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5、at in Half-Moon Street, W.ACT II. The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton.ACT III. Drawing-Room at the Manor House, Woolton.TIME: The Present. (1895)SCENEMorning-room in Algernons flat in Half-Moon Street. The room isluxuriously and artistically furnished(decorate ,adorn, ornament). The sound of a pi
6、ano isheard in the adjoining room.(LANE is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the musichas ceased, ALGERNON enters. )ALGERNON. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?LANE. I didnt think it polite to listen, sir.ALGERNON. Im sorry for that, for your sake. I dont playaccurately - any one c
7、an play accurately - but I play withwonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentimentis my forte. I keep science for Life.LANE. Yes, sir.ALGERNON. And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got thecucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?LANE. Yes, sir. (Hands them on a salver.
8、 )ALGERNON. (Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa. )Oh! . . . by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursdaynight, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me,eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.LANE. Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint.,
9、 made me inhis .ALGERNON. Why is it that at a bachelors establishment theservants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.LANE. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. Ihave often observed that in married households the champagne israrely of a first-rate brand.A
10、LGERNON. Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?LANE. I believe it IS a very pleasant state, sir. I have had verylittle experience of it myself up to the present. I have only beenmarried once. That was in consequence of a misunderstandingbetween myself and a young person.ALGERNON. (Langui
11、dly. ) I dont know that I am much interested inyour family life, Lane.LANE. No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I neverthink of it myself.ALGERNON. Very natural, I am sure. That will do, Lane, thank you.LANE. Thank you, sir. (LANE goes out. )ALGERNON. Lanes views on marriage seem somewhat
12、 lax. Really, ifthe lower orders dont set us a good example, what on earth is theuse of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense ofmoral responsibility.(Enter LANE. )LANE. Mr. Ernest Worthing.(Enter JACK. )(LANE goes out. )ALGERNON. How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up tot
13、own?JACK. Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring oneanywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy!ALGERNON. (Stiffly. ) I believe it is customary in good society totake some slight refreshment点心 at five oclock. Where have you beensince last Thursday?JACK. (Sitting down on the sofa. ) In the country
14、.ALGERNON. What on earth do you do there?JACK. (Pulling off his gloves. ) When one is in town one amusesoneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. Itis excessively boring.ALGERNON. And who are the people you amuse?JACK. (Airily. ) Oh, neighbours, neighbours.ALGERNON. Got nice neigh
15、bours in your part of Shropshire?JACK. Perfectly horrid! Never speak to one of them.ALGERNON. How immensely you must amuse them! (Goes over and takessandwich. ) By the way, Shropshire is your county, is it not?JACK. Eh? Shropshire? Yes, of course. Hallo! Why all thesecups? Why cucumber sandwiches? W
16、hy such reckless extravagance inone so young? Who is coming to tea?ALGERNON. Oh! merely Aunt Augusta and Gwendolen.JACK. How perfectly delightful!ALGERNON. Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augustawont quite approve of your being here.JACK. May I ask why?ALGERNON. No cucumbers!Good he
17、avens.ALGERNON. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen isperfectly disgraceful. It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolenflirts with you.JACK. I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to townexpressly to propose to her.ALGERNON. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I callthat bu
18、siness.JACK. How utterly unromantic you are!ALGERNON. I really dont see anything romantic in proposing. Itis very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romanticabout a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usuallyis, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essenceof ro
19、mance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, Ill certainlytry to forget the fact.JACK. I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Courtwas specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.ALGERNON. Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject.Divorces are made in
20、Heaven - (JACK puts out his hand to take asandwich. ALGERNON at once interferes. ) Please dont touch thecucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta.(Takes one and eats it. )JACK. Well, you have been eating them all the time.ALGERNON. That is quite a different matter. She is my a
21、unt.(Takes plate from below. ) Have some bread and butter. The breadand butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread andbutter.JACK. (Advancing to table and helping himself. ) And very goodbread and butter it is too.ALGERNON. Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you weregoing to ea
22、t it all. You behave as if you were married to heralready. You are not married to her already, and I dont think youever will be.JACK. Why on earth do you say that?ALGERNON. Well, in the first place girls never marry the men theyflirt with. Girls dont think it right.JACK. Oh, that is nonsense!ALGERNO
23、N. It isnt. It is a great truth. It accounts for theextraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place.In the second place, I dont give my consent.JACK. Your consent!ALGERNON. My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin. Andbefore I allow you to marry her, you will have to clear up
24、thewhole question of Cecily. (Rings bell. )JACK. Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy,by Cecily! I dont know any one of the name of Cecily.(Enter LANE. )ALGERNON. Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in thesmoking-room the last time he dined here.LANE. Yes, sir. (LANE
25、goes out. )JACK. Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all thistime? I wish to goodness you had let me know. I have been writing frantic(frenzied ,disordered) letters to Scotland Yard about it. I was very nearlyoffering a large reward.ALGERNON. Well, I wish you would offer one. I happen
26、to be morethan usually hard up.JACK. There is no good offering a large reward now that the thingis found.(Enter LANE with the cigarette case on a salver. ALGERNON takes itat once. LANE goes out. )ALGERNON. I think that is rather mean of you, Ernest, I must say.(Opens case and examines it. ) However,
27、 it makes no matter, for,now that I look at the inscription inside, I find that the thingisnt yours after all.JACK. Of course its mine. (Moving to him. ) You have seen mewith it a hundred times, and you have no right what so ever to readwhat is written inside. It is a very ungentlemanly thing to rea
28、d aprivate cigarette case.ALGERNON. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about whatone should read and what one shouldnt. More than half of modernculture depends on what one shouldnt read.JACK. I am quite aware of the fact, and I dont propose to discussmodern culture. It isnt the sort of th
29、ing one should talk of inprivate. I simply want my cigarette case back.ALGERNON. Yes; but this isnt your cigarette case. This cigarettecase is a present from some one of the name of Cecily, and you saidyou didnt know any one of that name.JACK. Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt.
30、ALGERNON. Your aunt!JACK. Yes. Charming old lady she is, too. Lives at TunbridgeWells. Just give it back to me, Algy.ALGERNON. (Retreating to back of sofa. ) But why does she callherself little Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at TunbridgeWells? (Reading. ) From little Cecily with her fondest lo
31、ve. JACK. (Moving to sofa and kneeling upon it. ) My dear fellow, whaton earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are nottall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed todecide for herself. You seem to think that every aunt should beexactly like your aunt! That is absurd! F
32、or Heavens sake give meback my cigarette case. (Follows ALGERNON round the room. )ALGERNON. Yes. But why does your aunt call you her uncle? Fromlittle Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack. There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, butwhy an aunt, no matter what h
33、er size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I cant quite make out理解. Besides, your name isntJack at all; it is Ernest.JACK. It isnt Ernest; its Jack.ALGERNON. You have always told me it was Ernest. I haveintroduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name ofErnest. You look as if
34、 your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectlyabsurd your saying that your name isnt Ernest. Its on yourcards. Here is one of them. (Taking it from case. ) Mr. ErnestWorthing, B. 4, The Albany. Ill keep this as a proof that yourname is Ernest if
35、 ever you attempt to deny it to me, or toGwendolen, or to any one else. (Puts the card in his pocket. )JACK. Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, andthe cigarette case was given to me in the country.ALGERNON. Yes, but that does not account for the fact that yoursmall Aunt Cecily,
36、 who lives at Tunbridge Wells, calls you her dearuncle. Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out atonce.JACK. My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. Itis very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isnt a dentist. Itproduces a false impression,ALGERNON. Well, that is e
37、xactly what dentists always do. Now, goon! Tell me the whole thing. I may mention that I have alwayssuspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and I amquite sure of it now.JACK. Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist?ALGERNON. Ill reveal to you the meaning of that incom
38、parableexpression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you areErnest in town and Jack in the country.JACK. Well, produce my cigarette case first.ALGERNON. Here it is. (Hands cigarette case. ) Now produce yourexplanation, and pray make it improbable. (Sits on sofa. )JACK. My dear fellow, t
39、here is nothing improbable about myexplanation at all. In fact its perfectly ordinary. Old Mr.Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me inhis will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect thatyou could not p
40、ossibly appreciate, lives at my place in the countryunder the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.ALGERNON. Where in that place in the country, by the way?JACK. That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to beinvited . . . I may tell you candidly that the place is not inShropshire
41、.ALGERNON. I suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed allover Shropshire on two separate occasions. Now, go on. Why areyou Ernest in town and Jack in the country?JACK. My dear Algy, I dont know whether you will be able tounderstand my real motives. You are hardly serious enough. Whenone is p
42、laced in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a veryhigh moral tone on all subjects. Its ones duty to do so. And asa high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to eitherones health or ones happiness, in order to get up to town I havealways pretended to have a younger brother of th
43、e name of Ernest,who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.ALGERNON. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern lifewould be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature acomplete impossibility!JACK. That w
44、ouldnt be at all a bad thing.ALGERNON. Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.Dont try it. You should leave that to people who havent been ata University. They do it so well in the daily papers. What youreally are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were aBunburyist. You a
45、re one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.JACK. What on earth do you mean?ALGERNON. You have invented a very useful younger brother calledErnest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as oftenas you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalidcalled Bunbury, in order that I
46、may be able to go down into thecountry whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If itwasnt for Bunburys extraordinary bad health, for instance, Iwouldnt be able to dine with you at Williss to-night, for I havebeen really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.JACK. I havent asked yo
47、u to dine with me anywhere to-night.ALGERNON. I know. You are absurdly careless about sending outinvitations. It is very foolish of you. Nothing annoys people somuch as not receiving invitations.JACK. You had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta.ALGERNON. I havent the smallest intention of doing
48、anything ofthe kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a weekis quite enough to dine with ones own relations. In the secondplace, whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member ofthe family, and sent down with either no woman at all, or two. Inthe third place, I know perfectly well whom she will place me nextto, to-night. She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who alwaysflirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is notvery pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sortof thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women
