And I treat a duchess as if she was a flower girl.

And I treat a duchess as if she was a flower girl.

Context – This line taken from the Act V in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.
Comment – As Eliza is going to leave, Higgins hinders the entryway. He says that he needs Eliza to return, however he won’t change his behavior, which he keeps up are precisely the same as the Colonel’s. Eliza dissents: “That is not valid,” she says, “He regards a blossom young lady as though she was a duchess.” To which Higgins answers, “And I regard a duchess as though she was a bloom young lady.” Higgins keeps, keeping up that great behavior or terrible conduct are not essential; rather, it is more imperative to have similar behavior for all individuals. On the off chance that he has treated her severely, she needs to concede that she has never observed him treat another person diversely or better. He is pleased that she is presently autonomous — actually, it’s one of the fundamental things that he has needed her to hear — yet he demands that he can get along great without her, despite the fact that he concedes: “I have become usual to your voice and appearance.” Eliza at that point advises him that he has both her voice and her “appearance” in various photos and accounts; when he feels desolate, he can turn on one of his chronicles of her. Higgins counters, in any case, that he can’t turn her “spirit” on, and he says, besides, that he esteems quality more than administration, and he brings up that Eliza can’t purchase a claim on him “by getting my shoes and my exhibitions.” truth be told, her “little canine’s traps of getting and conveying shoes” can not the slightest bit contrast with the significance of his creation — that is, the Duchess Eliza.

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