Here are this week's quotations (March 5th to 11th)
1. . '...'Arry come forth e'en a'most 'imself again - na'un hurt outside ner
in of him. I nigh fell on me knees in de wash-house when Bessie was
up-street. "I've got ye now, my man", I says. "You'll take your good from me
'thout knowin' it till my life's end. O God send me long to live for 'Arry's
sake", I says...'
2. '...There wasn't much I could do, except bury 'em. There'd been a bit of
a thunderstorm in the teak, you see, and they were both stone dead and black
as charcoal...'
3. ... They had the coarse-grained complexion of men who habitually do
themselves well, and an air, too, of recent red-eyed dissipation. ...
Portson, their host, with Vandyke beard and a comfortable little stomach,
beamed upon them as they settled to their oysters...'
The sources of last week's extracts, as a number of people have pointed out,
were:
1. 'The Brushwood Boy'
2. 'The Mark of the Beast'
3. 'On Greenhow Hill'
All good wishes, John R
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