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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter number ten.
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  Speaker 1: One hot evening in Milan. They carried him up on
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  Speaker 1: to the roof and he could look out over the
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  Speaker 1: top of the town. There were chimney swifts in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: After a while, it got dark and the searchlights came out.
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  Speaker 1: The others went down and took the bottles with them.
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  Speaker 1: He and Ag could hear them below on the balcony.
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  Speaker 1: Ag sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh
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  Speaker 1: and the hot night. Agg stayed on night duty for
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  Speaker 1: three months. They were glad to let her. When they
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  Speaker 1: operated on him, she prepared him for the operating table,
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  Speaker 1: and they had a joke about friend or enema. He
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  Speaker 1: went under the anesthetic, holding tied on to himself so
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  Speaker 1: that he would not blab about anything during the silly
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  Speaker 1: talky time. After he got on crutches, he used to
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  Speaker 1: take the temperature so Ag would not have to get
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  Speaker 1: up the bed. There were only a few patients, and
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  Speaker 1: they all knew about it. They all liked Ag. As
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  Speaker 1: he walked back along the halls, he thought of Ag
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  Speaker 1: in his bed. Before he went back to the front.
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  Speaker 1: They went into the domo and prayed. It was dim
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  Speaker 1: and quiet. There were other people praying. They wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get married, but there was not enough time for the bands,
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  Speaker 1: and neither of them had birth certificates. They felt as
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  Speaker 1: though they were married, but they wanted everyone to know
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  Speaker 1: about him and to make it so they could not
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  Speaker 1: lose it. Ag wrote him many letters that he never
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  Speaker 1: got until after the armcist. Fifteen came in a bunch
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  Speaker 1: and he sort at them by the dates and read
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  Speaker 1: them all straight through. They were about the hospital, and
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  Speaker 1: about how much she loved him, and how it was
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  Speaker 1: impossible to get along without him, and how terrible it
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  Speaker 1: was missing him at night. After the armisice, they agreed
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  Speaker 1: he should go home to get a job so they
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  Speaker 1: might be married. Agg would not come home until he
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  Speaker 1: had a good job and could come to New York
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  Speaker 1: to meet her. Was understood he would not drink any
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  Speaker 1: did not want to see his friends or any one
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  Speaker 1: in the States, only to get a job and be married.
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  Speaker 1: On the train from Podova to Milan, they quarreled about
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  Speaker 1: her not being willing to come home at once. When
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  Speaker 1: they had to say good bye in the station at Padova,
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  Speaker 1: they kissed goodbye, but were not finished with a quarrel.
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  Speaker 1: He felt sick about saying goodbye like that. He went
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  Speaker 1: to American about from Genoa, Ag went back to Torre
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  Speaker 1: de Mosta to open a hospital. It was lonely in
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  Speaker 1: rainy there, and there was a battalion of Arditi quartered
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  Speaker 1: in the town. Living in the muddy, rainy town in
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  Speaker 1: the winter, the major of the battalion made love to
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  Speaker 1: Ag and she had never known Italians before, and Fani
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  Speaker 1: wrote a letter to the States that theirs had been
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  Speaker 1: only a boy and girl affair. She was sorry, and
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  Speaker 1: she knew he would probably not be able to understand,
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  Speaker 1: but might some day forgive her and be grateful to her.
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  Speaker 1: She expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: She loved him as always, but she realized now that
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  Speaker 1: it was only a boy and girl love. She hoped
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  Speaker 1: he would have a great career and believed in him absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: She knew it was for the best. The Major did
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  Speaker 1: not marry her in the spring or any other time.
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  Speaker 1: Agg never got an answer to her letter to Chicago
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  Speaker 1: about it. A short time after, he contracted gonorrhea from
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  Speaker 1: a sales girl from the fair, riding in a taxicab
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  Speaker 1: through Lincoln Park. End of Chapter ten,