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Roscoe Brown
Janey is a little girl with a sad history. She grew up in Texas but lost her brother, mother, and father to various accidents. After that she lived with a Dutchman and then a man named Bill, who sold her to Old Sam. Janey is an excellent hunter of varmints, and after she runs away from Old Sam with Roscoe, they feast daily on the rabbits, frogs, possums, and other creatures she catches. Clearly traumatized, Janey is shy around strangers and leery of towns like Fort Worth. But she’s a capable tracker and travels faster on foot than many people do on horseback. In addition, she’s a crack shot with a thrown rock. She helps Roscoe escape death at the hands of Hutto and Jim. Although July and Roscoe try to leave her in town before heading north after Elmira, she runs away and joins them. Along with Joe and Roscoe, she dies at the hands of Blue Duck in Texas.
Janey Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Janey or refer to Janey . 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 58
Quotes
July didn’t want to see it. He knew he had to, but he didn’t want to.
He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. He knew it could never be. Something had happened which he would never be free of. He had even lost the chance to stay and die with his people, though Captain McCrae had offered him that chance. “I’d feel better in my mind if you’d stay with your part,” he had said.
He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.
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Janey Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Janey or refer to Janey . 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 58
Quotes
July didn’t want to see it. He knew he had to, but he didn’t want to.
He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. He knew it could never be. Something had happened which he would never be free of. He had even lost the chance to stay and die with his people, though Captain McCrae had offered him that chance. “I’d feel better in my mind if you’d stay with your part,” he had said.
He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.
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