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DOOLITTLE [protesting] No, Governor

HIGGINS You must have How else could you possibly know that she is

here?

DOOLITTLE Don't take a man up like that, Governor

HIGGINS The police shall take you up This is a plant--a plot to

extort oes

resolutely to the telephone and opens the directory]

DOOLITTLE Have I asked you for a brass farthing? I leave it to the

gentle the book aside anddown on Doolittle with a

poser] What else did you come for?

DOOLITTLE [sweetly] Well, ould a overnor

HIGGINS [disarmed] Alfred: did you put her up to it?

DOOLITTLE So help me, Governor, I never did I take irl these two months past

HIGGINS Then how did you know she was here?

DOOLITTLE ["most musical, most melancholy"] I'll tell you, Governor, if

you'll only let

to tell you I': this chap has a certain natural gift of rhetoric

Observe the rhyth to tell