Thing to Love
“said Miro, “you remind me of my Colonel Chaves.”
“I haven’t met him, but from what I have heard I take that as a compliment.”
“Yes. Yes, you may.”
It was only an hour since Rosalindo had left, savage, depressed, for once in his life arm-in-arm with and clinging to Salvador, not because Salvador agreed with him — or if he did he would never say so — but because the A.D.C. represented a shadow of the Captain General in front of whom curses, protests and even tears were at last permissible.
Rosali...ndo’s mouth, still disfigured by the scar from his broken flask at Cumana and working with emotion under the straggling, drooping Hun’s mustache, had moved him as the mouth of some agonized peasant woman who could be just as merciless in all that threatened what she loved.
But what was the good of going on fighting when the base was lost? The Volunteer Air Force was now ready and waiting for orders to strike. It made victory in the field quick and quite certain. But what permanence could victory have when half the Division would be employed in policing San Vicente and the rest of it sternly garrisoning every town between Los Milagros and the llanos?MoreLess
“I haven’t met him, but from what I have heard I take that as a compliment.”
“Yes. Yes, you may.”
It was only an hour since Rosalindo had left, savage, depressed, for once in his life arm-in-arm with and clinging to Salvador, not because Salvador agreed with him — or if he did he would never say so — but because the A.D.C. represented a shadow of the Captain General in front of whom curses, protests and even tears were at last permissible.
Rosali...ndo’s mouth, still disfigured by the scar from his broken flask at Cumana and working with emotion under the straggling, drooping Hun’s mustache, had moved him as the mouth of some agonized peasant woman who could be just as merciless in all that threatened what she loved.
But what was the good of going on fighting when the base was lost? The Volunteer Air Force was now ready and waiting for orders to strike. It made victory in the field quick and quite certain. But what permanence could victory have when half the Division would be employed in policing San Vicente and the rest of it sternly garrisoning every town between Los Milagros and the llanos?MoreLess
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