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Roberto, the wine-waiter, was the first to leave the Doric, and before he went he said to Gian-Luca: "Now I may realize the dream of my life, now I may learn how to fly. As a child I would watch the birds in the air, I would think: ‘If only I too had wings. ' -- Well, now my country shall provide me with wings; I shall ask to join the Air Service."
Gian-Luca looked down at the little man with interest; so Roberto was longing to fly. Roberto had never shown signs of any longings; he had just been very neat, very skillful, very quick, with a most retentive memory for a vintage; and all the time he had been longing for wings, longing to conquer the air -- perhaps he had longed to fly out of the Doric -- what a curious thing was life.