He got one of them weak an' shaky spells.

He cried an' he wanted some of us to get the Isbels to call off the fightin'....

He shore was ready to call it quits.

I reckon the killin' of Daggs--an' then the awful way Greaves was cut up by Jean Isbel--took all the fight out of your dad.
He said to me, 'Colter, we'll take Ellen an' leave this heah country--an' begin life all over again--where no one knows us.'" "Oh, did he really say that?
...

Did he--really mean it ?" murmured Ellen, with a sob.
"I'll swear it by the memory of my daid mother," protested Colter.
"Wal, when night come the Isbels rode down on us in the dark an' began to shoot.