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There are parcels arriving near every day. Tins of biscuits in the kitchen. Short-breads covered in chocolate.. Hmm I s'pose I should be thinking about presents for Miss N and Master Emmet.

Fortunately the pension cheques arrived.. unfortunately in pounds Stirling. What are they thinking of. The damn Sasennachs. Good Lord. 

Poor Douglass De Furbanques De Bellevue gets his in Euros. 

Misters Ajax, Achilles and Exeter get gold sovereigns from the Minders Collage and are the envy of the regiment.