He himself had no fixed ideas about what to do, though he thought it would be pleasant to live in a warm town where he could find a card game. He's injured. He had managed to subdue his mount. The Rainey boys were constantly tallying up their wages and trying to calculate whether they would be sufficient.
He said his little say so pompously that it struck the three of them as funny. If Betsey was ill, Lorena nursed her tirelessly, taking her into her own bed and singing to her. July could hardly imagine what the women would do if he tried to take the baby and raise him in Arkansas. Tastes fine, he said, but Clara looked annoyed, or scornful, or somehow displeased.
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