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Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 HIGGINS The devil he does! Whew! (Brightening suddenly) What a lark! PICKERING A safe thing for you, Doolittle. They wont ask you twice. DOOLITTLE It aint the lecturing I mind. I’ll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a hair. It’s making a gentleman of me that I object to. Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money. It’s a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. Is it? says I. You mean it’s a good thing for you, I says. When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could. Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 |