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1  You were married to Eliza's mother.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  Your stepmother is going to marry me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  Eliza's instinct tells her not to marry Higgins.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
4  You needn't marry the fellow if you don't like him.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
5  I'm going to the church to see your father married, Eliza.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
6  That is, to the people in the marrying line, you understand.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
7  I'll marry Freddy, I will, as soon as he's able to support me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
9  Eliza, in telling Higgins she would not marry him if he asked her, was not coquetting: she was announcing a well-considered decision.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
10  If she is at the end of her youth, and has no security for her livelihood, she will marry him because she must marry anybody who will provide for her.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
11  Nevertheless, people in all directions have assumed, for no other reason than that she became the heroine of a romance, that she must have married the hero of it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
12  The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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13  Unless Freddy is biologically repulsive to her, and Higgins biologically attractive to a degree that overwhelms all her other instincts, she will, if she marries either of them, marry Freddy.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
14  Accordingly, it is a truth everywhere in evidence that strong people, masculine or feminine, not only do not marry stronger people, but do not show any preference for them in selecting their friends.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
15  To put it shortly, she knew that for some mysterious reason he had not the makings of a married man in him, according to her conception of a husband as one to whom she would be his nearest and fondest and warmest interest.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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16  Almost immediately after Eliza is stung into proclaiming her considered determination not to marry Higgins, she mentions the fact that young Mr. Frederick Eynsford Hill is pouring out his love for her daily through the post.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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17  Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
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