37-48 Flashcards
(31 cards)
You are my little cousin Cecily, I’m sure.
You are under some strange mistake. I am not little. In fact, i believe i am more than usually tall for my age. But i am your cousin cecily. You, i see from your card, are uncle jack’s brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest.
…you mustn’t think that i am wicked
If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
..i have been rather reckless
I am glad to hear it
..very bad in my own small way
I don’t think you should be so proud of that, though i am sure it must have been very pleasant.
It is much pleasanter being here with you
I can’t understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won’t be back til Monday afternoon.
..i have a business appointment that I am anxious to miss
Couldn’t you miss it anywhere but in London?
No, the appointment is in London
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life, but still i think you had better wait til uncle Jack arrives. I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating
About my what?
Your emigrating. He has gone up to buy your outfit
..no taste in neckties at all
I don’t think you will require neckties. Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
I’d sooner die
Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night, that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, and Australia.
..this world is good enough for me, cousin cecily
Yes, but are you good enough for it?
..your mission if you don’t mind, cousin cecily
I’m afraid I’ve no time this afternoon
..my reforming myself this afternoon?
It is rather quixotic of you. But I think you should try
I feel better already
You are looking a little worse
..because i am hungry
How thoughtless of me. I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. Won’t you come in?
..unless i have a buttonhole first
A marechal niel?
..I’d sooner have a pink rose
Why?
..you are like a pink rose cousin cecily
I don’t think it can be right for you to talk to me like that. Ms. Prism never says such things to me.
..you are the prettiest girl i ever saw
Ms. Prism says that all good looks are a snare
..that every sensible man would like to be caught in
Oh, i don’t think i would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about.
..a blessing of an extremely obvious kind
Uncle jack! Oh, i am pleased to see you back. But what horrid clothes you have got on! Do go and change them
My child, my child,
What is the matter, uncle Jack? Do look happy? You look as if you had toothache, and i have got such a surprise for you. Who do you think is in the dining room? Your brother!
Who?
Your brother Ernest. He arrived about half an hour ago
..I haven’t got a brother
Oh, don’t say that. Howver badly he may have behaved to you in the past he is still your brother. You couldn’t be so heartless as to disown him. I’ll tell him to come out. And you will shake hands with him, won’t you, uncle jack?
