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Posted by D. V. Chheang on December 11, 2007, 2:53 pm
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of twenty-three.
K.S
From
"AWOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE"
by Oscar Wilde
The extract begins with Mrs Allonby speaking to Lady Stutfield, Lady
Hunstanton, and Lady Caroline.
MRS ALLONBY: Well, I will tell you, if you solemnly promise to tell
everybody else.
LADY STUTFIELD: Thank you, thank you. I will make a point of repeating
it.
MRS ALLONBY: When Ernest and I were engaged, he swore to me positively
on his knees that he had never loved anyone before in the whole course
of his life. I was very young at the time, so I didn't believe him, I
needn't tell you. Unfortunately, however, I made no inquiries of any
kind till after I had been actually married four or five months. I found
out then that what he had told me was perfectly true. And that sort of
thing makes a man so absolutely uninteresting.
LADY HUNSTANTON: My dear!
MRS ALLONBY: Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their
clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What
we like is to be a man's last romance.
LADY STUTFIELD: I see what you mean. It's very, very beautiful.
LADY HUNSTANTON: My dear child, you don't mean to tell me that you won't
forgive your husband because he never loved anyone else? Did you ever
hear such a thing, Caroline? I am quite surprised.
LADY CAROLINE: Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that
nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They
apparently are getting remarkably rare.
MRS ALLONBY: Oh, they're quite out of date.
LADY STUTFIELD: Except amongst the middle classes, I have been told.
MRS ALLONBY: How like the middle classes!
LADY STUTFIELD: Yes - is it not? - very, very like them.
LADY CAROLINE: If what you tell us ab
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