Which sentence in this excerpt from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion suggests that speech and language were important during the time Shaw wrote the play? HIGGINS: Pickering: shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we throw her out of the window? THE FLOWER GIRL (running away in terror to the piano, where she turns at bay): Ah—ah—ah—ow—ow—ow—oo! (Wounded and whimpering) I won't be called a baggage when I've offered to pay like any lady. Motionless, the two men stare at her from the other side of the room, amazed. PICKERING (gently): What is it you want, my girl? THE FLOWER GIRL: I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him—not asking any favor—and he treats me as if I was dirt. MRS. PEARCE: How can you be such a foolish ignorant girl as to think you could afford to pay Mr. Higgins? THE FLOWER GIRL: Why shouldn't I? I know what lessons cost as well as you do; and I'm ready to pay.

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The sentence that show's the importance of speech is "I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel" said by the flower girl.

The play was written in 1913, set in London. In this early time the social divisions meant very much that the lower class was less formally educated than the middle or upper class, so to be a lady in a flower shop the flower girl needed not only money but education and the first indicator of this is the way one speaks and conducts oneself in a conversation

Answer:

THE FLOWER GIRL: I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road.

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