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Chapter 14 - In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway · In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

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Chapter No. Fourteen. If it happened right down close in front of you,
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you could see Violta snarl, let the bull and curse him. And
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when the bull charged, he swung back firmly, like an oak when the
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wind hits it, his legs tight together, the muletta trailing and the sword
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following the curve behind. Then he cursed the bull, flopped the mulette at
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him and swung back from the charge, his feet firm, the mulett,
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the curving, and each swing the crowd roaring. When he started to kill.
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It was all in the same rush, the bull looking at him straight
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in front, hating. He drew out the sword from the folds of the
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muletta and sight it with the same movement and called to the bull, toro,
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toro, and the bull charged, and Huolta charged, and just for
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a moment they became one. Violta became one with the bull, and then
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it was over. Yolta standing straight and the red hilt of the sword sticking
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out dully between the bull's shoulders. Guialta his hand up at the crowd,
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and the bull roaring blood looking straight at Gialta and his legs caven end of chapter fourteen