I used to be right strong and well." "I shall be along with my wagons in two weeks or a little more.

If you will go with me then I would like to have you.

Here, here is money to buy you food until I come." "You've heard about me, have you--that I'm a divorced woman ?" "Yes, I know." She looked down at the ground a moment, pondering, then up at him with sudden resolution.
"I can't work hard and--I'm not--pretty any longer--why do you want to marry me ?" Her question made him the more embarrassed of the two, and she saw as much, but she could not tell why it was.
"Why," he stammered, "why,--you see--but never mind.

I must hurry on now.

In about two weeks--" And he put the spurs so viciously to his horse that he was nearly unseated by the startled animal's leap.
Off on the open road again he thought it out.