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RhACT IV. offer, and travelling with him you would see the world—as much of it, at least, as one should look at—under the best auspices possible, and stay with all the right people, which is so important at this solemn moment in your career.

GERALD I don't want to see the world: I've seen enough of it.

MRS. ALLONBY I hope you don't think you have exhausted life, Mr. Arbuthnot. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

GERALD I don't wish to leave my mother.

LADY HUNSTANTON Now, Gerald, that is pure laziness on your part. Not leave your mother! If I were your mother I would insist on your going.

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