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expected to provide for everyone now, out of three thousand
a year.
HIGGINS
[
jumping up] Nonsense! he can’t provide for her.
He shan’t provide for her. She doesn’t belong to him. I paid
him five pounds for her. Doolittle: either you’re an honest
man or a rogue.
DOOLITTLE
[
tolerantly] A little of both, Henry, like the
rest of us: a little of both.
HIGGINS
. Well, you took that money for the girl; and you
have no right to take her as well.
MRS. HIGGINS
. Henry: don’t be absurd. If you really want
to know where Eliza is, she is upstairs.
HIGGINS
[
amazed] Upstairs!!! Then I shall jolly soon fetch
her downstairs. [
He makes resolutely for the door].
MRS. HIGGINS
[
rising and following him] Be quiet, Henry.
Sit down.
HIGGINS
. I—
MRS. HIGGINS
. Sit down, dear; and listen to me.
HIGGINS
. Oh very well, very well, very well. [
He throws
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