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have out of you; and if you dare to set up your little dog’s
tricks of fetching and carrying slippers against my creation
of a Duchess Eliza, I’ll slam the door in your silly face.
LIZA
. What did you do it for if you didn’t care for me?
HIGGINS
[
heartily] Why, because it was my job.
LIZA
. You never thought of the trouble it would make for
me.
HIGGINS
. Would the world ever have been made if its maker
had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means mak-
ing trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and
that’s killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shriek-
ing to have troublesome people killed.
LIZA
. I’m no preacher: I don’t notice things like that. I no-
tice that you don’t notice me.
HIGGINS
[
jumping up and walking about intolerantly] Eliza:
you’re an idiot. I waste the treasures of my Miltonic mind by
spreading them before you. Once for all, understand that I
go my way and do my work without caring twopence what
happens to either of us. I am not intimidated, like your fa-
ther and your stepmother. So you can come back or go to
the devil: which you please.
LIZA
. What am I to come back for?
HIGGINS
[
bouncing up on his knees on the ottoman and lean-
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