"I don't know what she would say," said he.

"I ain't never asked her none yet." "Well, I reckon you'll have to," said Doctor Barnes slowly, after a long time in thought; "if she lives." "Lives?
Doc, you don't mean to tell me she's that sick ?" "She isn't trying to fight very hard.

When your patient would rather die than live, you've got hard lines, as a doctor.

It's hard lines here more ways than one." "Die--her!--What would _I_ do then, Doc ?" asked Sim Gage, so simply that Doctor Barnes looked at him keenly, gravely.
"It's not a question about you, you damn sagebrusher," said he at last, gently.

"Question is, what's best for her.