Here are the quotations for the coming week, June 30th to July 6th:
1. There are not many happinesses so complete as thise that are snatched
under the shadow of the sword. They sat together and laughed, calling each
other openly by every pet name that could move the wrath of the gods. The
city below them was locked up in its own torments.
2. '.I went, crying like a jackal, to the appointed place which was near the
byre of the headman's house. But my love was already there, weeping. She
feared that the flood had swept my hut at the Barwhi Ford. When I came
softly through the ankle-deep water, She thought it was a ghost, and would
have fled, but I put my arms round her .'
3. Janki Meah took a second wife - a girl of the Jolaha main stock of the
Meahs, and singularly beautiful. Janki Meah could not see her beauty;
wherefore he took her on trust, and forbade her to go down the pit. He had
not worked for thirty years in the dark without knopwing that the pit was no
place for pretty women.
The sources of this week's quotations (June 23rd to 29th) are as follows:
1. (.Despair upon despair, misery upon misery, fear after fear, each causing
their distinct and separate woe, packed in upon me for an unrecorded length
of time..) This is from "The House Surgeon" in Actions and Reactions.
2. (.Shahbaz Khan began to call again: 'They are below us. I can see them.
For the pity of God come over to me, Hafiz Ullah ! My father slew ten of
them...) This is from "The Lost Legion" in Many Inventions.
3. (...I conceived the whole pressure of our dead of the Boer War,
flickering and reforming as the horizon flickered in the heat...) This is
from Something of Myself.
Good wishes to all, John R
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