Here are the quotations for next week, June 6th to 12th:
1. There are not many happinesses so complete as those 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 knowing that the pit was no place for pretty women.
The sources of last week’s extracts (May 30th to June 5th) are as follows:
1. (…The…paper in its locked formes lay on a stone-topped table, a proof by the side…) This is from Stalky & Co.
2. (…He was going to cable from Southampton to the New York World, mail his account to America on the same day, paralyse London with his three columns…) This is from "A Matter of Fact" in Many Inventions.
3. (…...It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows…) This is from "The Man who would be King" in Wee Willie Winkie.
Good wishes to all, John R
PS As you will see, we have recently published notes in NRG by Roberta Baldi on three further Departmental Ditties.
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