1 though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano.
2 I take my Bible oath I ain't seen the girl these two months past.
3 I've a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months.
4 I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire.
5 No, it's the strain of putting the job through all these months that has told on me.
6 If I hadn't backed myself to do it I should have chucked the whole thing up two months ago.
7 At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed.
8 Why, six months ago you would have thought it the millennium to have a flower shop of your own.
9 Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
10 She borrowed them in various directions so energetically that she swallowed them all within two months.
11 Eliza: you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop.
12 If this girl is to put herself in your hands for six months for an experiment in teaching, she must understand thoroughly what she's doing.
13 I'll advertize it in the papers that your duchess is only a flower girl that you taught, and that she'll teach anybody to be a duchess just the same in six months for a thousand guineas.
14 It lasted a long time because Freddy did not know how to spend money, never having had any to spend, and Eliza, socially trained by a pair of old bachelors, wore her clothes as long as they held together and looked pretty, without the least regard to their being many months out of fashion.
15 Clara had a startling eyeopener when, on being suddenly wakened to enthusiasm by a girl of her own age who dazzled her and produced in her a gushing desire to take her for a model, and gain her friendship, she discovered that this exquisite apparition had graduated from the gutter in a few months' time.