Here are the quotations for next week, Aug 6th to 12th:
1. ..."Three paces was the depth of the ledge", muttered Janki without
heeding, "and - oh my poor bones, I have found it ! It is here, up this
ledge. Come you, one by one, to the place of my voice, and I will count
you..."
2. ...' "She'll be fillin' aft", says Bell; "for why is she down by the
stern ? The tail shaft's punched a hole in her, an' we've no boats. There's
three hunder thouisand punds sterlin', at a conservative estimate, droonin'
before our eyes/ What's to do ?" An' his bearin's got hot again in a minute,
for he was an incontinent man.
' " Run her as near as ye daur", I said. "Gie me a jacket an' a lifeline,
an' I'll swum for it..." '
3. ...(he) went forward to the bows and meditated, staring through the muddy
waters. After two hours of rooting through through this desolation at an
average rate of five miles an hour, his eyes were cheered by the sight of
one white buoy in the coffee-hued mid-stream. The flat iron crept up to it
cautiously, and a leadsman took soundings all round it from a dinghy...
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The sources of this week's quotations were as follows:
1. 'A Madonna of the Trenches' in 'Debits and Credits'
2. 'The Wish House' in 'Debits and Credits'.
3. 'The Children of the Zodiac' in 'Many Inventions'
Good wishes to all, John R
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