Thesaurus

attired: ( adj) clad, appareled, clothed, darkly: ( adv) murkily, dimly, game, moolah.

garbed, habilimented, robed; ( adj,

obscurely, duskily, somberly,

wearily: ( adv) sickly, boredly, dully,

prep) garmented.

shadily, mistily, secretly, dismally,

languidly, jadedly, exhaustedly,

carpet: ( v) cover, drape, rebuke,

heavily, overcastly. ANTONYM:

sadly, soberly, gravely, heavily,

encase, row, chew out; ( n) rug,

( adv) openly.

seriously. ANTONYMS: ( adv)

carpeting, tapis, runner, covering.

down-at-heel: ( adj) seedy, mean,

hopefully, untiringly, energetically,

chuck: ( n, v) fling; ( v) ditch, toss, pitch, threadbare, slovenly, sleazy, run-dynamically.

throw, throw away, discard, vomit,

down.

yawning: ( adj, v) gaping, oscitant; ( n) abandon, hurl; ( n) chow.

places: ( n) chairs, seating, spaces.

yawn, hiation, pandiculation,

ANTONYMS: ( v) continue, endure,

stops: ( n) Chicago, Michigan,

oscitancy; ( adj) cavernous, open,

maintain.

Newmarket, boodle, halts, stop,

drowsy, profound, sleepy.

coroneted: ( adj) titled, highborn.

stoppages, stopped, stopping, card

ANTONYMS: ( adj) cramped, narrow.

George Bernard Shaw

87

HIGGINS

[yawning again] Oh Lord! What an evening! What a crew! What a silly tomfoollery! [He raises his shoe to unlace it, and catches sight of the slippers.

He stops unlacing and looks at them as if they had appeared there of their own accord]. Oh! they're there, are they?

PICKERING

[stretching himself] Well, I feel a bit tired. It's been a long day. The garden party, a dinner party, and the opera! Rather too much of a good thing. But you've won your bet, Higgins. Eliza did the trick, and something to spare, eh?

HIGGINS

[fervently] Thank God it's over!

[ELIZA flinches violently; but they take no notice of her; and she recovers herself and sits stonily as before.]

PICKERING.

Were you nervous at the garden party? I was. Eliza didn't seem a bit nervous.%

HIGGINS.

Oh, she wasn't nervous. I knew she'd be all right. No, it's the strain of putting the job through all these months that has told on me. It was interesting enough at first, while we were at the phonetics; but after that I got deadly sick of it. If I hadn't backed myself to do it I should have chucked the whole thing up two months ago. It was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore.

PICKERING.

Oh come! the garden party was frightfully exciting. My heart began beating like anything.

HIGGINS.

Yes, for the first three minutes. But when I saw we were going to win hands down, I felt like a bear in a cage, hanging about doing nothing. The dinner was worse: sitting gorging there for over an hour, with nobody but a damned Thesaurus

appeared: ( n) appearing.

baneful, lethal, fatal, destructive,

rockily, heartlessly, frigidly,

beating: ( n) reverse, defeat, whipping, mortal, pernicious, virulent, toxic; insensitively, mercilessly.

thrashing, battery, flogging,

( adv) lifelessly, lethally.

ANTONYM: ( adv) kindly.

pounding, pulsation, pulse, rout; ( adj) ANTONYMS: ( adj) interesting, unlace: ( v) loosen, untie, unbrace,

pulsing. ANTONYMS: ( n) victory,

uplifting, readable, mild, healthy,

unlash, unlashed, unloose.

win.

healthful, benign, innocuous,

violently: ( adj, adv) vehemently, hotly,

cage: ( n, v) jail; ( n) basket, birdcage, exciting.

madly, ardently; ( adv) wildly,

hutch, gaol, frame, corral, cell; ( v)

shoe: ( n) horseshoe, sandal, shoes,

passionately, strongly, hard,

confine, imprison, enclose.

moccasin, footgear, footwear, skid,

furiously, turbulently; ( adv, n)

ANTONYMS: ( v) release; ( n)

flippers, anklet, flipper, track shoe.

vigorously. ANTONYMS: ( adv)

freedom, liberation.

stonily: ( adv) icily, pitilessly,

gently, nonviolently, feebly,

deadly: ( adj, adv) deathly; ( adj)

unfeelingly, cruelly, hardly, roughly, impassively, peacefully, tamely.

88

Pygmalion

fool of a fashionable woman to talk to! I tell you, Pickering, never again for me. No more artificial duchesses. The whole thing has been simple purgatory.%

PICKERING.

You've never been broken in properly to the social routine. [Strolling over to the piano] I rather enjoy dipping into it occasionally myself: it makes me feel young again. Anyhow, it was a great success: an immense success. I was quite frightened once or twice because Eliza was doing it so well. You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

HIGGINS.

Yes: that's what drives me mad: the silly people don't know their own silly business. [Rising] However, it's over and done with; and now I can go to bed at last without dreading tomorrow.

[ELIZA'S beauty becomes murderous.]

PICKERING.