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1  What a fearful liar you are, Jack.
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2  I thought you were with Uncle Jack.
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3  Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
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4  I think Jack, for instance, a charming name.
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5  I certainly wouldn't let Jack buy my outfit.
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6  Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon.
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7  Besides, your name isn't Jack at all; it is Ernest.
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8  Jack looks perfectly furious, and goes to the door.
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9  She and Jack blow kisses to each other behind Lady Bracknell's back.
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10  No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed.
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11  Uncle Jack, if you don't shake hands with Ernest I will never forgive you.
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12  You, I see from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest.
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13  I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes.
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14  Uncle Jack would be very much annoyed if he knew you were staying on till next week, at the same hour.
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15  Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country.
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16  I'll reveal to you the meaning of that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country.
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17  Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life, but still I think you had better wait till Uncle Jack arrives.
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