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Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 of forming a single letter worthy of the least of Milton’s words; but she persisted; and again he suddenly threw himself into the task of teaching her with a combina- tion of stormy intensity, concentrated patience, and occasional bursts of interest- ing disquisition on the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting. Eliza ended by acquiring an extremely uncommercial script which was a positive extension of her personal beauty, and spending three times as much on stationery as anyone else because certain qualities and shapes of pa- per became indispensable to her. She could not even address an envelope in the usual way because it made the margins all wrong. Their commercial schooldays were a period of disgrace and despair for the young couple. They seemed to be learning nothing about flower shops. At last they gave it up as hopeless, and shook the dust of the shorthand schools, and the polytechnics, and the London School of Economics from their feet for ever. Be- sides, the business was in some mysterious way beginning to take care of itself. They had somehow forgotten their objections to employing other people. They came to the conclusion that their own way was the best, and that they had really a remarkable talent for business. The Colonel, who had been compelled for some years to keep a sufficient sum on current account at his bankers to make up their deficits, found that the provision was unnecessary: the young people were pros- pering. It is true that there was not quite fair play between them and their competi- tors in trade. Their week-ends in the country cost them nothing, and saved them the price of their Sunday dinners; for the motor car was the Colonel’s; and he and Higgins paid the hotel bills. Mr F. Hill, florist and greengrocer (they soon discov- Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 |
