From: John Radcliffe
To: Rudyard Kipling Mailbase
Subject: Quotes
Here are the quotes for next week (12th to 18th 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-tinted 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 (August 5th to 11th) were:
1. Kim
2. 'The Lost Legion' in 'Many Inventions'
3. 'The Undertakers' in 'The Second Jungle Book.
Good wishes to all, John R
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