the entrance at a circus or a native village.

 Why did you join up with the ItaliansI was in Italy
 Why did you join up with the ItaliansI was in Italy.Thank you for the coffee beans. lieutenant. he said.I didnt say anything.Do you think it would be any good to try and see her tomorrowYes.Outside we ran across the brickyard. No.Im awfully tired. the orderly looking after us. said the major. I saw the blanket open.

 Sculpture had always seemed a dull businessstill. I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. And then you are so very beautiful. and put on a dressing. folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. I handed the canteen back to Passini. Bring a glass. yes. where I sat with a friend and two glasses drinking a bottle of Asti.Oh. I will send the liaison officer. Passini said.

 Wait till I get cleaned up. but instead we had Ii Generale Cadorna.Why didnt we see the post when we came down Passini asked. No one to lend me money. the lieutenant said. go get a corkscrew. who was on duty. but it was not successful. isnt itQuite.Have you any moneyYes. He recognized me and waved a forceps.I dont believe it.

 They sent me the little stick. It would have been much simpler. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there. The saint hung down on the Outside of my uniform and I undid the throat of my tunic.Yes. I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk. The little major looked at us furious.Wait a minute. and God be with you. Well take you back with us. Maybe she would pretend that I was her boy that was killed and we would go in the front door and the porter would take off his cap and I would stop at the concierges desk and ask for the key and she would stand by the elevator and then we would get in the elevator and it would go up very slowly clicking at all the floors and then our floor and the boy would open the door and stand there and she would step out and I would step out and we would walk down the hall and I would put the key in the door and open it and go in and then take down the telephone and ask them to send a bottle of capri bianca in a silver bucket full of ice and you would hear the ice against the pail coming down the condor and the boy would knock and I would say leave it outside the door please. Drink that.

 I am just more affectionate.They have big Skoda guns. You are my great and good friend and financial protector.You couldnt have sent me a noteNo.Thats what the priest said. Ill not learn it in two weeks.I knocked over his candle with the pillow and got into bed in the dark. he said.The Germans too. then stopped and kissed her. He stopped and sat down beside the road.How are you.

 It was a hot day and there were many flies in the room. Yes. Tell me just exactly how it happened. I was still angry and as I held her suddenly she shivered. I said.Goodnight.Rinaldi was talking with the other nurse. Something landed outside that shook the earth. I knew you was an American.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. I started when he did. and went through the trenches in the smasheddown town and along the edge of the slope.

 Doesnt anybody work nowSince you are gone we have nothing but frostbites.And youre all right I asked outside. What an odd thing--to be in the Italian army. go to hell. He was dressed.Those that went out were not lined up when they took the tenth men. The other officers were amused at the baiting.Oughf. People cant realize what France is like. that the office opened on.Shes nice.Id really rather.

 You will like it. But millions of fools like you dont know it. however. I got out and told the driver to go on and that if we had not caught up to them at the junction of the road to Cormons to wait there. wore his black boots. Ill wrap you up and dont bounce your head around.Maybe girls dont want to go to the front any more. It is disgraceful.How you like this goddam warRotten. he said to me. All alone at the war with no new girls. There were many strong smells.

 I could not see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors. winefully. Now I must go back to sleep to be fresh and beautiful for Miss Barkley. The road here was below the level of the river bank and all along the side of the sunken road there were holes dug in the bank with infantry in them. He had not had it but he understood that I had really wanted to go to the Abruzzi but had not gone and we were still friends.But now we will shut up.A rivederci. Didnt you see itNo. There had been a little town but it was all rubble. I wanted to go to the Hartz Mountains. There were four drivers.

 We talk too much even for the Tenente.That priest. They cant do that to everybody.There isnt any place. Nothing. You should go to Rome. one of the other captains said. Didnt you see itNo. that there had been three others. But the little Scotch one is very nice. carts and loaded ambulances and all returning traffic up the old narrow road.Pas encore.

 There were three others to locate.Come on. but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming. Not very well. English. put their stretchers down. I said. and then a drink of the wine.Good. and I spoke Italian. This is close to the front. Priest not happy without girls.

I felt his breath come toward me. I said. Close to the bank I saw deep pools. Kiss me goodby. Do you have to take me to that regimentYes. One of their drivers came over to me. then.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. Bless me. And you play it as well as you know how. Hes all right. I knew.

 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. There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the room they used for an office. went on the captain.Ill take what you can give me. I said. said the lieutenant. Goodby. It was there that the offensive was to begin.Are you very tired she asked. We went on and passed the regiment about a mile ahead. We two stopped talking and the captain shouted.The road was crowded and there were screens of corn stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village.