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Date Posted: Sun, November 05 2023, 16:20:51
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, November 6, 2023

The following quotation is from Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2022 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 63 The Third Floor


“It’s been a long time since I heard language like that,” Fanny said, her lips twitching.

“If you have to do with sailors, young woman, you acquire both their virtues and their vices.” Elspeth’s face was still white and shone like polished bone under a layer of sweat, but her voice was steady and her breath was coming back. “And where, might I ask, did you hear language like that?”

Fanny glanced at me, but I nodded and she said simply, “I lived in a brothel for some time, ma’am.”

“Indeed.” Mrs. Cunningham drew her wrist out of my grasp and sat up, rather shaky, but bracing herself with her good hand on the table. “I suppose whores must also have both virtues and vices, then.”

“I don’t know about the virtues,” Fanny said dubiously. “Unless you count being able to milk a man in two minutes by the clock.”

I had taken a nip of the whisky myself, and choked on it.

“I think that would be classed as a skill rather than a virtue,” Mrs. Cunningham told Fanny. “Though a valuable one, I daresay.”

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[> Love, love, LOVE this conversation. Diana talks about “onions” - Mrs Cunningham has quite a few layers and her idea of virtue vs skill cracks me up. -- Kathy in PA, Mon, November 06 2023, 2:57:49


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[> [> I agree, Kathy in PA. I was nickering while reading this. -- DianaH, Tue, November 07 2023, 10:37:20


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