Thats all over for a while. At the first battle you all run.

 there were some new hospitals
 there were some new hospitals. lifting the spaghetti on the fork until the loose strands hung clear then lowering it into the mouth. biting his arm.Do you always know what people thinkNot always. We work very hard but no one trusts us. Priest not happy without girls.Oughf.No. Look at your valorous conduct in asking to go always to the first line.Another American. With your priest and your English girl.She laughed. Stop it. It ought to be good. I did not want to go there anyway.

 The outlines of the cypresses that lined it were sharp and clear. When he stopped swishing and fell asleep they came down and I blew them away and finally covered my face with my hands and slept too. I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk. There were big search lights on that front mounted on camions that you passed sometimes on the roads at night. The men were hot and sweating.The priest smiled. His mother sent it to me. Chew those. carts and loaded ambulances and all returning traffic up the old narrow road. The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. for your own good. They were silent until I went out. Signor Tenente. I practised with it. Now I must go back to sleep to be fresh and beautiful for Miss Barkley.

 Stop it. whether or not things were obtainable. the bare ground was covered. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.The battery in the next garden woke me in the morning and I saw the sun coming through the window and got out of the bed. You have a good time The others all grinned too. Not in this ambulance business. Firenze.Cough. I remembered where I was going. She was carrying a thin rattan stick like a toy riding-crop. cloudy with snowwater and running fast through the spiles of the bridge. She had slapped my face hard. I couldnt move. I said.

He should go to Palermo. The officers were not good but dull. I said. Another night when you feel stronger. I said that was a foul lie and. One of their drivers came over to me. We will take over the two cars.And you dont have to say you love me. it seemed. He stooped to go under the doorway and went out. There were many strong smells. he touched the little finger. the lieutenant said. Name he asked softly. she said.

You speak English he asked.Maybe girls dont want to go to the front any more. Im leaving now for a show up above Plava. The priest shook his head and went on. Would you like a drink of brandy How did you run into this thing anyway What were you trying to do Commit suicide Antitetanus please.Is there anything I can do. There were troops on this road and motor trucks and mules with mountain guns and as we went down. It is a disgrace that they should stay so long that they become friends. and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night. Every one laughed. There were stragglers going by long after the regiment had passedmen who could not keep up with their platoons. the injustices he had received and in which I participated as an American. Listen. lieutenant! he shouted. At first it dropped slowly and regularly.

 I started when he did.Thank you very much. Ive seen the holes. the stumps of trees projected. Maybe it would finish this summer.He was a very nice boy. I threw away the goddam truss so it would get bad and I wouldnt have to go to the line again. stirred by the breeze. I have to go. havent youYes.I translated this for Miss Ferguson. Where did you go and what did you do Tell me everything at once.Hello. Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the window open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink the capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. Priest wants Austrians to win the war.

I am sorry. the car looking disgraced and empty with the engine open and parts spread on the work bench.Youre the American in the Italian army she asked. Chew those.Its very odd though.Im dreadfully sorry. they would. It cost fifteen lire.Slit the tunic.Lift it high. That was how it ought to be. tannic and lovely. Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. lieutenant We wont get a chance to eat after this thing starts. didnt youYes.

Ciaou! he said.What the hell. said Manera. I said.Yes. as I went in. Where it had run down under my shirt it was warm and sticky.Bring him in. as I said. It took the enamel off your teeth and left it on the roof of your mouth. and in the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain. the fighting in the mountains beyond the town.Oh.Oh. poured out into the glass held with the same hand; after this course.

I took off my tunic and shirt and washed in the cold water in the basin.I have to get washed and report. said Passini and spat on the floor.I would like to go with you and show you things. He took my glass and filled it.Wop. We stopped at the side of the road. 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.She looked at me. NapoliThats enough.Im all right. Do you suffer much Have a drink.I stopped in front of the Villa Rossa. It is the captain. The window was open.

 but instead we had Ii Generale Cadorna. dropping them in a basin. the captain commenced picking on the priest. He took my glass and filled it. you have come back. The posts for the cars would have to be as near the river as they could get and keep covered.How are the cars Manera asked.We shook hands and he put his arm around my neck and kissed me. The door was open. You are purer and sweeter.I stopped in front of the Villa Rossa.Porta feriti I shouted holding my hands cupped. You are a frozenfaced . Tenente. wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese.

 Uninformed. didnt IShe was looking at me in the dark.Ill walk down with you. He slapped me on the shoulder. All the officers were very happy. It was a hot day and there were many flies in the room. And you never know if the girl will really like it. He talks French. Her hand had hit my nose and eyes.No. Its beautiful language. It was what I had wanted to do and I tried to explain how one thing had led to another and finally he saw it and understood that I had really wanted to go and it was almost all right. Please. Bassi said no that was no test because he had already drunk twice as much as I. Good by.

 Perhaps we should have a drink. You rarely find any one any good this close to the front. brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. After I leave here Ill go see that English and hell get you an English medal. I said in Italian. Stop it. she said.No. I said. higher snow mountains.I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty.I didnt know about anything then.She was unclasping something from her neck. Now they have a guard outside his house with a bayonet and nobody can come to see his mother and father and sisters and his father loses his civil rights and cannot even vote. she said.

 I myself felt as badly as he did and could not understand why I had not gone.Ciaou! he said. I thought perhaps he couldnt stand it and then of course he was killed and that was the end of it. I was riding in the first car and as we passed the entry to the British hospital I told the driver to stop. He stopped working and smiled. undid my tunic and tried to rip the tail of my shirt.You must go on leave at once.I wish you were back. the cool nights. I dont go there any more.Its not serious I hope.It belonged to a boy who was killed last year. I smiled at the priest and he smiled back across the candlelight. The mechanics were working on one out in the yard. Some one probably got it at one of the dressing stations.

 No one to lend me money. While I rubbed myself with a towel I looked around the room and out the window and at Rinaldi lying with his eyes closed on the bed.He was a very nice boy. I could look down through the woods and see. Miss Barkley was in the garden. sometimes it stopped.Oh. It was that which shook my faith. In the dark it was like summer lightning.Splendid. With your priest and your English girl. They were top-heavy.When I got back to the villa it was five oclock and I went out where we washed the cars. the captain said.Im going on.

 We in the auto ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. That day I visited the posts in the mountains and was back in town late in the afternoon.One of those shot by the carabinieri is from my town. Its beautiful language. she said.The plain was rich with crops there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. He slapped the bed with his glove. A V. She was not in the garden and I had to wait in the office of the hospital until she came down. locked in the trunk. I said.So long. I started when he did. We will convert him. mama Mia.

 Goodnight.Were almost up.I wanted to do something for him. Manera said.All right. The major got up from the telephone. I wiped my hand on my shirt and another floating light came very slowly down and I looked at my leg and was very afraid. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. I feigned acquaintance. I sat up straight and as I did so something inside my head moved like the weights on a dolls eyes and it hit me inside in back of my eyeballs. Why did you join up with the ItaliansI was in Italy. Tenente. You wont worry now.Of course some of the bonds were not accounted for but the priest had all of the three per cent bonds and several local obligations.They cant do anything.

 The frescoes were not bad.There are three others. She stood up and put out her hand. Name he asked softly.It is probably to draw attention from where the real attack will be. and of which I had never heard.Im going on. poured out into the glass held with the same hand; after this course.What is the differenceA nurse is like a doctor.You should not let us talk this way. They want to get you the medaglia dargento but perhaps they can get only the bronze. which was protected by a shoulder of the mountain. I love you. Thats all over for a while. At the first battle you all run.