They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent a…

Cormac McCarthy
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, p.315, Vintage
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, p.315, Vintage

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