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Date Posted: Thu, April 21 2022, 16:32:59
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Friday, April 22, 2022

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


“That you can have the sheer heartless effrontery to make such accusations!” Dunsany was saying, his old man’s voice shaking with rage and distress. “And my poor lamb not cold in her bed! You blackguard, you poltroon! I will not suffer the child to stay a single night under your roof!”

“The little bastard stays here!” Ellesmere’s voice rasped hoarsely. It would have been apparent to a far less experienced observer that his Lordship was well the worse for drink. “Bastard that he is, he’s my heir, and he stays with me! He’s bought and paid for, and if his dam was a whore, at least she gave me a boy.”

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[> Poor Mr. Dunsany. I can’t think of anything worse than losing a child; then to hear her slandered so badly, his heart was broken -- Kathy in PA, Thu, April 21 2022, 17:02:17


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[> [> Exactly so, Kathy in PA! And yet the old man was right; the baby is his heir because he and Geneva were married when the baby was born, whoever the father really was. Such an ugly scene for Mr. D to endure. -- DianaH, Fri, April 22 2022, 7:17:57


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