He took a great resolution that this boy, the youngest of all the defenders, should be saved.
"That was done well, Ned," he said quietly.

"I'm glad, boy, that I've known you.

I'd be proud if you were a son of mine.

We can talk plainly here with death all around us.

You've got a lot in that head of yours.
You ought to make a great man, a great man for Texas.