Ernest Hemingway Fullscreen Who the bell rings for (1840)

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No, you did not and neither did Agustin.

You deserve whatever happens to you, he thought.

"Agustin," he said.

"What?"

Agustin looked up sullenly and turned his head away from Pablo.

"I wish to speak to thee," Robert Jordan said.

"Later."

"Now," Robert Jordan said. "_Por favor_."

Robert Jordan had walked to the opening of the cave and Pablo followed him with his eyes.

Agustin, tall and sunken cheeked, stood up and came over to him.

He moved reluctantly and contemptuously.

"Thou hast forgotten what is in the sacks?" Robert Jordan said to him, speaking so low that it could not be heard.

"Milk!" Agustin said.

"One becomes accustomed and one forgets."

"I, too, forgot."

"Milk!" Agustin said. "_Leche!_ What fools we are."

He swung back loose-jointedly to the table and sat down.

"Have a drink, Pablo, old boy," he said.

"How were the horses?"

"Very good," Pablo said.

"And it is snowing less."

"Do you think it will stop?"

"Yes," Pablo said.

"It is thinning now and there are small, hard pellets.

The wind will blow but the snow is going.

The wind has changed."

"Do you think it will clear tomorrow?" Robert Jordan asked him.

"Yes," Pablo said.

"I believe it will be cold and clear.

This wind is shifting."

Look at him, Robert Jordan thought.

Now he is friendly.

He has shifted like the wind.

He has the face and the body of a pig and I know he is many times a murderer and yet he has the sensitivity of a good aneroid.

Yes, he thought, and the pig is a very intelligent animal, too.

Pablo has hatred for us, or perhaps it is only for our projects, and pushes his hatred with insults to the point where you are ready to do away with him and when he sees that this point has been reached he drops it and starts all new and clean again.

"We will have good weather for it, _Ingles_," Pablo said to Robert Jordan.

"_We_," Pilar said. "_We?_"

"Yes, we," Pablo grinned at her and drank some of the wine.

"Why not?

I thought it over while I was outside.

Why should we not agree?"

"In what?" the woman asked.

"In what now?"

"In all," Pablo said to her.

"In this of the bridge.

I am with thee now."

"You are with us now?" Agustin said to him.

"After what you have said?"

"Yes," Pablo told him.