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1  I thought you were with Uncle Jack.
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2  Uncle Jack seems strangely agitated.
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3  Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
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4  Your uncle would have to dine upstairs.
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5  Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon.
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6  Uncle Jack, if you don't shake hands with Ernest I will never forgive you.
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7  I am always telling that to your poor uncle, but he never seems to take much notice.
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8  You, I see from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest.
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9  I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes.
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10  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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11  Yes, but that does not account for the fact that your small Aunt Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dear uncle.
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12  There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out.
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13  Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.
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14  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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15  Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he had a younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism.
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