started yet.I will go and see.

 I must go
 I must go.Priest wants us never to attack. Thank you.Wait a minute. But marble busts all looked like a cemetery. The British hospital was a big villa built by Germans before the war. I practised with it. What is defeat You go home. Ill not learn it in two weeks. I said. marched as though they were six months gone with child. and the whole thing going well on the Carso made the fall very different from the last fall when we had been in the country. I leaned forward in the dark to kiss her and there was a sharp stinging flash. the instruments shining in the light. Im leaving now for a show up above Plava. Miss Barkley said.

 I must write some letters. I remembered. You mustnt take everything so literally. I havent any papers for you.Youd better not go out. He loved being a surgeon and we were great friends.Open the bottle. My legs felt warm and wet and my shoes were wet and warm inside. Where have you beenCalling on the British. It would not finish it if one side stopped fighting. There is nothing worse than war. Theres more snow there than here. They want to get you the medaglia dargento but perhaps they can get only the bronze.Bersaglieri. Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. Priest not happy.

Good Christ I said. I stop by. I wanted to go to the Hartz Mountains.I believe in the Free Masons. Whats the matter with this machineIts no good. Now Ill probe for some of this if you like but its not necessary. One is dead.Do you suppose it will always go onNo. The lieutenant. Gordini could not drive. All right. Kiss me goodby.Not reallyNever. You ought to wash. he straightened up.I took out my knife.

 I said. all this in a moment. The Saint Anthony was in a little white metal capsule. The mountain that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south and we crossed the river in August and lived in a house in Gorizia that had a fountain and many thick shady trees in a walled garden and a wistaria vine purple on the side of the house. lieutenant We wont get a chance to eat after this thing starts. baby. It was very edifying. I said. But they are still fools.I left them working. then. Lacerations of the scalp (he probed Does that hurt Christ. The wine was bad but not dull. Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. walking under the trees.It was just beyond where we turned off.

 I said. Its good. I smiled at the priest and he smiled back across the candlelight.Im perfectly all right.I believe in the Free Masons. The window was open. I wanted to go to the Black Forest. I could look down through the woods and see.Defeat is worse. Are you badly hitIn the leg.Have you ever loved any oneNo. It was all right if she was. I said. he said. and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind. but it was not successful.

 No one to make fun of. I said. Through the other noise I heard a cough. I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. Are you coming to nightNo. He started the car. lieutenant. My Austrian snipers rifle with its blued octagon barrel and the lovely dark walnut.The next afternoon we heard there was to be an attack up the river that night and that we were to take four cars there. I stood up.Goodnight. darling. No blood brother and roommate.Lets drop the war. baby.Look at the bump.

 FrancoI am all right. an ambulance was waiting by the side door and inside the door. put their stretchers down.Are you hit badly he asked. opened it. We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. The priest accepted it as a joke. Its beautiful language. Tenente. He would loan them mess tins if they did not have them. This was a strange and mysterious war zone but I supposed it was quite well run and grim compared to other wars with the Austrians.In the ward at the field hospital they told me a visitor was coming to see me in the afternoon. then stopped and kissed her.We looked at Rinaldi talking with the other nurse. The major said there was an Italian story something like that about the duchess who could not sleep at night.They were all eating.

 sucked and snapped in the ends. the shellmarked iron of the railway bridge. Grappa. I did not care what I was getting into. Rinaldi saluted. We wont drop you again.It doesnt finish.Youd better chew some coffee. she said.Youre an orator.Wop. The fields were green and there were small green shoots on the vines. I said. so I asked to see you. Tell me really what was the best. now this is the point of the story.

 I said.Truly I tell you something about your good women. Perhaps.Let me feel it. felt the brake come off and the clutch go in. Manera finished. I said.I thought it over. He smiled. Its only a little sometimes.You dont go at allI just go to see if there is anything new. I was after him.Ill walk down with you. for your own good. the operation was successful.Yes there is.

 Gordini could not drive. Im leaving now for a show up above Plava.It is very valuable.Hell say I did it on purpose. I saluted too but more moderately. for your own good. Some one took hold of me under the arms and somebody else lifted my legs.When I got back to the villa it was five oclock and I went out where we washed the cars. She came back from wherever she had been. Its in the bulletin. It was an Astra 7. They would.When you come back bring a phonograph. Signor Tenente. There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. They took off my trousers and the medical captain commenced dictating to the sergeant adjutant while he worked.

 I said. They were hospitals beyond the river. Goodnight. I followed his hands with my eyes. Catherine. The offensive was going to start again I heard. He doesnt want to see peasants. bound in leather.We sat down on a bench and I looked at her.Why notNo. Then I forgot about him. I kept my arm where it was. I believe we should get the war over. There was a great splashing and I saw the star shells go up and burst and float whitely and rockets going up and heard the bombs. You should go to Rome. I followed his hands with my eyes.

No. He had written to his father that I was coming and they had made preparations. and stopped at the main dressing station.He walked across to the dressing station. Gordini got up and ran for the dugout. It was there that the offensive was to begin. yes ) with possible fracture of the skull. The little major looked at us furious. Why dont you come inHe shook his head. Why did you do itI dont know. I am very moved to see you badly wounded. The lighter was shaped like a Fiat radiator. Im not. English goddess. There were some British batteries up with the third army. If there is a war I suppose we must attack.

 he said. I remembered. I said.They tell me youve lost two drivers. We will take over the two cars. Im leaving now for a show up above Plava. I was always able to forget.Some of the officers went alone. she said.Why notNo.And you dont have to say you love me. he said in Italian. There was a great splashing and I saw the star shells go up and burst and float whitely and rockets going up and heard the bombs. and things went very badly. I must go.You couldnt have sent me a noteNo.

 Miss Ferguson walked away in the dark.We went on eating. British ambulance drivers were killed sometimes. You walk up and down. havent youYes.Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors. Now Ill probe for some of this if you like but its not necessary. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. I shouted to the driver.They hang you. Gordini stood behind me.You dont wear himNo. We wont drop you again. Uninformed. They did very well last summer. she said.

 Then we saw a horse ambulance stopped by the road. capitano (next finger). They were moderately clean. These V. I felt something dripping.Ill see you in a little while.SeeI put my Saint Anthony back in the capsule.He should go to Palermo. go to hell. I drove back up the narrow road.Shes Scotch. Gordini stood behind me.No. I decided to go on upstairs.Yes. It is protected by the little hill.

 It might be good though. sir. I could see the river far down below. That is true.I said I knew.We might sit there just for a little while.The next year there were many victories. Underneath we are the same.What is itThe man on the stretcher over me has a hemorrhage.Have you seen Miss BarkleyI will bring her here. I had met two gunners from that lot. It was cold in the car in the night as the road climbed. I said. was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. Manera said. One side must stop fighting.

 I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. Were you on permissionYes.I wanted to kiss her. This was better than going every evening to the house for officers where the girls climbed all over you and put your cap on backward as a sign of affection between their trips upstairs with brother officers. she said. when I learned it. I threw away the goddam truss so it would get bad and I wouldnt have to go to the line again. I could go to Spain if there was no war. and went through the trenches in the smasheddown town and along the edge of the slope. in order that I might understand perfectly.Quite well. I sat now in the chair and an orderly of some sort looked at me disapprovingly from behind a desk while I looked at the marble floor.Im so sorry.I will get it for you. That is true. After supper I would go and see Catherine Barkley.

Of course they do. The saint hung down on the Outside of my uniform and I undid the throat of my tunic. he said. I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond. I was experiencing the masculine difficulty of making love very long standing up. Manera said. You get out and fall down by the road and get a bump on your head and Ill pick you up on our way back and take you to a hospital. Did you think I was Italian There were some Italians with one of our units.A shell fell close and they both dropped to the ground and dropped me. And you do love meYes. Tenente. They take your home. One side must stop fighting. Here they would never have arrested him. The pain hasnt started yet.I will go and see.