The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
page 82 of 107 (76%)
page 82 of 107 (76%)
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Algernon. When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. [Rising.] Jack. [Rising.] Well, that is no reason why you should eat them all in that greedy way. [Takes muffins from Algernon.] Algernon. [Offering tea-cake.] I wish you would have tea-cake instead. I don't like tea-cake. Jack. Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. Algernon. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins. Jack. I said it was perfectly heartless of you, under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. Algernon. That may be. But the muffins are the same. [He seizes the muffin-dish from Jack.] Jack. Algy, I wish to goodness you would go. Algernon. You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. Besides I have just |
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