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PICKERING We're always talking Eliza

HIGGINS Teaching Eliza

PICKERING Dressing Eliza

MRS HIGGINS What!

HIGGINS Inventing new Elizas

Higgins and Pickering, speaking together:

HIGGINS You know, she has the most extraordinary quickness of ear:

PICKERING I assure you, irl

HIGGINS just like a parrot I've tried her with every

PICKERING is a genius She can play the piano quite beautifully

HIGGINS possible sort of sound that a hu can make--

PICKERING We have taken her to classical concerts and to music

HIGGINS Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot

PICKERING halls; and it's all the sas it took ht off when she comes hoht away, as if she had

PICKERING Beethoven and Brahms or Lehar and Lionel Morickton;

HIGGINS been at it all her life

PICKERING though six o, she'd never as ers in her ears, as they are by this ti one another doith an intolerable noise] Sh--sh--sh--sh!

[They stop]

PICKERING I beg your pardon [He draws his chair back apologetically]

HIGGINS Sorry When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in

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