An officer the same age as the narrator, he was injured in his first hour in battle after joining the military fresh from the academy. He came from an “old”—meaning from a wealthy, high-class—family, and the hospital could never recreate the noble nose of his forbears. Later, he moves to South America, likely because of the shame of losing his inherited features. He and the narrator remain good friends, the narrator says, because neither of them had proved their bravery on the battlefield, and as such feel comfortable together.
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He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
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[…] we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.
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He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
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[…] we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.
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