Next week's quotations (Setember 3rd to 9th) are as follows:
. …One of the many curses of our life in India is the want of atmosphere in
the painter's sense. There are no half tints worth noticing. Men stand out
all crude and raw, with nothing to tone them down and nothing to scale them
against....
2. Some people have a gift which secures them infinite toleration, and
others have not. The Man's Wife had not. If she looked over the garden wall,
for instance, women taxed her with stealing their husbands. She complained
pathetically that she was not allowed to choose her own friends. When she
put up her big white muff to her lips, and gazed over it and under her
eyebrows at you as she said this thing, you felt that she had been
infamously misjudged …
3. Then said Mrs Hauksbee to me - she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the
lamplight - 'Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever
man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool'.
Then we went in to supper.
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The sources of last week's quotations, as several people have pointed out,
were:
1. 'Captains Courageous'
2. 'Kim'
3. 'Brother Square-Toes' in 'Rewards and Fairies'
Good wishes to all, John Radcliffe
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