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Date Posted: Sat, November 05 2022, 10:43:19
Author: Kel
Subject: Quote of the day for Saturday, November 5. Taken from Drums of Autumn, Chapter 46, Comes a Stranger, kindle p 643, Copyright Diana Gabaldon

Quote of the day for Saturday, November 5. Taken from Drums of Autumn, Chapter 46, Comes a Stranger, kindle p 643, Copyright Diana Gabaldon

Of course, what “Someone meets Roger” would be complete without Himself!
Even through the beating and being sold off, the time missed with Bree, and all the pain caused, through no fault of his own, Roger comes to develop a deep relationship with Jamie. That takes a very good man, and just one more reason Roger is my favorite.
Thanks for indulging me in some Roger love.
~~~~~~

Jamie meets Roger

It was one thing to have been told that Jamie Frazier resembled his daughter. It was another to see Brianna’s bold features transmuted into power by the stamp of years, and fronting a personality not only thoroughly masculine, but fierce in aspect…..
“You’ll be Mr. MacKenzie,” the man said. It wasn’t a question. The voice was deep but not loud, barely lifted above the sound of the rustling leaves, but Roger had no difficulty hearing him.
“I am,” he said, taking a step forward.
“And you’ll be …ah…Jamie Fraser?” He stretched out a hand, but quickly let it drop. Two pairs of eyes rested coldly on him.
“I am,” said the red-haired man. “You’ll know me?” The tone of the question was distinctly unfriendly.
~~~~~~~

"Oh, Jamie, you shouldn’t have acted so brashly!" I shouted, “why don’t you people TALK to each other!!”

Drums of Autumn p 694-695 Chapter 50 In Which All is Revealed, copyright Diana Gabaldon
“Mr. Wakefield,” he said carefully to Brianna. “Has he by any chance… another name?”
“Yes,” Brianna and I said in unison….. MacKenzie was his own family name,”… “Why? You haven’t heard of a Roger MacKenzie, have you?”
~~~~~~

The Father-in-law gives approval….

The Fiery Cross, Chapter 1, p47 kindle, Copyright Diana Gabaldon
“She’d marry the lad if he were a Hottentot,” Jamie interrupted. “Anyone can see that. And I canna say I’d object overmuch to wee Roger if he were a Hottentot,” he added, rather to my surprise.
“You wouldn’t?”
Jamie shrugged, and stepped over the tiny creek to my side, wiping wet hands on the end of his plaid.
“He’s a braw lad, and he’s kind. He’s taken the wean as his own and said no word to the lass about it. It’s no more than a man should do – but not every man would.

~~~~~~
Son of My House

The Fiery Cross, Chapter 15, p 278 kindle, copyright Diana Gabaldon
Seas rim o lamh, Roger an t’oranaiche, mac Jeremiah MacChoinneich!” Stand by my hand Roger the singer, son of Jeremiah MacKenzie. Roger stood stock-still for a moment, eyes dark on Jamie, them moved toward him, like one sleepwalking. The crowd was still excited, but the shouting had died down, and people craned to hear what was said.
“Stand by me in battle,” he said in Gaelic, his eyes fixed on Roger, left hand extended. He spoke slowly and clearly, to be sure of understanding. “Be a shield for my family – and for yours, son of my house.
~~~~~

And then the snake bite, and Jamie entrusts everything he loves and cares about to Roger, knowing that however inexperienced Roger is, he will do everything in his power to protect those Jamie loves.

The Fiery Cross, Chapter 90, p1342-45 kindle, copyright Diana Gabaldon
Fraser shifted, and groaned with the movement. Roger laid a hand on his shoulder, and he stilled.
Don’t go, he thought, the unspoken words balled tight in his throat. Stay with us. Stay with me…..
…“MacKenzie?” It was no more than a murmur, but he bent at once…..
“I dinna ken yet if ye’re right or you’re wrong,” Fraser said. His voice was soft and hoarse, but distinct. “Bur if you’re wrong, wee Roger, and I’m dying, there are things I must say to ye. I dinna want to leave it too late.” …
… If the welfare of the Ridge – of Brianna and Jemmy, of Claire – were to be left in Roger’s inexperienced hands, he must take heed of every scrap of information that Fraser could give him…..

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[> I’m so glad you did the follow up meetings because I was dreading reading the first one between them. What a horrible, horrible set of misunderstandings. -- Kathy in PA, Sun, November 06 2022, 11:01:21

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