Helldorado (2010)
Helldorado
“He shuttled his glance from a signpost standing bold and straight and backed by a flat-topped boulder along the trail’s right side, to the town sprawled in the shallow valley beyond.
“There it is,” the bounty hunter said, rising high in his stirrups, then easing his 230 muscular pounds back against the cantle. “Juniper. Damn fine-lookin’ place, sittin’ down there along that little stream.”
He glanced at Louisa, who reined her brown-and-white pinto up beside him and stared sullenly down at the saddle through the strands of her blond, wind-tussled hair. “I said—damn fine-lookin’ village in one right purty settin’—wouldn’t you say, Miss Persnickety Bitch?”
They’d argued three-quarters of the trail up from Mexico, over everything from Prophet’s snoring keeping Louisa awake at night to her intolerance of his poor dishwashing abilities. Thus his new pet name for her, which she’d been ignoring to get his goat. As irksome as she was, and intolerant of his unheeled ways, he was as happy as a f...ront-tit calf that she’d regained her health during the two months she’d spent recuperating in Rocas Altas, with the singular Sor Magdalena acting as her own private nursemaid.MoreLess
“There it is,” the bounty hunter said, rising high in his stirrups, then easing his 230 muscular pounds back against the cantle. “Juniper. Damn fine-lookin’ place, sittin’ down there along that little stream.”
He glanced at Louisa, who reined her brown-and-white pinto up beside him and stared sullenly down at the saddle through the strands of her blond, wind-tussled hair. “I said—damn fine-lookin’ village in one right purty settin’—wouldn’t you say, Miss Persnickety Bitch?”
They’d argued three-quarters of the trail up from Mexico, over everything from Prophet’s snoring keeping Louisa awake at night to her intolerance of his poor dishwashing abilities. Thus his new pet name for her, which she’d been ignoring to get his goat. As irksome as she was, and intolerant of his unheeled ways, he was as happy as a f...ront-tit calf that she’d regained her health during the two months she’d spent recuperating in Rocas Altas, with the singular Sor Magdalena acting as her own private nursemaid.MoreLess
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