.1 ::AM := than unusually tall for my age. But I am you cousin Cecily. You, I see from your 2.1 ::AM :=Algernon: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::AM :=Algernon: Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wicked. 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: I am glad to hear it. 2.1 ::AM :=Cecily: should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant. 2.1 ::AM :=Algernon: That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go up by the first train on 2.1 ::AM :=Algernon: I have a business appointment that I am anxious . . . to miss. 2.1 ::AM :=Algernon: That is because I am hungry. 2.2 ::AM :=Chasuble: None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts. Will 2.2 ::AM :=Jack: is not for any child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of children. No! the fact is, 2.2 ::AM :=Jack: you in any way, or if you think I am a little too old now. 2.2 ::AM :=Cecily: Uncle Jack! Oh, I am pleased to see you back. But what horrid 2.2 ::AM :=Algernon: come down from town to tell you that I am very sorry for all the trouble I have 2.3 ::AM :=Algernon: I am afraid I can't stay more than a week this 2.3 ::AM :=Algernon: If I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make 2.3 ::AM :=Algernon: I am afraid so. It is a very painful parti 2.3 ::AM :=Cecily: perfection." You can go on. I am quite ready for more. 2.3 ::AM :=Algernon: I had done nothing at all. Cecily, I am very much hurt indeed to hear you broke 2.3 ::AM :=Cecily: I am so glad. 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: opportunity for my mentioning who I am. My father is Lord Bracknell. You have 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: Outside the family circle, Papa, I am glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think 2.4 ::AM :=Cecily: Oh! not at all, Gwendolen. I am very fond of being looked at. 2.4 ::AM := Yes, I am Mr. Worthing's ward. 2.4 ::AM := He grows more interesting hourly. I am not sure, however, that the news inspires 2.4 ::AM := me with feelings of unmixed delight. I am very fond of you, Cecily; I have liked 2.4 ::AM := liked you ever since I met you! But I am bound to state that now you are Mr. Worthing's 2.4 ::AM :=Cecily: I am sorry to say they have not been on good 2.4 ::AM :=Cecily: Quite sure. In fact, I am going to be his. 2.4 ::AM :=Cecily: I am afraid you must be under some misconception. 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: sensational to read in the train. I am sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim. 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, 2.4 ::AM :=Gwendolen: that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first 2.4 ::AM :=Cecily: It seems to me, Miss Fairfax, that I am trespassing on your valuable time. No 2.5 ::AM :=Jack: to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything 2.5 ::AM :=Gwendolen: I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that 2.5 ::AM :=Algernon: When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that 2.5 ::AM :=Algernon: thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who 2.5 ::AM :=Algernon: and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, 2.5 ::AM :=Algernon: moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond 2.5 ::AM :=Algernon: because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. 3.1 ::AM :=Cecily: I am more than content with what Mr. Moncrieff 3.1 ::AM :=Jack: I am. 3.1 ::AM :=Algernon: I am! RESP Gwendolen. How absurd is talk of 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: mean? RESP Gwendolen. Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: train. Her unhappy father is, I am glad to say, under the impression that 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm. 3.1 ::AM :=Jack: I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen, lady 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind 3.1 ::AM :=Algernon: I am engaged to be married to Cecily Aunt 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: position in their profession. Indeed I am told that one of the Mr. Marksby is occasionally 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: to be seen at dinner parties. So far I am satisfied. 3.1 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: too exciting for a young girl. I am not myself in favour of premature experiences. 3.2 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They 3.2 ::AM :=Jack: is quite out of the question. I am Miss Cardew's guardian, and she cannot 3.2 ::AM :=Cecily: Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit 3.2 ::AM :=Cecily: It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do 3.2 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: she is thirty- five Q a remark which I am bound to say seems to me to show a somewhat 3.2 ::AM :=Chasuble: Am I to understand then that there are to 3.2 ::AM :=Chasuble: I am grieved to hear such sentiments from you, 3.2 ::AM :=Chasuble: Yes, Lady Bracknell. I am on my way to join her. 3.2 ::AM :=Chasuble: I am a celibate, madam. 3.3 ::AM :=Miss Prism: there. The bag is undoubtedly mine. I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored 3.3 ::AM :=Miss Prism: Mr. Worthing! I am unmarried! 3.3 ::AM :=Jack: but would you kindly inform me who I am? 3.3 ::AM :=Lady Bracknell: I am afraid that the news I have to give you 2.2 ::AMONG :=Chasuble: for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders. The Bishop, who was 2.4 ::AMONGST :=Cecily: the present. It is almost an epidemic amongst them, I have been told. May I offer 1.2 ::AMOUNT :=Algernon: that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London 1.1 ::AMUSE :=Algernon: And who are the people you amuse? 1.1 ::AMUSE :=Algernon: How immensely you must amuse them! By the way, Shropshire is your 1.5 ::AMUSED :=Jack: in my life. What on earth are you so amused at? 2.5 ::AMUSEMENT :=Algernon: something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. I happen to be serious 1.1 ::AMUSES :=Jack: When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country 1.1 ::AMUSES :=Jack: When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively b 1.2 ::AN :=Jack: not tall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. 1.2 ::AN :=Algernon: There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, 1.2 ::AN :=Algernon: to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, 1.2 ::AN :=Algernon: as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, 1.2 ::AN :=Algernon: for ten minutes, so that you can have an opportunity for proposing to Gwendolen, 1.3 ::AN :=Gwendolen: For me you have always had an irresistible fascination. Even before 1.3 ::AN :=Gwendolen: as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age of ideals. The fact is constantly 1.3 ::AN :=Gwendolen: I think it would be an admirable opportunity. And to spare you 1.4 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl 1.4 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far 1.4 ::AN :=Jack: The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable and 1.4 ::AN :=Jack: leather handbag, with handles to it Q an ordinary handbag, in fact. 1.4 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: Q but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position 1.4 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: Q to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, 1.5 ::AN :=Jack: clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness 1.5 ::AN :=Algernon: you told Gwendolen yet that you have an excessively pretty ward who is only just 1.5 ::AN :=Jack: bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be 1.5 ::AN :=Gwendolen: of my nature. Your Christian name has an irresistible fascination. The simplicity 2.1 ::AN :=Cecily: that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular 2.2 ::AN :=Miss Prism: This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. 2.2 ::AN :=Cecily: brother Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago. 2.2 ::AN :=Cecily: be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London 2.3 ::AN :=Jack: Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden, 2.3 ::AN :=Algernon: all a bad name. In fact, it is rather an aristocratic name. Half of the chaps who 2.3 ::AN :=Algernon: I shan't be away more than a half an hour. 2.3 ::AN :=Cecily: leave me for so long a period as half an hour. Couldn't you make it twenty min 2.3 ::AN :=Cecily: What an impetuous boy he is! I like his hair so 2.4 ::AN :=Gwendol