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1  The flower girl enters in state.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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2  He treats a flower girl as if she was a duchess.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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4  Oh, I didn't mean it either, when I was a flower girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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5  So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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6  The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  A flower in his buttonhole, a dazzling silk hat, and patent leather shoes complete the effect.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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9  Why, six months ago you would have thought it the millennium to have a flower shop of your own.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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10  She takes off her cloak; puts her fan and flowers on the piano; and sits down on the bench, brooding and silent.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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11  Don't you be anxious: I bet she's on my doorstep by this: she that could support herself easy by selling flowers if I wasn't respectable.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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12  Eliza opens the door and is seen on the lighted landing in opera cloak, brilliant evening dress, and diamonds, with fan, flowers, and all accessories.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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13  All the rest have gone except the note taker, the gentleman, and the flower girl, who sits arranging her basket, and still pitying herself in murmurs.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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14  If the King finds out you're not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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15  I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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16  But he agreed that it would be extraordinarily jolly to go early every morning with Eliza to Covent Garden and buy flowers on the scene of their first meeting: a sentiment which earned him many kisses from his wife.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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17  True, Eliza had not to begin at the very beginning: she knew the names and prices of the cheaper flowers; and her elation was unbounded when she found that Freddy, like all youths educated at cheap, pretentious, and thoroughly inefficient schools, knew a little Latin.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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