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Mistress Pat

1 Carcassone
 “‘Each mortal has his Carcassonne,’” quoted Pat dreamily, recalling a poem Hilary Gordon had marked for her once.
  A Vagabond Song
 The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
  Paradise Lost
 It seemed that Pandemonium reigned at Silver Bush for the next quarter of an hour.
  Some Mistakes of Moses
 Do ye be seeing it… The Mistakes av Moses. It do be a rank infidel book he borryed off ould Roger Madison av Silverbridge
  Jonah 1-2 ‘”But he has his doubts about the story of Jonah and the whale,” said Cuddles. “He told me so.”
  At the Making of Man Who feels the thrill
Of beauty like a pang
2 Love’s Old Sweet Song When Uncle Tom came over she began talking again and talked through the evening, with the exception of a few moments when she went to the piano and sang, Once in the Dear Dead Days Beyond Recall.
  Unknown “Her talk was like a stream that runs
With rapid flow from rocks to roses,
She passed from parrakeets to puns,
She leaped from Mahomet to Moses.”
  In Gold Lacquer
 “Abandoned to the lonely peace
Of bygone ghostly things.”
  Puck of Pook’s Hill Isn’t it Kipling who says, ‘There is no gift like friendship’?”
“Yes… Parnesius in Puck,” said Pat.
  The Enchanted Traveller Who is it speaks of ‘bread of friendship’?
3 Unknown “For this is wealth to know my foot’s returning
Is always music to a friend of mine,”
4 The Twelfth Night Star “Whoever wakens on a day,
Happy to know and be,
To enjoy the air, to love his kind,
To labour and be free,
Already his enraptured soul
Lives in Eternity.”
  Unknown “A plain answer to a plain question, Pat. Do you mean to marry him?”
“I’m not Betty Baxter,” said Pat with a twinkle.
  Luke 10:38-42 “put off Martha and put on Mary,”
6 Transcience “‘To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter
Will soon be some forgotten yesterday,’”
  Psalms 31:24 There’s a verse in the Bible somewhere… ‘be of good courage’… I’ve always thought it a wonderful phrase.
  Luke 17:21
 And just be remimbering, Patsy, what the Good Book says . . . about happiness being inside av ye and not outside.
7 Unknown “There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think well of one another.”
8 Unknown “Nothing in earth or heaven
Comes as it came before.”
  The Miller’s Daughter Judy was quite unacquainted with Tennyson but she would wholeheartedly have agreed with him that there was something in the world amiss . . . oh, oh, very much amiss. And she was far from being sure . . . now . . . that it would ever be unriddled.
9 Unknown The one who goes is happier far than the one that’s left behind.
  What Love Remembers
 What Love anticipates may die in flower,
What Love possesses may be thine an hour,
But redly gleams in Life’s unlit Decembers
What Love remembers.’
  French Proverb There’s always one who kisses
And one who turns the cheek.
  Did You Ever See the Devil? “‘Did ye iver see the devil
Wid his liddle wooden shovel
Digging pittaties in the garden
Wid his tail cocked up?’”
11 Unknown At first it seemed literally impossible to carry on without Judy. Life seemed very savourless now that Judy’s tales were all told. But Pat found, as others have done, that “we forget because we must.”
  Jeremiah 22:5 it was always remarked as a curious coincidence that it was, “Thy house shall become a desolation”
  Deuteronomy 13:16 oh, can it be I standing here looking at the place where Silver Bush was? . . . that old Bible verse . . . ‘it shall be a heap forever . . . it shall not be built again’ . . . I wish that were true . . . I wish no house could ever be built here again . . . it will be a desecration. Oh, if I could only wake up and find it all a dream!”
Last modified: January 10, 2009