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There's no doubt here about the underlying callousness of Higgins' project of making what he calls "a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe."

To speak of the foul condition into which such draggletailed dresses must soon get is positively sickening.

There are days When the whole world’s hoddendoon and draggletailed, Drooked through and through; and blury, gurly days When the wind blows snell: but it’s something to be stirring, And not shut up between four glowering walls, Like blind white faces; and you never ken What traveller your wayside fire will draw Out of the night, to tell outlandish tales, Or crack a jest, or start quarrel with you, Till the words bite hot as ginger on the tongue.

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.

Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons.