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1  I simply want my cigarette case back.
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2  Well, produce my cigarette case first.
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3  It is entirely different in your case.
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4  The plain facts of the case are these.
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5  Yes; but this isn't your cigarette case.
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6  It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.
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7  In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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8  A case of twins that occurred recently in one of the outlying cottages on your own estate.
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9  Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
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10  If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think I'll kill him in any case.
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11  An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.
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12  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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13  This cigarette case is a present from some one of the name of Cecily, and you said you didn't know any one of that name.
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14  It is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much.
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