What happiness to know that you do not have to go to war!" In her anxiety for sacrifice, she wanted to go to the battlefields, and yet at the same time, she was rejoicing to see her lover exempt from military duty.

This preposterous lack of logic was not gratefully received by Julio but irritated him as an unconscious offense.
"One might suppose that she was protecting me!" he thought.

"She is the man and rejoices that I, the weak comrade, should be protected from danger.

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