![]() I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality. Now I've fifty, and not a decent week's wages among the lot of them. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. ![]() A year ago I hadn't a relative in the world except two or three that wouldn't speak to me. Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. In the house I'm not let do a hand's turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it. Now they finds out that I'm not a healthy man and cant live unless they looks after me twice a day. Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay. ![]() 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. You mean it's a good thing for you, I says. ![]() ![]() It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. Now I am worrited tied neck and heels and everybody touches me for money. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. “Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. ![]()
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