I ain't taking that bet, for there wasn't any honour in it.
[She doesn't like to say it, but she won't pretend what she did was honourable, not even to the likes of him. There's bravado, and then there's just plain lying.]
[And maybe, too, there's some truth in what he's saying - not about her being a weed, but the thing between the words, the suggestion that she deserves this. She rebels against the thought, but still, it's there. I traded my soul for 'ee, Roland, thee and the child, and now I have neither. Trades like that, may be no wonder we lost the horses.]
[Her lips press tighter still, a thin white line now, and she looks away, arms still folded tight around herself.]
I killed Dave Hollis, who was deputy at the jail, and Sheriff Avery. [And set her serape afire and burst into tears in the process, but he doesn't need to know that.] And I'd do it again without a question, for all Dave deserved better, but that doesn't make it honourable, and I don't plan to play your smashing game.
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[She doesn't like to say it, but she won't pretend what she did was honourable, not even to the likes of him. There's bravado, and then there's just plain lying.]
[And maybe, too, there's some truth in what he's saying - not about her being a weed, but the thing between the words, the suggestion that she deserves this. She rebels against the thought, but still, it's there. I traded my soul for 'ee, Roland, thee and the child, and now I have neither. Trades like that, may be no wonder we lost the horses.]
[Her lips press tighter still, a thin white line now, and she looks away, arms still folded tight around herself.]
I killed Dave Hollis, who was deputy at the jail, and Sheriff Avery. [And set her serape afire and burst into tears in the process, but he doesn't need to know that.] And I'd do it again without a question, for all Dave deserved better, but that doesn't make it honourable, and I don't plan to play your smashing game.