The coming week's quotations (May 13th to 19th) are as follows:
1. '…In the balmy dawnin' it was given out, all among the 'olystones, by our
sub-lootenant, who was a three-way-discharge devil, that all orders after
eight bells was to be executed in inverse ration to the cube o' the
velocity. "The reg'lar routine," he says, "was arrogated for reasons o'
state an' policy…"
2. ' " Get out of this and conduct your own damned manoeuvres in your own
damned tinker fashion ! You're a disgrace to the service, and your boat's
offal." ' …'I shall take these as my orders ' said Mr Moorshed.
3. 'What's her speed ?' he demanded of the engineer.
'Twenty-five', said that loyal man.
'Easy to run ? ' 'No: very difficult,' was the emphatic answer.
'That just shows you ain't fit for your rating. D'you suppose that a man who
earns his livin' by runnin' 30-knot destroyers for a parstime - for a
parstime mark you ! - is going to lie down before any blighted land-crabbin'
steam-pinnace on springs ?'
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The sources of last week's quotations (May 6th to 12th) as several people
have pointed out, were as follows:
1. The Brushwood Boy, in The Day's Work
2. 'They', in Traffics and Discoveries
3. An Habitation Enforced in Actions and Reactions
You may be interested in the note about Adam Nicolson's book 'The Hated
Wife' which we have recently put up on the Members' page of the website.
All good wishes, John R
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