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'But it was the tone - the tone,' Olyett cried.
…' "Is that a dressing-gown or an ulster
you're supposed to be wearing ?" You heard that ?…"And I suppose you
hadn't time to brush your hair either ?" You heard that?…Now you hear
!' His voice filled the coffee-room, then dropped to a whisper as
dreadful as a surgeon's before an operation...
2. Mrs Bellamy
opened the window and spoke. It appears that she had only charged for damage to
the bicycle, not for the entire machine which Mr Lingnam was ruthlessly
gleaning, spoke by spoke, from the highway, and cramming into the slack of the
hood.
At last he answered, and I have never seen a man foam
at the mouth before. 'If you don't stop, I shall come into your house - in this
car - and drive upstairs and - kill you !'...
3. ...The stuff was
getting in its work. Bluey, white, and blue again rolled over the navvy's face
in waves, till all settled to one rich clay-bank yellow, and - that fell which
fell.
I thought of the blowing up of Hell Gate; of the geysers in
Yellowstone Park; of Jonah and his whale; but the lively original, as I watched
it foreshortened from above, exceeded all these things…His right hand was upon
the doctor's collar, so that the two shook to one paroxysm, pendulums vibrating
together, while I, apart, shook with them...
The sources of last week's extracts (Jan 7th to 13th) are as follows:
1. (‘What is caste to a cut-throat .. we must make thee a yellow Saddhu all over...) This is from KimI.
2. (…He was perpetually ‘going Fantee’ among natives, which, of course, no man with any sense believes in.) This is from "Miss Youghal’s Sais" in Plain Tales from the Hills.
3. (...Ho ! Hazar Mir Khan,’ he yelled to his servant, ‘drive out the camels, but let me first mount my own...) This is from "The Man who would be King" in Wee Willie Winkie and other stories’.
Good wishes to all, John R