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Bernard Shaw himself is a master of compression; he can put a conception more compactly than any other man alive. It is therefore rather difficult to compress his compression; one feels as if one were trying to extract a beef essence from Bovril.
One two-pound tin German prunes. Six soup squares. One ounce W. pepper. Two sponge cloths. One-half quire kitchen paper. Three fourteen-pound tins self-raising flour. Two cases, each containing one dozen Scotch whisky. Four folding lanterns. The following items to be equally divided into as many lots as necessary to make sixty-pound cases: Eight Edam cheeses. Twenty tins bovril.
"Have you got the stuff?" returned Smith with the curtness of an old friend. "Yes; chocolate, bovril, the whole boiling; but " "And the maps?" "And the maps. A nice job I had to get them. All the shops were shut, of course. I stole 'em." "Played the burglar?" "No. I went to the Royal Societies' Club, and pinched them out of the library.
Amarinth said to-night in the garden scene, if you remember that prolonged purity wrinkled the mind as much as prolonged impurity wrinkled the face. Nature forces us to choose whether we will spoil our faces with our sins, or our minds with our virtues. How true." "And how original. This Bovril is very comforting, Betty; as reviving as an epigram." "Yes, my cook understands it.
'Welch lives on Bovril for, a month, and then, just as he thinks he's going to score, a burglar with a sense of humour strolls into the Pav., carefully selects the only two cups he had a chance of winning, and so to bed. 'Leaving Master J. G. Welch an awful example of what comes of training, said Jim. 'Welch, you're a rotter. 'It isn't my fault, observed Welch, plaintively.
Rounded pebbles showed that the seas reached the spot on occasions. Here I decided to depot ten cases of Bovril sledging ration in case of our having to move away quickly. We could come back for the food at a later date if opportunity offered. Returning to the camp, we found the men resting or attending to their gear.
Who are these fussy fellows with badges on their arms? Special constables, of course! Spurning cigarettes and bovril we rushed to the bar. We all noticed the cleanness of the barmaid, her beauty, the neatness of her dress, her cultivated talk. We almost squabbled about what drinks we should have first. Finally, we divided into parties the Beers and the Whisky-and-Sodas.
These comprised bovril, tea, bacon, sugar, methylated spirit, bread, milk, a chop, a cauliflower, six bottles of stout, and three pounds of potatoes. Whatever shop she entered, Windebank insisted on accompanying her, and, in most cases, quadrupled her order; in others, bought all kinds of things which he thought she might want.
Just a nice wash, and then we'll go to sleep," there is but little doubt that a cup of cold bovril would have deluged her ample form. As it was the catastrophe was averted, and Vane turned to the doctor with a sigh of relief. "May I have a word with you alone, Doctor?" he said. "And, Nurse, would you get my clothes for me?" "Doctor," he went on as the door closed behind her.
This was at 12:30 p.m. Half a pot of steaming Bovril ration warmed us up, and when we marched again ice-inclines at angles of 45 degrees did not look quite as formidable as before. Once more we started for the crest. After another weary climb we reached the top. The snow lay thinly on blue ice at the ridge, and we had to cut steps over the last fifty yards.
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