Here - a little late - are the quotations for this week (May 6th to
12th):
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 the last set of extracts (April 22nd to May 5th) are as
follows:
1. (...'... I hear a thud in the engine-room. Then the noise of
machinery falling down—like fire-irons—and then two most awful yells...')
This is from "In the Same Boat" in A Diversity of Creatures.
2. (...'I’m just on the edge of ’em, skating on thin ice round the
corner—nor’east as near as nothing—where that dog’s looking at me.’ ) This
is from "The Dog Hervey" in A Diversity of Creatures.
3. (...'An’ then I saw—I tell you I saw—Auntie Armine herself
standin’ by the old dressin’station door...') This is from "A Madonna of
the Trenches" in Debits and Credits.
Good wishes to all
John R
