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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: ward.
LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be
quite aware that what you propose is out of the question.
JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look
forward to.
LADY BRACKNELL. That is not the destiny I propose for Gwendolen.
Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. [Pulls out her
watch.] Come, dear, [GWENDOLEN rises] we have already missed five,
if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on
the platform.
[Enter DR. CHASUBLE.]
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