Here are the quotations for 13 to 19 August:
1. They seated themselves in the heavy chairs on the pebbled floor beneath
the eaves of the summer house by the orchard. A table between them carried
wine and glasses, and a packet of papers, with pen and ink. The larger man
of the two, his doublet unbuttoned, his broad face blotched and scarred,
puffed a little as he came to rest. The other picked up an apple from the
grass, bit it, and went on with the thread of the talk that they must have
carried out of doors with them...
2. Her cinnabar-shaped topsail, nicking the hot blue horizon, showed she was
a Spanish wheat-boat hours before she reached Marseilles mole. There, the
mainsail brailed itself, a spritsail broke out forward, and a handy driver
aft; and she threaded her way through the shipping to her berth at the quay
as quietly as a veiled woman slips through a bazaar...
3. John drew from his bosom a stamped leather box. Some six or eight inches
long, wherein, bedded on faded velvet, lay what looked like silver-bound
compasses of old box-wood, with a screw at the top which opened or closed
the legs to minute fractions. The legs terminated, not in points, but
spoon-shapedly, one spatula pierced with a metal-lined hole less than a
quarter of an inch across, the other with a half-inch hole. Into this
latter, John, after carefully wiping with a silk rag, slipped a metal
cylinder that carried glass or crystal, it seemed, at each end...
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The sources of last week's quotations (6 to 12th August) were as follows:
1. 'At Twenty-two' in 'In Black and White' within 'Soldiers Three'
2. 'Bread upon the Waters' in 'The Day's Work'
3. 'Judson and the Empire' in 'Many Inventions'
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Good wishes to all, John R
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