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Date Posted: Sun, June 05 2022, 16:54:49
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, June 6, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 58 Castrametation

“I’ve never had any money!” she snapped, and threw the guinea on the ground at his feet. “I know the names of the coins, but I don’t know what you can buy with them, except - except - what you can buy in a brothel! My cunt is worth six shillings, all right? My mouth is three. And my arse is a pound. But if someone gave me three shillings, I wouldn’t know if I could buy a loaf of bread or a horse with them! I’ve never bought anything!”

“You - you mean - “ He was so flabbergasted, he couldn’t string words into a sentence. “But you have wages. You said - “

“I’ve been a brothel whore since I was ten years old!” Her fists clenched, knuckles sharp under the skin. “I never see my wages! Mrs. Abbot spends them - she says - for my - our - food and clothes. I’ve never had a penny to my name, let alone spent one. And now you hand me . . . that” - she stamped her foot on the guinea, driving it into the ground - ‘and tell me to buy a kettler?!? Where? How? From whom?”

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[> What a difference Frances' life is and will be because these two met. -- Kel, Sun, June 05 2022, 18:26:54


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[> [> You’re so right, Kel! Just having Jane list the prices for herself and then saying it started at ten, is heartbreaking. I think Frances is about eleven now, so Jane has already been desperately trying to save her. And probably realizes it’s futile - but she’s using every fiber of her being to try. -- Kathy in PA, Mon, June 06 2022, 2:58:04


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