Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes.
He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was
too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went
with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.
In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator?