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Shaw
HIGGINS
. Well!!
PICKERING
. Oh, that’s only his way, you know. He doesn’t
mean it.
LIZA
. Oh, I didn’t mean it either, when I was a flower girl.
It was only my way. But you see I did it; and that’s what
makes the difference after all.
PICKERING
. No doubt. Still, he taught you to speak; and
I couldn’t have done that, you know.
LIZA
[
trivially] Of course: that is his profession.
HIGGINS
. Damnation!
LIZA
[
continuing] It was just like learning to dance in the
fashionable way: there was nothing more than that in it. But
do you know what began my real education?
PICKERING
. What?
LIZA
[
stopping her work for a moment] Your calling me Miss
Doolittle that day when I first came to Wimpole Street. That
was the beginning of self-respect for me. [
She resumes her
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