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Date Posted: Tue, August 01 2023, 4:57:59
Author: Cait
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

The following quotation is taken from An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 81, Purgatory II:

They sat in companionable silence for a while, watching the wind move through the pines on the hillside opposite. Then Jamie reached into his sporran and brought out the tiny white-wrapped package. It was a bit grubby from being in his sporran but had been tightly preserved and tightly wrapped.

Ian I the little bundle in his palm.

"What's this?"

"My finger," Jamie said. "I--well... I wondered whether ye'd maybe not mind to have it buried with ye."

And looked at him for a moment. Then his shoulder started to shake.

"God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make you laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!"

Ian was coughing, fits of it interspersed with long-drawn-out wheezes of laughter. Tears of mirth stood in his eyes, and he pressed both fists into his chest struggling to breathe. At last, though, he left off and straightened slowly up, making a sound like a bellows. He sniffed deep and casually spat a glob of horrifying scarlet into the rocks.
"Is rather die out here laughin' at you than in my bed wi' six priests sayin' prayers," he said. "Doubt I'll get the chance, though." He put out a hand, palm up. "Aye, give it here."

Jamie laid the little white-wrapped cylinder in his hand, and Ian tucked the finger casually into his own sporran.

"I'll keep it safe 'til you catch me up."

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[> A good solution, I'm glad they had time to laugh together. -- kgp, Wed, August 02 2023, 12:30:48


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[> [> I agree. Diana lets me know simply how bad things were before modern medicine with one cough from Ian. I was SO glad they had this time together. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, August 02 2023, 17:16:54


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