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Eliza met Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering the previous evening. His throw-away comment about making her into a duchess has stuck in her head. She has come to take lessons from Higgins, so that she may sound well-spoken enough to work in a flower shop rather than be a flower girl on the corner of Tottenham Court Road. However, she is not prepared for Higgins' rough, condescending behavior towards her. Under Mrs. Pearce's watchful eye, it is agreed upon that Eliza will live with Higgins
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HIGGINS. There! That's all you get out of Eliza. Ah—ah—ow—oo! No use explaining. As a military man you ought to know that. Give her her orders: That's what she wants. Eliza: you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you're good and do whatever you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, and
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