Read this excerpt from the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde and complete the sentences that follow. algernon: good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? lane: i believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. i have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. i have only been married once. that was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. algernon (languidly.): i don’t know that i am much interested in your family life, lane. lane: no, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. i never think of it myself. algernon: very natural, i am sure. that will do, lane, you. lane: you, sir. (lane goes out.) algernon: lane’s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? they seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility. algernon believes that the lower classes should the upper classes, yet he labels them as lacking .

Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]