Here are the quotations for this coming week (May 23rd to 29th):
 
1. Across the lawn—the marshalled woods besieged it on three sides—stood an ancient house of lichened and weather-worn stone, with mullioned windows and roofs of rose-red tile. It was flanked by semi-circular walls, also rose-red, that closed the lawn on the fourth side ...
 
2. They entered the hall— just such a high light hall as such a house should own. A slim-balustered staircase, wide and shallow and once creamy white, climbed out of it under a long oval window. On either side delicately moulded doors gave onto wool-lumbered rooms, whose sea-green mantlepieces were adorned with nymphs, scrolls, and Cupids in low relief.
 
3. ... out of the woods that know everything and tell nothing, came two dark and mysterious Primitives. They had heard. They would sink that well, for they had 'the gift'. Their tools were an enormous wooden trug, a portable windlass whose handles were curved, and smooth as ox horns, and a short-handled hoe...
 
The sources of the last set of extracts (May 9th to 15th) are as follows:
 
1.  (......'The Abbot of Wilton kept the best pack in the country...)  This is from "Under the Mill Dam" in Traffics and Discoveries.
 
2.  (  'Henceforth I will give one dollar to the man on whose land Abu Hussein is found...')   This is from "Little Foxes" in Actions and Reactions.
 
3.  (...... (he) desired more than he desired anything else at that moment, to ride, and above all, to
jump on a ninety guinea bay gelding with black points ..)  This is from "My Son's Wife" in A Diversity of Creatures.
 
Good wishes to all
 
John R

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