He offered Lorena the bottle again, but she just lay there. For a woman who had spent the night being drenched she looked wonderfully fresh, young and beautiful. All the passion seemed to have been beaten out of him. It made her want to cry, suddenly, that her children were so devoid of playmates that they would hang around two sullen men just for the excitement of company.
At the time, some men had scoffed at him for riding a mule, but Call ignored them. That's what we're mostly used to. It was as if she dared him to bargain. It made her angry at herself, to have lived so long with a horse trader who had no more savvy than that.
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