et out of this place
as soon
as possible. I do not allow any Bunburying here.
. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
. Oh, flowers are as common here. Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.
. Was it in order that you might have an opportunity of coming up to town to see me as often as possible?
. You behave as if you were married to her already.
. Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all.
. You look as if your name was Ernest.
. My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist.
. You look as if you had toothache, and I have got such a surprise for you.
. She looks anxiously round as if desirous to escape.
. Noises heard overhead as if someone was throwing trunks about.
. It sounds as if he was having an argument.
. It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
. Oh! ... 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.
. 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.
. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one s health or one s happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.
. We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age of ideals.
. Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.
. I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has.
. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
. Surely such a utilitarian occupation as the watering of flowers is rather Moulton's duty than yours?
30. As a man sows so let him reap.
. He is not one of those whose sole aim is enjoyment, as , by all accounts, that unfortunate young man his brother seems to be.
. You are certainly not staying with me for a whole week as a guest or anything else.
. I think that is quite as it should be.
. I do not think that, as things are now, it would be of much practical value to either of us. Dr. Chasuble.
. However, as your present mood seems to beone peculiarly secular, I will return to the church at once.
. Pretty child! your dress is sadly simple, and your hair seems almost as Nature might have left it.
. On this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm.
38. As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little fortune?
39. As for your conduct towards Miss Cardew, I must say that your taking in a sweet, simple, innocent girl like that is quite inexcusable.
. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink.
. The fact that they did not follow us at once into the house,
