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Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance (Penguin Popular Classics) (1996, Penguin Books Ltd)

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed …

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Lady Caroline.
You have no country houses, I am told, in America?

Hester.
We have not many.

Lady Caroline.
Have you any country?  What we should call country?

Hester.
[Smiling.]  We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline.  They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put together.

Lady Caroline.
Ah! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy.