Just having Ogallala to think about made the time pass quicker. His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To her eye he was the spitting image of Captain Call, built the same way, and with the same movements. So far as he was concerned, marrying July was the best thing his mother had ever done.
Gus's head had grown larger, was floating off. I mainly just felt the same from one day to the next. She liked his tolerance and his humor, and felt an amused pride in the thought that he still put her above other women, despite all the years since they had first courted. Somebody might steal it.
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