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1  I'm afraid I've no time, this afternoon.
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2  Well, you have been eating them all the time.
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3  Well, this is the last time I shall ever do it.
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4  I am afraid I can't stay more than a week this time.
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5  Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.
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6  I am sorry to say they have not been on good terms for a long time.
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7  Mr. Worthing went over in the direction of the Rectory some time ago.
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8  A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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9  It seems to me, Miss Fairfax, that I am trespassing on your valuable time.
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10  It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time.
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11  Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
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12  How nice of you to like me so much after we have known each other such a comparatively short time.
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13  I expected a more enthusiastic welcome, especially considering it is the first time I have come here.
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14  I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.
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15  Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die.
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16  The last time I delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders.
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17  The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found me, and gave me the name of Worthing, because he happened to have a first-class ticket for Worthing in his pocket at the time.
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