Here are the quotations for the coming week (August 10th to 16th):
1. 'He told me' he said suddenly, ' that my home address was Jerusalem.
You heard that ?'
'But it was the tone - the tone,' Olyett cried.
…' "Is that a dressing-gown or an ulster you're supposed to be wearing ?"
You heard that ?…"And I
suppose you hadn't time to brush your hair either ?" You heard that?…Now
you hear !' His voice filled the coffee-room, then dropped to a whisper as
dreadful as a surgeon's before an operation...
2. Mrs Bellamy opened the window and spoke. It appears that she had only
charged for damage to the bicycle, not for the entire machine which Mr
Lingnam was ruthlessly gleaning, spoke by spoke, from the highway, and
cramming into the slack of the hood.
At last he answered, and I have never seen a man foam at the mouth before.
'If you don't stop, I shall come into your house - in this car - and drive
upstairs and - kill you !'...
3. ...The stuff was getting in its work. Bluey, white, and blue again
rolled over the navvy's face in waves, till all settled to one rich
clay-bank yellow, and - that fell which fell.
I thought of the blowing up of Hell Gate; of the geysers in Yellowstone
Park; of Jonah and his whale; but the lively original, as I watched it
foreshortened from above, exceeded all these things…His right hand was
upon the doctor's collar, so that the two shook to one paroxysm, pendulums
vibrating together, while I, apart, shook with them...
The sources of last week's extracts (August 3rd to 9th) are as follows:
1. ('Tell them', he cried, 'that if a hair of any one of their heads is
touched by any official on any account whatever, all England shall ring
with it...) This is from "Little Foxes" in Actions and Reactions.
2. (They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of
their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over
from day to day...) This is from "Kaa's Hunting" in The Jungle Book.
3. (In a raucous voice he cried aloud little matters, like the hope of
Honour and the dream of Glory...) This is from "The Flag of their
Country" in Stalky & Co.
In the New Readers' Guide we have just published notes by John McGivering
and Gillian Sheehan on
"Unprofessional" from Limits and Renewals, and on the accompanying poem
"The Threshold."
Good wishes to all, John R
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