- Robert Ceilbleu: For he lived like a madman, at least he died like a wise one. Do you know it, Sir?
- Paladin: Cervantes, Don Quixote's epitaph.
- William Ceilbleu: The Comanche don't make a war chief unless it's a man who knows how to make war. But you ain't gonna spend what you earn less'n you get out of here right now.
- [Paladin, in the meantime, is slathering himself in suet and sharpening his knife]
- Paladin: [First lines] The road you travel leads only to one thing, death. If I can turn you back, I will. If I can't, then I'm the end of the road for you.
- Paladin: My card intrigues you?
- Robert Ceilbleu: That's one possible way to put it.
- Paladin: But you don't seem surprised.
- Robert Ceilbleu: From the Sherrif in Promise, from two self-admirers from Lucifer's Pit, Florence California, the barber, I wonder what the history of this card will be.
- Paladin: At the moment, I'd suspect that you know more about it than I do.