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Date Posted: Thu, July 06 2023, 13:24:12
Author: kgp
Subject: QITD for Thursday, July 6, 2023

The following quotation is from The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 39 The Fog Comes Down


He was moving up the slope, Jamie could tell that much. Perhaps William had gone to explore the shepherd’s hut. Wilberforce had joined the women now in calling out but was doing it in counterpoint, rather than in unison with them.


Jamie had the feeling that he could not breathe, that the fog was choking him. Pure illusion.


”William!”


His shins thumped into the fallen wall of the shepherd’s hut. He could not see more than the faintest outline of the stones but felt his wary inside and crawled quickly along the walls, calling out for the boy. Nothing.


Fogs might last an hour, or a day.


“Willie - iam-Wil-Willy- iam- WILLIE!”


Jamie gritted his teeth. If they didn’t keep quiet now and then, he couldn’t hear Willie shouting back. If the boy was capable of shouting. The footing was treacherous, the grass slippery, the ground rocky. And if he went all the way to the bottom of the slope, the moss . . .

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[> I can’t even imagine how hard this was for Jamie. To love your child so much but have to totally stifle it. In a dire situation having to just be “the helpful groom.” -- Kathy in PA, Thu, July 06 2023, 17:08:05


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[> [> Exactly so, Kathy in PA! -- DianaH, Fri, July 07 2023, 10:01:25


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