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hands; for before Eliza cas and reot so "You don't think, sir": doesn't she, Pick?

PICKERING Yes: that's the formula "You don't think, sir" That's the

end of every conversation about Eliza

HIGGINS As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded

vowels and consonants I'

her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which

is the quaintest of the lot

MRS HIGGINS You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with

your live doll

HIGGINS Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no htfully interesting it is to

take a hu by

creating a new speech for her It's filling up the deepest gulf that

separates class fro his chair closer to Mrs Higgins and bending over to

her eagerly] Yes: it's enorins, we take Eliza very seriously Every week--every day

alain] We keep records of

every stage--dozens of gra her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the ularly fills our lives up;

doesn't she, Pick?