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Quotes
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[California Joe is driving the wagon in which Libby is riding on the trek to Fort Lincoln]
California Joe : [to one of the horses] Move over there, sweetheart, 'fore I cut the rest of your tail off!
Elizabeth Bacon : [she looks at him, shocked] I beg your pardon.
California Joe : I said move over, you dirty Ethiopian son of a blue-bellied Mohawk!
Elizabeth Bacon : You mean the horse.
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[after they first meet, Custer walks Miss Bacon to Gen. Sheridan's house]
George Armstrong Custer : Do you think if I were to come strolling past your house around nine o'clock at night you might be just sitting around on the veranda?
Elizabeth Bacon : Life is full of surprises.
George Armstrong Custer : And if I did find you sitting on the porch perhaps you and I could go for a walk together.
Elizabeth Bacon : [laughs] We seem to have been walking together ever since we met.
George Armstrong Custer : Well, I can't imagine, ma'am - if I may say so - any pleasanter journey, ma'am, than walking through life with you beside me, ma'am.
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Elizabeth Bacon : Callie, will you go into the kitchen, please, and bring us back some of those nice young green spring onions?
Callie : Onions?
Elizabeth Bacon : Yes, Callie, onions. You know I simply love them.
Callie : I knows what you love, honey. It ain't onions.
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Elizabeth Bacon : I'm not really angry. I just thought I should pretend to be. I knew when you didn't come back that you had a good reason.
George Armstrong Custer : Oh yes. You see, I had to report to Washington and I barely had time to catch the train.
Elizabeth Bacon : And a train won't wait, but a woman will.
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Elizabeth Bacon : There. I've made my wish.
Callie : You're gonna get that wish all wore out before it comes true.