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Updated: June 8, 2025
A bottle of bovril embedded itself quietly there without damage, and a tin of Bath Oliver biscuits beat a fierce tattoo on one of corned beef. Innumerable dried apricots from the burst package flew about like shrapnel, and tapped at the tins. A jar of prunes, breaking its fall on the flour, rolled merrily out into the middle of the floor. The din was succeeded by complete silence.
Elizabeth, as all the world knew, had accumulated a great reservoir of provisions in the false book-case in her garden-room, and Diva determined that, if she could think of a neat phrase, the very next time Elizabeth said au reservoir to her, she would work in an allusion to Elizabeth's own reservoir of corned beef, tongue, flour, bovril, dried apricots and condensed milk.
Behind her a small baby in a red and white striped blanket was pushed up to its armpits through a hole on four legs, where it hung. In a dark corner a small boy was worrying a black cat. "Can you give these English a bed?" demanded the policeman. The woman shook her head sadly. "Mozhe," she said, which means "It is possible." After supper, Bovril and cheese omelette, we went out to seek the café.
When he awoke from his fever, he would always make frantic efforts to hang on to consciousness. To this end he would always call the Orderly, ask the time, demand water or Bovril anything to keep him a little longer in touch with the world. Sometimes he would see bleared faces looking down upon him out of the dizzy greyness. He remembers being told that "the Colonel" was coming to see him.
Diva was glad to pop into the garden and get away from the immediate vicinity of the cupboard, for though she had planned and looked forward to the exposure of Elizabeth's hoarding, she had not meant it to come, as it now probably would, in crashes of tins and bursting of bovril bottles.
"They've been coming at intervals," he remarked. "I'm going to send you up a cup of bovril in a minute. . . ." Vane turned them over rapidly in his hand, and found that there were only two that counted. He looked at the postmarks to get them in the right sequence, and eagerly pulled out the contents of the first. It had been written four days after he left Melton.
He's a peaky little chap; it comes of being a poet, I think. We had a bun or two at different shops out of the shillings and it was quite late in the afternoon when we got to Fleet Street. The gas was lighted and the electric lights. There is a jolly Bovril sign that comes off and on in different coloured lamps. It is a big office, very bright, with brass and mahogany and electric lights.
"And if you loved the soldier?" "I should mount the baggage wagon and make him Bovril when he was wounded. But for you, dear, I shall cook and sew and bake and " "Stop! stop! I want a wife, not a housekeeper." "Every sensible man wants the two in one." "But you should be a queen, darling." "Not with my own consent, Archie: the work is much too hard.
The words danced before Michael's eyes in letters of gold, like the advertisement of Bovril which he had watched so often from the Thames Embankment, as it appeared and disappeared in the sky across the river. And then again the letters were obliterated by the nude figure of Millicent, with her hanging breasts of jewels. How delicate her limbs were, how white her skin!
He is not afraid of Society, or of what the clergy and such unfashionable and limited people say. For instance, if he wished to commit what copy-books call a sin, he would commit it, even if Society stood aghast at him. That is what I call having real moral courage." Lady Locke sipped her Bovril methodically. "I see," she said rather drily; "he is not afraid to be wicked."
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