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Date Posted: Wed, May 10 2023, 8:44:37
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, May 10, 2023

The following quotation is from Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 125 A Woman Of The Second Type I>


Amaranthus breathed for a few moments, her bosom stirring the folds of her pale-blue fichu. She shook her head slightly, as though rejecting the advice of an angel on her shoulder, and clenched her gloved hands upon her knee.

“Do you truly mean you would prefer him to be dead?” she said. In a voice like cut glass. “Is his being a traitor more important than his being your son?”

Hal closed his eyes, his face going blank. Lord John and William exchanged uneasy glances, not knowing what to do.

Hal grimaced slightly and opened his eyes, pale blue and cold as winter.

“He made his choice,” he said, speaking directly to Amaranthus. I can’t change that. And I would rather have him killed cleanly than captured and executed as a traitor. A good death might be the only thing I still could give him.”

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[> Considering the explicit description of what being hanged, drawn, and quartered that Jamie related several books ago, Hal has a point about a "good death." -- DianaH, Wed, May 10 2023, 14:12:59


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[> fcf -- kgp, Wed, May 10 2023, 15:35:44


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[> Poor Hal. Imagine considering killing your own child as a better choice. I hope life is kinder to him in the next book. He needs to go to Minnie. -- kgp, Wed, May 10 2023, 15:59:24


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