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 :=Gwendolen: Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You are presumptuous. On 2.4 ::AN :=Gwendolen: entanglement? You are presumptuous. On an occasion of this kind it becomes more 2.4 ::AN :=Cecily: Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time 2.4 ::AN :=Cecily: it just at the present. It is almost an epidemic amongst them, I have been told. 2.5 ::AN :=Jack: course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty little head? 2.5 ::AN :=Algernon: Of course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty little head? 2.5 ::AN :=Gwendolen: An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing there is 2.5 ::AN :=Algernon: I should fancy. You have such an absolutely trivial nature. 2.5 ::AN :=Algernon: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably 3.1 ::AN :=Gwendolen: This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect. 3.1 ::AN :=Algernon: In order that I might have an opportunity of meeting you. 3.1 ::AN :=Gwendolen: Was it in order that you might have an opportunity of coming up to town to see 3.1 ::AN :=Gwendolen: An excellent idea! I nearly always speak 3.1 ::AN :=Gwendolen: Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.1 ::AN :=Cecily: Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.1 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: time. We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces. Come over here, dear. 3.2 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: what grounds may I ask? Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say ostentatiously, 3.2 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian. 3.2 ::AN :=Jack: my temporary absence in London on an important question of romance, he obtained 3.2 ::AN :=Jack: pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, I've just been 3.2 ::AN :=Jack: I've just been informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, 3.2 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge 3.2 ::AN :=Jack: most gladly allow your nephew to form an alliance with my ward. 3.3 ::AN :=Miss Prism: I have been waiting for you there for an hour and three quarters. 3.3 ::AN :=Lady Bracknell: It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. 3.3 ::AN :=Miss Prism: explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington. 3.3 ::AN :=Miss Prism: my initials. I had forgotten that in an extravagant mood I had had them placed 3.3 ::AN :=Jack: suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one 3.2 ::ANABAPTISTS :=Chasuble: savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists, views that I have completely 2.2 ::ANALOGIES :=Chasuble: was much struck by some of the analogies I drew. 2.4 ::ANCIENT :=Gwendolen: charms of others. Modern, no less than ancient history, supplies us with many most 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: And, speaking of the science of life, have 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were 1.1 ::AND :=Lane: Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint. 1.1 ::AND :=Lane: of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: And who are the people you amuse? 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: Oh! merely Aunt August and Gwendolen. 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: She is my aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter. 1.1 ::AND :=Jack: And very good bread and butter it is too 1.1 ::AND :=Jack: And very good bread and butter it is too. 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be. 1.1 ::AND :=Algernon: fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin. And before I allow you to marry her, you 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: have seem me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever to read 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: from someone of the name of Cecily, and you said you didn't know anyone of that 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: herself Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge Wells? "From little 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: Well my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am quite sure 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am quite sure of it now. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: it is. Now produce your explanation, and pray make it improbable. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: Now, go on. Why are you Ernest in town and Jack in the country? 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: subjects. It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes. 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossi 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: treated as a member of the family, and send down with either no woman at all, 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: So I am going to get rid of Ernest. And I strongly advise you to do the same 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems 1.2 ::AND :=Jack: marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: in married life three is a company and two is none. 1.2 ::AND :=Algernon: Yes; and that the happy English home has proved 1.2 ::AND :=Lane: Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax. 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directio 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: she looks quite twenty years younger. And now I'll have a cup of tea, and one of 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: And now I'll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: Won't you come and sit here, Gwendolen? 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: Farquahar. She is such a nice woman, and so attentive to her husband. It's delightful 1.3 ::AND :=Algernon: It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: you to arrange my music for me. It is my last reception, and one wants something 1.3 ::AND :=Algernon: Augusta, if he is still conscious, and I think I can promise you he'll be all 1.3 ::AND :=Algernon: plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music, people don't 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, 1.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so. Gwendolen, you 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: certain they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous. 1.3 ::AND :=Jack: And I would like to be allowed to take advantage 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: Yes, I am quite aware of the fact. And I often wish that in public, at any rate, 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provincial pulpits I 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: the provincial pulpits I am told: and my ideal has always been to love someone 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: produces absolutely no vibrations . . . . I have known several Jacks, and they 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! 1.3 ::AND :=Jack: Well . . . surely. You know that I love you, and you led me to believe, Miss 1.3 ::AND :=Gwendolen: it would be an admirable opportunity. And to spare you any possible disappointment, 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: be allowed to arrange for herself . . . . And now I have a few questions to 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in 1.4 ::AND :=Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year. 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's 1.4 ::AND :=Jack: an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found me, and gave 1.4 ::AND :=Jack: and kindly disposition, found me, and gave me the name of Worthing, because 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume that unfortunate movement led 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing 1.4 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: care Q to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good 1.5 ::AND :=Jack: of Gwendolen becoming like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, do you, 1.5 ::AND :=Algernon: It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized 1.5 ::AND :=Algernon: truth about your being Ernest in town, and Jack in the country? 1.5 ::AND :=Algernon: to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. 1.5 ::AND :=Jack: a capital appetite, goes long walks, and pays no attention at all to her less 1.5 ::AND :=Jack: never do. She is excessively pretty, and she is only just eighteen. 1.5 ::AND :=Jack: these things out to people. Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be 1.5 ::AND :=Algernon: table at Willis's, we really must go and dress. Do you know it is nearly seve 1.5 ::AND :=Gwendolen: she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I marry someone else, and marry 1.5 ::AND :=Gwendolen: prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I marry someone else, and marry often, 1.5 ::AND :=Gwendolen: and wife, and I marry someone else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly 1.5 ::AND :=Algernon: my dress clothes, my smoking jacket, and all the Bunbury suits . . . . 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: Your guardian enjoys the best health, and his gravity of demeanor is especially 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibility. 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: troubles in his life. Idle merriment and triviality would be out of place in his 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: you certainly would. You know German, and Geology, and things of that kind influence 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: would. You know German, and Geology, and things of that kind influence a man very 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: admission is irretrievably weak and vacillating. Indeed I am not sure that 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: the things that have never happened, and couldn't possibly have happened. I believe 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: I suppose so. But it seems very unfair. And was your novel ever published? 2.1 ::AND :=Chasuble: And how are we this morning? Miss Prism, 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: Indeed I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, when the 2.1 ::AND :=Chasuble: to be. But I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer. 2.1 ::AND :=Miss Prism: I find I have a headache after all, and a walk might do it good. 2.1 ::AND :=Chasuble: We might go as far as the schools and back. 2.1 ::AND :=Merriman: disappointed. I mentioned that you and Miss Prism were in the garden. He said 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: between this world, the next world, and Australia. 2.1 ::AND :=Algernon: accounts I have received of Australia and the next world are not particularly encouraging. 2.1 ::AND :=Cecily: new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. Won't you come in? 2.2 ::AND :=Miss Prism: has not lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, 2.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to h 2.2 ::AND :=Miss Prism: More shameful debts and extravagance? 2.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: that you were always the most generous and forgiving of brothers. 2.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days. The last time I delivered 2.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: Not at all. The sprinkling, and indeed, the immersion of adults is a 2.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: Admirably! Admirably! And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: horrid clothes you have got on! Do go and change them. 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: You look as if you had toothache, and I have got such a surprise for you. Who 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: disown him. I'll tell him to come out. And you will shake hands with him, won't 2.2 ::AND :=Algernon: for all the trouble I have given you, and that I intend to lead a better life in 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: whom he goes to visit so often. And surely there must be much good in one 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London to sit 2.2 ::AND :=Cecily: told me all about poor Mr. Bunbury, and his terrible state of health. 2.3 ::AND :=Merriman: luggage, sir. I have unpacked it and put it in the room next to your own. 2.3 ::AND :=Merriman: a dressing-case, two hat boxes, and a large luncheon-basket. 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. 2.3 ::AND :=Jack: ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden, utterly absurd. 2.3 ::AND :=Jack: you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: success. I'm in love with Cecily, and that is everything. But I must see her 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: But I must see her before I go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: I first looked upon your wonderful and incomparable beauty, I have dared to 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: a younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism. And of course a man who is 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: between myself and Miss Prism. And of course a man who is much talked about 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: Darling! And when was the engagement actually set 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: bought this little ring in your name, and this is the little bangle with the true 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: for your leading such a bad life. And this is the box in which I keep all your 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: I always wrote three times a week, and sometimes oftener. 2.3 ::AND := off the engagement are so beautiful, and so badly spelled, that even now I can 2.3 ::AND :=Algernon: in the practice of all rites and ceremonies of the Church? 2.3 ::AND :=Cecily: been engaged since February the 14th, and that I only met you today for the first 2.4 ::AND :=Cecily: Mr. Worthing is sure to be back soon. And you can bring tea. 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: And you will always call me Gwendolen, won't 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very 2.4 ::AND := a little older than you seem to be Q and not quite so very alluring in appearance. 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: I wish that you were fully forty-two, and more than usually plain for your age. 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: nature. He is the very soul of truth and honour. Disloyalty would be as impossilbe 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: Ah! that accounts for it. And now that I think of it I have never heard 2.4 ::AND :=Cecily: fact next week. Mr. Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married. 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: it my duty to rescue him at once, and with a firm hand. 2.4 ::AND :=Cecily: Cake or bread and butter? 2.4 ::AND := Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked you most distinctly for 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: I asked you most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, 2.4 ::AND :=Gwendolen: you. I felt that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such 2.5 ::AND :=Jack: reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing 2.5 ::AND :=Jack: all. I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. 2.5 ::AND :=Jack: so often as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very good thing too. 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: frequently as your wicked custom was. And not a bad thing either. 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: there is much likelihood, Jack, of you and Miss Fairfax being united. 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. Besides I have just 2.5 ::AND :=Jack: to be christened myself at 5:30, and I naturally will take the name of Ernest. 2.5 ::AND :=Jack: it extremely probable I never was, and so does Dr. Chasuble. It is entirely 2.5 ::AND :=Algernon: I haven't quite finished my tea yet! and there's is still one muffin left. 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: all communication between yourself and my daughter must cease immediately from 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: You are nothing of the kind, sir. And now, as regards Algernon! . . . Alge 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice. And 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: and acted under proper medical advice. And now that we have finally got rid of this 3.1 ::AND :=Cecily: Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Br 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: S.W..; Gervase Park, Dorking, Surrey; and the Sporran, Fifeshire, N.B. 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: solicitors are Messrs. Markby, Markby, and Markby. 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: Markby, Markby, and Markby? A firm of the very highest position 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: vaccination, confirmation, and the measles; both the German and English 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: and the measles; both the German and English variety. 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: Oh! about a hundred and thirty thousand pounds in the Funds. 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: A moment, Mr. Worthing. A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And in Funds! 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And in Funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: any of the qualities that last, and improve with time. We live, I regret 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: child! your dress is sadly simple, and your hair seems almost as nature might 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: one to young Lady Lancing, and after three months her own husband did 3.1 ::AND :=Jack: and after six months nobody knew her. 3.1 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: in our age are its want of principle and its want of profile. The chin a little 3.1 ::AND :=Algernon: prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social p 3.2 ::AND :=Jack: question. I am Miss Cardew's guardian, and she cannot marry without my consent until 3.2 ::AND :=Jack: ward. He subsequently stayed to tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what 3.2 ::AND :=Jack: tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what makes his conduct all the more heartless 3.2 ::AND :=Jack: brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don't intend to have a brother, 3.2 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: will not be very long before you are of age and free from the restraints of tutelage. 3.2 ::AND :=Cecily: but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite 3.2 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to 3.2 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: the way in which you wasted your time and money. 3.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: the pew-opener that for the last hour and a half Miss Prism has been waiting for 3.2 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: of vital importance to Lord Bracknell and myself. Is this Miss Prism a female repellent 3.2 ::AND :=Chasuble: She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability. 3.2 ::AND :=Jack: years Miss Cardew's esteemed governess and valued companion. 3.3 ::AND :=Miss Prism: been waiting for you there for an hour and three quarters. 3.3 ::AND :=Miss Prism: the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the handbag. 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. 3.3 ::AND :=Miss Prism: of a Gower Street omnibus in younger and happier days. Here is the stain on the 3.3 ::AND :=Miss Prism: incident that occurred at Leamington. And here, on the lock, are my initials. I 3.3 ::AND :=Jack: Why should there be one law for men, and another for women? Mother, I forgive 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: son of my poor sister, Mrs. Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brothe 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents. 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that 3.3 ::AND :=Lady Bracknell: and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind. 2.3 ::ANGEL :=Algernon: What a perfect angel you are, Cecily. 2.4 ::ANGUISH := it caused you any mental or physical anguish, but I feel bound to point out that 2.4 ::ANNOUNCEMENT :=Gwendolen: Ernest Worthing is engaged to me. The announcement will appear in the Morning Post 2.3 ::ANNOYED :=Cecily: Uncle Jack would be very much annoyed if he knew you were staying on till 1.2 ::ANNOYS :=Algernon: It is very foolish of you. Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. 2.3 ::ANOTHER :=Algernon: before I go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there she is. 3.3 ::ANOTHER :=Jack: should there be one law for men, and another for women? Mother, I forgive you 1.2 ::ANSWER :=Algernon: you to everyone as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as 3.1 ::ANSWER :=Cecily: is invaluable. Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. Why did 3.1 ::ANSWER :=Cecily: not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer. 3.3 ::ANSWER :=Jack: of more than one life depends on your answer. 1.4 ::ANSWERS :=Lady Bracknell: ready to enter your name, should your answers be what a really affectionate mother 2.1 ::ANXIETY :=Miss Prism: You must remember his constant anxiety about that unfortunate young man 1.5 ::ANXIOUS :=Algernon: Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that is all. 2.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Miss Prism: Child, you know how anxious your guardian is that you should 2.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Merriman: were in the garden. He said he was anxious to speak to you privately for a 2.1 ::ANXIOUS :=Algernon: have a business appointment that I am anxious . . . to miss. 2.4 ::ANXIOUS :=Gwendolen: from my mind. I was growing almost anxious. It would have been terrible if any 1.2 ::ANY :=Jack: indeed I think I'll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested 1.3 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with 1.3 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged 1.3 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: never seems to take much notice . . . as far as any improvement in his ailments 1.3 ::ANY :=Jack: I met you I have admired you more than any girl . . . I have ever met since . . 1.3 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: And I often wish that in public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative. 1.3 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does 1.3 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity 1.3 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: opportunity. And to spare you any possible disappointment, Mr. Worthing, 1.4 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. 1.4 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate. Now to minor matters. Are your 1.4 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: have just told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had 1.4 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before 1.4 ::ANY :=Jack: do that. I can produce the handbag at any moment. It is in my dressing-room at 1.5 ::ANY :=Jack: I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without 1.5 ::ANY :=Jack: that, I'd shoot myself . . . . You don't think there is any chance of Gwendolen 1.5 ::ANY :=Algernon: phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should 1.5 ::ANY :=Jack: where there is no definite object of any kind. 1.5 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: never shall. Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to 2.1 ::ANY :=Miss Prism: do not think that even I could produce any effect on a character that according 2.1 ::ANY :=Chasuble: must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer. 2.1 ::ANY :=Cecily: I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather 2.1 ::ANY :=Cecily: engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life, but still 2.1 ::ANY :=Algernon: have a button-hole first? I never have any appetite unless I have a button-hole 2.2 ::ANY :=Chasuble: In Paris! I fear that hardly points to any very serious state of mind at the last. 2.2 ::ANY :=Chasuble: wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present 2.2 ::ANY :=Chasuble: But is there any particular infant in whom you are interested, 2.2 ::ANY :=Jack: But it is not for any child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of 2.2 ::ANY :=Chasuble: But have you any grave doubts on the subject? 2.2 ::ANY :=Jack: know if the thing would bother you in any way, or if you think I am a little too 2.2 ::ANY :=Chasuble: dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would 2.3 ::ANY :=Jack: as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying here. 2.3 ::ANY :=Jack: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always 2.3 ::ANY :=Algernon: sweet Cecily, I have never written you any letters. 2.3 ::ANY :=Cecily: to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not 2.3 ::ANY :=Algernon: Oh, any name you like Q Algernon Q for instance 2.4 ::ANY :=Cecily: Oh no! I have no mother, nor, in fact, any relations. 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: that I think of it I have never heard any man mention his brother. The subject 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: It would have been terrible if any cloud had come across a friendship like 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: I am sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid 2.4 ::ANY := you, dear Gwendolen, if it caused you any mental or physical anguish, but I feel 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: poor fellow has been entrapped into any foolish promise I shall consider it my 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: I had no idea there were any flowers in the country. 2.4 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. 2.4 ::ANY :=Cecily: trusting boy from the machinations of any girl there are no lengths to which I 2.5 ::ANY :=Gwendolen: Had you never a brother of any kind? 2.5 ::ANY :=Jack: Never. Not even of any kind. 2.5 ::ANY :=Algernon: about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. I happen to be serious 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: Sit down immediately. Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: Indeed I have never undeceived him on any question. I would consider it wrong. 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway stations in London? 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little fortune? 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: her. Few girls of the present day have any really solid qualities, any of the qualities 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: day have any really solid qualities, any of the qualities that last, and improve 3.1 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment 3.2 ::ANY :=Jack: intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told him so myself 3.2 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: guardian's consent is, after all, a matter of any importance. 3.2 ::ANY :=Jack: Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. 3.2 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: five; if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the 3.3 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often 3.3 ::ANY :=Lady Bracknell: have no doubt his name would appear in any military directory. 2.3 ::ANYBODY :=Algernon: if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such 2.3 ::ANYBODY :=Algernon: care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love 2.4 ::ANYBODY :=Gwendolen: Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, 2.4 ::ANYBODY :=Gwendolen: manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country 2.4 ::ANYBODY :=Gwendolen: in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me 2.5 ::ANYBODY :=Jack: that I ever have been christened by anybody. I should think it extremely probable 3.2 ::ANYBODY :=Cecily: I hate waiting even five minutes for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. 1.1 ::ANYONE :=Lane: your sake. I don't play accurately Q anyone can play accurately Q but I play with 1.1 ::ANYONE :=Jack: mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know anyone of the name of Cecily. 1.2 ::ANYONE :=Algernon: Cecily, and you said you didn't know anyone of that name. 1.2 ::ANYONE :=Algernon: deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, or to anyone else. 1.3 ::ANYONE :=Jack: My own one, I have never loved anyone in the world but you. 1.4 ::ANYONE :=Lady Bracknell: Pardon me, you are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone, 2.3 ::ANYONE :=Algernon: I haven't heard anyone call me. 2.3 ::ANYONE :=Cecily: But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced 2.5 ::ANYONE :=Gwendolen: of us is engaged to be married to anyone. 2.5 ::ANYONE :=Algernon: when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell 3.1 ::ANYONE :=Gwendolen: follow us at once into the house, as anyone else would have done, seems to me 1.1 ::ANYTHING :=Algernon: I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very 1.2 ::ANYTHING :=Algernon: the smallest intention of doing anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined 1.2 ::ANYTHING :=Algernon: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of 1.4 ::ANYTHING :=Lady Bracknell: to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. 1.4 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: poachers are the only people who make anything out of it. 1.4 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: me to do? I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen's 1.5 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: a severe chill isn't hereditary, or anything of that kind? 1.5 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: extremely great friends. I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after 1.5 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. 2.1 ::ANYTHING :=Miss Prism: Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 2.2 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: I don't remember anything about it. 2.2 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: him talk to you about Bunbury or about anything else. It is enough to drive one 2.3 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: with me for a whole week as a guest anything else. You have got to leave . . 2.3 ::ANYTHING :=Algernon: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? 2.4 ::ANYTHING :=Cecily: Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always 2.5 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly 2.5 ::ANYTHING :=Jack: am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind. However I will tell 3.1 ::ANYTHING :=Lady Bracknell: I do not know whether there is anything peculiarly exciting in the air of 1.1 ::ANYWHERE :=Jack: pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy! 1.2 ::ANYWHERE :=Jack: I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere tonight. 1.5 ::ANYWHERE :=Jack: is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The 2.1 ::ANYWHERE :=Cecily: Couldn't you miss it anywhere but in London? 2.5 ::ANYWHERE :=Algernon: is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist 1.5 ::APOPLEXY :=Jack: of him. I'll say he died in Paris of apoplexy. Lots of people die of apoplexy, 1.5 ::APOPLEXY :=Jack: of apoplexy. Lots of people die of apoplexy, quite suddenly, don't they? 2.4 ::APPEAR :=Gwendolen: engaged to me. The announcement will appear in the Morning Post on Saturday at 3.1 ::APPEAR :=Gwendolen: German skepticism. Their explanations appear to me to be quite satisfactory, especially 3.3 ::APPEAR :=Jack: His name would appear in the Army Lists of the period, I 3.3 ::APPEAR :=Lady Bracknell: But I have no doubt his name would appear in any military directory. 2.4 ::APPEARANCE := be Q and not quite so very alluring in appearance. In fact, if I may speak candidly 2.3 ::APPEARS :=Cecily: meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order 1.5 ::APPETITE :=Jack: am glad to say. She has got a capital appetite, goes long walks, and pays no attention 2.1 ::APPETITE :=Algernon: a button-hole first? I never have any appetite unless I have a button-hole fir 2.1 ::APPOINTMENT :=Algernon: on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious . . . to m 2.1 ::APPOINTMENT :=Algernon: No; the appointment is in London. 1.2 ::APPRECIATE :=Jack: of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country 2.2 ::APPREHENSIONS :=Chasuble: You need have no apprehensions. Sprinkling is all that is 3.1 ::APPRISED :=Lady Bracknell: of physical weakness in the old. Apprised, sir, of my daughter's sudden flight 3.1 ::APPROACHES :=Lady Bracknell: experiences. Gwendolen! the time approaches for our departure. We have not 3.2 ::APPROACHES :=Chasuble: She approaches; she is nigh. 3.1 ::APPROACHING :=Cecily: They're approaching. That's very forward of them 1.1 ::APPROVE :=Algernon: I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve of your being here. 1.3 ::APPROVE :=Lady Bracknell: is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with the invalids. 1.4 ::APPROVE :=Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural 3.1 ::APPROVE :=Lady Bracknell: his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. When I married 3.2 ::APPROVE :=Jack: nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I 2.4 ::ARDUOUS :=Cecily: the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me. 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: And who are the people you amuse? 1.1 ::ARE :=Jack: How utterly unromantic you are! 1.1 ::ARE :=Jack: invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted. 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: speculating on that subject. Divorces are made in Heaven Q Please don't touch the 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta. 1.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: you were married to her already. You are not married to her already, and I don't 1.2 ::ARE :=Jack: on earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. That is 1.2 ::ARE :=Jack: that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. That is a matter that surely 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest looking person I ever 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you are 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: are kind enough to inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the count 1.2 ::ARE :=Jack: That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited . . . . I may 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: separate occasions. Now, go on. Why are you Ernest in town and Jack in the c 1.2 ::ARE :=Jack: to understand my real motives. You are hardly serious enough. When one is placed 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: in the daily papers. What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists 1.2 ::ARE :=Algernon: be serious about it. I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow 1.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. 1.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: Dear me, you are smart! 1.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: I'm sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged 1.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered 1.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: People always seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which 1.3 ::ARE :=Jack: I must say that I think there are lots of other much nicer names. I think 1.3 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: blue eyes you have, Ernest! They are quite, quite blue. I hope you will always 1.3 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: just like that, especially when there are other people present. 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: Pardon me, you are not engaged to anyone. When you do become 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: idle men in London as it is. How old are you? 1.4 ::ARE :=Jack: as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: Both, if necessary, I presume. What are your politics? 1.4 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: at any rate. Now to minor matters. Are your parents living? 1.4 ::ARE :=Jack: that ghastly tune, Algy! How idiot you are! 1.5 ::ARE :=Jack: trivet. As far as she is concerned, we are engaged. Her mother is perfectly unbearable. 1.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't 1.5 ::ARE :=Jack: You are sure a severe chill isn't hereditary, 1.5 ::ARE :=Jack: out to people. Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great 1.5 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: immoral attitude toward life. You are not quite old enough to do that. 1.5 ::ARE :=Jack: cared for in my life. What on earth are you so amused at? 1.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serio 1.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: looks a little bored when we three are together. 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't 2.1 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: your work, child, these speculations are profitless. 2.1 ::ARE :=Chasuble: And how are we this morning? Miss Prism, you are, 2.1 ::ARE :=Chasuble: are we this morning? Miss Prism, you are, I trust, well? 2.1 ::ARE :=Chasuble: I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. 2.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. 2.1 ::ARE := You are under some strange mistake. I am not 2.1 ::ARE := Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: I can't understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back 2.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: of Australia and the next world are not particularly encouraging. This world 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: Yes, but are you good enough for it? 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: You are looking a little worse. 2.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: Because you are like a pink rose, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: Prism is a short-sighted old lady. You are the prettiest girl I ever saw. 2.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare. 2.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: They are a snare that every sensible man would 2.2 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You 2.2 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green. I spoke horticulturally. My metaphor 2.2 ::ARE :=Jack: I expected. Dr. Chasuble, I hope you are well? 2.2 ::ARE :=Chasuble: dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible 2.2 ::ARE :=Jack: all right? I mean of course, you are continually christening, aren't you? 2.2 ::ARE :=Chasuble: any particular infant in whom you are interested, Mr. Worthing? Your brother 2.2 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: who live entirely for pleasure usually are. 2.2 ::ARE :=Chasuble: grief. What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. 2.2 ::ARE :=Chasuble: These are very joyful tidings. 2.2 ::ARE :=Cecily: Uncle Jack, you are not going to refuse your own brother's 2.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: What a fearful liar you are, Jack. I have not been called back to 2.3 ::ARE :=Jack: You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that. 2.3 ::ARE :=Jack: Your are certainly not staying with me for a whole 2.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: won't leave you so long as you are in mourning. It would be most unfriendly. 2.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take 2.3 ::ARE :=Jack: than being always overdressed as you are. 2.3 ::ARE := after I had broken off the engagement are so beautiful, and so badly spelled, that 2.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: What a perfect angel you are, Cecily. 2.3 ::ARE :=Algernon: chaps who get into Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But seriously, Cecily 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: one of the many good elderly women who are associated with Uncle Jack in some of 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: London. I don't quite like women who are interested in philanthropic work. I think 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: sweet name! Something tells me that we are going to be great friends. I like you 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: say. My first impressions of people are never wrong. 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: Mamma, whose views on education are remarkably strict, has brought me up 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: You are here on a short visit I suppose. 2.4 ::ARE := But I am bound to state that now you are Mr. Worthing's ward, I cannot help expressing 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: like our, would it not? Of course you are quite, quite sure that it is not Mr. 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: next week. Mr. Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married. 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: never reproach him with it after we are married. 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You are presumptuous. On an occasion of this 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: Are there many interesting walks in the vicinity, 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London. 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: is it not? I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from it just at the 2.4 ::ARE :=Cecily: the machinations of any girl there are no lengths to which I would not go. 2.4 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: My first impressions of people are invariably right. 2.5 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: A moment! May I ask if you are engaged to be married to this young 2.5 ::ARE :=Cecily: A moment, Ernest! May I ask you Q are you engaged to be married to this young 2.5 ::ARE :=Cecily: Are you called Algernon? 2.5 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother 2.5 ::ARE :=Cecily: No, men are so cowardly, aren't they? 2.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: about Bunburying. What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest 2.5 ::ARE :=Jack: there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make 2.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: That may be. But the muffins are the same. 2.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: my constitution can stand it. If you are not quite sure about your ever having 2.5 ::ARE :=Jack: Oh, that is nonsense; you are always talking nonsense. 2.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: Jack, you are at the muffins again! I wish you wouldn't. 2.5 ::ARE :=Algernon: again! I wish you wouldn't. There are only two left. I told you I was particularly 3.1 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: True! I had forgotten. There are principles at stake that one cannot surrender. 3.1 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. That is 3.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. That is 3.1 ::ARE :=Jack: Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoo 3.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoo 3.1 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: For my sake you are prepared to do this terrible thing? 3.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: To please me you are ready to face this fearful ordeal? 3.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond 3.1 ::ARE :=Algernon: of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. 3.1 ::ARE :=Jack: We are. 3.1 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: You are nothing of the kind, sir. And now, as 3.1 ::ARE :=Cecily: Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknel 3.1 ::ARE :=Jack: the Court Guides of the period. They are open to your inspection, Lady Brackn 3.1 ::ARE :=Jack: Miss Cardew's family solicitors are Messrs. Markby, Markby, and Markby. 3.1 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: want. Yes, quite as I expected. There are distinct social possibilities in your 3.1 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: The two weak points in our age are its want of principle and its want of 3.1 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. Alg 3.1 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: There are distinct social possibilities in Miss 3.2 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: Come here, sweet child. How old are you, dear? 3.2 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: You are perfectly right in making some slight 3.2 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: Well, it will not be very long before you are of age and free from the restraints 3.2 ::ARE :=Chasuble: Am I to understand then that there are to be no christenings at all this af 3.2 ::ARE :=Jack: I don't think that, as things are now, it would be of much practical value 3.3 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: I did. The plain facts of the case are these. On the morning of the day you 3.3 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you 3.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur. They are hardly 3.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: are not supposed to occur. They are hardly considered the thing. 3.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. 3.3 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: at Leamington. And here, on the lock, are my initials. I had forgotten that in 3.3 ::ARE :=Miss Prism: lady who can tell you who you really are. 3.3 ::ARE :=Lady Bracknell: will not altogether please you. You are the son of my poor sister, Mrs. Moncrieff, 3.3 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: My own! But what own are you? What is your Christian name, now 3.3 ::ARE :=Jack: The Army Lists of the last forty years are here. These delightful records should 3.3 ::ARE :=Gwendolen: I can. For I feel that you are sure to change. 1.3 ::AREN'T :=Gwendolen: I am always smart! Aren't I, Mr. Worthing? 2.2 ::AREN'T :=Jack: you are continually christening, aren't you? 2.5 ::AREN'T :=Cecily: No, men are so cowardly, aren't they? 1.5 ::ARGUE :=Jack: Well, I won't argue about the matter. You always want to 1.5 ::ARGUE :=Jack: about the matter. You always want to argue about things. 3.3 ::ARGUMENT :=Lady Bracknell: It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. 3.3 ::ARGUMENTS :=Lady Bracknell: he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, 1.4 ::ARISTOCRACY :=Lady Bracknell: of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy? 2.4 ::ARISTOCRACY :=Cecily: depression, is it not? I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from 2.3 ::ARISTOCRATIC :=Algernon: a bad name. In fact, it is rather an aristocratic name. Half of the chaps who 2.5 ::ARM :=Cecily: Miss Fairfax. The gentleman whose arm is at present round your waist is my 3.3 ::ARMY :=Jack: His name would appear in the Army Lists of the period, I suppose, Aunt 3.3 ::ARMY :=Jack: The Army Lists of the last forty years are here. 1.3 ::ARRANGE :=Lady Bracknell: have a relapse on Saturday, for I rely on you to arrange my music for me. It is 1.4 ::ARRANGE :=Lady Bracknell: a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . . And now I have 2.5 ::ARRANGEMENT :=Algernon: like that. Besides I have just made arrangement with Dr. Chasuble to be christened 2.3 ::ARRANGEMENTS :=Algernon: I must see her before I go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there 2.5 ::ARRANGEMENTS :=Jack: up that nonsense the better. I made arrangements this morning with Dr. Chasuble 3.3 ::ARRIVE :=Lady Bracknell: I wish he would arrive at some conclusion. 2.2 ::ARRIVED :=Cecily: Your brother Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago. 3.2 ::ARRIVED :=Lady Bracknell: has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was so 2.1 ::ARRIVES :=Cecily: you had better wait till Uncle Jack arrives. I know he wants to speak to you 1.1 ::AS :=Lane: but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment 1.1 ::AS :=Lane: play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been con 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that? 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of 1.1 ::AS :=Jack: else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy! 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: is perfectly disgraceful. Is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: disgraceful. Is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all. You behave 1.1 ::AS :=Algernon: were going to eat it all. You behave as if you were married to her already. You 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: I have introduced you to everyone as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: B. 4, The Albany." I'll keep this as a proof that your name is Ernest if ever 1.2 ::AS :=Jack: My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: of that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you 1.2 ::AS :=Jack: Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect that 1.2 ::AS :=Jack: It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: of you. Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. RESP Jack. 1.2 ::AS :=Algernon: I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and send down 1.3 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: but he never seems to take much notice . . . as far as any improvement in his ailments 1.3 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: he never seems to take much notice . . . as far as any improvement in his ailments 1.3 ::AS :=Gwendolen: far from indifferent to you. We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age 1.3 ::AS :=Gwendolen: all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them. 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: men, although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you? 1.4 ::AS :=Jack: on that for my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are 1.4 ::AS :=Jack: for my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: that unfortunate movement led to? As for the particular locality in which the 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: now Q but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite 1.4 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort 1.5 ::AS :=Jack: Oh, Gwendolen is as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, 1.5 ::AS :=Jack: Oh, Gwendolen is as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, 1.5 ::AS :=Jack: Oh, Gwendolen is as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, we are engaged. 1.5 ::AS :=Jack: is as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, we are engaged. Her 1.5 ::AS :=Algernon: It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life 1.5 ::AS :=Algernon: perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should 1.5 ::AS :=Gwendolen: The story of your romantic origin, as related to me by Mamma, with unpleasing 2.1 ::AS :=Miss Prism: Surely such a utilitarian occupation as the watering of flowers is rather Moulton's 2.1 ::AS :=Miss Prism: laid particular stress on your German, as he was leaving for town yesterday. Indeed, 2.1 ::AS :=Miss Prism: in one so comparatively young as he is. I know no one who has a higher 2.1 ::AS :=Miss Prism: into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap. You must put 2.1 ::AS :=Chasuble: one of whose sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young 2.1 ::AS :=Chasuble: Miss Prism, with pleasure. We might go as far as the schools and back. 2.1 ::AS :=Chasuble: with pleasure. We might go as far as the schools and back. 2.2 ::AS :=Chasuble: so neologistic a phrase. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive 2.2 ::AS :=Chasuble: a phrase. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church was 2.2 ::AS :=Miss Prism: As a man sows, so shall he reap. 2.2 ::AS :=Chasuble: to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. I have 2.2 ::AS :=Chasuble: I delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society 2.2 ::AS :=Cecily: Uncle Jack? Do look happy! You look as if you had toothache, and I have got such 2.2 ::AS :=Cecily: brother. You couldn't be so heartless as to disown him. I'll tell him to come out. 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: Algy, you must get out of this place as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: you must get out of this place as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. 2.3 ::AS :=Algernon: My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with 2.3 ::AS :=Algernon: a whole week with you in your house as a guest. 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: not staying with me for a whole week as a guest anything else. You have got to 2.3 ::AS :=Algernon: I certainly won't leave you so long as you are in mourning. It would be most 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: better than being always overdressed as you are. 2.3 ::AS :=Jack: journey back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success 2.3 ::AS :=Cecily: should leave me for so long a period as half an hour. Couldn't you make it twenty 2.4 ::AS :=Gwendolen: unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to 2.4 ::AS :=Gwendolen: truth and honour. Disloyalty would be as impossilbe to him as deception. But even 2.4 ::AS :=Gwendolen: would be as impossilbe to him as deception. But even men of the noblest 2.4 ::AS :=Gwendolen: Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You are presumptuous. 2.4 ::AS :=Merriman: Shall I lay tea here as usual, Miss? 2.4 ::AS :=Cecily: Yes, as usual. 2.4 ::AS :=Cecily: Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are 2.4 ::AS :=Cecily: are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London. 2.5 ::AS :=Jack: run down to the country quite so often as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very 2.5 ::AS :=Algernon: to London quite so frequently as your wicked custom was. And not a bad 2.5 ::AS :=Jack: As for your conduct towards Miss Cardew, 2.5 ::AS :=Algernon: when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell 3.1 ::AS :=Gwendolen: not follow us at once into the house, as anyone else would have done, seems to 3.1 ::AS :=Gwendolen: of coming up to town to see me as often as possible. 3.1 ::AS :=Gwendolen: coming up to town to see me as often as possible. 3.1 ::AS :=Gwendolen: I nearly always speak at the same time as other people. Will you take time from 3.1 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: from this moment. On this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm. 3.1 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: are nothing of the kind, sir. And now, as regards Algernon! . . . Algernon! 3.1 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: We have not a moment to lose. As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I had 3.1 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: simple, and your hair seems almost as nature might have left it. But we can 3.1 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: side view is what I want. Yes, quite as I expected. There are distinct social 3.2 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: You may also address me as Aunt Augusta for the future. 3.2 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: My dear Mr. Worthing, as Miss Cardew states positively that she 3.2 ::AS :=Jack: I don't think that, as things are now, it would be of much practical 3.2 ::AS :=Chasuble: of my unpublished sermons. However, as your present mood seems to be one peculiarly 3.3 ::AS :=Miss Prism: ever branded on my memory, I prepared as usual to take the baby out in its perambulator. 3.3 ::AS :=Lady Bracknell: is extremely unpleasant. It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike 1.1 ::ASK :=Algernon: invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. 1.1 ::ASK :=Jack: May I ask why? 1.3 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: his ailments goes. I should be obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to 1.4 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: Finished what, may I ask? 1.4 ::ASK :=Jack: May I ask you then what you would advise me to 2.1 ::ASK :=Cecily: Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here. I suppose 2.4 ::ASK :=Cecily: Pray ask the lady to come out here; Mr. Worthing 2.5 ::ASK :=Gwendolen: A moment! May I ask if you are engaged to be married to this 2.5 ::ASK :=Cecily: A moment, Ernest! May I ask you Q are you engaged to be married to 2.5 ::ASK :=Cecily: question I would like to be allowed to ask my guardian. 2.5 ::ASK :=Algernon: You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. 3.1 ::ASK :=Gwendolen: I have something very particular to ask you. Much depends on your reply. 3.1 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid 3.1 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: got rid of this Mr. Bunbury, may I ask, Mr. Worthing, who is that young person 3.1 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: of form, Mr. Worthing, I had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little fo 3.2 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: Upon what grounds may I ask? Algernon is an extremely, I may almost 3.2 ::ASK :=Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person. May I ask what position she holds in your hous 3.3 ::ASK :=Miss Prism: Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing. 1.2 ::ASKED :=Jack: I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere tonig 2.4 ::ASKED :=Gwendolen: It is certainly very curious for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon 2.4 ::ASKED :=Gwendolen: tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked you most distinctly for bread and butter, 3.2 ::ASPECT :=Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female repellent aspect, remotely connected with educatio 2.4 ::ASSISTANCE :=Cecily: My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous 2.4 ::ASSOCIATED :=Cecily: of the many good elderly women who are associated with Uncle Jack in some of his 3.2 ::ASSUMED :=Jack: pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, I've just been informed 1.4 ::ASSURED :=Lady Bracknell: but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in 2.2 ::ASTRAY :=Miss Prism: very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. 1.1 ::AT :=Algernon: Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants 1.1 ::AT :=Algernon: to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. Where have you been since 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: makes no matter, for, now that I look at the inscription inside, I find that the 1.2 ::AT :=Jack: Charming old lady she is, too. Lives at Tunbridge Wells. Just give it back to 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge Wells? "From little Cecily with 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: out. Besides, your name isn't Jack at all, it is Ernest. 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: that your small Aunt Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dear uncle. 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: you had much better have the thing out at once. 1.2 ::AT :=Jack: improbable about my explanation at all. In fact it's perfectly ordinary. 1.2 ::AT :=Jack: could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge 1.2 ::AT :=Jack: That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: leave that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's tonight, for I have been really 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: and send down with either no woman at all, or two. In the third place, I know 1.2 ::AT :=Jack: I'm not a Bunburyist at all. If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going 1.2 ::AT :=Algernon: Gwendolen, may I dine with you tonight at Willis's? 1.3 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the 1.3 ::AT :=Gwendolen: fact. And I often wish that in public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative. 1.3 ::AT :=Gwendolen: speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, 1.3 ::AT :=Jack: name Ernest . . . I don't think the name suits me at all. 1.3 ::AT :=Gwendolen: there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not 1.3 ::AT :=Jack: Gwendolen, I must get christened at once Q I mean we must get married at once. 1.3 ::AT :=Jack: at once Q I mean we must get married at once. There is no time to be lost. 1.3 ::AT :=Gwendolen: to me yet. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject has not 1.3 ::AT :=Gwendolen: blue. I hope you will always look at me just like that, especially when there 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect 1.4 ::AT :=Jack: I can get it back whenever I like, at six month's notice. 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: dine with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate. Now to minor matters. Are your 1.4 ::AT :=Jack: ticket for Worthing in his pocket at the time. Worthing is a place in Sussex. 1.4 ::AT :=Jack: In the cloakroom at Victoria Station. It was given to him 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: The cloakroom at Victoria Station? 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: the handbag was found, a cloakroom at a railway station might serve to conceal 1.4 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before 1.4 ::AT :=Jack: to do that. I can produce the handbag at any moment. It is in my dressing-room 1.4 ::AT :=Jack: any moment. It is in my dressing-room at home. I really think that should satisfy 1.5 ::AT :=Algernon: thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack 1.5 ::AT :=Jack: goes long walks, and pays no attention at all to her lessons. 1.5 ::AT :=Algernon: boy, if we want to get a good table at Willis's, we really must go and dress. 1.5 ::AT :=Algernon: Well, we might trot round to the Empire at ten? 1.5 ::AT :=Jack: Oh no! I can't bear looking at things. It is so silly. 1.5 ::AT :=Algernon: I don't think I can allow this at all. 1.5 ::AT :=Gwendolen: I ever had over Mamma, I lost at the age of three. But although she may 1.5 ::AT :=Gwendolen: to me. Your town address at the Albany I have. What is your address 1.5 ::AT :=Jack: life. What on earth are you so amused at? 2.1 ::AT :=Miss Prism: Moulton's duty than yours? Especially at the moment when intellectual pleasures 2.1 ::AT :=Miss Prism: grammar is on the table. Pray open it at page fifteen. We will repeat yesterday's 2.1 ::AT :=Cecily: But I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language. I know perfectly 2.1 ::AT :=Miss Prism: Cecily! I am surprised at you. Mr. Worthing has many troubles in 2.1 ::AT :=Miss Prism: turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let 2.1 ::AT :=Miss Prism: don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 2.1 ::AT :=Chasuble: authors. I shall see you both no doubt at Evensong? 2.1 ::AT :=Algernon: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think 2.1 ::AT :=Cecily: I can't understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday 2.1 ::AT :=Algernon: my outfit. He has no taste in neckties at all. 2.1 ::AT :=Cecily: Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night, that you would 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: you my sincere condolence. You have at least the consolation of knowing that 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: Very sad indeed. Were you with him at the end? 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: to any very serious state of mind at the last. You would no doubt wish me to 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: case, distressing. I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: Not at all. The sprinkling, and indeed, the immersion 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: Our weather is so changeable. At what hour would you wish the ceremony 2.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: have two similar ceremonies to perform at that time. A case of twins that occurred 2.3 ::AT :=Jack: Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest has been suddenly called 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: I have not been called back to town at all. 2.3 ::AT :=Jack: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always 2.3 ::AT :=Merriman: The dog-cart is at the door, sir. 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: Tell it to come round next week, at the same hour. 2.3 ::AT :=Cecily: you were staying on till next week, at the same hour. 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: What had I done? I had done nothing at all. Cecily, I am very much hurt indeed 2.3 ::AT :=Cecily: if it hadn't been broken off at least once. But I forgave you before the 2.3 ::AT :=Cecily: You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: to the name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In fact, it is rather 2.3 ::AT :=Algernon: I must see him at once on a most important christening Q 2.4 ::AT :=Gwendolen: her system; so do you mind my looking at you through my glasses? 2.4 ::AT :=Cecily: Oh! not at all, Gwendolen. I am very fond of being 2.4 ::AT :=Cecily: I am very fond of being looked at. 2.4 ::AT :=Gwendolen: appear in the Morning Post on Saturday at the latest. 2.4 ::AT :=Gwendolen: me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30. If you would care to verify the 2.4 ::AT :=Gwendolen: consider it my duty to rescue him at once, and with a firm hand. 2.4 ::AT :=Cecily: are suffering very much from it just at the present. It is almost an epidemic 2.4 ::AT := butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays. 2.5 ::AT :=Cecily: Fairfax. The gentleman whose arm is at present round your waist is my dear guardian, 2.5 ::AT :=Gwendolen: to know where your brother Ernest is at present. 2.5 ::AT :=Jack: no brother Ernest. I have no brother at all. I never had a brother in my life, 2.5 ::AT :=Cecily: No brother at all? 2.5 ::AT :=Algernon: I can see no possible defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, 2.5 ::AT :=Algernon: stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. 2.5 ::AT :=Jack: heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. 2.5 ::AT :=Algernon: everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins 2.5 ::AT :=Algernon: with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter of six under the name of Er 2.5 ::AT :=Jack: Dr. Chasuble to be christened myself at 5:30, and I naturally will take the name 2.5 ::AT :=Jack: if I like. There is no evidence at all that I ever have been christened by 2.5 ::AT :=Algernon: Jack, you are at the muffins again! I wish you wouldn't. 3.1 ::AT :=Gwendolen: The fact that they did not follow us at once into the house, as anyone else would 3.1 ::AT :=Gwendolen: They don't seem to notice us at all. Couldn't you cough? 3.1 ::AT :=Gwendolen: They're looking at us. What effrontery! 3.1 ::AT :=Gwendolen: I had forgotten. There are principles at stake that one cannot surrender. Which 3.1 ::AT :=Cecily: Could we not both speak at the same time? 3.1 ::AT :=Gwendolen: excellent idea! I nearly always speak at the same time as other people. Will you 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: means of a small coin, I followed her at once by a luggage train. Her unhappy father 3.1 ::AT :=Algernon: live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead. 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: of place. Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: Mr. Marksby is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties. So far I am satisfied 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: attractive young lady, now that I look at her. Few girls of the present day have 3.1 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. Algernon! 3.2 ::AT :=Jack: but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: . . Eighteen, but admitting to twenty at evening parties. Well, it will 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was so many years 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: not be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she is at present. 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: at the age you mention than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious! 3.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: that there are to be no christenings at all this afternoon? 3.2 ::AT :=Chasuble: secular, I will return to the church at once. Indeed, I have just been informed 3.2 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: of what I hear of her, I must see her at once. Let her be sent for. 3.3 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote 3.3 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: I wish he would arrive at some conclusion. 3.3 ::AT :=Miss Prism: beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington. And here, on the lock, are 3.3 ::AT :=Jack: the question had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. At the time 3.3 ::AT :=Jack: up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. At the time when Miss Prism left me in the 3.3 ::AT :=Lady Bracknell: I cannot at the present moment recall what the General's 3.3 ::AT :=Miss Prism: Frederick! At last! 3.3 ::AT :=Algernon: Cecily! At last! 3.3 ::AT :=Jack: Gwendolen! At last! 1.4 ::ATTACHED :=Jack: house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, 1.2 ::ATTEMPT :=Algernon: that your name is Ernest if ever you attempt to deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, 3.1 ::ATTENDING :=Lady Bracknell: say, under the impression that she is attending a more than usually lengthy lecture 1.5 ::ATTENTION :=Jack: appetite, goes long walks, and pays no attention at all to her lessons. 2.3 ::ATTENTION :=Cecily: not be able to give you my undivided attention. 1.3 ::ATTENTIVE :=Lady Bracknell: She is such a nice woman, and so attentive to her husband. It's delightful 1.5 ::ATTITUDE :=Gwendolen: you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude toward life. You are not quite old 2.2 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? 2.2 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. 2.3 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Cecily: is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must be something 2.4 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Gwendolen: don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. Cecily, Mamma, whose views on 3.1 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Lady Bracknell: Funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at 3.2 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Lady Bracknell: grave objection. Thirty five is a very attractive age. London society is full of 3.2 ::ATTRACTIVE :=Lady Bracknell: Cecily should not be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she 1.1 ::ATTRIBUTE :=Lane: I attribute it to the superior quality of the 1.1 ::AUGUST :=Algernon: Oh! merely Aunt August and Gwendolen. 1.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve of your being 1.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta. 1.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week. 1.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta. 1.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: about. Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever 1.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. 1.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: Certainly, Aunt Augusta. 1.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, 1.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to give up the pleasure 1.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta, if he is still conscious, and I 3.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: Yes, Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: My dear Aunt Augusta. I mean he was found out! The doctors 3.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: engaged to be married to Cecily Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: Yes, Aunt Augusta! 3.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Algernon: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Lady Bracknell: You may also address me as Aunt Augusta for the future. 3.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Cecily: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Lady Bracknell: soon. RESP Algernon. Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUGUSTA :=Cecily: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Jack: had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. At the time when Miss 3.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Jack: Lists of the period, I suppose, Aunt Augusta? 3.3 ::AUGUSTA :=Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first 1.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Oh! merely Aunt August and Gwendolen. 1.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve of your 1.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta. 1.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: is quite a different matter. She is my aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread 1.2 ::AUNT :=Jack: want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt. 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Your aunt! 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: she call herself Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge Wells? "From 1.2 ::AUNT :=Jack: tall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. 1.2 ::AUNT :=Jack: herself. You seem to think that every aunt should be exactly like your aunt! That 1.2 ::AUNT :=Jack: every aunt should be exactly like your aunt! That is absurd! For Heaven's sake give 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Yes, But why does your aunt call you her uncle? "From little Cecily, 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: account for the fact that your small Aunt Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week. 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: You had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta. 1.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: competition about. Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, 1.3 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. 1.3 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Certainly, Aunt Augusta. 1.3 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, 1.3 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to give up the 1.3 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta, if he is still conscious, and 1.5 ::AUNT :=Jack: . . I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn't talk about your own aunt in that 3.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Yes, Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: My dear Aunt Augusta. I mean he was found out! The 3.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: I am engaged to be married to Cecily Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Yes, Aunt Augusta! 3.2 ::AUNT :=Algernon: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUNT :=Lady Bracknell: You may also address me as Aunt Augusta for the future. 3.2 ::AUNT :=Cecily: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUNT :=Lady Bracknell: quite soon. RESP Algernon. Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.2 ::AUNT :=Cecily: Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 3.3 ::AUNT :=Jack: had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. At the time when 3.3 ::AUNT :=Jack: Army Lists of the period, I suppose, Aunt Augusta? 3.3 ::AUNT :=Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first 1.2 ::AUNTS :=Jack: what on earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. 1.2 ::AUNTS :=Jack: in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. That is a matter that 2.1 ::AUSTRALIA :=Cecily: neckties. Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia. 2.1 ::AUSTRALIA :=Algernon: Australia? I'd sooner die. 2.1 ::AUSTRALIA :=Cecily: this world, the next world, and Australia. 2.1 ::AUSTRALIA :=Algernon: well! The accounts I have received of Australia and the next world are not particularly 3.1 ::AUTHENTICITY :=Lady Bracknell: But what proof have I of their authenticity? 2.1 ::AUTHORS :=Chasuble: allusion merely, drawn from the pagan authors. I shall see you both no doubt at 3.1 ::AVERAGE :=Lady Bracknell: to me considerably above the proper average that statistics have laid down for 2.1 ::AWAIT :=Miss Prism: the moment when intellectual pleasures await you. Your German grammar is on the 1.2 ::AWARE :=Jack: I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to 1.3 ::AWARE :=Gwendolen: Yes, I am quite aware of the fact. And I often wish that 3.1 ::AWARE :=Lady Bracknell: of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in 3.2 ::AWARE :=Jack: is, that he was perfectly well aware from the first that I have no brother, 3.2 ::AWARE :=Lady Bracknell: You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the 2.1 ::AWAY :=Miss Prism: man sows so let him reap. You must put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see 2.3 ::AWAY :=Algernon: He's going to send me away. 2.3 ::AWAY :=Algernon: I shan't be away more than a half an hour. 1.5 ::AWFULLY :=Jack: Nothing! RESP Algernon. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, 1.2 ::B :=Algernon: is one of them. "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B. 4, The Albany." I'll keep this as a proof 2.2 ::BABIES :=Jack: in being christened along with other babies. It would be childish. Would half-past 3.3 ::BABY :=Lady Bracknell: Come here, Prism! Prism! Where is that baby? Twenty-eight years ago, Prism, you 3.3 ::BABY :=Lady Bracknell: of a perambulator that contained a baby, of the male sex. You never returned. 3.3 ::BABY :=Lady Bracknell: revolting sentimentality. But the baby was not there! Prism! Where is that 3.3 ::BABY :=Lady Bracknell: was not there! Prism! Where is that baby? 3.3 ::BABY :=Miss Prism: I prepared as usual to take the baby out in its perambulator. I had also 3.3 ::BABY :=Miss Prism: in the basinette, and placed the baby in the handbag. 3.3 ::BABY :=Jack: to you than this handbag. I was the baby you placed in it. 1.1 ::BACHELOR'S :=Algernon: Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably 1.1 ::BACHELORS :=Algernon: for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place. 1.2 ::BACK :=Jack: I simply want my cigarette case back. 1.2 ::BACK :=Jack: Lives at Tunbridge Wells. Just give it back to me, Algy. 1.2 ::BACK :=Jack: is absurd! For Heaven's sake give me back my cigarette case. 1.3 ::BACK :=Gwendolen: to do so. Mamma has a way of coming back suddenly into a room that I have often 1.4 ::BACK :=Jack: Lady Bloxham. Of course, I can get it back whenever I like, at six month's not 1.5 ::BACK :=Gwendolen: Algy, kindly turn your back. I have something very particular to 1.5 ::BACK :=Algernon: I shall probably not be back till Monday. You can put up my dress 2.1 ::BACK :=Chasuble: We might go as far as the schools and back. 2.1 ::BACK :=Cecily: are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon. 2.2 ::BACK :=Cecily: Uncle Jack! Oh, I am pleased to see you back. But what horrid clothes you have got 2.3 ::BACK :=Jack: Mr. Ernest has been suddenly called back to town. 2.3 ::BACK :=Algernon: you are, Jack. I have not been called back to town at all. 2.3 ::BACK :=Jack: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. 2.3 ::BACK :=Jack: hope you will have a pleasant journey back to town. This Bunburying, as you call 2.3 ::BACK :=Cecily: Oh, I merely came back to water the roses. I thought you were 2.3 ::BACK :=Algernon: I'll be back in no time. 2.4 ::BACK :=Cecily: out here; Mr. Worthing is sure to be back soon. And you can bring tea. 1.1 ::BAD :=Algernon: is perfectly disgraceful. Is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you 1.2 ::BAD :=Jack: That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. 1.2 ::BAD :=Algernon: it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able 1.2 ::BAD :=Algernon: own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's 1.3 ::BAD :=Lady Bracknell: Bunbury seems to suffer from curiously bad health. 1.3 ::BAD :=Algernon: people don't listen, and if one plays bad music, people don't talk. But I'll run 2.1 ::BAD :=Miss Prism: favor of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's 2.1 ::BAD :=Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction mean 2.1 ::BAD :=Algernon: mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. 2.3 ::BAD :=Cecily: brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief 2.3 ::BAD :=Cecily: always given for your leading such a bad life. And this is the box in which I 2.3 ::BAD :=Algernon: name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In fact, it is rather an aristocratic 2.5 ::BAD :=Algernon: as your wicked custom was. And not a bad thing either. 2.2 ::BADLY :=Cecily: Oh, don't say that. However badly he may behaved to you in the past he 2.3 ::BADLY := engagement are so beautiful, and so badly spelled, that even now I can hardly 3.3 ::BAG :=Miss Prism: mood I had had them placed there. The bag is undoubtedly mine. I am delighted to 2.3 ::BANGLE :=Cecily: in your name, and this is the little bangle with the true lovers' knot I promised 2.3 ::BANKRUPTCY :=Algernon: name. Half of the chaps who get into Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But 3.1 ::BAPTISM :=Jack: certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, registration, vaccination, 3.2 ::BAPTISM :=Chasuble: have expressed a desire for immediate baptism. 3.2 ::BAPTIZED :=Lady Bracknell: Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. I will not hear of such excesses. 3.1 ::BARRIER :=Gwendolen: names are still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.1 ::BARRIER :=Cecily: names are still an insuperable barrier. That is all! 3.3 ::BASINETTE :=Miss Prism: I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the ha 1.4 ::BASIS :=Lady Bracknell: could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in good 3.3 ::BAYSWATER :=Lady Bracknell: by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained the manuscript of 1.1 ::BE :=Algernon: in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic 1.1 ::BE :=Algernon: a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then 1.1 ::BE :=Algernon: and I don't think you ever will be. 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: wish you would offer one. I happen to be more than usually hard up. 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt. 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. You seem 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: seem to think that every aunt should be exactly like your aunt! That is absurd! 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited . . . . I may tell you candidly 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand my real motives. You 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's tonight, 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: linen in public. Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist, I 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cy 1.2 ::BE :=Jack: to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: competition about. Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, 1.2 ::BE :=Algernon: Yes, but you must be serious about it. I hate people who are 1.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. 1.3 ::BE :=Algernon: ill again. They seem to think I should be with him. 1.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary 1.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: far as any improvement in his ailments goes. I should be obliged if you would ask 1.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a 1.3 ::BE :=Algernon: and I think I can promise you he'll be all right by Saturday. Of course the music 1.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: of you. I'm sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. 1.3 ::BE :=Jack: And I would like to be allowed to take advantage of Lady Bracknell's 1.3 ::BE :=Gwendolen: I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never 1.3 ::BE :=Jack: married at once. There is no time to be lost. 1.3 ::BE :=Gwendolen: I think it would be an admirable opportunity. And to spare 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . . . . 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: enter your name, should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires. 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country. 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: something. However, that could easily be altered. 1.4 ::BE :=Jack: I said I had lost my parents. It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: by what you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, 1.4 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: before now Q but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized 1.5 ::BE :=Algernon: observation in civilized life should be. 1.5 ::BE :=Jack: and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends. I'll bet you 1.5 ::BE :=Jack: an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. 1.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: Ernest, we may never be married. From the expression on Mamma's 1.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: good postal service, I suppose? It may be necessary to do something desperate. That 1.5 ::BE :=Algernon: I shall probably not be back till Monday. You can put up my dress 1.5 ::BE :=Algernon: I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane. 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: is so serious that I think he cannot be quite well. 2.1 ::BE :=Miss Prism: gravity of demeanor is especially to be commended in one so comparatively young 2.1 ::BE :=Miss Prism: Idle merriment and triviality would be out of place in his conversation. You 2.1 ::BE :=Chasuble: is strange. Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil, I would hang upon 2.1 ::BE :=Chasuble: young man his brother seems to be. But I must not disturb Egeria and her 2.1 ::BE :=Miss Prism: That would be delightful. Cecily, you will read your 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon. 2.1 ::BE :=Cecily: I don't think it can be right for you to talk to me like that. 2.1 ::BE :=Algernon: that every sensible man would like to be caught in. 2.2 ::BE :=Miss Prism: public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads 2.2 ::BE :=Miss Prism: of the woman. Maturity can always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. 2.2 ::BE :=Miss Prism: always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green. I spoke 2.2 ::BE :=Jack: He seemed to have expressed a desire to be buried in Paris. 2.2 ::BE :=Chasuble: of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, 2.2 ::BE :=Jack: No! the fact is, I would like to be christened myself, this afternoon, if 2.2 ::BE :=Jack: along with other babies. It would be childish. Would half-past five do? 2.2 ::BE :=Chasuble: sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seems 2.2 ::BE :=Cecily: he is still your brother. You couldn't be so heartless as to disown him. I'll tell 2.2 ::BE :=Cecily: Uncle Jack, do be nice. There is some good in everyone. 2.2 ::BE :=Cecily: visit so often. And surely there must be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, 2.2 ::BE :=Miss Prism: We must not be premature in our judgments. 2.3 ::BE :=Algernon: change? It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually 2.3 ::BE :=Algernon: long as you are in mourning. It would be most unfriendly. If I were in mourning 2.3 ::BE :=Algernon: and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification 2.3 ::BE :=Cecily: Uncle Jack would be very much annoyed if he knew you were 2.3 ::BE :=Cecily: Yes, it will be exactly three months on Thursday. 2.3 ::BE :=Cecily: very attractive. One feels there must be something in him after all. I daresay 2.3 ::BE :=Cecily: but I fear that I should not be able to give you my undivided attenti 2.3 ::BE :=Algernon: I shan't be away more than a half an hour. 2.3 ::BE :=Algernon: I'll be back in no time. 2.4 ::BE :=Cecily: come out here; Mr. Worthing is sure to be back soon. And you can bring tea. 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: tells me that we are going to be great friends. I like you already more 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: Perhaps this might be a favourable opportunity for my mentioning 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: strict, has brought me up to be extremely short-sighted; it is part of 2.4 ::BE := just a little older than you seem to be Q and not quite so very alluring in appearance. 2.4 ::BE :=Cecily: unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: of truth and honour. Disloyalty would be as impossilbe to him as deception. But 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: it were not so, indeed, history would be quite unreadable. 2.4 ::BE :=Cecily: Quite sure. In fact, I am going to be his. 2.4 ::BE :=Cecily: Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married. 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: My darling Cecily, I think there must be some slight error. Mr. Ernest Worthing 2.4 ::BE :=Cecily: I am afraid you must be under some misconception. Ernest proposed 2.4 ::BE :=Gwendolen: very curious for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30. 2.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: May I ask if you are engaged to be married to this young lady? 2.5 ::BE :=Cecily: I knew there must be some misunderstanding, Miss Fairfax. The 2.5 ::BE :=Cecily: May I ask you Q are you engaged to be married to this young lady? 2.5 ::BE :=Cecily: is just one question I would like to be allowed to ask my guardian. 2.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your 2.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: Cecily Q it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first 2.5 ::BE :=Gwendolen: that neither of us is engaged to be married to anyone. 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: any amusement in life. I happen to be serious about Bunburying. What on earth 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: Bunbury is quite exploded. You won't be able to run down to the country quite 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: colour, isn't he, dear Jack? You won't be able to disappear to London quite so frequently 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: I wanted to be engaged to Gwendolen, that is all. I love 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: Well, I simply wanted to be engaged to Cecily. I adore her. 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless. 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: That may be. But the muffins are the same. 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: made arrangement with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter of six under the 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: this morning with Dr. Chasuble to be christened myself at 5:30, and I naturally 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: Gwendolen would wish it. We can't both be christened Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, 2.5 ::BE :=Jack: Besides, I have a perfect right to be christened if I like. There is no evidence 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: It usen't to be, I know Q but I daresay it is now. Science 2.5 ::BE :=Algernon: on earth then do you allow tea-cake to be served up for your guests? What ideas 3.1 ::BE :=Gwendolen: But we will not be the first to speak. 3.1 ::BE :=Cecily: question. Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother? 3.1 ::BE :=Gwendolen: Their explanations appear to me to be quite satisfactory, especially Mr. Worthing's. 3.1 ::BE :=Jack: Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.1 ::BE :=Algernon: Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.1 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: Gwendolen. Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, Mamma. 3.1 ::BE :=Jack: I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen, lady Bracknell! 3.1 ::BE :=Algernon: I am engaged to be married to Cecily Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::BE :=Cecily: Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell. 3.1 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: inquiry on my part would not be out of place. Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew 3.1 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: of the Mr. Marksby is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties. So far I am s 3.1 ::BE :=Jack: I have also in my possession, you will be pleased to hear, certificates of Miss 3.2 ::BE :=Jack: I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: to twenty at evening parties. Well, it will not be very long before you are of age 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty five is a very 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more attractive at the age 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property. 3.2 ::BE :=Cecily: in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite out of the question 3.2 ::BE :=Algernon: Then what is to be done, Cecily. 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: You must be quite aware that what you propose is out 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. I will not hear of such excesses. 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: of such excesses. Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased if he learned that was 3.2 ::BE :=Chasuble: I to understand then that there are to be no christenings at all this afternoon 3.2 ::BE :=Jack: that, as things are now, it would be of much practical value to either of us, 3.2 ::BE :=Chasuble: However, as your present mood seems to be one peculiarly secular, I will return 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: for a moment. This matter may prove to be one of vital importance to Lord Bracknell 3.2 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: her, I must see her at once. Let her be sent for. 3.3 ::BE :=Miss Prism: It seems to be mine. Yes, here is the injury it received 3.3 ::BE :=Jack: out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for men, and another for women? 3.3 ::BE :=Jack: Then the question had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. 3.3 ::BE :=Lady Bracknell: My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality. 1.5 ::BEAR :=Jack: Oh no! I can't bear looking at things. It is so silly. 1.2 ::BEASTLY :=Algernon: nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. Ah! that must 2.2 ::BEAUTIFUL :=Chasuble: You have done a beautiful action today, dear child. 2.3 ::BEAUTIFUL := I had broken off the engagement are so beautiful, and so badly spelled, that even 2.1 ::BEAUTY :=Cecily: one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life, but still I think you had 2.3 ::BEAUTY :=Algernon: upon your wonderful and incomparable beauty, I have dared to love you wildly, 3.1 ::BEAUTY :=Cecily: But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer. 1.4 ::BECAUSE :=Jack: me, and gave me the name of Worthing, because he happened to have a first- class 2.1 ::BECAUSE :=Algernon: That is because I am hungry. 2.1 ::BECAUSE :=Algernon: Because you are like a pink rose, cousin 2.5 ::BECAUSE :=Algernon: the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly 1.4 ::BECOME :=Lady Bracknell: are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your father, 1.5 ::BECOME :=Algernon: All women become like their mothers. That is their 1.5 ::BECOME :=Jack: meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish 2.3 ::BECOME :=Algernon: But how did we become engaged? 3.3 ::BECOME :=Gwendolen: your Christian name, now that you have become someone else? 2.4 ::BECOMES :=Gwendolen: to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? 2.4 ::BECOMES :=Gwendolen: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's 2.4 ::BECOMES :=Gwendolen: a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. 1.5 ::BECOMING :=Jack: . . . . You don't think there is any chance of Gwendolen becoming like her 1.5 ::BECOMING :=Gwendolen: But although she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I marry someone 2.1 ::BECOMING :=Cecily: I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well 2.2 ::BED :=Cecily: the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain. 1.4 ::BEDROOMS :=Lady Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared 1.1 ::BEEN :=Algernon: me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed. 1.1 ::BEEN :=Lane: myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence 1.1 ::BEEN :=Algernon: at five o'clock. Where have you been since last Thursday? 1.1 ::BEEN :=Jack: Well, you have been eating them all the time. 1.2 ::BEEN :=Jack: goodness you had let me know. I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland 1.2 ::BEEN :=Algernon: leave that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well 1.2 ::BEEN :=Algernon: you at Willis's tonight, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more 1.2 ::BEEN :=Jack: that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty year 1.3 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death. 1.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax. 1.3 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: that in public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative. For me you have 1.3 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: I am told: and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. 1.3 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: proposed to me yet. Nothing has been said at all about marriage. The subject 1.3 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: marriage. The subject has not even been touched on. 1.3 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: I will, darling. How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very 1.4 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to 1.4 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: indiscretion Q has probably, indeed, been used for that purpose before now Q but 2.1 ::BEEN :=Cecily: Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I 2.1 ::BEEN :=Cecily: If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable 2.1 ::BEEN :=Cecily: manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to 2.1 ::BEEN :=Algernon: Oh! Of course I have been rather reckless. 2.1 ::BEEN :=Algernon: now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. 2.1 ::BEEN :=Cecily: of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant. 2.2 ::BEEN :=Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her. 2.2 ::BEEN :=Chasuble: But surely, Mr. Worthing, you have been christened already? 2.2 ::BEEN :=Miss Prism: After we had all been resigned to his loss, his sudden return 2.2 ::BEEN :=Cecily: some good in everyone. Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend 2.2 ::BEEN :=Jack: Oh! he has been talking about Bunbury, has he? 2.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest has been suddenly called back to town. 2.3 ::BEEN :=Algernon: fearful liar you are, Jack. I have not been called back to town at all. 2.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success for you. 2.3 ::BEEN :=Algernon: I think it has been a great success. I'm in love with Cecily, 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable. 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once. But I forgave 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone 2.3 ::BEEN :=Cecily: Considering that we have been engaged since February the 14th, and 2.4 ::BEEN :=Cecily: I am sorry to say they have not been on good terms for a long time. 2.4 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: growing almost anxious. It would have been terrible if any cloud had come across 2.4 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: If the poor fellow has been entrapped into any foolish promise I 2.4 ::BEEN :=Gwendolen: obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. 2.4 ::BEEN :=Cecily: an epidemic amongst them, I have been told. May I offer you some tea, Miss 2.5 ::BEEN :=Jack: But my name certainly is John. It has been John for years. 2.5 ::BEEN :=Cecily: A gross deception has been practised on both of us. 2.5 ::BEEN :=Jack: first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, 2.5 ::BEEN :=Jack: is no evidence at all that I ever have been christened by anybody. I should think 2.5 ::BEEN :=Jack: different in your case. You have been christened already. 2.5 ::BEEN :=Algernon: Yes, but I have not been christened for years. 2.5 ::BEEN :=Jack: Yes, but you have been christened. That is the important t 2.5 ::BEEN :=Algernon: not quite sure about your ever having been christened, I must say I think it rather 3.1 ::BEEN :=Cecily: They have been eating muffins. That looks like rep 3.1 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely sudden. 3.2 ::BEEN :=Jack: an assumed name he drank, I've just been informed by my butler, an entire pint 3.2 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at 3.2 ::BEEN :=Chasuble: church at once. Indeed, I have just been informed by the pew-opener that for 3.2 ::BEEN :=Chasuble: last hour and a half Miss Prism has been waiting for me in the vestry. 3.2 ::BEEN :=Jack: Miss Prism, Lady Bracknell, has been for the last three years Miss Cardew's 3.3 ::BEEN :=Miss Prism: me in the vestry, dear Canon. I have been waiting for you there for an hour and 3.3 ::BEEN :=Miss Prism: so unexpectedly restored to me. It has been a great inconvenience being without 3.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: Prism left me in the handbag, had I been christened already? 3.3 ::BEEN :=Lady Bracknell: could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting 3.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: These delightful records should have been my constant study. M. Generals . . . 3.3 ::BEEN :=Jack: out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can 2.1 ::BEES :=Chasuble: Q My metaphor was drawn from bees. Ahem! Mr. Worthing, I suppose, has 1.1 ::BEFORE :=Algernon: Gwendolen is my first cousin. And before I allow you to marry her, you will 1.3 ::BEFORE :=Gwendolen: had an irresistible fascination. Even before I met you I was far from indifferent 1.4 ::BEFORE :=Lady Bracknell: indeed, been used for that purpose before now Q but it could hardly be regarded 1.4 ::BEFORE :=Lady Bracknell: at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over. 1.5 ::BEFORE :=Jack: Algy, I suppose I shouldn't talk about your own aunt in that way before you. 1.5 ::BEFORE :=Jack: Oh, before the end of the week I shall have got 2.1 ::BEFORE :=Cecily: never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so 2.3 ::BEFORE :=Algernon: that is everything. But I must see her before I go, and make arrangements for another 2.3 ::BEFORE :=Cecily: off at least once. But I forgave you before the week was out. 3.2 ::BEFORE :=Lady Bracknell: of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never 3.2 ::BEFORE :=Lady Bracknell: evening parties. Well, it will not be very long before you are of age and free 3.3 ::BEFORE :=Jack: Miss Prism? Examine it carefully before you speak. The happiness of more than 3.3 ::BEFORE :=Algernon: never even on speaking terms. He died before I was a year old. 1.3 ::BEFOREHAND :=Gwendolen: it only fair to tell you quite frankly beforehand that I am fully determined to 1.4 ::BEG :=Gwendolen: Mamma! I must beg you to retire. This is no place for you. 1.5 ::BEG :=Jack: without being a myth, which is rather unfair . . . I beg your pardon, Algy, 2.2 ::BEG :=Chasuble: into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by 2.4 ::BEG :=Cecily: I beg your pardon, Gwendolen, did you say 2.4 ::BEG :=Gwendolen: I beg your pardon? 2.5 ::BEG :=Gwendolen: I beg your pardon? 3.1 ::BEG :=Lady Bracknell: I beg your pardon? 3.2 ::BEG :=Jack: I beg your pardon for interrupting you, Lady 3.2 ::BEG :=Lady Bracknell: a somewhat impatient nature Q I would beg of you to reconsider your decision. 1.2 ::BEGIN :=Algernon: of doing anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and 2.4 ::BEGINS :=Gwendolen: for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he 2.2 ::BEHALF :=Chasuble: the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society for the Prevention 1.1 ::BEHAVE :=Algernon: if you were going to eat it all. You behave as if you were married to her already. 1.5 ::BEHAVE :=Jack: ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman! 1.5 ::BEHAVE :=Algernon: The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, 2.2 ::BEHAVED :=Cecily: don't say that. However badly he may behaved to you in the past he is still your 3.3 ::BEHAVED :=Jack: respect in the future. You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your 1.3 ::BEHAVING :=Lady Bracknell: dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. 1.1 ::BEING :=Algernon: Augusta won't quite approve of your being here. 1.2 ::BEING :=Algernon: is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter 1.2 ::BEING :=Algernon: that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; 1.3 ::BEING :=Algernon: distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready m 1.5 ::BEING :=Jack: Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is 1.5 ::BEING :=Algernon: tell Gwendolen the truth about your being Ernest in town, and Jack in the co 2.1 ::BEING :=Cecily: life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would 2.1 ::BEING :=Algernon: It is much pleasanter being here with you. 2.2 ::BEING :=Jack: Oh! I don't see much fun in being christened along with other babies. 2.3 ::BEING :=Jack: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always overdressed as you are. 2.3 ::BEING :=Algernon: overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. 2.4 ::BEING :=Cecily: at all, Gwendolen. I am very fond of being looked at. 2.5 ::BEING :=Algernon: Jack, of you and Miss Fairfax being united. 3.2 ::BEING :=Jack: his moral character. I suspect him of being untruthful. 3.2 ::BEING :=Jack: by means of the false pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he 3.3 ::BEING :=Miss Prism: me. It has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years. 3.3 ::BEING :=Lady Bracknell: Being the eldest son you were naturally christened 3.3 ::BEING :=Jack: in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. 1.4 ::BELGRAVE :=Jack: Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year 1.4 ::BELGRAVE :=Lady Bracknell: of character. What number in Belgrave Square? 3.1 ::BELGRAVE :=Jack: of the late Mr. Thomas Cardew of 149, Belgrave Square, S.W..; Gervase Park, Dorking, 1.1 ::BELIEVE :=Lane: I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. 1.1 ::BELIEVE :=Algernon: I believe it is customary in good society to 1.1 ::BELIEVE :=Algernon: one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. 1.3 ::BELIEVE :=Lady Bracknell: respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so. Gwendolen, you will accompany 1.3 ::BELIEVE :=Jack: You know that I love you, and you led me to believe, Miss Fairfax, that you 1.4 ::BELIEVE :=Jack: to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don't depend on that for my 2.1 ::BELIEVE :=Cecily: and couldn't possibly have happened. I believe that memory is responsible for nearly 2.1 ::BELIEVE := mistake. I am not little. In fact, I believe I am more than unusually tall for 2.2 ::BELIEVE :=Chasuble: Believe me, I do not deserve so neologistic 2.2 ::BELIEVE :=Chasuble: Mr. Worthing? Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not? 2.4 ::BELIEVE :=Cecily: agricultural depression, is it not? I believe the aristocracy are suffering very 3.1 ::BELIEVE :=Gwendolen: yes, dear, if you can believe him. 1.5 ::BELL :=Gwendolen: You may also ring the bell. 1.4 ::BELOW :=Lady Bracknell: these inquiries, you, Gwendolen, will wait for me below in the carriage. 1.2 ::BESIDES :=Algernon: her uncle, I can't quite make out. Besides, your name isn't Jack at all, it 1.2 ::BESIDES :=Algernon: bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. Besides, now that I know 1.3 ::BESIDES :=Gwendolen: known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually 1.4 ::BESIDES :=Gwendolen: to retire. This is no place for you. Besides, Mr. Worthing has not quite finished 2.3 ::BESIDES :=Cecily: should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cou 2.3 ::BESIDES :=Cecily: off now that I have actually met you. Besides, of course, there is the question 2.5 ::BESIDES :=Algernon: eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffi 2.5 ::BESIDES :=Algernon: vegetarians and people like that. Besides I have just made arrangement with 2.5 ::BESIDES :=Jack: be christened Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, I have a perfect right to be christened 1.5 ::BEST :=Lane: I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. 2.1 ::BEST :=Miss Prism: Your guardian enjoys the best health, and his gravity of demeanor 2.4 ::BEST := please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays. 3.3 ::BEST :=Algernon: till today, old boy, I admit. I did my best, however, though I was out of pract 1.5 ::BET :=Jack: to be extremely great friends. I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour 2.2 ::BETOKEN :=Chasuble: I trust this garb of woe does not betoken some terrible calamity? 1.2 ::BETTER :=Algernon: uncle. Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once. 1.2 ::BETTER :=Algernon: invitations. RESP Jack. You had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta. 1.5 ::BETTER :=Algernon: that runs in families. You had much better say a severe chill. 2.1 ::BETTER :=Cecily: to come here. I suppose you had better talk to the housekeeper about a room 2.1 ::BETTER :=Cecily: of life, but still I think you had better wait till Uncle Jack arrives. I know 2.1 ::BETTER := I will. I feel better already. 2.2 ::BETTER :=Jack: this afternoon, if you have nothing better to do. 2.2 ::BETTER :=Algernon: given you, and that I intend to lead a better life in the future. 2.3 ::BETTER :=Jack: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always overdressed as you 2.3 ::BETTER :=Cecily: engagement with Ernest. I feel it is better to do so. The weather still continues 2.5 ::BETTER :=Jack: sooner you give up that nonsense the better. I made arrangements this morning 3.1 ::BETTER :=Lady Bracknell: a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little 3.2 ::BETTER :=Lady Bracknell: The marriage, I think, better take place quite soon. RESP Algernon. 3.3 ::BETTER :=Jack: Then the question had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, 1.1 ::BETWEEN :=Lane: in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. 1.4 ::BETWEEN :=Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year. 1.4 ::BETWEEN :=Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during 2.1 ::BETWEEN :=Cecily: night, that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, and 2.3 ::BETWEEN :=Cecily: formed the chief topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism. And of course 3.1 ::BETWEEN :=Lady Bracknell: understand that all communication between yourself and my daughter must cease 3.3 ::BEVERAGE :=Miss Prism: by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington. 1.4 ::BEWILDERED :=Lady Bracknell: Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me. 3.1 ::BEYOND :=Algernon: are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. 1.4 ::BIRTH :=Jack: lost me . . . . I don't actually know who I am by birth. I was . . . well, I was 3.1 ::BIRTH :=Jack: to hear, certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, registration, 3.2 ::BIRTH :=Lady Bracknell: is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, 2.2 ::BISHOP :=Chasuble: Discontent among the Upper Orders. The Bishop, who was present, was much struck 2.2 ::BITTER :=Chasuble: bowed down by grief. What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in dis 1.4 ::BLACK :=Jack: I was in a handbag Q a somewhat large, black leather handbag, with handles to it 2.2 ::BLESSING :=Miss Prism: This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. 2.2 ::BLESSINGS :=Chasuble: seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. 1.4 ::BLOOM :=Lady Bracknell: exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern 2.2 ::BLOW :=Jack: some many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow. 3.3 ::BLOW :=Jack: I do not deny that is a serious blow. But after all, who has the right to 1.4 ::BLOXAM :=Lady Bracknell: Lady Bloxam? I don't know her. 1.4 ::BLOXHAM :=Jack: but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham. Of course, I can get it back whenever 1.3 ::BLUE :=Gwendolen: tell me so. What wonderfully blue eyes you have, Ernest! They are quite, 1.3 ::BLUE :=Gwendolen: have, Ernest! They are quite, quite blue. I hope you will always look at me just 1.5 ::BLURT :=Jack: Oh! one doesn't blurt these things out to people. Cecily 1.4 ::BOLTON :=Lady Bracknell: the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, in fact. However, 1.1 ::BOOK :=Algernon: Oh! . . . by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, 2.3 ::BOOK :=Cecily: man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he kno 1.2 ::BORE :=Jack: much interested in him. It is rather a bore. So I am going to get rid of Ernest. 1.3 ::BORE :=Algernon: It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible 2.1 ::BORED :=Cecily: that is why he often looks a little bored when we three are together. 2.4 ::BORES :=Gwendolen: is anybody does. The country always bores me to death. 1.1 ::BORING :=Jack: amuses other people. It is excessively boring. 1.4 ::BORN :=Lady Bracknell: father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers 1.4 ::BORN :=Lady Bracknell: by what you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, 1.4 ::BOTH :=Lady Bracknell: Both, if necessary, I presume. What are your 1.4 ::BOTH :=Jack: I have lost both my parents. 1.4 ::BOTH :=Lady Bracknell: Both? . . . That seems like carelessness. 2.1 ::BOTH :=Chasuble: the pagan authors. I shall see you both no doubt at Evensong? 2.5 ::BOTH :=Cecily: A gross deception has been practised on both of us. 2.5 ::BOTH :=Gwendolen: Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother 2.5 ::BOTH :=Jack: Gwendolen would wish it. We can't both be christened Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, 3.1 ::BOTH :=Cecily: Could we not both speak at the same time? 3.1 ::BOTH :=Jack: confirmation, and the measles; both the German and English variety. 3.2 ::BOTH :=Chasuble: Both these gentlemen have expressed a desire 2.2 ::BOTHER :=Jack: course I don't know if the thing would bother you in any way, or if you think I 3.2 ::BOTTLE :=Jack: informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, '89; a 1.1 ::BOTTLES :=Algernon: Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered 1.1 ::BOTTLES :=Lane: Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint. 2.3 ::BOUGHT :=Cecily: dear old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, and 1.4 ::BOUND :=Lady Bracknell: I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on 2.4 ::BOUND := you ever since I met you! But I am bound to state that now you are Mr. Worthing's 2.4 ::BOUND := mental or physical anguish, but I feel bound to point out that since Ernest proposed 3.2 ::BOUND :=Lady Bracknell: is thirty- five Q a remark which I am bound to say seems to me to show a somewhat 2.2 ::BOWED :=Chasuble: merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seems to us bitter 2.3 ::BOX :=Cecily: such a bad life. And this is the box in which I keep all your dear letter 2.3 ::BOXES :=Merriman: portmanteaus, a dressing-case, two hat boxes, and a large luncheon-basket. 1.2 ::BOY :=Algernon: calls you her dear uncle. Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out 1.2 ::BOY :=Jack: who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his 1.2 ::BOY :=Jack: That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited . . 1.5 ::BOY :=Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? You don't mean to say Gwendolen refused 1.5 ::BOY :=Algernon: My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. 1.5 ::BOY :=Algernon: of other things first. Now, my dear boy, if we want to get a good table at Willis's, 2.3 ::BOY :=Cecily: You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged 2.3 ::BOY :=Cecily: You dear romantic boy. I hope your hair curls naturally, does 2.3 ::BOY :=Cecily: What an impetuous boy he is! I like his hair so much. I must 2.4 ::BOY :=Cecily: unfortunate entanglement my dear boy may have got into, I will never reproach 2.4 ::BOY :=Cecily: To save my poor, innocent, trusting boy from the machinations of any girl there 3.3 ::BOY :=Algernon: Well, not till today, old boy, I admit. I did my best, however, though 3.3 ::BOY :=Algernon: My dear boy, we were never even on speaking terms. 1.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Algernon: the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell? 1.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Lane: Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax. 1.4 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: Thank you, Lady Bracknell, I prefer standing. 1.4 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: I really don't know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my parents. 1.4 ::BRACKNELL :=Lady Bracknell: You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only 1.5 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: what a gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, 2.4 ::BRACKNELL :=Gwendolen: mentioning who I am. My father is Lord Bracknell. You have never heard of Papa, 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Merriman: Ahem! Ahem! Lady Bracknell! 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: to be married to Gwendolen, lady Bracknell! 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Cecily: and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell. 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: They are open to your inspection, Lady Bracknell. 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: How extremely kind of you, Lady Bracknell! I have also in my possession, 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: the Funds. That is all. Good-bye, Lady Bracknell. So pleased to have seen you. 3.1 ::BRACKNELL :=Lady Bracknell: marriages. When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Cecily: Thank you, Lady Bracknell. 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: your pardon for interrupting you, Lady Bracknell, but this engagement is quite out 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell, about your nephew, but the fact 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: That is very generous of you, Lady Bracknell. My own decision, however, in unalterable. 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: Pray excuse me, Lady Bracknell, for interrupting you again, but 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: But my dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is entirely in your 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Lady Bracknell: I will not hear of such excesses. Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased if he 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Chasuble: Yes, Lady Bracknell. I am on my way to join her. 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Lady Bracknell: to be one of vital importance to Lord Bracknell and myself. Is this Miss Prism 3.2 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: Miss Prism, Lady Bracknell, has been for the last three years 3.3 ::BRACKNELL :=Miss Prism: Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not 3.3 ::BRACKNELL :=Chasuble: What do you think this means, Lady Bracknell? 3.3 ::BRACKNELL :=Jack: Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but 1.3 ::BRACKNELL'S :=Jack: be allowed to take advantage of Lady Bracknell's temporary absence . . . . 3.3 ::BRACKNELL'S :=Lady Bracknell: years ago, Prism, you left Lord Bracknell's house, Number 104, Upper Grosvenor 1.1 ::BRAND :=Lane: champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. 3.3 ::BRANDED :=Miss Prism: you mention, a day that is for ever branded on my memory, I prepared as usual 1.1 ::BREAD :=Algernon: matter. She is my aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is 1.1 ::BREAD :=Algernon: aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen 1.1 ::BREAD :=Algernon: for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter. 1.1 ::BREAD :=Jack: And very good bread and butter it is too. 2.4 ::BREAD :=Cecily: Cake or bread and butter? 2.4 ::BREAD := Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely 2.4 ::BREAD :=Gwendolen: though I asked you most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. 2.3 ::BREAK :=Algernon: But why on earth did you break it off. What had I done? I had done 2.3 ::BREAK :=Algernon: You'll never break off our engagement again, Cecily? 2.3 ::BREAK :=Cecily: I don't think I could break it off now that I have actually met 1.4 ::BRED :=Lady Bracknell: told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had handles 2.3 ::BRIEF :=Cecily: people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends 3.1 ::BRIEF :=Lady Bracknell: a really marvelous result in a very brief space of time. I remember recommending 1.4 ::BRIGHTON :=Jack: Yes. The Brighton line. 3.3 ::BRIGHTON :=Miss Prism: Victoria. The Brighton line. 2.5 ::BRILLIANT :=Algernon: defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, thoroughly experienced 1.1 ::BRING :=Jack: pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, 1.2 ::BRING :=Algernon: Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing 2.4 ::BRING :=Cecily: is sure to be back soon. And you can bring tea. 1.1 ::BRINGS :=Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town? 2.3 ::BROKE :=Cecily: see the entry if you like. "Today I broke off my engagement with Ernest. I feel 2.3 ::BROKE :=Algernon: I am very much hurt indeed to hear you broke it off. Particularly when the weather 2.3 ::BROKEN := The three you wrote me after I had broken off the engagement are so beautiful, 2.3 ::BROKEN :=Algernon: But was our engagement ever broken off? 2.3 ::BROKEN :=Cecily: serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once. But I forgave you 1.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives 1.2 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: You have invented a very useful young brother called Ernest, in order that you 1.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think I'll kill him in 1.3 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: often propose for practice. I know my brother Gerald does. All my girl-friends 1.5 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: What about your brother? What about the profligate Ernes 1.5 ::BROTHER :=Jack: Very well, then. My poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly in 1.5 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: was a little too much interested in your poor brother Ernest? Won't she feel 2.1 ::BROTHER :=Miss Prism: about that unfortunate young man his brother. 2.1 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes. We 2.1 ::BROTHER :=Chasuble: that unfortunate young man his brother seems to be. But I must not disturb 2.1 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: B.4 The Albany, W." Uncle Jack's brother! Did you tell him Mr. Worthing was 2.1 ::BROTHER := I see from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: My brother. 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Chasuble: Your brother Ernest dead? 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Chasuble: you are interested, Mr. Worthing? Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: you think is in the dining-room? Your brother! 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: Your brother Ernest. He arrived about half an 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: What nonsense! I haven't got a brother! 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: to you in the past he is still your brother. You couldn't be so heartless as 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: My brother is in the dining-room? I don't know 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: Brother John, I have come down from town 2.2 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: side. But I must say that I think that Brother John's coldness to me is peculiarly 2.3 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: confessed to us that he had a younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you 2.4 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: Worthing who is my guardian. It is his brother Q his elder brother. 2.4 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: It is his brother Q his elder brother. 2.4 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: never mentioned to me that he had a brother. 2.4 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: I have never heard any man mention his brother. The subject seems distasteful to 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present. 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Jack: tell you quite frankly that I have no brother Ernest. I have no brother at all. 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Jack: I have no brother Ernest. I have no brother at all. I never had a brother in 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Jack: have no brother at all. I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: No brother at all? 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: Had you never a brother of any kind? 2.5 ::BROTHER :=Algernon: Your brother is a little off colour, isn't he, 3.1 ::BROTHER :=Cecily: did you pretend to be my guardian's brother? 3.1 ::BROTHER :=Gwendolen: offer to me for pretending to have a brother? Was it in order that you might have 3.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: of the false pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, 3.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: aware from the first that I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and 3.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don't intend to have 3.2 ::BROTHER :=Jack: and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Lady Bracknell: and consequently Algernon's elder brother. 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily, 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily, Q how could you have ever 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: you have ever doubted that I had a brother? Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: brother? Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother. 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: brother. Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother. Gwendolen, my unfortunate brother. 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: brother. Gwendolen, my unfortunate brother. Algy, you young scoundrel, you will 3.3 ::BROTHER :=Jack: You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your life. 2.1 ::BROTHER'S :=Miss Prism: a character that according to his own brother's admission is irretrievably weak 2.2 ::BROTHER'S :=Cecily: you are not going to refuse your own brother's hand? 2.2 ::BROTHERS :=Chasuble: the most generous and forgiving of brothers. 2.2 ::BROTHERS :=Chasuble: I think we might leave two brothers together. 1.4 ::BROUGHT :=Lady Bracknell: of allowing our only daughter Q a girl brought up with the utmost care Q to marry 2.1 ::BROUGHT :=Merriman: driven over from the station. He has brought his luggage with him. 2.4 ::BROUGHT :=Gwendolen: education are remarkably strict, has brought me up to be extremely short-sighted; 3.2 ::BRUT :=Jack: pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, '89; a wine I was specially reserving 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn't 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. 1.2 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. They seem to think 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: It is very strange. This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer from curiously bad 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: goes. I should be obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to be kind 1.3 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta, if he is still conscious, 1.5 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: my smoking jacket, and all the Bunbury suits . . . . 1.5 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that is all. 1.5 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: If you don't take care, your friend Bunbury will get you into a serious scrape 2.2 ::BUNBURY :=Cecily: me about his poor invalid friend Mr. Bunbury whom he goes to visit so often. And 2.2 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: Oh! he has been talking about Bunbury, has he? 2.2 ::BUNBURY :=Cecily: Yes, he has told me all about poor Mr. Bunbury, and his terrible state of healt 2.2 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: Bunbury! Well, I won't have him talk to you 2.2 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: I won't have him talk to you about Bunbury or about anything else. It is enough 2.3 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there she is. 2.5 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury 2.5 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. 2.5 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. 2.5 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious 2.5 ::BUNBURY :=Jack: wretched business is that your friend Bunbury is quite exploded. You won't be able 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: is somewhere else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead. 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Algernon: not live, that is what I mean Q so Bunbury died. 3.1 ::BUNBURY :=Lady Bracknell: we have finally got rid of this Mr. Bunbury, may I ask, Mr. Worthing, who is 1.2 ::BUNBURY'S :=Algernon: perfectly invaluable. If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, 1.2 ::BUNBURYED :=Algernon: suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate 1.2 ::BUNBURYING :=Algernon: Bunburyist, I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying. I want to tell you 1.5 ::BUNBURYING :=Algernon: Tomorrow, Lane, I'm going Bunburying. 2.3 ::BUNBURYING :=Jack: as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying here. 2.3 ::BUNBURYING :=Jack: a pleasant journey back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been 2.5 ::BUNBURYING :=Jack: state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? 2.5 ::BUNBURYING :=Algernon: in life. I happen to be serious about Bunburying. What on earth you are serious 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Algernon: you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am quite sure of it now. 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Jack: Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Jack: What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist? 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Algernon: daily papers. What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Algernon: I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Algernon: Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist, I naturally want 1.2 ::BUNBURYIST :=Jack: I'm not a Bunburyist at all. If Gwendolen accepts me, 2.5 ::BUNBURYIST :=Algernon: anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that. 2.5 ::BUNBURYIST :=Jack: Serious Bunburyist! Good heavens! 1.2 ::BUNBURYISTS :=Algernon: You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know. 2.2 ::BURIED :=Jack: to have expressed a desire to be buried in Paris. 1.1 ::BUSINESS :=Algernon: you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business. 2.1 ::BUSINESS :=Algernon: train on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious . 2.1 ::BUSINESS :=Cecily: how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain 2.3 ::BUSINESS :=Algernon: christening Q I mean on most important business. 2.4 ::BUSINESS :=Merriman: to see Mr. Worthing. On very important business Miss Fairfax states. 2.5 ::BUSINESS :=Jack: I have in the whole of this wretched business is that your friend Bunbury is quite 2.5 ::BUSINESS :=Jack: Well, that is no business of yours. 2.5 ::BUSINESS :=Algernon: If is was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is 2.5 ::BUSINESS :=Algernon: It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do 1.1 ::BUT :=Lane: Q anyone can play accurately Q but I play with wonderful expression. As 1.1 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite 1.1 ::BUT :=Algernon: It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes; but this isn't your cigarette case. This 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: But why does she call herself Cecily if she 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, But why does your aunt call you her uncle? 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, but that does not account for the fact that 1.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, but you must be serious about it. I hate 1.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. 1.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram 1.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: telling that to your poor uncle, but he never seems to take much notice . 1.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: plays bad music, people don't talk. But I'll run over the programme I've drawn 1.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: is vulgar, or laugh, which is worse. But German sounds a thoroughly respectable 1.3 ::BUT :=Jack: But you don't really meant to say that you 1.3 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: But your name is Ernest. 1.3 ::BUT :=Jack: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you 1.3 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: I adore you. But you haven't proposed to me yet. Nothing 1.3 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: Yes, but you don't say it. 1.3 ::BUT :=Jack: I have never loved anyone in the world but you. 1.3 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: Yes, but men often propose for practice. I know 1.4 ::BUT :=Jack: fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don't depend on that for my real income. 1.4 ::BUT :=Jack: Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham. 1.4 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: used for that purpose before now Q but it could hardly be regarded as an assured 1.5 ::BUT :=Jack: . . . I don't really know what a gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that 1.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, but it's hereditary, my dear fellow. It's 1.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: But I thought you said that . . . Miss Cardew 1.5 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: Mamma, I lost at the age of three. But although she may prevent us from becoming 1.5 ::BUT :=Jack: Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: But I don't like German. It isn't at all 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: I suppose so. But it seems very unfair. And was your novel 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: No, dear Miss Prism, I know that, but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. 2.1 ::BUT :=Chasuble: young man his brother seems to be. But I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil 2.1 ::BUT := more than unusually tall for my age. But I am you cousin Cecily. You, I see from 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: Couldn't you miss it anywhere but in London? 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: any sense of the beauty of life, but still I think you had better wait till 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: Yes, but are you good enough for it? 2.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: It is rather quixotic of you. But I think you should try. 2.2 ::BUT :=Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when 2.2 ::BUT :=Miss Prism: My metaphor was drawn from fruits. But where is Cecily? 2.2 ::BUT :=Jack: Poor Ernest! He had some many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow. 2.2 ::BUT :=Miss Prism: to the poorer classes on the subject. But they don't seem to know what thrift 2.2 ::BUT :=Chasuble: But is there any particular infant in whom 2.2 ::BUT :=Jack: But it is not for any child, dear Doctor. 2.2 ::BUT :=Chasuble: But surely, Mr. Worthing, you have been christened 2.2 ::BUT :=Chasuble: But have you any grave doubts on the sub 2.2 ::BUT :=Cecily: Oh, I am pleased to see you back. But what horrid clothes you have got on! 2.2 ::BUT :=Algernon: that the faults were all on my side. But I must say that I think that Brother 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: with Cecily, and that is everything. But I must see her before I go, and make 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: form I hope you will order a copy. But pray, Ernest, don't stop. I delight in 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: But how did we become engaged? 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: all. I daresay it was foolish of me, but I fell in love with you, Ernest. 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: But was our engagement ever broken off? 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: But why on earth did you break it off. What 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: hadn't been broken off at least once. But I forgave you before the week was ou 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: But, my dear child, do you mean to say you 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: But what name? 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: But I don't like the name Algernon. 2.3 ::BUT :=Algernon: Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But seriously, Cecily . . . if my name was 2.3 ::BUT :=Cecily: Ernest, I might admire your character, but I fear that I should not be able to give 2.4 ::BUT := I have liked you ever since I met you! But I am bound to state that now you are 2.4 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: be as impossilbe to him as deception. But even men of the noblest possible moral 2.4 ::BUT :=Cecily: Oh, but it is not Mr. Ernest Worthing who is 2.4 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: if it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim. 2.4 ::BUT := you any mental or physical anguish, but I feel bound to point out that since 2.4 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: Thank you. Detestable girl! But I require tea! 2.4 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too 2.5 ::BUT :=Jack: I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly is John. It has been 2.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: But you have just said it was perfectly heartless 2.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: That may be. But the muffins are the same. 2.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: Yes, but I have not been christened for years 2.5 ::BUT :=Jack: Yes, but you have been christened. That is the 2.5 ::BUT :=Jack: Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill 2.5 ::BUT :=Algernon: It usen't to be, I know Q but I daresay it is now. Science is always 2.5 ::BUT :=Jack: But I hate tea-cake. 3.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: But I haven't got a cough. 3.1 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: But we will not be the first to speak. 3.1 ::BUT :=Cecily: I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty 3.1 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: the gravest doubts upon the subject. But I intend to crush them. This is not the 3.1 ::BUT :=Jack: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this a 3.1 ::BUT :=Algernon: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are going to be christened this a 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: question. I would consider it wrong. But of course, you will clearly understand 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: this particular part of Hertfordshire, but the number of engagements that go on 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: inspire confidence, even in tradesmen. But what proof have I of their authentic 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: almost as nature might have left it. But we can soon alter all that. A thoroughly 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: you know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon. But I do not 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: nothing but his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. 3.1 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing 3.2 ::BUT :=Jack: for interrupting you, Lady Bracknell, but this engagement is quite out of the question. 3.2 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one 3.2 ::BUT :=Jack: Lady Bracknell, about your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at 3.2 ::BUT :=Cecily: Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit to twenty when I go to 3.2 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: her age. It looks so calculating. . . Eighteen, but admitting to twenty at evening 3.2 ::BUT :=Jack: Bracknell, for interrupting you again, but it is only fair to tell you that according 3.2 ::BUT :=Cecily: Yes, I felt it instinctively, but I couldn't wait all that time. I hate 3.2 ::BUT :=Cecily: I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and 3.2 ::BUT :=Jack: But my dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is 3.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: than usually revolting sentimentality. But the baby was not there! Prism! Where 3.3 ::BUT :=Miss Prism: I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag, in which I had intended 3.3 ::BUT :=Jack: But where did you deposit the handbag? 3.3 ::BUT :=Jack: I do not deny that is a serious blow. But after all, who has the right to cast 3.3 ::BUT :=Jack: Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am? 3.3 ::BUT :=Gwendolen: My own! But what own are you? What is your Christian 3.3 ::BUT := Yes, but what was my father's Christian name? 3.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: what the General's Christian name was. But I have no doubt he had one. He was eccentric, 3.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: he had one. He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the 3.3 ::BUT :=Lady Bracknell: of peace, except in his domestic life. But I have no doubt his name would appear 3.3 ::BUT :=Jack: his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? 3.2 ::BUTLER :=Jack: drank, I've just been informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, 1.1 ::BUTTER :=Algernon: She is my aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. 1.1 ::BUTTER :=Algernon: some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted 1.1 ::BUTTER :=Algernon: Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter. 1.1 ::BUTTER :=Jack: And very good bread and butter it is too. 2.4 ::BUTTER :=Cecily: Cake or bread and butter? 2.4 ::BUTTER := Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the 2.4 ::BUTTER :=Gwendolen: you most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known 2.5 ::BUTTER :=Algernon: eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One 2.1 ::BUTTON-HOLE :=Algernon: Thank you. Might I have a button-hole first? I never have any appetite 2.1 ::BUTTON-HOLE :=Algernon: have any appetite unless I have a button-hole first. 2.1 ::BUY :=Cecily: Your emigrating. He has gone up to buy your outfit. 2.1 ::BUY :=Algernon: I certainly wouldn't let Jack buy my outfit. He has no taste in neckties 3.3 ::BUY :=Lady Bracknell: Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished 1.1 ::BY :=Algernon: Oh! . . . by the way, Lane, I see from your book 1.1 ::BY :=Algernon: How immensely you must amuse them! By the way, Shropshire is your county, is 1.1 ::BY :=Jack: do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know anyone of the name 1.2 ::BY :=Jack: Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist? 1.2 ::BY :=Algernon: Where is that place in the country, by the way? 1.3 ::BY :=Algernon: I can promise you he'll be all right by Saturday. Of course the music is a great 1.4 ::BY :=Jack: in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham. Of course, I 1.4 ::BY :=Jack: have lost me . . . . I don't actually know who I am by birth. I was . . . well, 1.4 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me. To be born, 1.5 ::BY :=Algernon: By the way, did you tell Gwendolen the truth 1.5 ::BY :=Jack: is carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill. That gets rid of him. 1.5 ::BY :=Gwendolen: your romantic origin, as related to me by Mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally 2.1 ::BY :=Chasuble: of whose sole aim is enjoyment, as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young man 2.1 ::BY :=Algernon: disappointment. I am obliged to go up by the first train on Monday morning. I have 2.2 ::BY :=Miss Prism: not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts 2.2 ::BY :=Miss Prism: lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it. 2.2 ::BY :=Chasuble: who was present, was much struck by some of the analogies I drew. 2.2 ::BY :=Chasuble: beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seems to us bitter trials 2.2 ::BY :=Cecily: leaves the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain. 2.3 ::BY :=Jack: anything else. You have got to leave . . . by the four-five train. 2.3 ::BY :=Algernon: a little overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. 2.3 ::BY :=Cecily: On the 14th of February last. Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, 2.3 ::BY :=Algernon: My letters! By my own sweet Cecily, I have never written 2.5 ::BY :=Jack: all that I ever have been christened by anybody. I should think it extremely probable 2.5 ::BY :=Algernon: nearly carried off this week in Paris by a severe chill. 3.1 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: sir, of my daughter's sudden flight by her trusty maid, whose confidence I purchased 3.1 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: maid, whose confidence I purchased by means of a small coin, I followed her 3.1 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: a small coin, I followed her at once by a luggage train. Her unhappy father is, 3.1 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: a more than usually lengthy lecture by the University Extension Scheme on the 3.2 ::BY :=Jack: he obtained admission to my house by means of the false pretence of being my 3.2 ::BY :=Jack: name he drank, I've just been informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my 3.2 ::BY :=Chasuble: Indeed, I have just been informed by the pew-opener that for the last hour 3.3 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. 3.3 ::BY :=Miss Prism: Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, 3.3 ::BY :=Lady Bracknell: christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents. 2.1 ::B4 :=Cecily: "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B.4 The Albany, W." Uncle Jack's brother! 2.4 ::CAKE :=Cecily: Cake or bread and butter? 2.4 ::CAKE := Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses n 2.4 ::CAKE :=Gwendolen: bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my 2.2 ::CALAMITY :=Chasuble: of woe does not betoken some terrible calamity? 3.2 ::CALCULATING :=Lady Bracknell: accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. . . Eighteen, but admitting 1.1 ::CALL :=Algernon: you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business. 1.2 ::CALL :=Algernon: But why does she call herself Cecily if she is your aunt and 1.2 ::CALL :=Algernon: Yes, But why does your aunt call you her uncle? "From little Cecily, 1.2 ::CALL :=Algernon: no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite 1.3 ::CALL :=Lady Bracknell: late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn't been 1.4 ::CALL :=Lady Bracknell: of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, 2.3 ::CALL :=Algernon: I haven't heard anyone call me. 2.3 ::CALL :=Jack: back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success for 2.4 ::CALL :=Gwendolen: I may call you Cecily, may I not? 2.4 ::CALL :=Gwendolen: And you will always call me Gwendolen, won't you? 2.4 ::CALL :=Cecily: mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. 2.4 ::CALL :=Cecily: Ah! This is what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? 2.5 ::CALL :=Gwendolen: You will call me sister, will you not? 2.5 ::CALL :=Jack: ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? 1.2 ::CALLED :=Algernon: invented a very useful young brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able 1.2 ::CALLED :=Algernon: an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able 1.3 ::CALLED :=Gwendolen: mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love 1.3 ::CALLED :=Gwendolen: domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. 1.5 ::CALLED :=Algernon: Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. 2.3 ::CALLED :=Jack: at once. Mr. Ernest has been suddenly called back to town. 2.3 ::CALLED :=Algernon: liar you are, Jack. I have not been called back to town at all. 2.3 ::CALLED :=Cecily: married woman whose husband is not called Ernest. 2.3 ::CALLED :=Algernon: who get into Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But seriously, Cecily . 2.4 ::CALLED :=Merriman: A Miss Farifax has just called to see Mr. Worthing. On very important 2.5 ::CALLED :=Cecily: Are you called Algernon? 3.3 ::CALLED :=Lady Bracknell: I remember now that the General was called Ernest. I knew I had some particular 1.5 ::CALLING :=Jack: hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. 1.2 ::CALLS :=Algernon: Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dear uncle. Come, old boy, 2.3 ::CALLS :=Jack: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. 2.4 ::CALLS :=Cecily: time. No doubt you have many other calls to make in the neighborhood. 2.5 ::CALMLY :=Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this 2.5 ::CALMLY :=Algernon: One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. 2.1 ::CAME :=Cecily: my German lesson, when the Rector came in. 2.3 ::CAME :=Cecily: Oh, I merely came back to water the roses. I thought you 1.1 ::CAN :=Lane: sake. I don't play accurately Q anyone can play accurately Q but I play with wonderful 1.2 ::CAN :=Jack: to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to 1.2 ::CAN :=Algernon: the way for ten minutes, so that you can have an opportunity for proposing to 1.3 ::CAN :=Algernon: he is still conscious, and I think I can promise you he'll be all right by Saturday. 1.4 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing. 1.4 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. 1.4 ::CAN :=Jack: my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people 1.4 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a 1.4 ::CAN :=Jack: the year to Lady Bloxham. Of course, I can get it back whenever I like, at six month's 1.4 ::CAN :=Jack: I could possibly manage to do that. I can produce the handbag at any moment. It 1.4 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell 1.5 ::CAN :=Algernon: Really, Gwendolen, I don't think I can allow this at all. 1.5 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion 1.5 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you. 1.5 ::CAN :=Algernon: probably not be back till Monday. You can put up my dress clothes, my smoking jacket, 2.1 ::CAN :=Cecily: I don't think it can be right for you to talk to me like that. 2.2 ::CAN :=Miss Prism: should get married. A misanthrope I can understand Q a womanthrope, never! 2.2 ::CAN :=Miss Prism: sympathies of the woman. Maturity can always be depended on. Ripeness can be 2.2 ::CAN :=Miss Prism: can always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green. I 2.2 ::CAN :=Chasuble: meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, 2.3 ::CAN :=Jack: I can quite understand that. 2.3 ::CAN :=Cecily: time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary 2.3 ::CAN :=Cecily: It can wait, Merriman . . . for . . . five 2.3 ::CAN :=Cecily: reached "absolute perfection." You can go on. I am quite ready for more. 2.3 ::CAN := and so badly spelled, that even now I can hardly read them without crying a li 2.3 ::CAN :=Cecily: it was. On the 22nd of last March. You can see the entry if you like. "Today I broke 2.3 ::CAN :=Cecily: never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows. 2.4 ::CAN :=Cecily: is sure to be back soon. And you can bring tea. 2.4 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions of people are 2.4 ::CAN := It would distress me more than I can tell you, dear Gwendolen, if it caused 2.4 ::CAN :=Cecily: of one of the hills quite close one can see five counties. 2.5 ::CAN :=Algernon: I can see no possible defense at all for your 2.5 ::CAN :=Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when 2.5 ::CAN :=Algernon: Quite so. So I know my constitution can stand it. If you are not quite sure about 2.5 ::CAN :=Algernon: It might make you very unwell. You can hardly have forgotten that someone very 3.1 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: yes, dear, if you can believe him. 3.1 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: thing. Mr. Worthing, what explanation can you offer to me for pretending to have 3.1 ::CAN :=Jack: Can you doubt it, Miss Farifax? 3.1 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: as nature might have left it. But we can soon alter all that. A thoroughly experienced 3.2 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: but he looks everything. What more can one desire.? 3.2 ::CAN :=Jack: I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. 3.2 ::CAN :=Jack: celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. 3.2 ::CAN :=Lady Bracknell: for Gwendolen. Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. Come, dear; we have 3.3 ::CAN :=Miss Prism: mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript 3.3 ::CAN :=Miss Prism: is some error. There is the lady who can tell you who you really are. 3.3 ::CAN :=Jack: been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? 3.3 ::CAN :=Gwendolen: I can. For I feel that you are sure to cha 1.2 ::CAN'T :=Algernon: call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out. Besides, your name 1.5 ::CAN'T :=Jack: Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever 1.5 ::CAN'T :=Jack: Oh no! I can't bear looking at things. It is so s 2.1 ::CAN'T :=Cecily: I can't understand how you are here at all. 2.3 ::CAN'T :=Algernon: I am afraid I can't stay more than a week this time. 2.3 ::CAN'T :=Algernon: sweet, loving little darling, I really can't see why you should object to the name 2.5 ::CAN'T :=Jack: we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly 2.5 ::CAN'T :=Algernon: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. 2.5 ::CAN'T :=Algernon: You can't possibly ask me to go without having 2.5 ::CAN'T :=Jack: of Ernest. Gwendolen would wish it. We can't both be christened Ernest. It's absurd. 3.1 ::CAN'T :=Lady Bracknell: of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that. Dear child, of 3.3 ::CAN'T :=Jack: Algy! Can't you recollect what our father's Christian 2.4 ::CANDID :=Cecily: to say, one should always be quite candid 1.2 ::CANDIDLY :=Jack: are not going to be invited . . . . I may tell you candidly that the place is 1.3 ::CANDIDLY :=Jack: Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name 2.4 ::CANDIDLY := in appearance. In fact, if I may speak candidly Q 2.4 ::CANDOUR :=Gwendolen: Well, to speak with perfect candour, Cecily, I wish that you were fully 1.3 ::CANNOT :=Lady Bracknell: colour. From what cause I, of course, cannot say. Thank you. I've quite a treat 1.3 ::CANNOT :=Lady Bracknell: a few expurgations. French songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem 2.1 ::CANNOT :=Cecily: he is so serious that I think he cannot be quite well. 2.4 ::CANNOT := now you are Mr. Worthing's ward, I cannot help expressing a wish you were Q 2.4 ::CANNOT :=Gwendolen: Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to 2.5 ::CANNOT :=Algernon: I cannot deny it. 3.1 ::CANNOT :=Gwendolen: There are principles at stake that one cannot surrender. Which of us should tell 3.2 ::CANNOT :=Jack: I am Miss Cardew's guardian, and she cannot marry without my consent until she 3.2 ::CANNOT :=Lady Bracknell: Miss Cardew states positively that she cannot wait till she is thirty- five Q a 3.3 ::CANNOT :=Jack: a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? 3.3 ::CANNOT :=Lady Bracknell: I cannot at the present moment recall what 3.3 ::CANON :=Miss Prism: you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon. I have been waiting for you there 2.2 ::CANONICAL :=Chasuble: the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice. 3.3 ::CAPACIOUS :=Miss Prism: I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag, in which I had intended 1.5 ::CAPITAL :=Jack: girl, I am glad to say. She has got a capital appetite, goes long walks, and pays 3.3 ::CAPTAIN :=Jack: they have Q Markby, Migsby, Mobbs, Moncrieff! Lieutenant 1840, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel, 2.1 ::CARD := cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin 1.2 ::CARDEW :=Jack: perfectly ordinary. Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little 1.2 ::CARDEW :=Jack: to his granddaughter, Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle 1.4 ::CARDEW :=Jack: The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable 1.4 ::CARDEW :=Lady Bracknell: did this Mr. James, or Thomas, Cardew come across this ordinary handbag 1.5 ::CARDEW :=Algernon: But I thought you said that . . . Miss Cardew was a little too much interested 2.3 ::CARDEW :=Jack: You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that. I don't like it. 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Cecily: myself to you. My name is Cecily Cardew. 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: Cecily Cardew? What a very sweet name! Something 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You are presumptuous. 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: walks in the vicinity, Miss Cardew? 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: Quite a well-kept garden this is, Miss Cardew. 2.4 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far. 2.5 ::CARDEW :=Gwendolen: felt there was some slight error, Miss Cardew. The gentleman who is now embracing 2.5 ::CARDEW :=Jack: As for your conduct towards Miss Cardew, I must say that your taking in a 2.5 ::CARDEW :=Jack: no chance of your marrying Miss Cardew. 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Jack: That lady is Miss Cecily Cardew, my ward. 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Lady Bracknell: be out of place. Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Jack: Miss Cardew is the granddaughter of the late Mr. 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Jack: granddaughter of the late Mr. Thomas Cardew of 149, Belgrave Square, S.W..; Gervase 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Lady Bracknell: Worthing, I had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little fortune? 3.1 ::CARDEW :=Lady Bracknell: thousand pounds! And in Funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young 3.2 ::CARDEW :=Jack: terms of her grandfather's will Miss Cardew does not come legally of age till 3.2 ::CARDEW :=Lady Bracknell: My dear Mr. Worthing, as Miss Cardew states positively that she cannot 3.1 ::CARDEW'S :=Jack: Miss Cardew's family solicitors are Messrs. Markby, 3.1 ::CARDEW'S :=Jack: pleased to hear, certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, 3.1 ::CARDEW'S :=Lady Bracknell: distinct social possibilities in Miss Cardew's profile. 3.2 ::CARDEW'S :=Jack: quite out of the question. I am Miss Cardew's guardian, and she cannot marry without 3.2 ::CARDEW'S :=Jack: has been for the last three years Miss Cardew's esteemed governess and valued c 1.2 ::CARDS :=Algernon: your name isn't Ernest. It's on your cards. Here is one of them. "Mr. Ernest Worthing, 1.3 ::CARE :=Jack: to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name Ernest . . . I don't 1.4 ::CARE :=Lady Bracknell: Q a girl brought up with the utmost care Q to marry into a cloakroom, and form 1.5 ::CARE :=Jack: I will take very good care you never do. She is excessively pretty, 1.5 ::CARE :=Jack: If you don't take care, your friend Bunbury will get you into 2.1 ::CARE :=Cecily: Oh! I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't 2.3 ::CARE :=Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody 2.3 ::CARE :=Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. 2.4 ::CARE :=Gwendolen: afternoon at 5:30. If you would care to verify the incident, pray do so. 3.1 ::CARE :=Algernon: girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities 1.5 ::CARED :=Jack: girl! The only girl I ever cared for in my life. What on earth are you 2.2 ::CAREFUL :=Miss Prism: public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker 3.2 ::CAREFUL :=Lady Bracknell: Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided entirely 3.1 ::CAREFULLY :=Jack: I have carefully preserved the Court Guides of the 3.3 ::CAREFULLY :=Jack: the handbag, Miss Prism? Examine it carefully before you speak. The happiness 1.2 ::CARELESS :=Algernon: I know. You're absurdly careless about sending out invitations. It 1.4 ::CARELESSNESS :=Lady Bracknell: Both? . . . That seems like carelessness. Who was your 1.4 ::CARRIAGE :=Lady Bracknell: you, Gwendolen, will wait for me below in the carriage. 1.4 ::CARRIAGE :=Lady Bracknell: In the carriage, Gwendolen! Gwendolen, the carr 1.4 ::CARRIAGE :=Lady Bracknell: carriage, Gwendolen! Gwendolen, the carriage! 1.5 ::CARRIAGE :=Jack: You will let me see you to your carriage, my own darling? 1.5 ::CARRIED :=Jack: well, then. My poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe 2.5 ::CARRIED :=Algernon: connected with you was very nearly carried off this week in Paris by a severe 2.1 ::CARRY :=Miss Prism: dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. 2.2 ::CARTER :=Chasuble: on your own estate. Poor Jenkins the carter, a most hard-working man. 1.2 ::CASE :=Algernon: Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness you 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: thing to read a private cigarette case. 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: in private. I simply want my cigarette case back. 1.2 ::CASE :=Algernon: Yes; but this isn't your cigarette case. This cigarette case is a present from 1.2 ::CASE :=Algernon: your cigarette case. This cigarette case is a present from someone of the name 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: sake give me back my cigarette case. 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country. 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: Well, produce my cigarette case first. 1.2 ::CASE :=Jack: indeed I think I'll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested 1.4 ::CASE :=Lady Bracknell: pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she 1.5 ::CASE :=Jack: I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without 2.2 ::CASE :=Chasuble: joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. I have preached it at 2.2 ::CASE :=Chasuble: ceremonies to perform at that time. A case of twins that occurred recently in one 2.5 ::CASE :=Jack: It is entirely different in your case. You have been christened already. 3.3 ::CASE :=Miss Prism: wish I did. The plain facts of the case are these. On the morning of the day 1.3 ::CASES :=Lady Bracknell: said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not m 3.3 ::CAST :=Jack: But after all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? 2.1 ::CATCH :=Cecily: Oh! I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what 2.3 ::CATCH :=Jack: absurd. However, you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will 2.2 ::CATHEDRAL :=Chasuble: last time I delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf 2.1 ::CAUGHT :=Algernon: every sensible man would like to be caught in. 1.3 ::CAUSE :=Lady Bracknell: has changed its colour. From what cause I, of course, cannot say. Thank you. 2.2 ::CAUSE :=Chasuble: Was the cause of death mentioned? 2.4 ::CAUSED := I can tell you, dear Gwendolen, if it caused you any mental or physical anguish, 3.3 ::CAUSED :=Miss Prism: days. Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, 3.1 ::CEASE :=Lady Bracknell: between yourself and my daughter must cease immediately from this moment. On this 1.4 ::CEASED :=Lady Bracknell: from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. 1.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: have to clear up the whole question of Cecily. 1.1 ::CECILY :=Jack: Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do 1.1 ::CECILY :=Jack: you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know anyone of the name of 1.1 ::CECILY :=Jack: I don't know anyone of the name of Cecily. 1.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: a present from someone of the name of Cecily, and you said you didn't know anyone 1.2 ::CECILY :=Jack: Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt. 1.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: But why does she call herself Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge 1.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: lives at Tunbridge Wells? "From little Cecily with her fondest love." 1.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: aunt call you her uncle? "From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear 1.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: for the fact that your small Aunt Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls 1.2 ::CECILY :=Jack: guardian to his granddaughter, Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as 1.2 ::CECILY :=Jack: his granddaughter, Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from 1.2 ::CECILY :=Jack: I think I'll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested in 1.5 ::CECILY :=Jack: Oh, that is all right. Cecily is not a silly romantic girl, I am 1.5 ::CECILY :=Algernon: I would rather like to see Cecily. 1.5 ::CECILY :=Jack: blurt these things out to people. Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! Surely such a utilitarian 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! Surely such a utilitarian occupation 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily! I am surprised at you. Mr. Worthing 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: reap. You must put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see why you should 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier da 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about 2.1 ::CECILY :=Chasuble: I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. 2.1 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: That would be delightful. Cecily, you will read your Political Economy 2.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. 2.1 ::CECILY := tall for my age. But I am you cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Uncle 2.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wick 2.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: world is good enough for me, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: mission, if you don't mind, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: you are like a pink rose, cousin Cecily. 2.2 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: was drawn from fruits. But where is Cecily? 2.2 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily! 2.2 ::CECILY :=Miss Prism: Cecily, you will come with us. 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Well, Cecily is a darling. 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: been a great success. I'm in love with Cecily, and that is everything. But I must 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Cecily, ever since I first looked upon your 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Cecily! 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won't you? 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: My letters! By my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any let 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Oh, do let me read them, Cecily? 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: had I done? I had done nothing at all. Cecily, I am very much hurt indeed to hear 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: What a perfect angel you are, Cecily. 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: never break off our engagement again, Cecily? 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: are called Algernon. But seriously, Cecily . . . if my name was Algy, couldn't 2.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Ahem! Cecily! Your Rector here is, I suppose, thoroughly 2.4 ::CECILY :=Cecily: me introduce myself to you. My name is Cecily Cardew. 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: Cecily Cardew? What a very sweet name! Something 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: I may call you Cecily, may I not? 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: that. It makes men so very attractive. Cecily, Mamma, whose views on education are 2.4 ::CECILY := delight. I am very fond of you, Cecily; I have liked you ever since I met 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: Well, to speak with perfect candour, Cecily, I wish that you were fully forty-two, 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: subject seems distasteful to most men. Cecily, you have lifted a load from my mind. 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: My darling Cecily, I think there must be some slight 2.4 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: to read in the train. I am sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment to you, 2.4 ::CECILY := Cecily, It would distress me more than I 2.5 ::CECILY :=Jack: To dear little Cecily! Of course not! What could have put 2.5 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: My poor wounded Cecily! 2.5 ::CECILY :=Jack: Gwendolen Q Cecily Q it is very painful for me to be 2.5 ::CECILY :=Gwendolen: I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to 2.5 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Well, I simply wanted to be engaged to Cecily. I adore her. 3.1 ::CECILY :=Jack: That lady is Miss Cecily Cardew, my ward. 3.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: I am engaged to be married to Cecily Aunt Augusta. 3.1 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest 3.2 ::CECILY :=Lady Bracknell: Cecily, you may kiss me! 3.2 ::CECILY :=Lady Bracknell: ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more attractive 3.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Of course I could, Cecily. You know I could. 3.2 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Then what is to be done, Cecily. 3.3 ::CECILY :=Jack: I always said I had a brother! Cecily, Q how could you have ever doubted 3.3 ::CECILY :=Algernon: Cecily! At last! 2.2 ::CELEBRATIONS :=Chasuble: I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, 2.2 ::CELIBACY :=Miss Prism: Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. 3.2 ::CELIBACY :=Jack: Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward 3.2 ::CELIBATE :=Chasuble: I am a celibate, madam. 2.2 ::CEREMONIES :=Chasuble: perfectly! In fact I have two similar ceremonies to perform at that time. A case 2.3 ::CEREMONIES :=Algernon: in the practice of all rites and ceremonies of the Church? 2.2 ::CEREMONY :=Chasuble: At what hour would you wish the ceremony performed? 1.3 ::CERTAIN :=Gwendolen: about the weather, I always feel quite certain they mean something else. And that 1.5 ::CERTAIN :=Jack: Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends. I'll 1.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Algernon: If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. 1.2 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. 1.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Algernon: Certainly, Aunt Augusta. 1.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Lady Bracknell: It certainly has changed its colour. From what 1.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Gwendolen: Certainly, Mamma 1.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Gwendolen: I would certainly advise you to do so. Mamma has 1.5 ::CERTAINLY :=Gwendolen: Certainly. 2.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: over him, Miss Prism. I am sure you certainly would. You know German, and Geology, 2.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very 2.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Algernon: I certainly wouldn't let Jack buy my outfit. 2.2 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: I certainly intend to have. Of course I don't 2.2 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: Certainly, Miss Prism. My little task of 2.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: Your are certainly not staying with me for a whole 2.3 ::CERTAINLY :=Algernon: I certainly won't leave you so long as you 2.4 ::CERTAINLY :=Gwendolen: be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his 2.4 ::CERTAINLY :=Gwendolen: It is certainly very curious for he asked me to 2.5 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly is John. It has been John for 2.5 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention 2.5 ::CERTAINLY :=Jack: There is certainly no chance of your marrying Miss 3.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: Certainly. It's the only thing to do now 3.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: Certainly not. 3.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, 3.1 ::CERTAINLY :=Cecily: Certainly. 3.1 ::CERTIFICATES :=Jack: you will be pleased to hear, certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, 1.1 ::CHAMPAGNE :=Algernon: and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as 1.1 ::CHAMPAGNE :=Algernon: the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. 1.1 ::CHAMPAGNE :=Lane: that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate bran 1.5 ::CHANCE :=Jack: I'd shoot myself . . . . You don't think there is any chance of Gwendolen becoming 2.5 ::CHANCE :=Jack: There is certainly no chance of your marrying Miss Cardew. 2.2 ::CHANGE :=Cecily: clothes you have got on! Do go and change them. 2.3 ::CHANGE :=Algernon: them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be in 2.3 ::CHANGE :=Jack: Well, will you go if I change my clothes. 3.3 ::CHANGE :=Gwendolen: I never change, except my affections. 3.3 ::CHANGE :=Gwendolen: I can. For I feel that you are sure to change. 2.2 ::CHANGEABLE :=Chasuble: I think advisable. Our weather is so changeable. At what hour would you wish the 1.3 ::CHANGED :=Lady Bracknell: It certainly has changed its colour. From what cause I, of 2.4 ::CHANGED := Ernest proposed to you he clearly has changed his mind. 2.3 ::CHAPS :=Algernon: an aristocratic name. Half of the chaps who get into Bankruptcy Court are called 2.1 ::CHAPTER :=Miss Prism: Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may 1.4 ::CHARACTER :=Lady Bracknell: is no guarantee of respectability of character. What number in Belgrave Squar 1.5 ::CHARACTER :=Gwendolen: fascination. The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible 2.1 ::CHARACTER :=Miss Prism: even I could produce any effect on a character that according to his own brother's 2.3 ::CHARACTER :=Cecily: you, Ernest, I might admire your character, but I fear that I should not be 2.4 ::CHARACTER :=Gwendolen: even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the 3.2 ::CHARACTER :=Lady Bracknell: of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think 3.2 ::CHARACTER :=Jack: I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect him of being untrut 1.2 ::CHARGE :=Jack: at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss 3.3 ::CHARGE :=Lady Bracknell: Number 104, Upper Grosvenor Street, in charge of a perambulator that contained a 1.4 ::CHARITABLE :=Jack: Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found 1.4 ::CHARITABLE :=Lady Bracknell: Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class 2.2 ::CHARITY :=Chasuble: Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of 2.2 ::CHARITY :=Chasuble: Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself 2.2 ::CHARITY :=Chasuble: it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society for 1.2 ::CHARMING :=Jack: Yes. Charming old lady she is, too. Lives at Tunbridge 1.2 ::CHARMING :=Jack: That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is 1.3 ::CHARMING :=Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax. 1.3 ::CHARMING :=Jack: names. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. 2.3 ::CHARMING :=Cecily: to do so. The weather still continues charming." 2.3 ::CHARMING :=Algernon: Particularly when the weather was so charming. 2.4 ::CHARMS :=Gwendolen: to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less than ancient 2.1 ::CHASUBLE :=Cecily: But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the garden. 2.1 ::CHASUBLE :=Miss Prism: Dr. Chasuble! This is indeed a pleasure. 2.1 ::CHASUBLE :=Cecily: short stroll with you in the Park, Dr. Chasuble. 2.2 ::CHASUBLE :=Miss Prism: You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. A misanthrope 2.2 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: returned sooner than I expected. Dr. Chasuble, I hope you are well? 2.2 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: mentioned christenings, I think, Dr. Chasuble? I suppose you know how to christen 2.3 ::CHASUBLE :=Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never 2.5 ::CHASUBLE :=Algernon: I have just made arrangement with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter of 2.5 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: arrangements this morning with Dr. Chasuble to be christened myself at 5:30, 2.5 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: probable I never was, and so does Dr. Chasuble. It is entirely different in your 3.2 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: practical value to either of us, Dr. Chasuble. 3.3 ::CHASUBLE :=Lady Bracknell: I dare not even suspect, Dr. Chasuble. I need hardly tell you that in 3.3 ::CHASUBLE :=Jack: ever doubted that I had a brother? Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. Miss Prism, 2.3 ::CHIEF :=Cecily: and bad, you of course have formed the chief topic of conversation between myself 1.4 ::CHIEFLY :=Jack: In investment, chiefly. 2.1 ::CHILD :=Miss Prism: Child, you know how anxious your guardian 2.1 ::CHILD :=Miss Prism: of lost or mislaid. To your work, child, these speculations are profitless 2.2 ::CHILD :=Jack: But it is not for any child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of children. 2.2 ::CHILD :=Chasuble: My child! my child! 2.2 ::CHILD :=Chasuble: My child! my child! 2.2 ::CHILD :=Chasuble: done a beautiful action today, dear child. 2.3 ::CHILD :=Algernon: But, my dear child, do you mean to say you could not love 3.1 ::CHILD :=Lady Bracknell: surfaces. Come over here, dear. Pretty child! your dress is sadly simple, and your 3.1 ::CHILD :=Lady Bracknell: Kindly turn round, sweet child. No, the side view is what I want. 3.1 ::CHILD :=Lady Bracknell: who can't get into it do that. Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has 3.2 ::CHILD :=Lady Bracknell: Come here, sweet child. How old are you, dear? 2.2 ::CHILDISH :=Jack: along with other babies. It would be childish. Would half-past five do? 2.3 ::CHILDISH :=Algernon: you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man 1.5 ::CHILDREN :=Gwendolen: nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect 2.2 ::CHILDREN :=Jack: child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of children. No! the fact is, I would like to 1.5 ::CHILL :=Algernon: You had much better say a severe chill. 1.5 ::CHILL :=Jack: You are sure a severe chill isn't hereditary, or anything of that 1.5 ::CHILL :=Jack: off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill. That gets rid of him. 2.2 ::CHILL :=Jack: A severe chill, it seems. 2.5 ::CHILL :=Algernon: off this week in Paris by a severe chill. 2.5 ::CHILL :=Jack: but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. 3.1 ::CHIN :=Lady Bracknell: principle and its want of profile. The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely 3.1 ::CHIN :=Lady Bracknell: Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just 3.2 ::CHOICE :=Lady Bracknell: birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady 1.2 ::CHOOSE :=Algernon: to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. 2.1 ::CHOOSE :=Cecily: night, that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, 3.2 ::CHOOSE :=Lady Bracknell: Gwendolen. Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. Come, dear; we have already 2.5 ::CHOOSES :=Algernon: has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows 2.2 ::CHRISTEN :=Jack: Chasuble? I suppose you know how to christen all right? I mean of course, you 1.3 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Gwendolen, I must get christened at once Q I mean we must get married 2.2 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: No! the fact is, I would like to be christened myself, this afternoon, if you 2.2 ::CHRISTENED :=Chasuble: But surely, Mr. Worthing, you have been christened already? 2.2 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Oh! I don't see much fun in being christened along with other babies. It would 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Algernon: arrangement with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter of six under the 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: this morning with Dr. Chasuble to be christened myself at 5:30, and I naturally 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: would wish it. We can't both be christened Ernest. It's absurd. Besides, 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Besides, I have a perfect right to be christened if I like. There is no evidence 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: evidence at all that I ever have been christened by anybody. I should think it 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: different in your case. You have been christened already. 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Algernon: Yes, but I have not been christened for years. 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Yes, but you have been christened. That is the important thing. 2.5 ::CHRISTENED :=Algernon: quite sure about your ever having been christened, I must say I think it rather 3.1 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.1 ::CHRISTENED :=Algernon: Is that all? But we are going to be christened this afternoon. 3.3 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: left me in the handbag, had I been christened already? 3.3 ::CHRISTENED :=Jack: Then I was christened! That is settled. Now, what name 3.3 ::CHRISTENED :=Lady Bracknell: Being the eldest son you were naturally christened after your father. 2.2 ::CHRISTENING :=Jack: I mean of course, you are continually christening, aren't you? 2.3 ::CHRISTENING :=Algernon: see him at once on a most important christening Q I mean on most important b 3.3 ::CHRISTENING :=Lady Bracknell: luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by 2.2 ::CHRISTENINGS :=Chasuble: preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation 2.2 ::CHRISTENINGS :=Jack: Ah! that reminds me, you mentioned christenings, I think, Dr. Chasuble? I suppose 3.2 ::CHRISTENINGS :=Chasuble: Everything is quite ready for the christenings. 3.2 ::CHRISTENINGS :=Lady Bracknell: The christenings, sir! Is not that somewhat 3.2 ::CHRISTENINGS :=Chasuble: then that there are to be no christenings at all this afternoon? 1.5 ::CHRISTIAN :=Gwendolen: the deeper fibres of my nature. Your Christian name has an irresistible fascination. 3.1 ::CHRISTIAN :=Gwendolen: Your Christian names are still an insuperable 3.1 ::CHRISTIAN :=Cecily: Your Christian names are still an insuperable 3.1 ::CHRISTIAN :=Jack: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are 3.1 ::CHRISTIAN :=Algernon: Our Christian names! Is that all? But we are 3.3 ::CHRISTIAN :=Gwendolen: But what own are you? What is your Christian name, now that you have become 3.3 ::CHRISTIAN := Yes, but what was my father's Christian name? 3.3 ::CHRISTIAN :=Lady Bracknell: moment recall what the General's Christian name was. But I have no doubt he 3.3 ::CHRISTIAN :=Jack: Can't you recollect what our father's Christian name was? 3.3 ::CHRISTIAN :=Jack: 1840, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, General 1869, Christian names, Ernest 2.4 ::CHRONICLE :=Cecily: Our little county newspaper is sure to chronicle the fact next week. Mr. Ernest 2.1 ::CHRONICLES :=Cecily: Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, 2.2 ::CHURCH :=Chasuble: well as the practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony. 2.2 ::CHURCH :=Miss Prism: obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day. 2.3 ::CHURCH :=Algernon: of all rites and ceremonies of the Church? 3.2 ::CHURCH :=Chasuble: secular, I will return to the church at once. Indeed, I have just been 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Algernon: Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: talk of in private. I simply want my cigarette case back. 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Algernon: Yes; but this isn't your cigarette case. This cigarette case is a 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Algernon: this isn't your cigarette case. This cigarette case is a present from someone 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: For Heaven's sake give me back my cigarette case. 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the co 1.2 ::CIGARETTE :=Jack: Well, produce my cigarette case first. 2.4 ::CIRCLE :=Gwendolen: Outside the family circle, Papa, I am glad to say, is entirely 2.5 ::CIRCUMSTANCES :=Jack: your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. 2.5 ::CIRCUMSTANCES :=Jack: perfectly heartless of you, under the circumstances. That is a very different 1.5 ::CIVILIZED :=Algernon: quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be. 2.4 ::CLAIM :=Gwendolen: you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim. 1.1 ::CLASS :=Algernon: is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral 1.4 ::CLASS :=Jack: because he happened to have a first- class ticket for Worthing in his pocket at 1.4 ::CLASSES :=Lady Bracknell: prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence 2.2 ::CLASSES :=Miss Prism: I have often spoken to the poorer classes on the subject. But they don't seem 2.1 ::CLASSICAL :=Chasuble: A classical allusion merely, drawn from the 1.2 ::CLEAN :=Algernon: scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. 1.1 ::CLEAR :=Algernon: you to marry her, you will have to clear up the whole question of Cecily. 2.5 ::CLEAR :=Gwendolen: I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged 1.4 ::CLEARED :=Lady Bracknell: many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, 3.3 ::CLEARED :=Jack: Then the question had better be cleared up at once. Aunt Augusta, a moment. 1.3 ::CLEARLY :=Gwendolen: Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like 2.4 ::CLEARLY := that since Ernest proposed to you he clearly has changed his mind. 3.1 ::CLEARLY :=Lady Bracknell: it wrong. But of course, you will clearly understand that all communication 1.5 ::CLEVER :=Jack: Is that clever? 1.5 ::CLEVER :=Jack: to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without 1.5 ::CLEVER :=Jack: You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute 1.5 ::CLEVER :=Algernon: The fools! Oh! about the clever people, of course. 2.1 ::CLEVER :=Cecily: really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? 2.5 ::CLEVER :=Algernon: at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, thoroughly experienced young lady 1.5 ::CLEVERNESS :=Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. 3.3 ::CLIMATE :=Lady Bracknell: And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and 1.4 ::CLOAKROOM :=Jack: In the cloakroom at Victoria Station. It was given 1.4 ::CLOAKROOM :=Lady Bracknell: The cloakroom at Victoria Station? 1.4 ::CLOAKROOM :=Lady Bracknell: in which the handbag was found, a cloakroom at a railway station might serve 1.4 ::CLOAKROOM :=Lady Bracknell: with the utmost care Q to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel? 3.3 ::CLOAKROOM :=Miss Prism: I left it in the cloakroom of one of the larger railway stations 2.4 ::CLOSE :=Cecily: From the top of one of the hills quite close one can see five counties. 2.5 ::CLOSELY :=Algernon: have forgotten that someone very closely connected with you was very nearly 1.5 ::CLOTHES :=Algernon: till Monday. You can put up my dress clothes, my smoking jacket, and all the Bunbury 2.2 ::CLOTHES :=Cecily: to see you back. But what horrid clothes you have got on! Do go and change 2.3 ::CLOTHES :=Algernon: Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in 2.3 ::CLOTHES :=Jack: Well, will you go if I change my clothes. 2.4 ::CLOUD :=Gwendolen: It would have been terrible if any cloud had come across a friendship like our, 1.5 ::CLUB :=Algernon: Well, let us go to the club? 3.1 ::COIN :=Lady Bracknell: I purchased by means of a small coin, I followed her at once by a luggage 3.3 ::COINCIDENCES :=Lady Bracknell: in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur. They 2.2 ::COLDNESS :=Algernon: say that I think that Brother John's coldness to me is peculiarly painful. I expected 3.3 ::COLONEL :=Jack: Migsby, Mobbs, Moncrieff! Lieutenant 1840, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, 1.3 ::COLOUR :=Lady Bracknell: It certainly has changed its colour. From what cause I, of course, cannot 2.5 ::COLOUR :=Algernon: Your brother is a little off colour, isn't he, dear Jack? You won't be 1.1 ::COME :=Jack: I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to 1.1 ::COME :=Algernon: I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that 1.2 ::COME :=Algernon: Wells, calls you her dear uncle. Come, old boy, you had much better have the 1.2 ::COME :=Algernon: in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have 1.3 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: Won't you come and sit here, Gwendolen? 1.3 ::COME :=Algernon: I've drawn out, if you will kindly come into the next room for a moment. 1.4 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant 1.4 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate. Now to 1.4 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: did this Mr. James, or Thomas, Cardew come across this ordinary handbag? 2.1 ::COME :=Cecily: unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes. We might have a 2.1 ::COME :=Cecily: Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here. I suppose you had better talk 2.1 ::COME :=Cecily: regular and wholesome meals. Won't you come in? 2.2 ::COME :=Cecily: as to disown him. I'll tell him to come out. And you will shake hands with him, 2.2 ::COME :=Algernon: Brother John, I have come down from town to tell you that I am 2.2 ::COME :=Algernon: it is the first time I have come here. 2.2 ::COME :=Miss Prism: Cecily, you will come with us. 2.3 ::COME :=Algernon: Tell it to come round next week, at the same hour. 2.4 ::COME :=Cecily: Pray ask the lady to come out here; Mr. Worthing is sure to be 2.4 ::COME :=Gwendolen: have been terrible if any cloud had come across a friendship like our, would 2.5 ::COME :=Gwendolen: the house. They will hardly venture to come after us there. 3.1 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: Come here. Sit down. Sit down immediately. 3.1 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: regret to say, in an age of surfaces. Come over here, dear. Pretty child! your 3.2 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: Come here, sweet child. How old are you, 3.2 ::COME :=Jack: will Miss Cardew does not come legally of age till she is thirty-f 3.2 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: of course, can choose for himself. Come, dear; we have already missed five; 3.3 ::COME :=Lady Bracknell: Prism! Come here, Prism! Prism! Where is that baby? 3.2 ::COMES :=Jack: marry without my consent until she comes of age. That consent I absolutely decline 1.3 ::COMFORTABLE :=Gwendolen: Thanks, Mamma, I'm quite comfortable where I am. 1.1 ::COMING :=Jack: extravagance in one so young? Who is coming to tea? 1.3 ::COMING :=Gwendolen: you to do so. Mamma has a way of coming back suddenly into a room that I have 2.1 ::COMING :=Cecily: But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the garden. 2.2 ::COMING :=Jack: me to take his hand. I think his coming down here disgraceful. He knows perfectly 3.1 ::COMING :=Gwendolen: that you might have an opportunity of coming up to town to see me as often as 2.1 ::COMMENDED :=Miss Prism: of demeanor is especially to be commended in one so comparatively young as 3.2 ::COMMENT :=Lady Bracknell: To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. 1.5 ::COMMENTS :=Gwendolen: to me by Mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally stirred the deeper 1.4 ::COMMERCE :=Lady Bracknell: born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from 2.4 ::COMMON :=Cecily: Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are 3.1 ::COMMON :=Cecily: Gwendolen, your common sense is invaluable. Mr. Moncrieff, 1.5 ::COMMUNICATE :=Gwendolen: require serious consideration. I will communicate with you daily. 3.1 ::COMMUNICATION :=Lady Bracknell: you will clearly understand that all communication between yourself and my daughter 3.2 ::COMPANION :=Jack: Cardew's esteemed governess and valued companion. 1.2 ::COMPANY :=Algernon: that in married life three is a company and two is none. 2.1 ::COMPARATIVELY :=Miss Prism: especially to be commended in one so comparatively young as he is. I know no one 2.4 ::COMPARATIVELY :=Cecily: after we have known each other such a comparatively short time. Pray sit down. 1.2 ::COMPETITION :=Algernon: There's such a lot of beastly competition about. Ah! that must be Aunt 2.1 ::COMPLAINING :=Cecily: Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I think 1.2 ::COMPLETE :=Algernon: were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! 1.3 ::COMPLETELY :=Lady Bracknell: not, Algernon. It would put my table completely out. Your uncle would have to 3.2 ::COMPLETELY :=Chasuble: of the Anabaptists, views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished 1.4 ::CONCEAL :=Lady Bracknell: at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion Q has probably, 2.3 ::CONCEITED := possibly. They would make you far too conceited. The three you wrote me after I 1.1 ::CONCERNED :=Lane: expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep 1.5 ::CONCERNED :=Jack: as right as a trivet. As far as she is concerned, we are engaged. Her mother is 3.1 ::CONCERNED :=Algernon: Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. 3.3 ::CONCLUSION :=Lady Bracknell: I wish he would arrive at some conclusion. 2.2 ::CONDOLENCE :=Chasuble: Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence. You have at least the consolation 1.2 ::CONDUCE :=Jack: high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health 2.3 ::CONDUCT :=Jack: Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in 2.5 ::CONDUCT :=Jack: As for your conduct towards Miss Cardew, I must say that 3.2 ::CONDUCT :=Jack: single muffin. And what makes his conduct all the more heartless is, that he 3.2 ::CONDUCT :=Lady Bracknell: entirely to overlook my nephew's conduct to you. 1.4 ::CONFESS :=Lady Bracknell: The line is immaterial, Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what 2.3 ::CONFESSED :=Cecily: Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he had a younger brother 1.3 ::CONFIDENCE :=Gwendolen: in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned 2.3 ::CONFIDENCE :=Cecily: name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman 3.1 ::CONFIDENCE :=Lady Bracknell: flight by her trusty maid, whose confidence I purchased by means of a small 3.1 ::CONFIDENCE :=Lady Bracknell: he seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. 3.1 ::CONFIDENCE :=Lady Bracknell: Three addresses always inspire confidence, even in tradesmen. But what proof 3.1 ::CONFIRMATION :=Jack: cough, registration, vaccination, confirmation, and the measles; both the German 2.2 ::CONFIRMATIONS :=Chasuble: at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and 1.2 ::CONFIRMED :=Algernon: I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and am quite 1.2 ::CONFIRMED :=Algernon: public. Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist, I naturally 2.5 ::CONNECTED :=Algernon: forgotten that someone very closely connected with you was very nearly carried 3.1 ::CONNECTED :=Lady Bracknell: Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway 3.2 ::CONNECTED :=Lady Bracknell: a female repellent aspect, remotely connected with education. 1.3 ::CONSCIOUS :=Algernon: Bunbury, Aunt Augusta, if he is still conscious, and I think I can promise you 1.1 ::CONSENT :=Algernon: In the second place, I don't give my consent. 1.1 ::CONSENT :=Jack: Your consent! 3.1 ::CONSENT :=Lady Bracknell: my way. Well, I suppose I must give my consent. 3.2 ::CONSENT :=Jack: and she cannot marry without my consent until she comes of age. That consent 3.2 ::CONSENT :=Jack: consent until she comes of age. That consent I absolutely decline to give. 3.2 ::CONSENT :=Jack: in unalterable. I decline to give my consent. 3.2 ::CONSENT :=Lady Bracknell: of tutelage. So I don't think your guardian's consent is, after all, a 3.2 ::CONSENT :=Jack: in your own hands. The moment you consent to my marriage with Gwendolen, I 1.1 ::CONSEQUENCE :=Lane: only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between 2.3 ::CONSEQUENTLY :=Cecily: her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When 3.3 ::CONSEQUENTLY :=Lady Bracknell: of my poor sister, Mrs. Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brother. 1.3 ::CONSIDER :=Lady Bracknell: modern sympathy with the invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is 2.4 ::CONSIDER :=Gwendolen: into any foolish promise I shall consider it my duty to rescue him at once, 3.1 ::CONSIDER :=Lady Bracknell: him on any question. I would consider it wrong. But of course, you will 1.4 ::CONSIDERABLY :=Jack: goes about very little. She is a lady considerably advanced in years. 3.1 ::CONSIDERABLY :=Lady Bracknell: of engagements that go on seems to me considerably above the proper average that 1.5 ::CONSIDERATION :=Gwendolen: That of course will require serious consideration. I will communicate with you 3.2 ::CONSIDERATION :=Lady Bracknell: Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided entirely to 3.3 ::CONSIDERED :=Lady Bracknell: not supposed to occur. They are hardly considered the thing. 2.2 ::CONSIDERING :=Algernon: more enthusiastic welcome, especially considering it is the first time I have come 2.3 ::CONSIDERING :=Cecily: Considering that we have been engaged since 2.2 ::CONSOLATION :=Chasuble: condolence. You have at least the consolation of knowing that you were always 2.5 ::CONSOLES :=Algernon: trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really 2.1 ::CONSTANT :=Miss Prism: conversation. You must remember his constant anxiety about that unfortunate young 2.2 ::CONSTANT :=Miss Prism: to say, one of the Rector's most constant duties in this parish. I have often 3.3 ::CONSTANT :=Jack: delightful records should have been my constant study. M. Generals . . . Mallam, 1.3 ::CONSTANTLY :=Gwendolen: in an age of ideals. The fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive 1.1 ::CONSTITUTED :=Jack: people whose memories are so curiously constituted. 2.5 ::CONSTITUTION :=Algernon: Quite so. So I know my constitution can stand it. If you are not 1.1 ::CONSUMED :=Algernon: eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed. 3.3 ::CONTAINED :=Lady Bracknell: in charge of a perambulator that contained a baby, of the male sex. You never 3.3 ::CONTAINED :=Lady Bracknell: in a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained the manuscript of a three-volume 3.3 ::CONTAINED :=Jack: where you deposited the handbag that contained that infant. 1.4 ::CONTEMPT :=Lady Bracknell: or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family 3.1 ::CONTENT :=Cecily: I am more than content with what Mr. Moncrieff said. His 2.2 ::CONTINUALLY :=Jack: all right? I mean of course, you are continually christening, aren't you? 2.3 ::CONTINUES :=Cecily: is better to do so. The weather still continues charming." 3.2 ::CONTINUING :=Jack: I was specially reserving for myself. Continuing his disgraceful deception, he 3.3 ::CONTRARY :=Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized 1.3 ::CONVERSATION :=Lady Bracknell: reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly 2.1 ::CONVERSATION :=Miss Prism: would be out of place in his conversation. You must remember his constant 2.3 ::CONVERSATION :=Cecily: course have formed the chief topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism. 2.2 ::CONVERTS :=Miss Prism: persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public 3.3 ::CONVINCING :=Lady Bracknell: They are always vulgar, and often convincing. 2.3 ::COPY :=Cecily: Ernest. If you will allow me I will copy your remarks into my diary. 2.3 ::COPY :=Cecily: in volume form I hope you will order a copy. But pray, Ernest, don't stop. I delight 3.3 ::CORNER :=Lady Bracknell: standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained the manuscript 1.2 ::CORRUPT :=Jack: young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding 2.2 ::COTTAGES :=Chasuble: recently in one of the outlying cottages on your own estate. Poor Jenkins 2.3 ::COUGH :=Cecily: Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one 2.3 ::COUGH :=Cecily: one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell 2.3 ::COUGH :=Cecily: Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. 3.1 ::COUGH :=Gwendolen: seem to notice us at all. Couldn't you cough? 3.1 ::COUGH :=Cecily: But I haven't got a cough. 3.1 ::COUGH :=Jack: Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, registration, vaccination, confirmation, 1.2 ::COULD :=Jack: uncle from motives of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my 1.4 ::COULD :=Lady Bracknell: may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself . 1.4 ::COULD :=Lady Bracknell: unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the 1.4 ::COULD :=Lady Bracknell: there was something. However, that could easily be altered. 1.4 ::COULD :=Lady Bracknell: for that purpose before now Q but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis 1.4 ::COULD :=Jack: Well, I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that. I can produce 2.1 ::COULD :=Miss Prism: I do not think that even I could produce any effect on a character that 2.3 ::COULD :=Cecily: I don't think I could break it off now that I have actually 2.3 ::COULD :=Algernon: my dear child, do you mean to say you could not love me if I had some other na 2.5 ::COULD :=Jack: little Cecily! Of course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty 2.5 ::COULD :=Algernon: Of course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty 2.5 ::COULD :=Jack: I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything 2.5 ::COULD :=Jack: I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name 3.1 ::COULD :=Cecily: Could we not both speak at the same time 3.1 ::COULD :=Algernon: The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean Q so 3.2 ::COULD :=Cecily: Algy, could you wait for me till I was thirty- 3.2 ::COULD :=Algernon: Of course I could, Cecily. You know I could. 3.2 ::COULD :=Algernon: Of course I could, Cecily. You know I could. 3.3 ::COULD :=Jack: said I had a brother! Cecily, Q how could you have ever doubted that I had a 3.3 ::COULD :=Lady Bracknell: Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been 3.3 ::COULD :=Gwendolen: Ernest! I felt from the first that you could have no other name! 1.3 ::COULDN'T :=Jack: you don't really meant to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernes 1.3 ::COULDN'T :=Jack: something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me then? 2.1 ::COULDN'T :=Cecily: things that have never happened, and couldn't possibly have happened. I believe 2.1 ::COULDN'T :=Cecily: Couldn't you miss it anywhere but in Lon 2.2 ::COULDN'T :=Cecily: the past he is still your brother. You couldn't be so heartless as to disown him. 2.3 ::COULDN'T := Oh, I couldn't possibly. They would make you far 2.3 ::COULDN'T :=Algernon: But seriously, Cecily . . . if my name was Algy, couldn't you love me? 2.3 ::COULDN'T :=Cecily: for so long a period as half an hour. Couldn't you make it twenty minutes? 3.1 ::COULDN'T :=Gwendolen: They don't seem to notice us at all. Couldn't you cough? 3.2 ::COULDN'T :=Cecily: Yes, I felt it instinctively, but I couldn't wait all that time. I hate waiting 1.4 ::COUNT :=Lady Bracknell: Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come 2.4 ::COUNTIES :=Cecily: the hills quite close one can see five counties. 2.4 ::COUNTIES :=Gwendolen: Five counties! I don't think I should like that. 1.1 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: In the country. 1.1 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: cigarette case was given to me in the country. 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Algernon: you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country. 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Algernon: Where is that place in the country, by the way? 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Algernon: are you Ernest in town and Jack in the country? 1.2 ::COUNTRY :=Algernon: that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly 1.4 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: I have a country house with some land, of course, 1.4 ::COUNTRY :=Lady Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that 1.4 ::COUNTRY :=Lady Bracknell: hardly be expected to reside in the country. 1.5 ::COUNTRY :=Algernon: being Ernest in town, and Jack in the country? 1.5 ::COUNTRY :=Gwendolen: I have. What is your address in the country? 2.4 ::COUNTRY :=Gwendolen: no idea there were any flowers in the country. 2.4 ::COUNTRY :=Gwendolen: how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. 2.4 ::COUNTRY :=Gwendolen: if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death. 2.5 ::COUNTRY :=Jack: You won't be able to run down to the country quite so often as you used to do, 1.1 ::COUNTY :=Algernon: them! By the way, Shropshire is your county, is it not? 2.4 ::COUNTY :=Cecily: make a secret of it to you. Our little county newspaper is sure to chronicle the 3.1 ::COURAGE :=Cecily: They have moments of physical courage of which we women know absolutely 1.1 ::COURSE :=Jack: Eh? Shropshire? Yes, of course. Hallo! Why all these cups? Why cucumber 1.2 ::COURSE :=Jack: Of course it's mine. You have seem me with it 1.3 ::COURSE :=Lady Bracknell: its colour. From what cause I, of course, cannot say. Thank you. I've quite 1.3 ::COURSE :=Algernon: you he'll be all right by Saturday. Of course the music is a great difficulty. You 1.3 ::COURSE :=Gwendolen: Of course I will, darling. How long you have 1.4 ::COURSE :=Jack: a country house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred 1.4 ::COURSE :=Jack: is let by the year to Lady Bloxham. Of course, I can get it back whenever I like, 1.5 ::COURSE :=Algernon: fools! Oh! about the clever people, of course. 1.5 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Of course it isn't! 1.5 ::COURSE :=Gwendolen: to do something desperate. That of course will require serious consideration. 2.1 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Oh! Of course I have been rather reckless. 2.1 ::COURSE :=Cecily: Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a 2.2 ::COURSE :=Jack: how to christen all right? I mean of course, you are continually christening, 2.2 ::COURSE :=Jack: I certainly intend to have. Of course I don't know if the thing would bother 2.2 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Of course I admit that the faults were all on 2.3 ::COURSE :=Cecily: You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the 2.3 ::COURSE :=Cecily: who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief topic of conversation 2.3 ::COURSE :=Cecily: between myself and Miss Prism. And of course a man who is much talked about is 2.3 ::COURSE :=Cecily: Of course it was. On the 22nd of last March. 2.3 ::COURSE :=Cecily: I have actually met you. Besides, of course, there is the question of your na 2.3 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Yes, of course. 2.4 ::COURSE :=Gwendolen: friendship like our, would it not? Of course you are quite, quite sure that it 2.5 ::COURSE :=Jack: To dear little Cecily! Of course not! What could have put such an idea 2.5 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Of course not! What could have put such an idea 3.1 ::COURSE :=Lady Bracknell: I would consider it wrong. But of course, you will clearly understand that 3.1 ::COURSE :=Lady Bracknell: his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper 3.1 ::COURSE :=Lady Bracknell: get into it do that. Dear child, of course you know that Algernon has nothing 3.2 ::COURSE :=Jack: deception, he succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the 3.2 ::COURSE :=Algernon: Of course I could, Cecily. You know I could 3.2 ::COURSE :=Lady Bracknell: I propose for Gwendolen. Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. Come, dear; 1.1 ::COURT :=Jack: about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose 2.3 ::COURT :=Algernon: of the chaps who get into Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon. But seriously, 3.1 ::COURT :=Jack: I have carefully preserved the Court Guides of the period. They are open 1.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin. And before I allow you to marry her, 2.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. 2.1 ::COUSIN := tall for my age. But I am you cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, 2.1 ::COUSIN := card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest. 2.1 ::COUSIN := brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest. 2.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am 2.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: This world is good enough for me, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: that your mission, if you don't mind, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: Because you are like a pink rose, cousin Cecily. 2.5 ::COUSIN :=Gwendolen: who is now embracing you is my cousin, Mr. Algernon Moncrieff. 2.5 ::COUSIN :=Algernon: say nothing of the fact that she is my cousin. 2.5 ::COWARDLY :=Cecily: No, men are so cowardly, aren't they? 2.3 ::CREDIT :=Cecily: I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest. If you will allow me I will 1.2 ::CREDITORS :=Algernon: be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner. 3.1 ::CREDULITY :=Cecily: voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity. 1.2 ::CRITICISM :=Algernon: Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. 3.2 ::CROSS :=Cecily: for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I know, 3.1 ::CROWDED :=Lady Bracknell: Ah! A life crowded with incident, I see; thought perhaps 2.4 ::CROWDS :=Gwendolen: don't think I should like that. I hate crowds. 1.3 ::CRUMPETS :=Lady Bracknell: makes no matter, Algernon. I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to 3.1 ::CRUSH :=Gwendolen: upon the subject. But I intend to crush them. This is not the moment for German 2.3 ::CRYING := now I can hardly read them without crying a little. 1.1 ::CUCUMBER :=Algernon: the science of life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Brackne 1.1 ::CUCUMBER :=Jack: course. Hallo! Why all these cups? Why cucumber sandwiches? Why such reckless extravagance 1.1 ::CUCUMBER :=Algernon: in Heaven Q Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially 1.3 ::CUCUMBER :=Lady Bracknell: a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me. 1.3 ::CUCUMBER :=Algernon: Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them spec 1.3 ::CUCUMBER :=Lane: There were no cucumber in the market this morning, sir. 1.3 ::CUCUMBERS :=Algernon: No cucumbers! 1.3 ::CUCUMBERS :=Algernon: Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. 2.5 ::CUFFS :=Algernon: The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite 3.2 ::CULTIVATED :=Chasuble: She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture 1.2 ::CULTURE :=Algernon: shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't re 1.2 ::CULTURE :=Jack: and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. It isn't the sort of thing one should 1.3 ::CUP :=Lady Bracknell: years younger. And now I'll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber 1.1 ::CUPS :=Jack: Yes, of course. Hallo! Why all these cups? Why cucumber sandwiches? Why such reckless 2.4 ::CURIOUS :=Gwendolen: It is certainly very curious for he asked me to be his wife yesterday 1.1 ::CURIOUSLY :=Jack: for people whose memories are so curiously constituted. 1.3 ::CURIOUSLY :=Lady Bracknell: This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer from curiously bad health. 2.3 ::CURLS :=Cecily: You dear romantic boy. I hope your hair curls naturally, does it? 2.5 ::CUSTOM :=Algernon: quite so frequently as your wicked custom was. And not a bad thing either. 1.1 ::CUSTOMARY :=Algernon: I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight 1.1 ::CUT :=Algernon: have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell? 1.2 ::CYNICAL :=Jack: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynic 1.2 ::CYNICAL :=Jack: be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. 1.2 ::DAILY :=Algernon: University. They do it so well in the daily papers. What you really are is a Bunburyist. 1.5 ::DAILY :=Gwendolen: I will communicate with you daily. 1.4 ::DANGER :=Lady Bracknell: If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably 2.5 ::DANGEROUS :=Algernon: I must say I think it rather dangerous your venturing on it now. It might 2.4 ::DARE :=Cecily: Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the 3.3 ::DARE :=Lady Bracknell: I dare not even suspect, Dr. Chasuble. I need 2.3 ::DARED :=Algernon: and incomparable beauty, I have dared to love you wildly, passionately, devotedly, 2.3 ::DARESAY :=Cecily: must be something in him after all. I daresay it was foolish of me, but I fell 2.5 ::DARESAY :=Algernon: It usen't to be, I know Q but I daresay it is now. Science is always making 1.3 ::DARLING :=Jack: Darling! You don't know how happy you've 1.3 ::DARLING :=Jack: Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't 1.3 ::DARLING :=Gwendolen: Of course I will, darling. How long you have been about it! 1.5 ::DARLING :=Jack: My own darling! 1.5 ::DARLING :=Jack: me see you to your carriage, my own darling? 2.3 ::DARLING :=Algernon: Well, Cecily is a darling. 2.3 ::DARLING :=Algernon: Darling! And when was the engagement actually 2.3 ::DARLING :=Algernon: Yes, darling, with a little help from others. 2.3 ::DARLING :=Cecily: You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish 2.3 ::DARLING :=Algernon: Well, my own dear, sweet, loving little darling, I really can't see why you should 2.4 ::DARLING :=Gwendolen: My darling Cecily, I think there must be some 2.5 ::DARLING :=Jack: Gwendolen! Darling! 3.1 ::DARLING :=Gwendolen: Darling! 3.1 ::DARLING :=Algernon: Darling. 1.4 ::DAUGHTER :=Lady Bracknell: would dream of allowing our only daughter Q a girl brought up with the utmost 3.1 ::DAUGHTER :=Lady Bracknell: communication between yourself and my daughter must cease immediately from this 3.1 ::DAUGHTER'S :=Lady Bracknell: in the old. Apprised, sir, of my daughter's sudden flight by her trusty maid, 1.3 ::DAY :=Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax. 1.5 ::DAY :=Algernon: I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane. 1.5 ::DAY :=Jack: get you into a serious scrape some day. 2.2 ::DAY :=Miss Prism: has not lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realize, dear 2.3 ::DAY :=Cecily: this dear old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, 3.1 ::DAY :=Lady Bracknell: look at her. Few girls of the present day have any really solid qualities, any 3.3 ::DAY :=Miss Prism: case are these. On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is for ever branded 3.3 ::DAY :=Miss Prism: the morning of the day you mention, a day that is for ever branded on my memory, 2.1 ::DAYS :=Miss Prism: Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. 2.2 ::DAYS :=Chasuble: christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days. The 2.2 ::DAYS :=Chasuble: on days of humiliation and festal days. The last time I delivered it was in 3.3 ::DAYS :=Miss Prism: Street omnibus in younger and happier days. Here is the stain on the lining caused 2.2 ::DEAD :=Jack: Dead! 2.2 ::DEAD :=Chasuble: Your brother Ernest dead? 2.2 ::DEAD :=Jack: Quite dead. 3.1 ::DEAD :=Algernon: else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead. 3.1 ::DEAD :=Lady Bracknell: Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death 1.5 ::DEAL :=Algernon: brother Ernest? Won't she feel his loss a good deal? 1.1 ::DEAR :=Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town? 1.1 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear fellow, the way your flirt with Gwendolen 1.1 ::DEAR :=Jack: I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially 1.1 ::DEAR :=Algernon: Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were 1.1 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin. 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear fellow, what on earth is there in that? 1.2 ::DEAR :=Algernon: Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack." There is no objection, 1.2 ::DEAR :=Algernon: at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dear uncle. Come, old boy, you had much better 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear fellow, there is nothing improbable 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited 1.2 ::DEAR :=Algernon: I suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: the most dreadful scrapes. That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and s 1.2 ::DEAR :=Algernon: criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave 1.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the 1.2 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything 1.3 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very 1.3 ::DEAR :=Algernon: Dear me, you are smart! 1.3 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn't been there since 1.4 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, 1.5 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. 1.5 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort 1.5 ::DEAR :=Algernon: Yes, but it's hereditary, my dear fellow. It's a sort of thing that runs 1.5 ::DEAR :=Algernon: a lot of other things first. Now, my dear boy, if we want to get a good table 1.5 ::DEAR :=Jack: Dear Gwendolen! 2.1 ::DEAR :=Cecily: Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! Sometimes 2.1 ::DEAR :=Miss Prism: Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry 2.1 ::DEAR :=Cecily: But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the 2.1 ::DEAR :=Cecily: No, dear Miss Prism, I know that, but I felt 2.1 ::DEAR :=Miss Prism: I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you. 2.2 ::DEAR :=Miss Prism: You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. 2.2 ::DEAR :=Miss Prism: day. And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining 2.2 ::DEAR :=Chasuble: Dear Mr. Worthing, I trust this garb of woe 2.2 ::DEAR :=Chasuble: Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are 2.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: But it is not for any child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of children. 2.2 ::DEAR :=Chasuble: Admirably! Admirably! And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any 2.2 ::DEAR :=Chasuble: You have done a beautiful action today, dear child. 2.3 ::DEAR :=Cecily: Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that 2.3 ::DEAR :=Cecily: with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree here. The next day I bought 2.3 ::DEAR :=Cecily: is the box in which I keep all your dear letters. 2.3 ::DEAR :=Cecily: You dear romantic boy. I hope your hair curls 2.3 ::DEAR :=Algernon: But, my dear child, do you mean to say you could 2.3 ::DEAR :=Algernon: Well, my own dear, sweet, loving little darling, I really 2.4 ::DEAR :=Cecily: My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss 2.4 ::DEAR :=Gwendolen: to read in the train. I am sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment 2.4 ::DEAR := distress me more than I can tell you, dear Gwendolen, if it caused you any mental 2.4 ::DEAR :=Cecily: Whatever unfortunate entanglement my dear boy may have got into, I will never 2.5 ::DEAR :=Jack: To dear little Cecily! Of course not! What could 2.5 ::DEAR :=Cecily: is at present round your waist is my dear guardian, Mr. John Worthing. 2.5 ::DEAR :=Jack: quite so often as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very good thing too. 2.5 ::DEAR :=Algernon: is a little off colour, isn't he, dear Jack? You won't be able to disappear 2.5 ::DEAR :=Jack: My dear fellow, the sooner you give up that 3.1 ::DEAR :=Gwendolen: yes, dear, if you can believe him. 3.1 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear Aunt Augusta. I mean he was found out! 3.1 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: in an age of surfaces. Come over here, dear. Pretty child! your dress is sadly simple, 3.1 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: of profile. The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the 3.1 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: people who can't get into it do that. Dear child, of course you know that Algernon 3.2 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: here, sweet child. How old are you, dear? 3.2 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: years ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more 3.2 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: My dear Mr. Worthing, as Miss Cardew states 3.2 ::DEAR :=Jack: But my dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is entirely 3.2 ::DEAR :=Lady Bracknell: course, can choose for himself. Come, dear; we have already missed five; if not 3.3 ::DEAR :=Miss Prism: told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon. I have been waiting for you there 3.3 ::DEAR :=Algernon: My dear boy, we were never even on speaking 2.4 ::DEAREST :=Cecily: Dearest Gwendolen, there is no reason why 3.1 ::DEAREST :=Algernon: Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. 1.3 ::DEATH :=Lady Bracknell: been there since her poor husband's death. I never saw a woman so altered; she 1.4 ::DEATH :=Lady Bracknell: duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit 1.5 ::DEATH :=Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever 2.2 ::DEATH :=Chasuble: Was the cause of death mentioned? 2.4 ::DEATH :=Gwendolen: does. The country always bores me to death. 3.1 ::DEATH :=Lady Bracknell: Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely sudden. 2.2 ::DEBTS :=Miss Prism: More shameful debts and extravagance? 3.1 ::DEBTS :=Lady Bracknell: know that Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve 3.1 ::DECAY :=Lady Bracknell: of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness 2.4 ::DECEITFUL :=Gwendolen: you. I felt that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. 2.4 ::DECEIVED :=Gwendolen: were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first impressions 2.1 ::DECEIVING :=Cecily: are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. 2.5 ::DECEIVING :=Algernon: no possible defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, clever, thoroughly 1.4 ::DECENCIES :=Lady Bracknell: to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that remind one 1.2 ::DECENT :=Algernon: very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously 2.4 ::DECEPTION :=Gwendolen: would be as impossilbe to him as deception. But even men of the noblest possible 2.5 ::DECEPTION :=Cecily: A gross deception has been practised on both of 3.2 ::DECEPTION :=Jack: for myself. Continuing his disgraceful deception, he succeeded in the course of 1.2 ::DECIDE :=Jack: that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. You seem to think that 3.2 ::DECIDED :=Lady Bracknell: after careful consideration I have decided entirely to overlook my nephew's 3.2 ::DECISION :=Jack: of you, Lady Bracknell. My own decision, however, in unalterable. I decline 3.2 ::DECISION :=Lady Bracknell: I would beg of you to reconsider your decision. 3.3 ::DECISION :=Jack: heavens! . . . I had quite forgotten that point. Your decision on the subject 3.2 ::DECLINE :=Jack: of age. That consent I absolutely decline to give. 3.2 ::DECLINE :=Jack: decision, however, in unalterable. I decline to give my consent. 2.3 ::DEEP :=Algernon: It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying 1.5 ::DEEPER :=Gwendolen: comments, has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature. Your Christian 2.5 ::DEFENSE :=Algernon: I can see no possible defense at all for your deceiving a brilliant, 1.1 ::DEFINITE :=Algernon: But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. 1.4 ::DEFINITE :=Lady Bracknell: as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one 1.5 ::DEFINITE :=Jack: don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. 3.1 ::DEFINITE :=Lady Bracknell: made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under 2.3 ::DEGREE :=Algernon: with my pleasures in the smallest degree. 1.4 ::DELICATE :=Lady Bracknell: natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom 2.3 ::DELIGHT :=Cecily: copy. But pray, Ernest, don't stop. I delight in taking down from dictation. I 2.4 ::DELIGHT := inspires me with feelings of unmixed delight. I am very fond of you, Cecily; I 3.3 ::DELIGHTED :=Miss Prism: The bag is undoubtedly mine. I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored 1.1 ::DELIGHTFUL :=Jack: How perfectly delightful! 1.3 ::DELIGHTFUL :=Lady Bracknell: and so attentive to her husband. It's delightful to watch them. 1.3 ::DELIGHTFUL :=Lady Bracknell: of you. I'm sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. French 2.1 ::DELIGHTFUL :=Miss Prism: That would be delightful. Cecily, you will read your Political 3.3 ::DELIGHTFUL :=Jack: the last forty years are here. These delightful records should have been my constant 2.2 ::DELIVERED :=Chasuble: and festal days. The last time I delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity 2.1 ::DEMEANOR :=Miss Prism: the best health, and his gravity of demeanor is especially to be commended in 1.3 ::DEMONSTRATIVE :=Gwendolen: public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative. For me you have always had 1.1 ::DEMORALIZING :=Algernon: Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that? 1.2 ::DENTIST :=Jack: you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a 1.2 ::DENTIST :=Jack: It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces 1.2 ::DENTIST :=Jack: talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression. 1.2 ::DENTISTS :=Algernon: Well, that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the 1.2 ::DENY :=Algernon: name is Ernest if ever you attempt to deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, or to anyone 2.5 ::DENY :=Algernon: I cannot deny it. 2.5 ::DENY :=Jack: I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything 2.5 ::DENY :=Jack: I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly 3.3 ::DENY :=Jack: Unmarried! I do not deny that is a serious blow. But after all, 3.1 ::DEPARTURE :=Lady Bracknell: Gwendolen! the time approaches for our departure. We have not a moment to lose. 1.4 ::DEPEND :=Jack: hundred acres, I believe; but I don't depend on that for my real income. In fact, 3.1 ::DEPEND :=Lady Bracknell: Algernon has nothing but his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve of mercenary 2.2 ::DEPENDED :=Miss Prism: of the woman. Maturity can always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young 1.2 ::DEPENDS :=Algernon: More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. 2.2 ::DEPENDS :=Miss Prism: That depends on the intellectual sympathies of 3.1 ::DEPENDS :=Gwendolen: very particular to ask you. Much depends on your reply. 3.1 ::DEPENDS :=Lady Bracknell: a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They 3.3 ::DEPENDS :=Jack: The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer. 3.3 ::DEPOSIT :=Jack: But where did you deposit the handbag? 3.3 ::DEPOSITED :=Miss Prism: which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, 3.3 ::DEPOSITED :=Jack: to me. I insist on knowing where you deposited the handbag that contained that 2.1 ::DEPRESS :=Cecily: like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. 2.4 ::DEPRESSION :=Cecily: what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? I believe the aristocracy 2.2 ::DESERVE :=Chasuble: Believe me, I do not deserve so neologistic a phrase. The precept 2.1 ::DESIRE :=Miss Prism: Indeed I am not sure that I would desire to reclaim him. I am not in favor 2.2 ::DESIRE :=Jack: He seemed to have expressed a desire to be buried in Paris. 3.1 ::DESIRE :=Lady Bracknell: railway stations in London? I merely desire information. Until yesterday I had 3.2 ::DESIRE :=Lady Bracknell: he looks everything. What more can one desire.? 3.2 ::DESIRE :=Chasuble: Both these gentlemen have expressed a desire for immediate baptism. 1.4 ::DESIRES :=Lady Bracknell: always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either 1.5 ::DESPERATE :=Gwendolen: It may be necessary to do something desperate. That of course will require serious 1.3 ::DESTINED :=Gwendolen: a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you. 3.2 ::DESTINY :=Lady Bracknell: That is not the destiny I propose for Gwendolen. Algernon, 3.2 ::DETAIN :=Lady Bracknell: Pray allow me to detain you for a moment. This matter may 1.3 ::DETERMINED :=Gwendolen: frankly beforehand that I am fully determined to accept you. 2.3 ::DETERMINED :=Cecily: entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the 2.4 ::DETESTABLE :=Gwendolen: Thank you. Detestable girl! But I require tea! 1.3 ::DEVELOP :=Gwendolen: room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions. 1.3 ::DEVELOPMENTS :=Gwendolen: not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in 1.1 ::DEVOTED :=Algernon: butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter. 2.3 ::DEVOTEDLY :=Algernon: to love you wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. 2.3 ::DEVOTEDLY :=Cecily: that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn't 1.5 ::DEVOTION :=Gwendolen: can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you. 3.2 ::DEVOURED :=Jack: He subsequently stayed to tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what makes 2.1 ::DIARY :=Miss Prism: let him reap. You must put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see why you 2.1 ::DIARY :=Miss Prism: really don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 2.1 ::DIARY :=Cecily: I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets 2.1 ::DIARY :=Miss Prism: Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. 2.3 ::DIARY :=Cecily: me I will copy your remarks into my diary. 2.3 ::DIARY :=Algernon: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May 2.3 ::DIARY :=Cecily: much. I must enter his proposal in my diary. 2.4 ::DIARY :=Gwendolen: pray do so. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational 2.3 ::DICTATING :=Cecily: Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not 2.3 ::DICTATION :=Cecily: stop. I delight in taking down from dictation. I have reached "absolute perfection." 1.1 ::DID :=Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? 1.4 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the 1.4 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks 1.4 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class 1.4 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: In what locality did this Mr. James, or Thomas, Cardew come 1.5 ::DID :=Algernon: By the way, did you tell Gwendolen the truth about your 2.1 ::DID :=Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully 2.1 ::DID :=Cecily: wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels 2.1 ::DID :=Cecily: The Albany, W." Uncle Jack's brother! Did you tell him Mr. Worthing was in tow 2.2 ::DID :=Miss Prism: This is indeed a surprise. We did not look for you till Monday afterno 2.3 ::DID :=Algernon: But how did we become engaged? 2.3 ::DID :=Algernon: Did I give you this? It's very pretty, isn't 2.3 ::DID :=Algernon: But why on earth did you break it off. What had I done? I 2.4 ::DID :=Cecily: I beg your pardon, Gwendolen, did you say Ernest? 3.1 ::DID :=Gwendolen: The fact that they did not follow us at once into the house, 3.1 ::DID :=Cecily: answer me the following question. Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brot 3.1 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have 3.1 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: What did he die of? 3.1 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: and after three months her own husband did not know her. 3.2 ::DID :=Lady Bracknell: Miss Prism! Did I hear you mention a Miss Prism? 3.3 ::DID :=Miss Prism: that I do not know. I only wish I did. The plain facts of the case are these. 3.3 ::DID :=Jack: But where did you deposit the handbag? 3.3 ::DID :=Algernon: not till today, old boy, I admit. I did my best, however, though I was out of 1.1 ::DIDN'T :=Lane: I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. RESP 1.2 ::DIDN'T :=Algernon: the name of Cecily, and you said you didn't know anyone of that name. 1.5 ::DIDN'T :=Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? You 2.1 ::DIDN'T :=Cecily: the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down I should probably 2.3 ::DIDN'T :=Algernon: I should think it very unkind if you didn't. 3.3 ::DIDN'T :=Jack: John. I always told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I? Well, it is Ernest 1.3 ::DIE :=Lady Bracknell: whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question 1.5 ::DIE :=Algernon: the smallest instinct about when to die. 1.5 ::DIE :=Jack: in Paris of apoplexy. Lots of people die of apoplexy, quite suddenly, don't t 2.1 ::DIE :=Algernon: Australia? I'd sooner die. 3.1 ::DIE :=Lady Bracknell: Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely 3.1 ::DIE :=Lady Bracknell: What did he die of? 1.5 ::DIED :=Jack: shall have got rid of him. I'll say he died in Paris of apoplexy. Lots of people 2.2 ::DIED :=Jack: No. He died abroad; in Paris, in fact. I had a telegram 3.1 ::DIED :=Algernon: this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. 3.1 ::DIED :=Algernon: live, that is what I mean Q so Bunbury died. 3.3 ::DIED :=Algernon: were never even on speaking terms. He died before I was a year old. 1.1 ::DIFFERENT :=Algernon: That is quite a different matter. She is my aunt. Have some 2.4 ::DIFFERENT :=Gwendolen: our social spheres have been widely different. 2.5 ::DIFFERENT :=Jack: the circumstances. That is a very different thing. 2.5 ::DIFFERENT :=Jack: so does Dr. Chasuble. It is entirely different in your case. You have been christened 1.3 ::DIFFICULTY :=Algernon: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, 3.1 ::DIGNIFIED :=Gwendolen: Let us preserve a dignified silence. 3.1 ::DIGNIFIED :=Gwendolen: This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant 1.2 ::DINE :=Algernon: for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's tonight, for I 1.2 ::DINE :=Jack: I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere tonight. 1.2 ::DINE :=Algernon: RESP Jack. You had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta. 1.2 ::DINE :=Algernon: and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. In the second 1.2 ::DINE :=Algernon: In the second place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member 1.2 ::DINE :=Algernon: for proposing to Gwendolen, may I dine with you tonight at Willis's? 1.3 ::DINE :=Lady Bracknell: out. Your uncle would have to dine upstairs. Fortunately he is accustomed 1.4 ::DINE :=Lady Bracknell: Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in the evening, at 1.2 ::DINED :=Algernon: in the smoking-room the last time he dined here. 1.2 ::DINED :=Algernon: anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is 1.1 ::DINING :=Algernon: Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles 1.3 ::DINING :=Algernon: shall have to give up the pleasure of dining with you tonight after all. 2.2 ::DINING-ROOM :=Cecily: for you. Who do you think is in the dining-room? Your brother! 2.2 ::DINING-ROOM :=Jack: My brother is in the dining-room? I don't know what it all means. 1.5 ::DINNER :=Algernon: What shall we do after dinner? Go to the theatre? 2.1 ::DINNER :=Cecily: Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night, that you would 2.5 ::DINNER :=Algernon: do that, and then merely at dinner parties. 2.5 ::DINNER :=Algernon: ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my 2.5 ::DINNER :=Algernon: It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians 3.1 ::DINNER :=Lady Bracknell: Marksby is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties. So far I am satisfied. 1.2 ::DINNER-TABLE :=Algernon: flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. 2.4 ::DIRECTION :=Merriman: Mr. Worthing went over in the direction of the Rectory some time ago. 1.3 ::DIRECTIONS :=Gwendolen: and I intend to develop in many directions. 3.3 ::DIRECTORY :=Lady Bracknell: his name would appear in any military directory. 2.5 ::DISAPPEAR :=Algernon: he, dear Jack? You won't be able to disappear to London quite so frequently as 2.1 ::DISAPPOINTED :=Merriman: Yes, Miss. He seemed very much disappointed. I mentioned that you and Miss 1.3 ::DISAPPOINTMENT :=Algernon: and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have 1.3 ::DISAPPOINTMENT :=Gwendolen: And to spare you any possible disappointment, Mr. Worthing, I think it 2.1 ::DISAPPOINTMENT :=Algernon: That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go up by 2.4 ::DISAPPOINTMENT :=Gwendolen: I am sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I 2.2 ::DISCONTENT :=Chasuble: of the Society for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders. The Bishop, 3.3 ::DISCOVERED :=Lady Bracknell: police, the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself 1.2 ::DISCUSS :=Jack: of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. It isn't the sort 1.1 ::DISGRACEFUL :=Algernon: your flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. Is almost as bad as the way 2.2 ::DISGRACEFUL :=Jack: his hand. I think his coming down here disgraceful. He knows perfectly well why 3.2 ::DISGRACEFUL :=Jack: reserving for myself. Continuing his disgraceful deception, he succeeded in the 2.2 ::DISGUISE :=Chasuble: bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. 3.3 ::DISLIKE :=Lady Bracknell: as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always 3.3 ::DISLIKING :=Lady Bracknell: knew I had some particular reason for disliking the name. 2.4 ::DISLOYALTY :=Gwendolen: is the very soul of truth and honour. Disloyalty would be as impossilbe to him 2.2 ::DISOWN :=Cecily: You couldn't be so heartless as to disown him. I'll tell him to come out. And 1.4 ::DISPLAY :=Lady Bracknell: it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies 3.3 ::DISPLAYING :=Lady Bracknell: My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality. 3.2 ::DISPLEASED :=Lady Bracknell: Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased if he learned that was the way 1.4 ::DISPOSITION :=Jack: of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found me, and gave me the name 2.4 ::DISPOSITION :=Gwendolen: I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness 3.1 ::DISRESPECTFULLY :=Lady Bracknell: Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only 2.4 ::DISTASTEFUL :=Gwendolen: mention his brother. The subject seems distasteful to most men. Cecily, you have 3.1 ::DISTASTEFUL :=Cecily: A most distasteful one. 3.1 ::DISTINCT :=Lady Bracknell: Yes, quite as I expected. There are distinct social possibilities in your profile. 3.1 ::DISTINCT :=Lady Bracknell: There are distinct social possibilities in Miss Cardew's 2.2 ::DISTINCTLY :=Chasuble: practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony. 2.4 ::DISTINCTLY :=Gwendolen: of sugar, and though I asked you most distinctly for bread and butter, you have 3.2 ::DISTINCTLY :=Jack: a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told him so myself yesterday 2.4 ::DISTRESS := Cecily, It would distress me more than I can tell you, dear 1.3 ::DISTRESSED :=Algernon: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being 2.2 ::DISTRESSING :=Chasuble: joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. I have preached it at harvest 2.2 ::DISTRESSING :=Miss Prism: sudden return seems to me peculiarly distressing. 2.4 ::DISTRUSTED :=Gwendolen: From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false 2.1 ::DISTURB :=Chasuble: brother seems to be. But I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer. 1.3 ::DIVINE :=Gwendolen: It suits you perfectly. It is a divine name. It has a music of its own. It 1.1 ::DIVORCE :=Jack: no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially invented for 1.1 ::DIVORCES :=Algernon: is no use speculating on that subject. Divorces are made in Heaven Q Please don't 1.1 ::DO :=Algernon: Very natural, I am sure. That will do, Lane, thank you. 1.1 ::DO :=Algernon: What on earth do you do there? 1.1 ::DO :=Algernon: What on earth do you do there? 1.1 ::DO :=Jack: Why on earth do you say that? 1.1 ::DO :=Jack: Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? 1.1 ::DO :=Jack: Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know 1.2 ::DO :=Jack: Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette 1.2 ::DO :=Algernon: that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the whole thing. 1.2 ::DO :=Jack: Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist? 1.2 ::DO :=Jack: on all subjects. It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly 1.2 ::DO :=Algernon: who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers. What you 1.2 ::DO :=Jack: What on earth do you mean? 1.2 ::DO :=Algernon: In the second place, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member 1.2 ::DO :=Jack: Ernest. And I strongly advise you to do the same with Mr. . . . . with your invalid 1.3 ::DO :=Algernon: That will do, Lane, thank you. 1.3 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy 1.3 ::DO :=Jack: I do mean something else. 1.3 ::DO :=Gwendolen: I would certainly advise you to do so. Mamma has a way of coming back suddenly 1.3 ::DO :=Jack: But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me 1.4 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your 1.4 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smoke? 1.4 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: either everything or nothing. Which do you know? 1.4 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with 1.4 ::DO :=Jack: Do you mean the fashion, or the side? 1.4 ::DO :=Jack: you then what you would advise me to do? I need hardly say I would do anything 1.4 ::DO :=Jack: me to do? I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen's 1.4 ::DO :=Jack: see how I could possibly manage to do that. I can produce the handbag at any 1.4 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I 1.5 ::DO :=Jack: becoming like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, do you, Algy? 1.5 ::DO :=Jack: extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? 1.5 ::DO :=Jack: I will take very good care you never do. She is excessively pretty, and she is 1.5 ::DO :=Algernon: Women only do that when they have called each other 1.5 ::DO :=Algernon: Willis's, we really must go and dress. Do you know it is nearly seven? 1.5 ::DO :=Algernon: What shall we do after dinner? Go to the theatre? 1.5 ::DO :=Algernon: Well, what shall we do? 1.5 ::DO :=Gwendolen: life. You are not quite old enough to do that. 1.5 ::DO :=Gwendolen: often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you. 1.5 ::DO :=Gwendolen: I suppose? It may be necessary to do something desperate. That of course will 1.5 ::DO :=Gwendolen: How long do you remain in town? 1.5 ::DO :=Lane: I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. 2.1 ::DO :=Miss Prism: I do not think that even I could produce any 2.1 ::DO :=Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume 2.1 ::DO :=Cecily: of a slight headache. I think it would do her so much good to have a short stroll 2.1 ::DO :=Miss Prism: We do not expect him till Monday afternoon. 2.1 ::DO :=Miss Prism: a headache after all, and a walk might do it good. 2.2 ::DO :=Chasuble: Believe me, I do not deserve so neologistic a phrase. The 2.2 ::DO :=Miss Prism: lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that 2.2 ::DO :=Jack: if you have nothing better to do. 2.2 ::DO :=Jack: be childish. Would half-past five do? 2.2 ::DO :=Cecily: what horrid clothes you have got on! Do go and change them. 2.2 ::DO :=Cecily: What is the matter, Uncle Jack? Do look happy! You look as if you had toothache, 2.2 ::DO :=Cecily: have got such a surprise for you. Who do you think is in the dining-room? Your 2.2 ::DO :=Cecily: Uncle Jack, do be nice. There is some good in everyone. 2.2 ::DO :=Jack: this is the last time I shall ever do it. 2.3 ::DO :=Algernon: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything 2.3 ::DO :=Algernon: Oh, do let me read them, Cecily? 2.3 ::DO :=Cecily: with Ernest. I feel it is better to do so. The weather still continues charm 2.3 ::DO :=Algernon: But, my dear child, do you mean to say you could not love me 2.4 ::DO :=Gwendolen: it is part of her system; so do you mind my looking at you through my 2.4 ::DO :=Cecily: Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything 2.4 ::DO :=Gwendolen: care to verify the incident, pray do so. I never travel without my diary. One 2.4 ::DO :=Gwendolen: Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? 2.4 ::DO :=Cecily: Do you suggest Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped 2.5 ::DO :=Jack: country quite so often as you used to do, dear Algy. And a very good thing too 2.5 ::DO :=Algernon: Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parti 2.5 ::DO :=Algernon: Why on earth then do you allow tea-cake to be served up for 3.1 ::DO :=Cecily: Certainly. It's the only thing to do now. 3.1 ::DO :=Gwendolen: For my sake you are prepared to do this terrible thing? 3.1 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: of a permanent income on thought. I do not propose to undeceive him. Indeed I 3.1 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: I do not know whether there is anything peculiarly 3.1 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: Only people who can't get into it do that. Dear child, of course you know that 3.1 ::DO :=Lady Bracknell: but his debts to depend upon. But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. When 3.2 ::DO :=Jack: your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. 3.2 ::DO :=Cecily: am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, 3.3 ::DO :=Miss Prism: Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know. I only wish I did. The plain 3.3 ::DO :=Miss Prism: Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing. 3.3 ::DO :=Chasuble: What do you think this means, Lady Bracknell? 3.3 ::DO :=Jack: Unmarried! I do not deny that is a serious blow. But after 2.1 ::DOCTOR :=Miss Prism: Egeria? My name is Laetitia, Doctor. 2.1 ::DOCTOR :=Miss Prism: I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you. I 2.2 ::DOCTOR :=Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, 2.2 ::DOCTOR :=Jack: But it is not for any child, dear Doctor. I am very fond of children. No! the 3.1 ::DOCTORS :=Algernon: Augusta. I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not 1.2 ::DOES :=Algernon: But why does she call herself Cecily if she is your 1.2 ::DOES :=Algernon: Yes, But why does your aunt call you her uncle? "From 1.2 ::DOES :=Algernon: Yes, but that does not account for the fact that your small 1.3 ::DOES :=Gwendolen: music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces 1.3 ::DOES :=Gwendolen: for practice. I know my brother Gerald does. All my girl-friends tell me so. What 1.5 ::DOES :=Algernon: mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. 1.5 ::DOES :=Algernon: Nobody ever does. 2.1 ::DOES :=Cecily: will look just like everyone else. He does! 2.2 ::DOES :=Chasuble: Mr. Worthing, I trust this garb of woe does not betoken some terrible calamity? 2.3 ::DOES :=Cecily: I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest. If you will 2.3 ::DOES :=Cecily: doesn't seem to make much sense, does it? 2.3 ::DOES :=Cecily: boy. I hope your hair curls naturally, does it? 2.4 ::DOES :=Gwendolen: he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes 2.4 ::DOES :=Gwendolen: the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to dea 2.5 ::DOES :=Algernon: go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like 2.5 ::DOES :=Jack: extremely probable I never was, and so does Dr. Chasuble. It is entirely different 3.1 ::DOES :=Cecily: seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? 3.1 ::DOES :=Cecily: I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his 3.1 ::DOES :=Lady Bracknell: Gwendolen! What does this mean? RESP Gwendolen. Merely that 3.2 ::DOES :=Jack: of her grandfather's will Miss Cardew does not come legally of age till she is 3.2 ::DOES :=Lady Bracknell: That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. 1.5 ::DOESN'T :=Jack: Oh! one doesn't blurt these things out to people. 2.3 ::DOESN'T :=Cecily: devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it 3.1 ::DOESN'T :=Algernon: Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else 2.3 ::DOG-CAR :=Algernon: He's gone to order the dog-car for me. 2.3 ::DOG-CART :=Jack: Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest has been suddenly 2.3 ::DOG-CART :=Merriman: The dog-cart is at the door, sir. 2.3 ::DOG-CART :=Merriman: The dog-cart is waiting, sir. 1.2 ::DOING :=Algernon: I haven't the smallest intention of doing anything of the kind. To begin with, 1.5 ::DOING :=Jack: RESP Algernon. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard 2.5 ::DOING :=Jack: and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind. However I will 2.2 ::DOMESTIC :=Chasuble: some slight allusion to this tragic domestic affliction next Sunday. My sermon 2.4 ::DOMESTIC :=Gwendolen: once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, 3.3 ::DOMESTIC :=Lady Bracknell: a man of peace, except in his domestic life. But I have no doubt his name 1.3 ::DOMESTICITY :=Gwendolen: all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious 1.1 ::DON'T :=Lane: I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately Q anyone can play accurately 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: I don't know that I am much interested in your 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: lax. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Divorces are made in Heaven Q Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. They 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be. 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. 1.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: over the place. In the second place, I don't give my consent. 1.1 ::DON'T :=Jack: What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily? I don't know anyone of the name of Cecily. 1.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. 1.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand 1.2 ::DON'T :=Algernon: is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people 1.2 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life 1.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy 1.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music, 1.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: and if one plays bad music, people don't talk. But I'll run over the programme 1.3 ::DON'T :=Gwendolen: Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. 1.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: Darling! You don't know how happy you've made me. 1.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: But you don't really meant to say that you couldn't 1.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name Ernest . . 1.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: much care about the name Ernest . . . I don't think the name suits me at a 1.3 ::DON'T :=Gwendolen: Yes, but you don't say it. 1.4 ::DON'T :=Jack: hundred acres, I believe; but I don't depend on that for my real income. 1.4 ::DON'T :=Lady Bracknell: Lady Bloxam? I don't know her. 1.4 ::DON'T :=Jack: I am afraid I really don't know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, 1.4 ::DON'T :=Jack: that my parents seem to have lost me . . . . I don't actually know who I am by birth. 1.4 ::DON'T :=Jack: Well, I don't see how I could possibly manage to 1.4 ::DON'T :=Jack: Good morning! For goodness' sake don't play that ghastly tune, Algy! How idiot 1.5 ::DON'T :=Algernon: it go off all right, old boy? You don't mean to say Gwendolen refused you? 1.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: unbearable. Never met such a gorgon . . . I don't really know what a gorgon is 1.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: if I thought that, I'd shoot myself . . . . You don't think there is any chance 1.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: die of apoplexy, quite suddenly, don't they? 1.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite 1.5 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Really, Gwendolen, I don't think I can allow this at all. 1.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: If you don't take care, your friend Bunbury will 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: But I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming 2.1 ::DON'T :=Miss Prism: put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see why you should keep a diary at 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think you should be so proud of that, 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think you will require neckties. Uncle 2.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: might make that your mission, if you don't mind, cousin Cecily. 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think it can be right for you to talk 2.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: Oh! I don't think I would care to catch a sensible 2.2 ::DON'T :=Miss Prism: classes on the subject. But they don't seem to know what thrift is. 2.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: I don't remember anything about it. 2.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: I certainly intend to have. Of course I don't know if the thing would bother you 2.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: Oh! I don't see much fun in being christened along 2.2 ::DON'T :=Cecily: Oh, don't say that. However badly he may behaved 2.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: My brother is in the dining-room? I don't know what it all means. I think it 2.2 ::DON'T :=Cecily: Uncle Jack, if you don't shake hands with Ernest, I will never 2.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: of this place as soon as possible. I don't allow any Bunburying here. 2.3 ::DON'T :=Jack: to talk of Miss Cardew like that. I don't like it. 2.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly 2.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It is perfectly 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: will order a copy. But pray, Ernest, don't stop. I delight in taking down from 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think that you should tell me that 2.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody 2.3 ::DON'T :=Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think I could break it off now that 2.3 ::DON'T :=Cecily: But I don't like the name Algernon. 2.4 ::DON'T :=Cecily: of his philanthropic work in London. I don't quite like women who are interested 2.4 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't think so. 2.4 ::DON'T :=Gwendolen: effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. 2.4 ::DON'T :=Gwendolen: Five counties! I don't think I should like that. I hate c 2.5 ::DON'T :=Algernon: I don't think there is much likelihood, Jack, 2.5 ::DON'T :=Algernon: you would have tea-cake instead. I don't like tea-cake. 2.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: I have already told you to go.I don't want you here. Why don't you go! 2.5 ::DON'T :=Jack: you to go.I don't want you here. Why don't you go! 3.1 ::DON'T :=Gwendolen: They don't seem to notice us at all. Couldn't 3.1 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful 3.1 ::DON'T :=Algernon: girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibi 3.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: that I never had a brother, and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even 3.2 ::DON'T :=Lady Bracknell: free from the restraints of tutelage. So I don't think your guardian's consent 3.2 ::DON'T :=Cecily: I don't know, Mr. Moncrieff. 3.2 ::DON'T :=Jack: I don't think that, as things are now, it would 2.2 ::DONE :=Chasuble: You have done a beautiful action today, dear chil 2.3 ::DONE :=Algernon: earth did you break it off. What had I done? I had done nothing at all. Cecily, 2.3 ::DONE :=Algernon: break it off. What had I done? I had done nothing at all. Cecily, I am very much 3.1 ::DONE :=Gwendolen: the house, as anyone else would have done, seems to me to show that they have 3.2 ::DONE :=Algernon: Then what is to be done, Cecily. 2.3 ::DOOR :=Merriman: The dog-cart is at the door, sir. 3.1 ::DORKING :=Jack: Belgrave Square, S.W..; Gervase Park, Dorking, Surrey; and the Sporran, Fifeshire, 3.3 ::DOTING :=Lady Bracknell: been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents. 2.1 ::DOUBLE :=Cecily: I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and 1.1 ::DOUBT :=Jack: I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce 2.1 ::DOUBT :=Chasuble: pagan authors. I shall see you both no doubt at Evensong? 2.2 ::DOUBT :=Chasuble: of mind at the last. You would no doubt wish me to make some slight allusion 2.4 ::DOUBT :=Gwendolen: Really? Your mother, no doubt, or some female relative of advance 2.4 ::DOUBT :=Cecily: trespassing on your valuable time. No doubt you have many other calls to make in 3.1 ::DOUBT :=Jack: Can you doubt it, Miss Farifax? 3.2 ::DOUBT :=Jack: I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon, during 3.3 ::DOUBT :=Lady Bracknell: Christian name was. But I have no doubt he had one. He was eccentric, I admit. 3.3 ::DOUBT :=Lady Bracknell: in his domestic life. But I have no doubt his name would appear in any military 3.3 ::DOUBTED :=Jack: Cecily, Q how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother? Dr. Chasuble, 2.2 ::DOUBTS :=Chasuble: But have you any grave doubts on the subject? 3.1 ::DOUBTS :=Gwendolen: I have the gravest doubts upon the subject. But I intend to 1.2 ::DOWN :=Algernon: in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. 1.2 ::DOWN :=Algernon: as a member of the family, and send down with either no woman at all, or two. 1.3 ::DOWN :=Lane: the market this morning, sir. I went down twice. 1.3 ::DOWN :=Lady Bracknell: Algernon. I am going to send you down with Mary Farquahar. She is such a nice 1.4 ::DOWN :=Lady Bracknell: bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although 2.1 ::DOWN :=Cecily: young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes. We might have a good 2.1 ::DOWN :=Cecily: of my life. If I didn't write them down I should probably forget all about 2.2 ::DOWN :=Chasuble: beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seems to us bitter trials 2.2 ::DOWN :=Algernon: Brother John, I have come down from town to tell you that I am very 2.2 ::DOWN :=Jack: to take his hand. I think his coming down here disgraceful. He knows perfectly 2.3 ::DOWN :=Cecily: don't stop. I delight in taking down from dictation. I have reached "absolute 2.4 ::DOWN :=Cecily: a comparatively short time. Pray sit down. 2.5 ::DOWN :=Jack: exploded. You won't be able to run down to the country quite so often as you 3.1 ::DOWN :=Lady Bracknell: Come here. Sit down. Sit down immediately. Hesitation of 3.1 ::DOWN :=Lady Bracknell: Come here. Sit down. Sit down immediately. Hesitation of any kind 3.1 ::DOWN :=Lady Bracknell: average that statistics have laid down for our guidance. I think some preliminary 2.1 ::DR :=Cecily: But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the garde 2.1 ::DR :=Miss Prism: Dr. Chasuble! This is indeed a pleasure. 2.1 ::DR :=Cecily: a short stroll with you in the Park, Dr. Chasuble. 2.2 ::DR :=Miss Prism: You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. A misanthrope 2.2 ::DR :=Jack: I have returned sooner than I expected. Dr. Chasuble, I hope you are well? 2.2 ::DR :=Jack: you mentioned christenings, I think, Dr. Chasuble? I suppose you know how to christen 2.3 ::DR :=Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has 2.5 ::DR :=Algernon: I have just made arrangement with Dr. Chasuble to be christened at a quarter 2.5 ::DR :=Jack: I made arrangements this morning with Dr. Chasuble to be christened myself at 5:30, 2.5 ::DR :=Jack: probable I never was, and so does Dr. Chasuble. It is entirely different in 3.2 ::DR :=Jack: much practical value to either of us, Dr. Chasuble. 3.3 ::DR :=Lady Bracknell: I dare not even suspect, Dr. Chasuble. I need hardly tell you that 3.3 ::DR :=Jack: ever doubted that I had a brother? Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. Miss 1.2 ::DRAMA :=Jack: is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty 3.2 ::DRANK :=Jack: my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, I've just been informed by my butler, 2.2 ::DRAUGHTS :=Chasuble: I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts. Will the interment take place 1.3 ::DRAWN :=Algernon: But I'll run over the programme I've drawn out, if you will kindly come into the 2.1 ::DRAWN :=Chasuble: metaphorically. Q My metaphor was drawn from bees. Ahem! Mr. Worthing, I suppose, 2.1 ::DRAWN :=Chasuble: A classical allusion merely, drawn from the pagan authors. I shall see 2.2 ::DRAWN :=Miss Prism: spoke horticulturally. My metaphor was drawn from fruits. But where is Cecily? 1.2 ::DREADFUL :=Jack: in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes. That, my dear Algy, is 1.3 ::DREADFUL :=Algernon: Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. 1.4 ::DREAM :=Lady Bracknell: that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter Q a girl 2.3 ::DREAM :=Cecily: but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone whose name 3.1 ::DREAMED :=Lady Bracknell: no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to 1.5 ::DRESS :=Algernon: at Willis's, we really must go and dress. Do you know it is nearly seven? 1.5 ::DRESS :=Algernon: be back till Monday. You can put up my dress clothes, my smoking jacket, and all 2.3 ::DRESS :=Algernon: I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. 3.1 ::DRESS :=Lady Bracknell: over here, dear. Pretty child! your dress is sadly simple, and your hair seems 2.3 ::DRESSING-CASE :=Merriman: Yes sir. Three portmanteaus, a dressing-case, two hat boxes, and a large 1.4 ::DRESSING-ROOM :=Jack: the handbag at any moment. It is in my dressing-room at home. I really think that 2.2 ::DREW :=Chasuble: much struck by some of the analogies I drew. 1.1 ::DRINK :=Algernon: establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for in 2.5 ::DRINK :=Algernon: I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating 2.2 ::DRIVE :=Jack: about anything else. It is enough to drive one perfectly frantic. 2.3 ::DRIVE :=Cecily: Oh, is he going to take you for a nice drive? 2.1 ::DRIVEN :=Merriman: Mr. Ernest Worthing has just driven over from the station. He has brought 1.4 ::DUCHESS :=Lady Bracknell: I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, 3.2 ::DUMBLETON :=Lady Bracknell: remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my 1.4 ::DURING :=Lady Bracknell: between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted 3.2 ::DURING :=Jack: about the matter. This afternoon, during my temporary absence in London on 3.3 ::DURING :=Miss Prism: a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours. In a moment 1.4 ::DUTIES :=Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, 1.4 ::DUTIES :=Lady Bracknell: of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, 2.2 ::DUTIES :=Miss Prism: say, one of the Rector's most constant duties in this parish. I have often spoken 2.4 ::DUTIES :=Gwendolen: a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does 1.2 ::DUTY :=Jack: moral tone on all subjects. It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can 1.3 ::DUTY :=Lady Bracknell: in others. Health is the primary duty of life. I am always telling that to 2.1 ::DUTY :=Miss Prism: of flowers is rather Moulton's duty than yours? Especially at the moment 2.1 ::DUTY :=Miss Prism: know no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibility. 2.3 ::DUTY :=Jack: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. 2.3 ::DUTY :=Algernon: My duty as a gentleman has never interfered 2.4 ::DUTY :=Gwendolen: foolish promise I shall consider it my duty to rescue him at once, and with a firm 2.4 ::DUTY :=Gwendolen: this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a p 1.5 ::DYING :=Gwendolen: respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had 1.5 ::EACH :=Jack: they have met, they will be calling each other sister. 1.5 ::EACH :=Algernon: only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. Now, 2.4 ::EACH :=Cecily: to like me so much after we have known each other such a comparatively short time. 3.2 ::EACH :=Lady Bracknell: people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which 2.1 ::EARLIER :=Miss Prism: novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. 1.2 ::EARNEST :=Algernon: your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest looking person I ever saw in my life. 3.3 ::EARNEST :=Jack: my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. 1.1 ::EARTH :=Algernon: don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a 1.1 ::EARTH :=Algernon: What on earth do you do there? 1.1 ::EARTH :=Jack: Why on earth do you say that? 1.1 ::EARTH :=Jack: Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, 1.2 ::EARTH :=Jack: My dear fellow, what on earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, 1.2 ::EARTH :=Jack: Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist? 1.2 ::EARTH :=Jack: What on earth do you mean? 1.5 ::EARTH :=Jack: I ever cared for in my life. What on earth are you so amused at? 2.3 ::EARTH :=Algernon: perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It is perfectly 2.3 ::EARTH :=Algernon: But why on earth did you break it off. What had I done? 2.5 ::EARTH :=Algernon: be serious about Bunburying. What on earth you are serious about I haven't got 2.5 ::EARTH :=Algernon: Why on earth then do you allow tea-cake to be served 1.4 ::EASILY :=Lady Bracknell: was something. However, that could easily be altered. 1.2 ::EASY :=Jack: try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. 1.2 ::EASY :=Algernon: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such 1.1 ::EAT :=Algernon: Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all. You 1.1 ::EAT :=Algernon: need not eat as if you were going to eat it all. You behave as if you were married 2.5 ::EAT :=Algernon: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter 2.5 ::EAT :=Algernon: get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only 2.5 ::EAT :=Algernon: quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. 2.5 ::EAT :=Jack: Well, that is no reason why you should eat them all in that greedy way. 2.5 ::EAT :=Jack: Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. 2.5 ::EAT :=Algernon: said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins. 1.1 ::EATING :=Jack: What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy! 1.1 ::EATING :=Jack: Well, you have been eating them all the time. 2.5 ::EATING :=Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible 2.5 ::EATING :=Jack: I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circums 2.5 ::EATING :=Algernon: When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. 2.5 ::EATING :=Algernon: and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, 3.1 ::EATING :=Cecily: They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentan 3.3 ::ECCENTRIC :=Lady Bracknell: But I have no doubt he had one. He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. 2.1 ::ECONOMY :=Miss Prism: Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the 2.1 ::ECONOMY :=Cecily: Horrid Political Economy! Horrid Geography! Horrid, horrid 1.4 ::EDUCATION :=Lady Bracknell: is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately 1.4 ::EDUCATION :=Lady Bracknell: Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. 2.4 ::EDUCATION :=Gwendolen: Cecily, Mamma, whose views on education are remarkably strict, has brought 3.2 ::EDUCATION :=Lady Bracknell: aspect, remotely connected with education. 1.4 ::EFFECT :=Lady Bracknell: at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove 2.1 ::EFFECT :=Miss Prism: think that even I could produce any effect on a character that according to his 3.1 ::EFFECT :=Gwendolen: silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect. 2.4 ::EFFEMINATE :=Gwendolen: domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like 1.4 ::EFFORT :=Lady Bracknell: as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, 3.1 ::EFFRONTERY :=Gwendolen: They're looking at us. What effrontery! 2.1 ::EGERIA :=Chasuble: seems to be. But I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer. 2.1 ::EGERIA :=Miss Prism: Egeria? My name is Laetitia, Doctor. 1.1 ::EH :=Jack: Eh? Shropshire? Yes, of course. Hallo! Why 1.1 ::EIGHT :=Algernon: Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne 1.1 ::EIGHT :=Lane: Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint. 1.4 ::EIGHT :=Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year. 1.5 ::EIGHTEEN :=Jack: pretty, and she is only just eighteen. 1.5 ::EIGHTEEN :=Algernon: pretty ward who is only just eighteen? 3.2 ::EIGHTEEN :=Cecily: Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit to twenty when 3.2 ::EIGHTEEN :=Lady Bracknell: her age. It looks so calculating. . . Eighteen, but admitting to twenty at 1.2 ::EITHER :=Jack: hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in 1.2 ::EITHER :=Algernon: life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete 1.2 ::EITHER :=Algernon: of the family, and send down with either no woman at all, or two. In the third 1.3 ::EITHER :=Lady Bracknell: to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, or 1.4 ::EITHER :=Lady Bracknell: who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you 1.4 ::EITHER :=Lady Bracknell: one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one 1.4 ::EITHER :=Lady Bracknell: to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite o 2.5 ::EITHER :=Algernon: wicked custom was. And not a bad thing either. 3.2 ::EITHER :=Jack: it would be of much practical value to either of us, Dr. Chasuble. 3.3 ::ELABORATE :=Lady Bracknell: A few weeks later, though, through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan 2.4 ::ELDER :=Cecily: my guardian. It is his brother Q his elder brother. 3.3 ::ELDER :=Lady Bracknell: Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brother. 3.3 ::ELDER :=Jack: Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after 2.4 ::ELDERLY :=Cecily: I suppose one of the many good elderly women who are associated with Uncle 3.3 ::ELDEST :=Lady Bracknell: Being the eldest son you were naturally christened 1.4 ::ELIGIBLE :=Lady Bracknell: that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same 3.2 ::ELIGIBLE :=Lady Bracknell: I may almost say ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he 1.1 ::ELSE :=Jack: Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as 1.2 ::ELSE :=Algernon: to me, or to Gwendolen, or to anyone else. 1.3 ::ELSE :=Gwendolen: feel quite certain they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous. 1.3 ::ELSE :=Jack: I do mean something else. 1.3 ::ELSE :=Jack: it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love 1.5 ::ELSE :=Algernon: her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. 1.5 ::ELSE :=Gwendolen: man and wife, and I marry someone else, and marry often, nothing that she can 2.1 ::ELSE :=Cecily: afraid he will look just like everyone else. He does! 2.2 ::ELSE :=Jack: to you about Bunbury or about anything else. It is enough to drive one perfectly 2.3 ::ELSE :=Jack: for a whole week as a guest anything else. You have got to leave . . . by the 3.1 ::ELSE :=Gwendolen: us at once into the house, as anyone else would have done, seems to me to show 3.1 ::ELSE :=Algernon: live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dea 3.3 ::ELSE :=Gwendolen: name, now that you have become someone else? 2.5 ::EMBRACING :=Gwendolen: Miss Cardew. The gentleman who is now embracing you is my cousin, Mr. Algernon 2.1 ::EMIGRATING :=Cecily: he wants to speak to you about your emigrating. 2.1 ::EMIGRATING :=Cecily: Your emigrating. He has gone up to buy your o 3.3 ::EMOTIONAL :=Chasuble: Your guardian has a very emotional nature. 1.5 ::EMPIRE :=Algernon: