Monday, November 21, 2016

fwd3

Bannisters orders to them he contrived to make an insult.
Victoria Griffin
victoriadolphin


"He used to come here sometimes, and I used to see him walking about Papeete. I was sorry for him, he was so thin, and he never had any money. When I heard he was in town, I used to send a boy to find him and make him come to dinner with me. I got him a job once or twice, but he couldn't stick to anything. After a little while he wanted to get back to the bush, and one morning he would be gone."

Sunday, November 20, 2016

fwd:

victoriadolphin
Victoria Griffin
I fell to reckoning how long a man in a turkish bath.
He stopped in front of my chair, and stood looking down at me with an expression in which I read a contemptuous amazement.

Monday, November 14, 2016


Victoria Griffin
I have been trying to think how to say it right; but i guess ill have to give it up.
"That's a damned silly thing to say. Everyone doesn't want to act like me. The great majority are perfectly content to do the ordinary thing."