The Importance of Being Earnest Page #2
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- 1952
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What on earth do you mean
by Bunburyist?
I will reveal to you the meaning
of that incomparable expression...
when you are kind enough
to tell me...
why you are Ernest in town
and Jack in the country.
- Well, produce my cigarette case first.
- There it is.
Now produce your explanation,
and pray make it improbable.
There's nothing improbable
about my explanation at all.
Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who
adopted me when I was a little boy,
made me, in his will,
guardian to his granddaughter,
Miss Cecily Cardew.
Cecily, who addresses me as uncle
out of motives of respect,
which you could not possibly
appreciate,
lives at my place in the country under
the charge of her admirable governess,
Miss Prism.
Where is that place
in the country, by the way?
That is nothing to you, dear boy.
You are not going to be invited.
I may tell you candidly
that it is not in Shropshire.
I suspected that.
I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire
on two separate occasions. Well, go on.
When one is placed
in the position of guardian,
one has to adopt a very high
moral tone on all subjects.
It is one's duty to do so.
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 here in the Albany and who
gets into the most dreadful scrapes.
- That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth.
- Oh, no.
What you really are is a Bunburyist.
I was perfectly right in saying
you were a Bunburyist.
You one are of the most advanced
Bunburyists I know.
What on earth do you mean?
You have invented a very useful
younger brother called Ernest...
in order that you may be able to come
up to London as often as you like.
I have invented an invaluable
permanent invalid called Bunbury...
in order that I may be able to go down
to the country whenever I choose.
Bunbury really is invaluable.
It if wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary
bad health, for instance,
I wouldn't be able to dine
with you at Willis' tonight,
for I have really been engaged to dine
at Aunt Augusta's for more than a week.
I haven't asked you to dine
with me anywhere tonight.
I know. You are absurdly careless
about sending out invitations.
It's very foolish of you.
than not receiving invitations.
- Algy!
Seton!
Sir?
Seton, I shall require a fresh gardenia
this afternoon at 4:00 precisely.
- Very good, sir.
Ethel, come here!
Thank you, governor.
Giddap now!
Did you hear
what I was singing, Lane?
I didn't think it polite
to listen, sir.
Sorry about that, for your sake.
I don't sing in tune...
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