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Date Posted: Wed, October 04 2023, 10:38:49
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2009. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 52 Conflagration


All of this - the packing, the loading, the slaughtering and livestock driving, the destruction - must be accomplished clandestinely, under the very noses of the British. For if they saw a retreat was imminent, they would fall on us like wolves, destroying the garrison as they left the safety of the fort.

Tremendous thunderheads boiled up over the lake in the afternoons, towering black things that rose miles high and full of lightning. Sometimes they broke after nightfall, pounding the lake, the mounts, the picket lines, and the fort with water that fell as though dumped from a bottomless bucket. Sometimes they only drifted past, grumbling and ominous.

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[> She’s so descriptive. I can feel the fear and tension. It’s awful when bad storms come in the middle of the night - the darkness seems to make it worse. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, October 04 2023, 16:15:27


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