A Selection From \"A Farewell to Arms\" by Ernest Hemingway
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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From a farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway. We stayed at that hotel three weeks. It was not bad. The dining room was usually empty and very often we ate in our room at night. We walked in the town and took the cog wheel railway down to sushi and walked beside the lake. The weather became quite warm and it was like spring. We wished we were back in the mountains, but the spring weather lasted only a few days and then the cold rawness of the breaking up of winter came again. Catherine bought the things she needed for the baby up in the town. I went to a gymnasium in the arcade to box for exercise. I usually went up there in the morning while Catherine stayed late in bed. On the days of false spring. It was very nice after boxing and taking a shower to walk along the streets, smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch the people and read the paper and drink of vermouth, then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine. The Professor at the boxing gym wore mustaches and was very precise in jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. But it was pleasant in the gym there was good air and light and I worked quite hard skipping rope, shadowboxing, doing abdominal exercises, laying on the floor in a patch of sunlight that came through the open window and occasionally scaring the Professor when we boxed, I could not shadow box in front of the narrow long mirror at first because it looks so strange to see a man with a beard boxing. But finally I just thought it was funny. I wanted to take off the beard as soon as I started boxing. But Katherine did not want me to. Sometimes Catherine and I went for rides out in the country in a carriage. It was nice to ride when the days were pleasant, and we found two good places where we could ride out to eat. Catherine could not walk very far now, and I loved to ride out along the country roads with her when there was a good day we had a splendid time and we never had a bad time. We knew the baby was very close now and it gave us both a feeling as though something were hurrying us and we could not lose any time together.