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Pygmalion

THE FIRST

London. The Covent garden area in London. Summer evening. The shower. Passers-by are hiding from the rain under the portico of St Paul's Church. Among them the lady with the daughter. Both in evening dresses. All unhappy. Only one man stood deep records in your notebook, turning to the crowd back.

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My daughter complains mother, that cold, and brother Freddie, who ran to take a taxi, for twenty minutes no. Hearing this, man from the crowd says, at this time no taxis to be found, after all, many people come back from the theaters, and all machines will be busy. Daughter unhappy with the delay brother, while the mother tries to justify his son, even though she is already getting nervous.

Suddenly Freddy appears in smaklig below the knee trousers. He found a taxi, although run around all the streets. Irritated mother, sending another son to the machine. The young man opens an umbrella, rushes to the side of the street, but suddenly collides with a flower girl and knocks from her hand a basket of flowers. "Well, ti, Hred, look, where shoved!"angrily yells and picks up the flower girl scattered flowers.

Girl with flowers it is hard to call attractive. She's dirty, mouse-colored hair, bad teeth, unpeeled clothing, collapsed boots…

Mother amazed, that she named her son by name, and trying to learn, how does she know him. The woman even buys the girl flowers wrinkled. And, after receiving the money, explains, said the first guy's name, it came to mind, for, to show courtesy.

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At this time, under the portico of the Church hastens elderly gentleman with the appearance of military personnel in wet evening clothes. It is suitable to the place, where sits the flower girl. The girl immediately begins to offer the master's bouquet. Mr. nidacuccula unhappy flower girl, however, buys a bunch and walks away to another place.

A man from the crowd began to blame the girl and drew her attention to some other guy, who has listened attentively to the conversations and something carefully recorded. The frightened woman decided, this man policeman, and began loudly to prove, she's a decent girl, and spoke to Mr just because, I wanted to sell him flowers. Someone from the audience tries to calm her down, someone angrily said, so she didn't scream so loud, and those, what stood away and heard nothing, started to ask about the cause of the scandal.

A man with a notebook was affected by noise, which raised the flower girl. He firmly, but without anger told her to stop and waist, what you wrote, she says, and then read the recorded, accurately recreating her rough, illiterate pronunciation. To prove to the public, he wasn't a COP, a man with a notebook called everyone the place, where did who come from, and explained, what I learned about this on their dialects.

The rain stopped, and the crowd began to disperse. The mother and daughter, without waiting for a taxi, went to the bus stop. Near the Church remained the gentleman with a notebook, gentleman with a military bearing and flower girl, which still continued to show their discontent with, that the Lord recorded all, and what she said.

The men got to talking, Mr notebook explained, that deals with phonetics. It's his hobby, but it gives a good income, after all, now is the time viskochil, which, although they "said goodbye to his squalid quarter, but if they say the word — and pronunciation gives them away. And here I am, who can teach…"Moreover, Mr. notebook said, that for three months he even a girl from London's backstreets, "with that pronunciation to sit… century in the gutter", could turn the Duchess. "I could even provide her a maid or saleswomen in the store. And there's impeccable pronunciation even more important". Was, that gentleman with a military bearing is also interested in dialects. The two men have long wanted to meet you. A chance meeting brought HGS — men with a notebook and Pking — gentleman, who came from India deliberate, to meet with the originator of the "Universal alphabet HSA".

The men agreed to have dinner together. When they passed by the flower girl, and again reminded of itself. The girl tried to sell them flowers and he would ask money. HGS threw her in the cart a handful of coins. Amazed flower girl looks at the money, marveling at the generosity of the scientist, and then gets in the taxi, what still got Freddy, and calls the wondering driver address: "Beconase Palace!"In a narrow alley behind gutleb the bench she stops a taxi and goes wearily to his home.

It's a small chilly room, in which "instead of the broken glass window covered with cardboard". The bed is ruled by the lava, covered with a pile of rags. Even in a miserable subsistence minimum includes the chest, bowl, pitcher, table, chair, thrown out of some peasant cuisine.

The girl lists earned money, and then removes the shawl and skirt, lays down in bed and turns on the clothing in numerous outrival.

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