Here are the quotations for next week (29 Oct to 4 November)
1. 'He held up one of his big hands. "Gentlemen," he says - slow he spoke,
but his voice carried far - "I have to think of our country. Let me assure
you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made even though every city
in the Union burn me in effigy."
2. '... you won't decline. You'll hang on to your two nice red-strapped
axles and your new machine-moulded pinions like - a - like a leech on a lily
stem ! There's centuries of work in your old bones if you'd only apply
yourself to it' ... 'It is a matter on which it would be exceedingly
ill-advised to form a hasty or a premature conclusion. I will give it my
most careful consideration'
3. 'But he hadn't really done anything when you knew him, had he ?' ...
(he) pointed to the scars and scrapes left by Cattiwow's great log. 'You
tell me that that good ship's timber never done nothing against winds and
weathers since her upspringing, and I'll confess ye that young Frankie never
done nothing neither...'
The sources of last week’s quotations (22 to 28 Oct) were as follows:
1. ‘The Tender Achilles’ in ‘Limits and Renewals’
2. ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ in ‘Limits and Renewals’
3. ‘The House-surgeon’ in ‘Actions and Reactions’
Good wishes to all, John R
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