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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  And I treat a duchess as if she was a flower girl.
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  Oh, I didn't mean it either, when I was a flower girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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6  They seemed to be learning nothing about flower shops.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  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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9  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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10  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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11  And so it came about that Eliza's luck held, and the expected opposition to the flower shop melted away.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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12  He one day asked Eliza, rather shyly, whether she had quite given up her notion of keeping a flower shop.
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  There were even classes at the London School of Economics, and a humble personal appeal to the director of that institution to recommend a course bearing on the flower business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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16  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.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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17  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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