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There was a bearded head beside him in the shallow water of the Arno. He reached towards it but couldnt even nudge it. Light was pouring into the river. He swam up to the surface, parts of which were on fire. When he told Hana the story later that ev
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The Englishman was asleep, breathing through his mouth as he always did, awake or asleep. Suddenly Hana was claustrophobic, untired. She strode down the hall and leapt down the stairs. She pushed at the stiff swollen door and came into the library an
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They had had no piano. She used to go to the community centre on Saturday mornings and play there, but all week she practised wherever she was, learning the chalked notes that her mother had drawn onto the kitchen table and then wiped off later. A li
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She has found dry leaves in that area which she has rolled in her fingers and identified. Now and then after a rain she recognizes the perfume of it. At first he will not come into the house at all. He walks past on some duty or other to do with the
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She runs out or runs to a window seeing Cara-vaggio too in the corner of her vision, and they will see the sapper waving lazily towards the house, not even turning around from the herb terrace. He is always humming or whistling. Who is whistling? ask
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He had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a danger to the piano player. The retreating army often left pencil mines within musical instruments. Returning owners opened up pianos and los
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(Beside his tent the antenna of a crystal set) is strung up into the trees. Hana can see the phosphorus green from the radio dial if she looks over there at night with Caravaggios field glasses, the sappers shifting body covering it up suddenly if he
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After a week of the Sikh sappers presence around the villa they adapted to his habits of eating. Wherever he wason the hill or in the villagehe would return around twelve-thirty and join Hana and Caravaggio, pull out the small bundle of blue handkerc
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Caravaggio and the sapper take a trip by cart down into the valley to pick up a sack of flour. Also, the soldier has to deliver maps of the cleared areas to headquarters at San Domenico. Finding it difficult to ask questions about each other, they sp
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The Englishman turned to her and said, Were getting along famously! She was put out that the sapper had strolled casually into this domain, seemed able to surround her, be everywhere. Kip, hearing from Caravaggio that the patient knew about guns, had
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The tales Hana had read to the English patient, travelling with the old wanderer in Kim or with Fabrizio in The Charterhouse of Parma, had intoxicated them in a swirl of armies and horses and wagonsthose running away from or running towards a war.Whe
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with no identification, unrecognizable. You should be trying to trick me, the burned pilot told his interrogators, make me speak German, which I can, by the way, Ask me about Marmite, the great Gertrude Jekyll. The sea hospital was created out of bat
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(maps, diary entries, writings in many languages, paragraphs cut out of other books.)All that is missing is his own name. There is still no clue to who he actually is, nameless, without rank or battalion or squadron. Hana was carrying a long mirr
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The sapper stood, his hands raised above him as if he were holding a giant cobweb. He was shaking his head to get free of the earphones. As she ran towards him he yelled at her to circle to the left, there were mine wires all over the place. She stop
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He opened up his satchel for the Geiger counter and magnet. He ran the dial up and along the wires she was holding. No swerve to negative. No clue. Nothing. He stepped backwards, wondering where the trick could be. Let me tape those to the tree, and