Which detail from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway is an example of understatement?
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"So we took up the use of grammar, and soon Italian was such a difficult language that I was afraid to talk to him until I had the grammar straight in my mind."
"So we took up the use of grammar, and soon Italian was such a difficult language that I was afraid to talk to him until I had the grammar straight in my mind."
"The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side."
"The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side."
"I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident."
"I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident."
"The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart."