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1  Well, I wish you would offer one.
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2  Well, you have been eating them all the time.
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3  I have introduced you to every one as Ernest.
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4  You behave as if you were married to her already.
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5  I think that is rather mean of you, Ernest, I must say.
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6  Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt.
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7  My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist.
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8  It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
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9  Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once.
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10  You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be.
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11  My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful.
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12  Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all.
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13  And before I allow you to marry her, you will have to clear up the whole question of Cecily.
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14  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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15  I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and I am quite sure of it now.
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16  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.
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17  Yes, but that does not account for the fact that your small Aunt Cecily, who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dear uncle.
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