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to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you. "

The Welsh strain

in him.

How do you know the girl's here

if you didn't send her?

She sent back for

her luggage, guvnor.

Luggage?

What luggage?

There was a musical instrument,

a few pictures,

a trifle of ewelry

and a bird cage.

She said as how she didn't

want no clothes.

What was I to think

from that?

I ask you as a parient,

what was I to think?

So you came to rescue her

from worse than death?

Yes, that's right.

Just so.

Mrs. Pearce,

this is Eliza's father.

He's come to rescue her

from worse than death.

- Give her to him.

- No-

He can't take her away.

How can he?

- You told me to burn all her clothes.

- That's right.

I can't carry the girl through the streets

as if she was a bloomin' monkey, can I?

Where's the clothes

she come in?

Did I burn 'em,

or did your missus here?

Listen, guvnor.

You and me, we're men

of the world, ain't we?

We're men of

the world, are we?

- You'd better go, Mrs. Pearce.

- I should think so indeed.

The floor is yours,

Doolittle.

I thank you kindly,

guvnor.

To tell you the truth,

I've taken a sort of fancy to you.

Well, that's-

And if you Want the girl,

I'm not so set in havin'her back home.

But what I might be open to

is an arrangement.

Regarding the light of a young woman,

she's a fine, handsome girl.

As a daughter, she ain't worth a keeper,

I'll tell you straight.

All I ask from you

is my rights as a father.

You're the last man in the world who'd

expect me to let her go for nothing.

You're one of the straight sort,

you are. Oh, I can see that.

Well, what's

a five-pound note to you?

And what's Eliza to me?

I think you ought to know that Mr.

Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable.

Of course they are, guvnor.

Of course they are.

If I thought they wasn't,

I'd ask 50.

Why, you callous rascal.

Do you mean to say you'd sell

your daughter for 50 pounds?

No, no, not in a general

sort of way I wouldn't.

But to oblige a gentleman like you,

I'd do a good deal, I do assure you.

Have you

no morals, man?

I can't afford 'em, guvnor.

Well, neither could you

if you's as poor as me.

I don't mean no harm,

but if Eliza's gonna have a bit

out of this, why not me too?

As a matter of morals, it's a positive

crime to give this chap a farthing,

but I do feel a sort of

rough ustice in his claim.

That's right, guvnor.

It's a father's heart, as it were.

I know the feeling,

yet it hardly seems right.

No, no, don't look at it

that way, guvnor.

What am I, guvnors both?

I ask you, what am I?

Well, what are you?

I'm one of the undeservin' poor,

that's what I am.

Well, think what

that means to a man.

It means he's up against

middle-class morality all the time!

If there's anything

going, I puts in for a bit of it.

It's always

the same story.

You're undeservin',

so you can't have any.

And yet my needs is as great

as the most deserving widows...

that ever got money out of

six different charities in one week...

for the death

of the same husband.

I don't need less than

the deserving man. I need more.

I don't eat less hearty

than he does.

And I drink

a lot more.

So I puts it to you tWo gentlemen,

don't play that game on me.

I'm playin' straight

with you.

I ain't pretendin' to be deservin'.

I'm undeservin'.

And I mean to go on bein'

undeservin'. I likes it.

Sit down,

Doolittle.

Would you deny to a man

the price of his own daughter-

what he's brought up,

he's fed,

he's clothed

by the sweat of his brow-

until she growed

big enough...

to be interesting

to you two gentlemen?

Well, is five pounds

unreasonable?

I puts it to ya

and I leaves it to ya.

Pickering, here.

Shall we give him a fiver?

- He'll make bad use of it.

- No, no. So help me, guvnor.

I shan't save it, spare it

or live idle on it.

There won't be a penny

of it left on Monday.

Just one good spree

for myself and the missus.

This is irresistible.

Let's give him ten.

No, no, no.

Thank you kindly, guvnor.

Ten pounds is a lot of money.

Makes a man feel prudent-like.

And then good-bye

to happiness.

Just give me what I ask, guvnor.

Not a penny more, not a penny less.

You're sure

you won't take ten?

- No, not now, guvnor.

- Come on, come on.

Another time perhaps.

Thank you kindly, guvnor.

See?

Thank you,

guvnors both.

Pardon, Miss.

Garn. Don't you know

your own daughter?

Blimey, it's Eliza!

I never thought

she'd clean up so good lookin'.

She's a credit to me,

ain't she, guvnor?

She'll soon pick up

your free and easy ways.

I'm a good girl, I am, and I won't

pick up no free and easy ways.

If you say again you're a good girl,

your father shall take you home.

You don't know my father.

All he come here for was to touch you

for some money to get drunk on.

What else would

I want money for?

- Put in the plate in church?

- Hmm.

Don't you give me

none of your lip.

Don't let me hear you giving

any of these gentlemen none either.

You'll hear from me

about it, see?

Have you any further advice to give her,

Doolittle? Your blessing, for instance?

No, guvnor, not me.

I'm not such a mug as to put up

my kids to all I know myself.

If you want Eliza's mind improved,

guvnor, do it yourself.

With a strap.

Well, so long,

gentlemen.

Ew!

"Ah. Ah. "

Like "father. "

"E. E."

As in "machine. "

Repeat after me.

- A. A.

- A. E.

The rain in Spain...

...stays mainly

in the plains.

The rain in Spain

stays mainly in the plains.

Now, Eliza, you see

these three marbles?

- Yes.

- I want you to put them in your mouth.

One, tWo, three.

Now, don't be alarmed.

It's ust an exercise.

Now then,

repeat slowly after me:

The shallow depression

in the west of these islands...

is likely to move slowly

in a westerly direction.

The shallow depression

in the west of these islands...

is likely to move in-

- I swallowed one!

- Don't worry. We have plenty more.

The shallow depression

in the west of these islands...

is likely to move slowly

in a more easterly direction.

Hampshire, Hereford,

Hartford.

Hampshire, Hereford-

- Lumme, it umps.

- And so it Will, Eliza.

Every time you say

"hah" correctly.

Now then,

try once again.

In Hampshire, Hereford and Hartford,

hurricanes hardly ever happen.

In Hampshire,

Hereford, Hartford,

hurricanes

hardly ever happen.

Hardly ever

happen.

Hardly ever happen.

Oh.

How do you do?

Bad, bad, bad!

Do it again.

You aren't trying. Do it again.

That's not good,

Eliza.

It's not bad.

- Now's the time to try

her out on somebody. - Well-

I know.

My mother.

- Henry.

- Hello, dear.

What are you doing here today?

This is my home day.

- You promised not to come.

- Oh, bother.

- Go home at once.

- But I came here on purpose.

- I picked up a girl.

- You mean a girl has picked you up.

- No, no, this isn't a love affair.

- Oh, what a pity.

- Why?

- You never fall in love with anyone under 45.

I can't waste my time with young women.

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