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Date Posted: Tue, January 17 2023, 8:35:51
Author: kgp
Subject: For Tuesday - it is Tuesday?

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2014. Chapter 111 A Distant Massacre


“Aye, that’s the rub,” she said frankly. “I’d go, and happy, but ye ken how it was for him when we stayed on the Ridge.”

I did, and grimaced slightly, stretching the heel of the stocking over the darning egg.

“It’s been dangerous in the city, this last year,” she said, and swallowed at the memory. “Couldna tell ye how many times the soldiers came to arrest him; they broke up th eshop, more than once, when they couldna find him. And the Loyalists would come and paint slogans on the front wall sometimes. But the danger didna trouble him - so long as it didna threaten me and the bairns.”

“And sometimes even if it does,” I muttered. “And I don’t mean just Fergus. Bloody men.”

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[> I’m so glad for our QOTD for reminding me of stuff in the later books. I didn’t remember who this was until the last sentence. And then, duh - of course. -- Kathy in PA, Thu, January 19 2023, 4:55:45


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[> [> The same for me, Kathy in PA. I've read the first 4 numerous times, but the subsequent ones, esp. Fiery Cross, far fewer. Thanks for bringing us all back, kgp. -- DianaH, Thu, January 19 2023, 9:25:01


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