Oh.How are you.Ive heard about it.Oh.

 Stop it
 Stop it. The grappa was very strong. There were stragglers going by long after the regiment had passedmen who could not keep up with their platoons.Oh. when they wouldnt attack and they shot every tenth manNo. He is a priest; he will appreciate it. We walked to the door and I saw her go in and down the hall. wore his black boots. His mother sent it to me. My hand went in and my knee was down on my shin.I was going to cut it all off when he died.Be serious. and really you are just like me underneath. What hit youMe. lieutenant! he shouted. I made sure he was dead.

 It tells you about those priests. At first it dropped slowly and regularly.That way youll be decorated. There is nothing as bad as war. Rinaldi. It is disgraceful. father. Now Ill probe for some of this if you like but its not necessary. it was dark and the Austrian search lights were moving on the mountains behind us.Outside the post a great many of us lay on the ground in the dark. He paused and thought. bound in leather. I got down and went over. I had not noticed her. Tell me about Gorizia. the shellmarked iron of the railway bridge.

 We saw their white uniforms through the trees and walked toward them.I would like you to see Abruzzi and visit my family at Capracotta. Why dont we stop fighting If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. I have to go. Otherwise it will be the bronze. sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.Rinaldi poured himself another glass of the cognac. It tasted of rusty metal. Hes very good.You are sweet.I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty. Always in Rome. which every one ate very quickly and seriously.No understand. the fighting in the mountains beyond the town. There isnt always an explanation for everything.

 I felt it against the back of the chair.Thats what the priest said.Those that went out were not lined up when they took the tenth men. They want to get you the medaglia dargento but perhaps they can get only the bronze.Did they cross the river all rightEnormously. Ive seen you about.They tell me youve lost two drivers. I drove back to Gorizia and our villa and. The hall too.Bersaglieri. she said. He made a gesture and laughed loudly. 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. It was quiet.Slit the tunic. the captain said.

Yes.If it wasnt that that happens to their families nobody would go to the attack.I wish there was some place we could go. are youNo. To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river. It had been impossible to advance on the far side the year before because there was only one road leading down from the pass to the pontoon bridge and it was under machinegun and shell fire for nearly a mile. How are the girlsThere are no girls.. Where did you go and what did you do Tell me everything at once. I went back to the drivers.There arent enough troops here for a real attack.Dont bring Caruso. of course. The others were shouting.Go to hell. I think so.

 Inside they were operating on all the tables.What rotten luck.Not reallyNever.You were quite right.She looked at me.Oh. I was blown up while we were eating cheese. I knew you was an American.All right. Helen Ferguson. But marble busts all looked like a cemetery. I undid the clasp of the gold chain and put it around my neck and clasped it. He had always known what I did not know and what. Gavuzzi handed me the basin of macaroni. I shouted to the driver.Splendid.

 His legs were toward me and I saw in the dark and the light that they were both smashed above the knee. I am now in love with Miss Barkley.What is her nameFerguson. You are really an Italian. I was there and reading of it in the paper. Profound wounds of right knee and foot. They take nearly a thousand prisoners. She waved and I kissed my hand and held it out. the water blue like the sky.It starts now. walking under the trees. It was hot walking through the town but the sun was starting to go down and it was very pleasant. I said.As the ambulance climbed along the road. who was on duty. What kind of time did you haveMagnificent.

Ill see you in a little while.Look. and with the end of the summer. After a while the English ambulance came up and they put me onto a stretcher and lifted the stretcher up to the ambulance level and shoved it in. The window was open.Thats nothing. Get well soon. Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge. Didnt you refuse to be medically aided before the othersNot very firmly. The river was low and there were stretches of sand and pebbles with a narrow channel of water and sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed. and then there were mountains far off beyond all these that you could hardly tell if you really saw.I know it is bad but we must finish it. He saw us and smiled. Its been in there too long. brushed my hair and we started. The officers all came from such good families.

Later. I had been up the river to the bridgehead at Plava. he said.I cant imagine lying like that. It was quite evident he had stolen the bonds. But I found a place where the cars would be sheltered after they passed that last badlooking bit and could wait for the wounded to be brought across the pontoon bridge. he said. NapoliThats enough. It takes a long time to be. the lieutenant said. Where it had run down under my shirt it was warm and sticky. I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond. They had the complete marble quality of all looking alike.Goodnight. He had written to his father that I was coming and they had made preparations. Ill send your English girl.

 It was hard and slippery.They cant do anything.Sit down to it. He stopped the car and looked in through the hole behind his seat.Its way out. There were many strong smells. I knew that I was hit and leaned over and put my hand on my knee. under a hill beyond the river. Oh mama mia.Not even for the beautiful languageNo. said Manera. that the office opened on. No one to lend me money. And you never know if the girl will really like it.Oh. went to the jail and asked to see the priest.

 the stump of his leg twitching. There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the room they used for an office. What is defeat You go home. I helped the soldier with the rupture up on the seat with us. Maybe he was too goodlooking to be a. You could not tell anything about them.Ah. If you must have a priest have that priest. The road curved and we saw the three cars looking quite small. soldiers would. Most of the helmets were too big and came down almost over the ears of the men who wore them.It hasnt come up. so I asked to see you. I think the heat knocked me over yesterday.Here is the American Tenente. I kept my arm where it was.

 Why dont you come inHe shook his head. Get well soon. I said. It would only be worse if we stopped fighting. I liked to watch her move. Here now we have beautiful girls. He went back inside. coming down. felt him climb up into the front seat. and tears came in my eyes from the reflex.It was dark outside and the long light from the search lights was moving over the mountains. baby. He was sitting up beside one of the brick walls. I knew it. I said.Four hundred twenty or minnenwerfer.

 I think the heat knocked me over yesterday. Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been there gone and everything sharp and hard and clear and sometimes a dispute about the cost. they would not be loaded.Youre a good old boy.Four for 105. I had not said it before.Defeat is worse. You havent any fracture. This machine is no good but the others march.I will send Miss Barkley.Its a silly front.Are you very tired she asked. Tenente Can I help in any way He was the quietest one of the four.You must go on leave at once. It is one for The Lancet. I thought she was probably a little crazy.

Thats the only differenceYes.I wish there was some place we could go.They dropped me once more before we reached the post. One is dead. Go on. Rocca ignored this and went on to explain the joke to me. The lighter was shaped like a Fiat radiator. Some looked pretty bad. a noble man and with whose injustice. and put on a dressing. Im awfully tired. They wouldnt attack if they did. she said. There.Lets drop it anyway. I went on home.

 We stopped at the side of the road. People lived on in it and there were hospitals and cafe and artillery up side streets and two bawdy houses. there were some new hospitals.He walked across to the dressing station. I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth.I have one. There isnt always an explanation for everything. I thought somebody was screaming.Oh. Goodnight. He is a priest; he will appreciate it. Passini said. I should drink cup for cup and glass for glass with Bassi.Nothing.No. mama Mia I pulled and twisted and got my legs loose finally and turned around and touched him.

 My orderly had cut paper into strips and tied the strips to a stick to make a brush that swished the flies away.No. I said. Miss Barkley was quite tall.I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Maybe you will get an English medal too.Yes.I say its rotten. I am just more affectionate. when I learned it. Three others were up in the mountains at dressing stations.Oh. baby.Must attack. I said. She waved and I kissed my hand and held it out.

 Remember carefully.I thought it over. I wouldnt be able to get the stretcher out alone. At the first battle you all run. How are the girlsThere are no girls.Are you unwoundedWe are both wounded a little.Also they make money out of it.An outside nation cant make you be a soldier.There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. baby. she said. But the Italians had crossed and spread out a little way on the far side to hold about a mile and a half on the Austrian side of the river. They cant go on doing things like the Somme and not crack.I say its rotten. said Manera. Rinaldi said.

 as they fall from an icicle after the sun has gone.Shes Scotch.The driver came out of the door with the papers for the wounded in the car. We drove slowly in this matting covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Some wore their steel helmets but most of them carried them slung from their packs. Maybe he was too goodlooking to be a.What rotten luck. Macedonias. I said.Where have you beenAt the Villa Rossa. get me out of here. The cars would be all right with their good metaltometal brakes and anyway.Oh.How are you.Ive heard about it.Oh.