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Date Posted: Tue, March 28 2023, 3:48:36
Author: Cait
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday March 28th, 2023

The following quotation is taken from Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 1992 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 21, Untimely Resurrection:

"Circumstances?" I said, turning to his earlier question. "Well, I don't suppose one would consider it in the best of taste to come calling on a man whom you'd left for dead and whose wife you tried to seduce."

Being Dougal Mackenzie, he laughed. I didn't know quite what it would take to disconcert the man, but I certainly hope I was there to see it when it finally happened.

"Seduction?" He said, lips quirked in amusement. "I offered ye marriage."

"You offered to rape me, as I recall," I snapped. He had, in fact, offered to marry me - by force - after declining to help me in rescuing Jamie from Wentworth Prison the winter before. While his principal motive had been the possession of Jamie's estate of Lallybroch - which would belong to me upon Jamie's death - he hadn't been at all averse to the thought of the minor emoluments of marriage, such as the regular enjoyment of my body.

"As for leaving Jamie in the prison," he went on, ignoring me as usual, "there seemed no way to get him out, and no sense in risking good men in a vain attempt. He'd be the first to understand that. And it was my duty as his kinsman to offer his wife my protection, if he died. I was the lad's foster father, no?" He tilted back his head and drained his glass.

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[> Do you think Dougal could be called narcissistic? He does care about the clan, but it seems to me he cares about himself first - all the time. I think Geillis was the only one to slightly crack that shell. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, March 28 2023, 4:18:40


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[> [> I think he thought he was smarter than Colum and chafed at being second to him in the clan hierarchy. Being widely thought of as Colum's legs (and c***) would get tiresome. -- kgp, Tue, March 28 2023, 7:14:50


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[> [> [> I agree, I definitely think he thought he was smarter than Colum, forgetting of course that a man unable to use his penis has but the one brain to think with and is therefore more focused on other things *g* -- Cait, Tue, March 28 2023, 17:19:38


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[> Cait, your quotes are very apt in showing the many sides of the MacKenzie brothers. Great week! -- DianaH, Tue, March 28 2023, 8:58:13


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[> [> Thank you! -- Cait, Tue, March 28 2023, 17:17:54


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