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1  I am engaged to Mr. Worthing, mamma.
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2  Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me.
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3  Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one.
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4  As far as she is concerned, we are engaged.
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5  Well, I simply wanted to be engaged to Cecily.
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6  I wanted to be engaged to Gwendolen, that is all.
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7  I am engaged to be married to Cecily, Aunt Augusta.
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8  Why, we have been engaged for the last three months.
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9  Mr. Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married.
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10  Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, mamma.
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11  I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.
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12  It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once.
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13  An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.
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14  I beg your pardon for interrupting you, Lady Bracknell, but this engagement is quite out of the question.
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15  When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact.
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16  If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.
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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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