Lonesome Dove, Volume 2: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

"GET UP, MONSIEUR. Make the liquors. The customer is here! " Therese Wanz said, flinging each word at her husband as if it were a small stone. Xavier Wanz, her husband, seemed to be thinking thoughts of his own; he continued to sit at the table with the white tablecloth, staring at his glass.

Therese, in only a few moments in her tent, had managed to sweep her abundant brown hair up on her head in an appealing mound; the gown she wore did not quite conceal her plump shoulders. Augustus McCrae, who had not expected to see a woman, much less an attractive woman, for several years, if ever, found that the sight of Therese brought an immediate improvement in his mood.