He would have killed anybody. He was rough and crazy, but he wasn't hard like the old man. He never whittled them into anything, just whittled them away, and the habit had come to irritate July. So far as he was concerned, marrying July was the best thing his mother had ever done.
I guess that costs a bunch, he said. Jake lifted his eyebrows again in his tired way, as if there was nothing he could possibly be told that would really surprise him. Goddamn the dern thorns, he said weakly. No wonder you're lost.
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