The minute they left Lonesome Dove he had begun to have his big Indian dreams. Call saw that it was pointless unless he wanted to risk a fight. There ain't nothing better than this--though you don't have to tell your pa I said it. Even Indians waited until sunup.
July had never in his life bought a woman a drink, or even sat with a woman who liked to drink. It would have been so much better to stay where they had lived, by the old river. He had been lying flat down, for he felt very weary, but he raised up on his elbow to take another swig from the jug, and he and little Eddie sa Some had lasted only a few minutes, some a week or two or a month, but somehow she and Dee always found themselves back together.
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