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Luke is Big Zwey’s friend and fellow buffalo hunter. He’s much smarter but also much smaller than Big Zwey. When he, Zwey, and Elmira are travelling from Bent’s Fort to Ogallala, he tries to seduce—and then, when she turns him down, to rape—Elmira. Big Zwey catches him in the act and beats him to a bloody pulp, although Luke survives. He parts ways with Zwey and Elmira in Ogallala, heading for Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Luke Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Luke or refer to Luke . 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 66
Quotes
It occurred to her that she had taken a hard route, just to escape July Johnson. Her own folly amused her: she had one thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was. If Dee Boot could see her he would laugh his head off. Dee loved to laugh about the absurd things people did for bad reasons. The fact that she had done it because she wanted to see him would only amuse him more. Dee would tell her that she ought to have gone back to Dodge and asked one of the girls to get her work.
Instead, shew as driving a mule wagon across northern Kansas. They had been lucky and seen no Indians, but that could always change. Besides, it soon developed that Luke was going to be as much trouble as an Indian.
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Luke Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Luke or refer to Luke . 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 66
Quotes
It occurred to her that she had taken a hard route, just to escape July Johnson. Her own folly amused her: she had one thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was. If Dee Boot could see her he would laugh his head off. Dee loved to laugh about the absurd things people did for bad reasons. The fact that she had done it because she wanted to see him would only amuse him more. Dee would tell her that she ought to have gone back to Dodge and asked one of the girls to get her work.
Instead, shew as driving a mule wagon across northern Kansas. They had been lucky and seen no Indians, but that could always change. Besides, it soon developed that Luke was going to be as much trouble as an Indian.
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