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Quotations
Here are the quotations for this week (August 17th to 23rd)
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...
The sources of last week’s extracts (August 10th to 16th) were as follows:
1. (…Thanks to the khaki everywhere, the scene was not unlike that which one
might have seen on earth every evening…) This is from "On the Gate" in
Debits and Credits.
2. (…The passengers filed out - they and the waiting crowd devouring each
other with their eyes…) This is from "Uncovenanted Mercies", in Limits and
Renewals.
3. (…"They are my own. The old women dream of me, turning in their sleep;
the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their lotahs by the
river…”) This is from "The Bridge Builders" in The Day's Work.
Good wishes to all
John R
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