1 You have always told me it was Ernest.
2 I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere to-night.
3 In the third place, I know perfectly well whom she will place me next to, to-night.
4 And now I'll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me.
5 I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
6 Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
7 If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think I'll kill him in any case.
8 She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table.
9 Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country.
10 I'll keep this as a proof that your name is Ernest if ever you attempt to deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, or to any one else.
11 Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.
12 Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury.
13 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.
14 I should be much obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on Saturday, for I rely on you to arrange my music for me.
15 It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again.
16 by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.
17 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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