Excerpt from Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
The flower girl enters in state. She has a ha...
English, 20.03.2020 02:25, erikamaldonado661
Excerpt from Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
The flower girl enters in state. She has a hat with three ostrich feathers, orange, sky blue, and red. She has a nearly clean apron,
and the shoddy coat has been tidied a little. The pathos of this deplorable figure with its innocent vanity and consequential air
touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce. But as to Higgins, the only distinction he
makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight
cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her.
HIGGINS
(brusquely, recognizing her with unconcealed disappointment, and at once, babylike, making an intolerable grievance of it Why
this is the girl jotted down last night. She's no use: I've got all the records want of the Lisson Grove lingo, and I'm not going to
waste another cylinder on it (To the girl Be off with you don't want you,
THE FLOWER GIRL
Don't you be so saucy. You aint heard what come for yet. (To Mrs. Pearce, who is waiting at the door for further instruction Did
you tell him I come in a taxi?
Why does Liza tell MrHiggins not to be so saucy?
She thinks he has been rude and impertinent
She feels that he is trying to flirt with her
She Interprets his comments as being sarcastic
She finds his way of speaking to be incomprenensole
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