ALGERNON. Darling! And when was the engagement actually settled? CECILY. On the 14th of February last. Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted
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Card 7
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'I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag.'
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Card 8
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'Good heavens is marriage as demoralising as that'
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Card 9
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JACK. I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. ALGERNON. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business. JACK. How utterly unromantic you are! ALGERNON. I really don’t see anything romantic in pr
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Card 10
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'it would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once'
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Card 11
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'You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter—a girl brought up with the utmost care—to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel.'
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Card 12
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'Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.'
