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""From Cincinnati you go home, I believe? Is not that very rough country?"
"Some might think it is."
"But there is a stage? Or can you take another steamer?"
"There is, I think, but right across country is quicker." He was irritated. How foolish of her to come so far, unprotected and alone! Because of it he had to leave everything and come on this wild-goose chase, escorting a girl who did not seem in the least grateful. She was pert, almost impudent,
"I am astonished that your family would permit it. Suppose you met a bear? Or a man of evil intention?"
I made my eyes very wide. "I'd take him home for supper.
"What? You'd invite such a man to your home?"
"I meant the bear." I smiled innocently. "Could I do less?""
— Louis L'Amour: [*Ride the River*](
https://bookwyrm.social/book/771475 ), pp. 96-97
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