put my arm around her as I had before and kissed her.

 No blood brother and roommate
 No blood brother and roommate. The tall English driver came around and looked in. put their stretchers down. And we have gotten away from the war.As the ambulance climbed along the road.Im not drunk. His legs are very painful.Why notNo. Ireland of Michigan.Youd better chew some coffee.Rinaldi went out with me.Do you want to very muchYes.

 Some bersaglieri. Manera said. Maybe he was too goodlooking to be a. I love you. I said. for your own good.There isnt any place. I could see the river far down below. Were not cloistered. Five stars. I never hurt anybody. Now everything is arranged.

 I hope youll be comfy. Everybody was in the dugouts. But I am telling it for our priest here.All right.They may crack. in the infantry. I drove back to Gorizia and our villa and.I believe in the Free Masons.Ill take the American Tenente. said Passini and spat on the floor. I liked to watch her move. lootenant.

We think. I thought she was very beautiful and I took her hand. We are brothers and we love each other. There isnt always an explanation for everything.Sit down. Theres more snow there than here. in which you said things instead of playing cards. and then a drink of the wine.We might sit there just for a little while.One of those shot by the carabinieri is from my town.No.Thats a relief.

 the instruments shining in the light. I said. 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. Oh Jesus shoot me Christ shoot me mama mia mama Mia oh purest lovely Mary shoot me. I handed the canteen back to Passini. I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafe and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop. No. lieutenant. hauling them back from the mountains to the clearing station and then distributing them to the hospitals named on their papers.Tonight you will tell me everything. We went on and passed the regiment about a mile ahead. a hard bright burst and flash and then gray smoke that blew across the road.

 he said. sototenente (the thumb). With your priest and your English girl. Again the candlelight made its shadows on the wall. Thats over for the evening.No. I said and went back to the house and drank another bowl of coffee at the mess table. and good news.I saw Catherine Barkley coming down the hall. I kissed both her shut eyes. We understand you let us talk. the trees along the road had small leaves and a breeze came from the sea.

All thinking men are atheists. Anybody may crack. that nothing should be lost. which was protected by a shoulder of the mountain. the trees around the square and the long avenue of trees that led to the square; these with there being girls in the town. There were three others to locate. all this in a moment. We two stopped talking and the captain shouted. but it was not successful.You sons of bitches. But its very beautiful. I had a drink with a captain that I knew in one of the dugouts and went back across the bridge.

 said Rinaldi. You will like it. If you must have a priest have that priest. the basins and the stoppered bottles. It looked as though it might be a mess. with plaster and rubble in their gardens and sometimes in the street.Are you unwoundedWe are both wounded a little. The other cars pulled up. TenenteWhere is Gordini and GavuzziGordinis at the post getting bandaged. Ill take it very easily.Ill just step out the door a minute.Do the men know that who attackI dont think so.

 Thats the end of it.Hes an American.It was because we were scared. Incurred in the line of duty. Inside the dugout were the three drivers sitting against the wall. isnt itWhat gameDont be dull. I only write about what a beautiful place we live in and how brave the Italians are. They were sitting in the dugout talking and when I came in they stopped.Were almost up. I said and went back to the house and drank another bowl of coffee at the mess table. You may come and see her after seven oclock if you wish.He does really.

 said the priest. Put it on the floor. the major said. You will come with me to see Miss Barkley. They all ask for you. Put it on the floor. At first it dropped slowly and regularly. Stupid. The Englishman broke into voluble and perfect Italian. I did not care what I was getting into. was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. go to hell.

There are no forks. I said that was a foul lie and. He brought them over to me. That is true. Dio te salve. said Rinaldi. I went on home. Passini said still respectfully. After supper I would go and see Catherine Barkley. They are keeping them for the pleasure of dugout hiders in the rear.I do not believe it. How are the girlsThere are no girls.

 He stopped and sat down beside the road.Lift it high. were on the trunk. It tasted of rusty metal.Not even for the beautiful languageNo. blunt-nosed ambulances. spaced by the interval of their dust. sometimes now seeing his face and little long necked body and gray beard like a goats chin tuft; all these with the sudden interiors of houses that had lost a wall through shelling. said Miss Ferguson.Four hundred twenty or minnenwerfer. The sun was going down and looking up along the bank as we drove I saw the Austrian observation balloons above the hills on the other side dark against the sunset. Oh mama mia.

 It took the enamel off your teeth and left it on the roof of your mouth. Maybe the Austrians would crack. What is defeat You go home. And come to morrow night. 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. 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. with plaster and rubble in their gardens and sometimes in the street.Nothing. nights in bed. Fragments of enemy trench mortar shell. How is your poor head I looked at your papers.I looked in her eyes and put my arm around her as I had before and kissed her.