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Date Posted: 19:33:59 01/27/08 Sun
Author: tlk2vicki
Subject: QUOTE OF THE DAY Monday, January 28, 2008


The following quote is taken from Lord John and the Hand of Devils, Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Part I, “The Inquisition.” Copyright © 2007, Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

He still retained that small souvenir of his brief acquaintance with Tom Pilchard—lodged somewhere in the depths of his chest. He was interested to see the dimensions of it—longer than he’d thought but very slender—no more than a hair’s width at the narrower end.

The surgeon, digging through his chest with urgent fingers, had touched the end of the bronze splinter but been unable to take hold of it with forceps in order to draw it out—and after prolonged consultation with his learned German colleague, had decided that to leave it in situ was less risk than to attempt removal by cutting through his ribs and opening his chest.

Grey had been in no condition to contribute to that debate, nor did he remember everything they’d done to him, but he recalled—and with no sense of shame whatever—the warmth of tears running down his face at the news that they did not propose to hurt him any more.

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