y it had to be for a good reason, and he looked upon common practices as rules that should be obeyed. You had a chance at a fine widow right there in Lonesome Dove, as I recall. Women died, went crazy or left. At such times she felt cowardly for not having gone with him, though, of course, he himself had urged her to stay.
That was rude, he said. We want a whore, Ben said. Louisa straightened up. Any other time such an invitation would have shocked him, but in this case it just made him feel that his manners weren't all they should be.
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