I don't want a reputation, Call said. Now that he stood close to them his head seemed bigger than ever, and his hands too. Also, he had survived twenty years or more in a rough country, at a rough game, and could be expected to be formidable, if he was around. She took a pair of men's brogans from beside the table and began to lace them on her bare feet.
Most of them had lived through rough times and had seen men die, but no one of their acquaintance had ridden into a nest of snakes in a river, and they could not keep the subject off their tongues. But he only admitted it to himself, not to Louisa. A suspicion dawned on Luke which was even more curious--the suspicion that Zwey didn't even understand about men and women. Or at least chase her out of chunkin' range.
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