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Date Posted: 18:38:57 10/08/07 Mon
Author: tlk2vicki
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, October 9

The following quote is taken from Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 4, Chisping. Copyright (c) 2007 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

“He would not have been surprised in the slightest to hear that she had broken her neck in some hunting accident, or died in leaping a horse across some dangerous chasm. The sheer ordinariness of death in childbirth…that seemed somehow wrong, obscurely unworthy of her.

He still remembered the occasion when she had gone riding with him, challenged him to a race, and when he declined, had calmly unpinned her hat, leaned over, and smacked his horse on the rump with it, then kicked her own mount and galloped off, leaving him to subdue a panicked sixteen-hand gelding, then to pursue her at breakneck pace over the rocky fells above Helwater. He was a good horseman—but he’d never caught her.”


Okay, so most of us have thought of Geneva as a pampered, shameless blackmailer. However, learning that she was always a spirited, flirtatious equestrian and not just out to ruin her groom, I feel more kindly toward her. Due partly to her father’s overindulgence, she paid the ultimate price for her foolishness.

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