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Date Posted: Thu, August 03 2023, 4:03:44
Author: Cait
Subject: QOTD for Thursday, August 3rd 2023

The following quotation is taken from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 32, The Prodigal's Return:

" D'ye ken where the money comes from, Jenny, that keeps you and your bairns and everyone here in food, and the roof from fallin' in over your head? It's not from me printing up copies o' the Psalms in Edinburgh!"

"And did I think it was?" She flared at him. " Did I ask ye what ye did?"

"No, ye didn't," he flashed back. "I think ye'd rather not know -- but ye do know, don't you?"

"And will ye blame me for what ye do? It's my fault that I've children, and that they must eat?" She didn't flush red like Jamie did; when Jenny lost her temper, she went dead white with fury.

I could see him struggling to keep his own temper. "Blame ye? No, of course I dinna blame ye--but is it right for you to blame me, that Ian and I canna keep ye all just working the land?"

Jenny too was making an effort to subdue her rising temper. "No," she said. "Ye do what ye must, Jamie. Ye ken verra well I didna mean you when I said 'criminals', but--"

"So ye mean the men who work for me? I do the same things, Jenny. If they're criminals, what am I, then?" He glared at her, eyes hot with resentment.

"You're my brother," she said shortly, "little pleased as I am to say so, sometimes. Damn your eyes, Jamie Fraser! Ye ken quite well I dinna mean to quarrel wi' whatever ye see fit to do! If ye robbed folk on the highway, or kept a whorehouse in Edinburgh, 'twould because there was no help for it. That doesna mean I want ye takin' my son to be part of it!"

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[> This is such a tough one - those gray areas, especially when it’s loved ones. Where do I draw the line? -- Kathy in PA, Fri, August 04 2023, 6:14:26


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