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As the train sped downhill, the sun rose in splendour behind the Murge hills, devouring mists so thickly couched that, struck by the first beams, they glistered like compact snow-fields, while their shaded portions might have been mistaken for stretches of mysterious swamp, from which an occasional clump of tree-tops emerged, black and island-like.
Besides, there was the military service looming close at hand; and then, a widowed mother at home the inevitable mother with a couple of little sisters; how shall a man desert his family? He was born on a farm on the Murge, the watershed between this country and the Adriatic.
Thinking of the Murge, that shapeless and dismal range of limestone hills whose name suggests its sad monotony, I began to understand the origin of his pagan wistfulness. "Happy foreigners!" such was his constant refrain "happy foreigners, who can always do exactly what they like! Tell me something about other countries," he said. "Something true?" "Anything anything!"
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