Here are the quotations for next week (July 7th to 13th):
1. .The three closed round the monkey, hanging on his every motion with an
earnestness almost equal to ours. The great judge's head - seamed and
vertical forehead, iron mouth, and pike-like under-jaw, all set on that
thick neck rising out of the white flanneled collar - was thrown against the
puckered green silk of the organ front as it might have been a cameo of
Titus...
2. ..The train had lost patience at last, and was coming into the station
directly beneath me to see what was the matter. Happy voices sang and heads
were thrust out all along the compartments, but none answered their songs or
greetings. She halted, and the people began to get out. Then they began to
get in again, as their friends in the waiting-rooms advised.
3. ...I saw both Front Benches bend forward, some with their foreheads on
their despatch boxes, the rest with their faces in their hands; and their
moving shoulders jolted the house out of its last rag of decency. Only the
Speaker remained unmoved. The entire press of Great Britain bore witness
next day that he had not even bowed his head.
The sources of this week's extracts (June 30th to July 6th) are as follows:
1. (There are not many happinesses so complete as those that are snatched
under the shadow of the sword...) This is from 'Without Benefit of Clergy'
in 'Life's Handicap'.
2. (' 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 .' ) This is from
'In Flood Time' in 'Soldiers Three and Other Stories'.
3. (...He had not worked for thirty years in the dark without knowing that
the pit was no place for pretty women...) This is from 'At Twenty-two' in
'Soldiers Three and Other Stories'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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