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Date Posted: Fri, November 12 2021, 4:51:45
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for November 12, 2021

The following quotation is from A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. Chapter 111 January Twenty-First



Dinner passed without incident, but in midafternoon, a knock came on the door. Amy screamed, and Brianna dropped the shirt she was mending into the fire. Ian leaped to his feet and jerked the door open, and Rollo, jerked out of a doze, charged past him, roaring.

Jamie and Roger struck the doorway - and each other - simultaneously, stuck for an instant, and fell through. All the little boys shrieked and ran to their respective mothers, who were frantically beating at the smoldering shirt as though it were a live snake.

I had leaped to my feet, but was pressed against the wall, unable to get past Bree and Amy. Adso, startled by the racket and by my popping up beside him, hissed and took a swipe at me, narrowly missing my eye.

A number of oaths in a mixture of languages were coming from the dooryard, accompanied by a series of sharp barks from Rollo. Everyone sounded thoroughly annoyed, but there were no sounds of conflict. I edged my way delicately past the knot of mothers and sons, and peered out.

Major MacDonald, wet to the eyebrows and covered in clumps of snow and dirty slush, was gesticulating with some energy at Jamie, while Ian rebuked Rollo, and Roger - from the look on his face - was trying very hard not to burst out laughing.

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[> Everyone is on edge, nerves frayed. Is it any wonder that a 3 Stooges like scene ensued? -- DianaH, Fri, November 12 2021, 8:35:55

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