$84$ points

In $6-8$ sentences, identify the story in which the following quotation appears, and explain how the main idea of this quotation helps us to understand the overall theme$($s$)$ of the story in which it appears:

$"\text{'}$Well$,$ I 'low it's off, Jack,'said Wilson. He was looking at the ground. 'Married!$\text{'}$ He was not a student of chivalry; it was merely that in the presence of this foreign condition he was a simple child of the earlier plains."