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Date Posted: Mon, June 05 2023, 17:57:21
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The following quotation is from Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 8 Visitations


“I told Buck, then - just, about the - the flogging, not about - “ The fingers of Jamie’s maimed hand flickered as though about to make the chopping motion again. “About your father, and what happened to him then.”

He felt again the cold horror of that conversation. If he did nothing to stop Jack Randall, Brian Dhu Fraser would be dead within a year, dead of an apoplexy suffered while watching his son being flogged to death (as he thought) by Captain Randall. Jamie would be outlawed, wounded in body and soul. Bearing the guilt of knowing that his father’s death lay upon him, knowing that he had abandoned his home and tenants to his bereaved and shattered sister. And Jenny, that lovely young girl, left completely alone, without even a brother’s protection.

Jamie didn’t flinch at the telling, but Roger could feel the words go into his own flesh like darts. Jenny. Christ, how will I face her?

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[> I have to read this chapter. I can’t remember the context or why the remembrance of it now would make Jamie vomit. Today’s confused me at first then I remembered Jenny comes to the ridge. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, June 06 2023, 12:03:45


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[> [> I'm not sure either, but I think it's that Claire told Roger about BJR raping him in Wentworth. Roger then tells Jamie that he knows "all of it," but that he didn't tell Buck about that, only the flogging. -- DianaH, Tue, June 06 2023, 14:08:01


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