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Portable Soup Quotes
from the Aubrey/Maturin Series
The Mauritius Command, p. 206:
'Let us put our trust in the Commodore's mathematical powers,'
said Mr Farquhar. 'Or his luck: or both. I believe, Dr Maturin,
that if you would so far indulge me, I could relish a little, a
very little, of your portable soup again, with just a sippet of
toast; and I promise that if ever I come to govern my island, my
first care, after the new constitution, shall be to repay you in
turtle.'
The Far Side of the World, p. 66:
They were received aboard by a more than usually distracted
Mowett: the purser had refused to accept a large number of casks
of beef that had twice made the voyage to the West Indies and
back; he said they were short in weight and far, far too old for
human consumption, and Pullings had gone to the Victualling
Office to see what could be done; Dr Maturin had flung his slabs
of portable soup into the sea, on the grounds that they were
nothing but common glue, an imposture and a vile job...
The Far Side of the World, p. 136:
...and even before the evening sun went down in its abrupt,
tropical fashion, the hot imprisoned air was filled with the
smell of mould: mould, blue or green or sometimes a mottled grey,
growing on books, clothes, shoes, marine specimens, portable
soup, and of course the great beams under which everybody slept
and against which everybody except the Captain banged his head
from time to time.
The Thirteen-Gun Salute, p. 29:
...he went on to check their surgical instruments, the grim saws,
retractors, artery-hooks, gags, leather-covered chains; and then
the more massive substances such as portable soup, stored in flat
wooden cases of thirty-six slabs apiece...
The Thirteen-Gun Salute, p. 63:
In this lakelike peace Standish, who had eaten his two eggs the
evening before and had spent a calm night, spent his time eating
first three pints of portable soup, thickened with oatmeal, and
then a large quantity of ham; this recovered his spirits
wonderfully, and although he was still feeble he gasped his way
into the maintop, where Stephen and Martin were to explain the
operation of getting under way.
The Commodore, p. 97:
'...So much for our official supplies. But I have added a certain
number of comforts - they are in the cases on the left, together
with a chest of portable soup infinitely superior to the
Victualling Board's second-hand carpenter's glue...'
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