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Bob Allen is the unintelligent horse trader who marries Clara Allen. They have three sons (who all die in childhood) and two daughters—Sally and Betsey—together. Sixteen years later, after they’ve gone to Nebraska, he gets kicked in the head by a mare he’s trying to break. He lingers for several months in a nonresponsive state, then dies.
Bob Allen Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Bob Allen or refer to Bob Allen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 88
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“You beat any woman I ever saw for talking the starch out of a man,” he said, a little perplexed. Despite all the complication, he felt his old love for her returning with its old power. So much feeling flooded him, just looking at her, that he felt shaky. It was a puzzle to him that such a thing could happen, for it was true she had become rather boney and her face had thinned too much, and certainly she was as taxing as a woman could be. And yet the feeling made him shaky.
“Think I’m rough, Gus?” she asked with a smile.
“I ain’t been scorched by lightning, but I doubt it could be hotter than being scorched by you,” he said.
“Still think you’d have been up to being married to me?”
“I don’t know,” he said truthfully.
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Bob Allen Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Bob Allen or refer to Bob Allen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 88
Quotes
“You beat any woman I ever saw for talking the starch out of a man,” he said, a little perplexed. Despite all the complication, he felt his old love for her returning with its old power. So much feeling flooded him, just looking at her, that he felt shaky. It was a puzzle to him that such a thing could happen, for it was true she had become rather boney and her face had thinned too much, and certainly she was as taxing as a woman could be. And yet the feeling made him shaky.
“Think I’m rough, Gus?” she asked with a smile.
“I ain’t been scorched by lightning, but I doubt it could be hotter than being scorched by you,” he said.
“Still think you’d have been up to being married to me?”
“I don’t know,” he said truthfully.
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