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1  Mrs. Pearce: this is Eliza's father.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  Only her father: the fellow we told you about.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  I'm going to the church to see your father married, Eliza.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
4  I am not intimidated, like your father and your stepmother.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  If I decide to teach you, I'll be worse than two fathers to you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  She knows that Higgins does not need her, just as her father did not need her.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
7  Eliza: if you say again that you're a good girl, your father shall take you home.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  You think I must go back to Wimpole Street because I have nowhere else to go but father's.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
10  They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
11  All I ask is my rights as a father; and you're the last man alive to expect me to let her go for nothing; for I can see you're one of the straight sort, Governor.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  Her father, though formerly a dustman, and now fantastically disclassed, had become extremely popular in the smartest society by a social talent which triumphed over every prejudice and every disadvantage.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V