The quotations for next week (May 14 to 20th) are as follows:
1. …Despair upon despair, misery upon misery, fear after fear, each causing
their distinct and separate woe, packed in upon me for an unrecorded length
of time, until at last they blurred together, and I heard a click in my
brain like the click in the ear when one descends in a diving bell, and I
knew that …for the moment, the worst was at an end…
2. …Shahbaz Khan began to call again: 'They are below us. I can see them.
For the pity of God come over to me, Hafiz Ullah ! My father slew ten of
them. Come over !'
Hafiz Ullah answered in a very loud voice, 'Mine was guiltless. Hear ye, men
of the Night, neither my father nor my blood had any part in that sin. Bear
thou thine own punishment, Shahbaz Khan.' …
3. …I conceived the whole pressure of our dead of the Boer War, flickering
and reforming as the horizon flickered in the heat; the galloping feet of a
single horse, and a voice well-known that passed chanting ribaldry along the
flank of a crack battalion … the finale was to be manoeuvres abandoned and a
hurrried calling off of all arms by badly frightened Commandants - the men
themselves sweating with terror though they knew not why…
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The sources of last week's quotations (May 7-13) were as follows:
1. An Habitation Enforced
2. The Eye of Allah
3. In the Interestes of the Brethren
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Best regards to all, John R
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