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That is all That is how it has turned out It is astonishing howat Wimpole Street in

spite of the shop and her own fas her husband, and frankly loves the Colonel as if she were

his favorite daughter, she has never got out of the habit of nagging

Higgins that was established on the fatal night when she won his bet

for him She snaps his head off on the faintest provocation, or on

none He no longer dares to tease her by assu an abysmal

inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own He storms and bullies and

derides; but she stands up to him so ruthlessly that the Colonel has to

ask her froins; and it is the only

request of his that brings a ency or calah to break down all likes and

dislikes, and throw them both back on their common humanity--and may

they be spared any such trial!--will ever alter this She knows that

Higgins does not need her, just as her father did not need her The