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Date Posted: Mon, March 27 2023, 5:26:27
Author: Cait
Subject: QOTD Monday March 27th, 2023

The following quotation is taken from The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2001 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 22 The Fiery Cross

"Ye saw, then?" He asked quietly, reading my own face.

"Yes. Is it, it's to do with the cross in the door yard, is it?"

"Oh, in a way, I suppose."

"What is it for?" I asked bluntly.

He pursed his lips, rubbing gently at Jemmy's sore gum. At last he said, "Ye never saw Dougal Mackenzie call the clan, did you?"

I was more than startled at this, but answered cautiously.

"No. I saw Colum do it once -- at the oath taking at Leoch."

He nodded, the memory of that long ago night of torches deep in his eyes.

"Aye," he said softly. "I mind that. Colum was chief, and the men would come when he summoned them, surely. But it was Dougal who led them to war."

He paused a moment, gathering his thoughts.

"There were raids, now and again. That was a different thing, and often no more than a fancy that took Dougal or Rupert, maybe an urge born of drink or boredom - a small band out for the fun of it, as much for the cattle or grain. But to gather the clan for war, all the fighting men - that was a rarer thing. I only saw it the once, myself, but it's no a sight ye would forget."

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[> No. It isn't a sight you ever forget, then and now. -- Betsy BFS, Mon, March 27 2023, 8:51:47


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[> Preparing for war? -- kgp, Mon, March 27 2023, 15:06:22


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[> [> No, just the brothers Mackenzie and the scenes about them that have stuck with me, there's a bit somewhere about how Jamie stills asks Dougal's spirit for protection in battle that I was trying to find when I found this and I like the description of the brothers, you hear similar ones throughout the books. -- Cait, Mon, March 27 2023, 15:12:56


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[> [> [> The two together were quite a force. I wonder how it would have been if Column was whole. -- Kathy in PA, Mon, March 27 2023, 16:48:08


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