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1  Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
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2  I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
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3  I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death.
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4  Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that is all.
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5  I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
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6  My poor brother Ernest to carried off suddenly, in Paris, by a severe chill.
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7  Yes, he has told me all about poor Mr. Bunbury, and his terrible state of health.
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8  I am always telling that to your poor uncle, but he never seems to take much notice.
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9  You are the son of my poor sister, Mrs. Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brother.
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10  Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend Mr. Bunbury whom he goes to visit so often.
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11  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.
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