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A WOMAN OF

ACT I.

plain women being Puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. But she is decidedly pretty. I admire her immensely. [Looks stedfastly at MRS. ALLONBY.]

MRS. ALLONBY
What a thoroughly bad man you must be!

LORD ILLINGWORTH
What do you call a bad man?

MRS. ALLONBY
The sort of man who admires innocence.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
And a bad woman?

MRS. ALLONBY
Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
You are severe—on yourself.

MRS. ALLONBY
Define us as a sex.

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