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He and Cook have been drawing up a week's menu, according to the proper scale. But 'Father won't have it, said Pamela decidedly. 'An idea has occurred to me, was Elizabeth's apologetic reply. 'Your father doesn't come in to lunch? 'Happy thought! cried Desmond. 'Send him in a Ritz luncheon, while the rest of you starve. Easy enough for me to say as I'm off and soldiers aren't rationed!
After an exciting and tiring day we reach a village and having seen the crews rationed, pitch our tents. On again at 6.30. a.m. in a heavy river mist which however, is soon dispersed as the sun rises.
I suppose the latter means us. August 22nd, Saturday. Bread is being rationed out now in the village and we are allowed only two small pieces at a meal. It seems to me that I never wanted one more slice so much in my life. The soldiers have cleared out the baker's supply and he cannot get any more flour. Monsieur S. has bought a bicycle and goes into town every morning to find out about things.
The carpet in the lobby was wrinkled and soiled and in the great chandeliers half the bulbs were blackened. Though the building was served by its own powerstation, the elevators no longer ran, and the hot water was rationed, as in a fifthrate French pension. The coverlet on the bed was far from fresh, the window was dusty and there was but one towel in the bathroom.
Although two-thirds of Navarre, nearly the whole of Guipuzcoa, and a very large portion of Alava and Biscay Proper, consist of mountains, so great is the fertility of the valleys, that the Carlists never, during the whole struggle, experienced a want of provisions, but were, on the contrary, usually far better rationed than the Christino troops; and, strange to say, the number of sheep and cattle existing at the end of the war, in the country occupied by the Carlists, was larger than at its commencement.
"It will be time enough when Monte is back again, and we can really 'live. This wretched existence, with everything restricted and rationed, and all one's friends in Flanders or Mesopotamia or somewhere, drives me mad! I tell you I should die, Lucy, if I tried to do without it now." The hollow presence of reform contemplated in a hazy future did not deceive Sir Lucien.
"A pretty good reason, too," said Beale, "storage is everything in a crisis like this. What is the second announcement, sir?" "They prohibit the export of grain," said Lord Sevington, "the whole of Germany is to be rationed for a year, bread is to be supplied by the Government free of all cost to the people; in this way Germany handles the surpluses for us to buy." "What will she charge?"
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