Thesaurus

basket: ( n) cage, hamper, basketful,

parturition. ANTONYMS: ( adj)

( adv) frostily, nastily, spitefully.

creel, Corf, coop, bucket, spinner

shallow, cheerful.

insulted: ( adj) affronted, offended,

basket, bassinet, containerful, cradle. busybody: ( n, v) snoop; ( adj) injured, huffy.

blooming: ( adj) rosy, thriving,

pickthank, devotee, enthusiast; ( n)

low-spiritedly: ( adv) depressedly.

flourishing, healthy, prosperous,

interloper, scandalmonger, big

melancholy: ( adj, v) dreary; ( adj, n)

ruddy, booming, blossoming, cherry, mouth, blabbermouth, chatterbox, gloom, melancholic; ( adj) depressed,

verdant, green. ANTONYMS: ( adj)

chatterer; ( v) meddle.

dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; ( n,

arid, pale.

conducted: ( adj) directed, guided.

v) low spirits; ( n) gloominess,

brooding: ( adj) pondering, thoughtful, genially: ( adv) cordially, graciously, depression. ANTONYMS: ( n)

contemplative, hatching, meditative,

jovially, warmly, amiably, benignly,

happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness,

pensive, wistful; ( v) brewing,

brightly, heartily, pleasantly,

optimism; ( adj) happy, bright, cheery,

batching; ( n) chick management,

cheerfully, affably. ANTONYMS:

satisfied.

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Pygmalion

THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER

[not attending to her] Do you know where _I_ come from?

THE NOTE TAKER

[promptly] Hoxton.%

Titterings. Popular interest in the note taker's performance increases.

THE SARCASTIC ONE.

[amazed] Well, who said I didn't? Bly me! You know everything, you do.

THE FLOWER GIRL

[still nursing her sense of injury] Ain't no call to meddle with me, he ain't.

THE BYSTANDER

[to her] Of course he ain't. Don't you stand it from him. [To the note taker]

See here: what call have you to know about people what never offered to meddle with you? Where's your warrant?

SEVERAL BYSTANDERS

[encouraged by this seeming point of law] Yes: where's your warrant?

THE FLOWER GIRL.

Let him say what he likes. I don't want to have no truck with him.

THE BYSTANDER.

You take us for dirt under your feet, don't you? Catch you taking liberties with a gentleman!

THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER.

Yes: tell HIM where he come from if you want to go fortune-telling.

THE NOTE TAKER.

Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge, and India.

THE GENTLEMAN.

Quite right. [Great laughter. Reaction in the note taker's favor. Exclamations of He knows all about it. Told him proper. Hear him tell the toff where he come from? etc.]. May I ask, sir, do you do this for your living at a music hall?

Thesaurus

dirt: ( n, v) soil, grime; ( n) filth, dust, increases: ( adj) increasing; ( n)

appearance, semblance; ( n) aspect,

scandal, garbage, ground, earth, crap, augmentation, addition.

show. ANTONYMS: ( adj) actual,

mire, contamination. ANTONYMS:

liberties: ( n) freedoms, familiarity,

deep, inner.

( n) cleanness, purity, luxury,

intimacy.

toff: ( n) fop, man of means, rich man.

cleanliness, newness.

meddle: ( v) intervene, interfere,

truck: ( n, v) barter, traffic; ( n) lorry, favor: ( n, v) countenance, aid, grace,

intrude, monkey, interpose, fiddle,

van, hand truck, car, cart, trade,

support, benefit, boon; ( adj, n)

pry, dabble, interlope; ( n)

bogie; ( v) swap, swop.

kindness; ( n) advantage; ( v) befriend, interference; ( adj) moil. ANTONYM: warrant: ( n, v) permit, vouch, license, encourage, patronize. ANTONYMS:

( v) disregard.

assure, sanction, empower; ( n)

( v) hinder, contradict, dislike, hurt,

seeming: ( adj) ostensible, superficial,

authority, authorization, security; ( v)

differ, thwart, reject, demean; ( n)

illusory, outward, probable,

justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: ( n)

derogation, disapproval, unkindness. deceptive, specious; ( adj, n) break; ( v) debar.

George Bernard Shaw

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THE NOTE TAKER.

I've thought of that. Perhaps I shall some day.%

The rain has stopped; and the persons on the outside of the crowd begin to drop off.

THE FLOWER GIRL

[resenting the reaction] He's no gentleman, he ain't, to interfere with a poor girl.

THE DAUGHTER

[out of patience, pushing her way rudely to the front and displacing the gentleman, who politely retires to the other side of the pillar] What on earth is Freddy doing? I shall get pneumonia if I stay in this draught any longer.

THE NOTE TAKER

[to himself, hastily making a note of her pronunciation of "monia"]

Earlscourt.

THE DAUGHTER

[violently] Will you please keep your impertinent remarks to yourself?

THE NOTE TAKER.

Did I say that out loud? I didn't mean to. I beg your pardon. Your mother's Epsom, unmistakeably.

THE MOTHER

[advancing between her daughter and the note taker] How very curious! I was brought up in Largelady Park, near Epsom.

THE NOTE TAKER

[uproariously amused] Ha! ha! What a devil of a name! Excuse me. [To the daughter] You want a cab, do you?

THE DAUGHTER.

Don't dare speak to me.

THE MOTHER.

Oh, please, please Clara. [Her daughter repudiates her with an angry shrug Thesaurus

amused: ( adj) amusing, smiling,

stanchion, backbone, buttress; ( adj, n) agreeably, tactfully, thoughtfully, tickled pink, pleased, diverted.

tower.

acceptably, gently.

draught: ( n, v) draft, sketch, design,

pneumonia: ( adj) pertussis, necrosis,

taker: ( n) wagerer, user, customer,

potation, plan; ( n) dose, air current,

pyrosis, rubeola, ringworm, rachitis,

beggar, client, captor, stealer,

wind, gulp, outline; ( v) blueprint.

quinsy, pyaemia, psora; ( n)

respecter, punter, parasite, better.