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This is the first 1,000 characters of 897 words (3.59 pages) in the essay titled Pygmalion Act III It is Mrs. Higgins at-home day, and she is greatly displeased when Henry Higgins showsup suddenly, for she knows from experience that he is too eccentric to be presentable in front of the sort of respectable company she is expecting. He explains to her that he wants to bring the experiment subject on whom he has been working for some months to her at-home, and explains the bet that he has made with Pickering. Mrs. Higgins is not pleased about this unsolicited visit from a common flower girl, but she has no time to oppose before Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill (the mother and daughter from the first scene) are shown into the parlor by the parlor-maid. Colonel Pickering enters soon after, followed by Freddy Eynsford Hill, the hapless son from Covent Garden. Higgins is about to really offend the company with a theory that they are all savages who know nothing about being civilized when Eliza is announced. She makes quite an impact on everyone with her studied grace and pedantic speech. Everything promises to go well until Mrs. Eynsford Hill brings up the subject of influenza, which causes Eliza to launch into the topic of her aunt, who supposedly died of influenza. In her excitement, her old accent, along with shocking facts such as her father s alcoholism, slip out. Freddy thinks that she is merely affecting the new small talk, and is dazzled by how well she does it. He is obviously infatuated with her. When Eliza gets up to leave, he offers to walk her but sh... |
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Keywords: eliza, pedantic, colonel pickering, launch, supposedly, bet, two old bachelors, covent garden, influenza, freddy, infatuated, pygmalion, alcoholism, henry higgins, parlor maid, respectable company, precise conditions, act iii, shocking facts, experiment subject