I would have done so before, but to give money to a fool is worse than throwing it into the sea.
As soon as you show us by deeds, not words, that you really mean to keep straight, you will find that you are not without friends." "Thank you awfully, Mallett, but I don't want to be helped.

I will clear it off myself if I live." "You will find it hard work to do that, Marshall, even in India.

Of course, the pay and allowances make it easy for even a subaltern to live on his income there, but when it comes to laying by much, that is a difficult matter.

However, so long as the actual campaign lasts, the necessary expenses will be very small.

We shall live principally on our rations, and you can put by a good bit.