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1  Do nothing of the sort, mother.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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2  Her boots are much the worse for wear.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  The church clock strikes the first quarter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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4  I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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5  He takes the place left vacant by the daughter's retirement.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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6  He is in the same plight as Freddy, very wet about the ankles.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  , come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet around the ankles.
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9  If Freddy had a bit of gumption, he would have got one at the theatre door.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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10  They'll take away my character and drive me on the streets for speaking to gentlemen.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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11  She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty.
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12  I've been to Charing Cross one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other; and they were all engaged.
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13  An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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14  Freddy rushes in out of the rain from the Southampton Street side, and comes between them closing a dripping umbrella.
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15  She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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16  They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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17  Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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