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“Any amount,” the Colonel told him. “From superman on up into the improbable. Read some for me. Look, Alvarito, what was the matter with that game-keeper who poled my boat? He seemed to have a hatred for me at the start. Pretty well through, too.”
“It was the old battle-jacket. Allied uniform affects him that way. You see he was a bit over-liberated.”
“Go on.”
“When the Moroccans came through here they raped both his wife and his daughter.”
“I think I’d better have a drink,” the Colonel said.
“There is grappa there on the table.”
