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"You think you've seen that?"

"I've seen nothing else"

"Once, perhaps Twice Once when you ca; once And each time you never saw it"

"Anybody can see It's in your face In your eyes and mouth You can't hide your lust"

"My--'lust' Don't you know I only cared for you because I'd done with that?"

They stopped The nuns were back again, bringing great cups of hot black coffee, co quietly away It onderful, all that beauty and gentleness and peace existing in the horror of the war, and through this horror within horror that John hadthis distraction from their torment Charlotte finished first

"You say I want you I own I did once But I don't now Why, I care er than I do for you"

"I suppose you can satisfy your erotic susceptibilities that way"

"I haven't any, I tell you I only cared for you because I thought you were clean I thought your mind was beautiful And you aren't clean And your et it right, John I can forgive your funking If your nerves are jumpy they're jumpy I daresay I shall be jumpy if the Gerive everything you've done toleft for you but to lie But I can't forgive your not caring for the wounded That's cruel You didn't care for that boy at Melle--"

John'sHe seeasp

"--No, you didn't or you wouldn't have left him Whatever your funk was like, you couldn't have left him if you'd cared, any more than I could have left you"

"He was dead when I left hiht you were bringing him away He says he wasn't dead"

"He lies, then But you'll take his word against mine"

"Yes," she said si on with him You don't care for ht you said if it was a toss up between you and a wounded man--? There ounded men in that car"