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Date Posted: Mon, April 18 2022, 5:19:37
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, April 18th, 2022

The following quotation is from Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 1994 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 15 By Misadventure


Passing back toward the front of the coach, after the latest battle with the mud, he saw the Lady Isobel’s face peering out from beneath the isinglass sheet that covered the window.

“Oh, MacKenzie!” she said, her face contorted in fear and distress. “Please, is it much farther?”

He leaned close to shout in her ear, over the gurgle and rush of the gullies running down both sides of the road.

“Jeffries says it’s four mile yet, milady! Two hours, maybe.” If the damned and hell-bent coach didn’t tip itself and its hapless passengers off the Ashness Bridge into Watendlath Tarn, he added silently to himself.

Isobel nodded her thanks, and lowered the window, but not before he had seen that the wetness upon her cheeks was due as much to tears as to the rain. The snake of anxiety wrapped round his heart slithered lower, to twist his guts.

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[> I’ve learned to use “I have a griping in my guts” to describe that particular yucky pain. There is so much use of gut conditions throughout the books I’ve come to empathize in those terms. That last sentence, sure describes some of the worst feelings, right? -- Kathy in PA, Mon, April 18 2022, 10:30:31


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[> [> It does suit quite a few conditions including anxiety and fear. -- kgp, Mon, April 18 2022, 12:02:24


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