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Date Posted: Sun, February 20 2022, 4:58:58
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for February 20, 2022

The following quotation is from The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 14 Fridstool


By the next afternoon, the inside of Jamie’s head was buzzing like a hive of bees, one thought vanishing up the arse of the next before he could get hold of it. He badly needed peace to sort through it all, but the house was nearly as busy as his mind. There were servants everywhere. It was as bad as Versailles, he thought. Chambermaids, wee smudgit maids called tweenies who seemed to spend all their time trudging up and down the back stairs with buckets and brushes, footmen, bootboys, butlers . . . He’d nearly run down John Grey’s young valet in the hallway a minute ago, turning a corner and finding Byrd under his feet, the lad so buried under a heap of dirty linen he was carrying that he could barely see over it.

Jamie couldn't even sit quietly in his room. If someone wasn’t coming in the air the sheets, someone else was coming in to build the fire or take away the rug to be beaten or bring fresh candles or ask whether his stockings needed darning. They did, but still.

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[> When my socks need darning I just git my butler Mr Walmart to fix them for me. 😂😂 -- JamesG, Sun, February 20 2022, 13:00:30


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[> [> LOL, when we were first married (35+ years ago), my DH came to me with a holey sock and asked me if I could darn it. HUH??? Yeah, sure, give it to me. I held it over the wastebasket, dropped it in, and said, "Oh, darn!!" He still laughs about that! -- DianaH, Tue, February 22 2022, 13:18:36


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[> I like the description of his thoughts colliding -- kgp, Sun, February 20 2022, 15:49:39


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[> The craziness of all the luxury. He’d seen it Helwater and a long time ago at Versailles; but to be plunked down in the middle of it as a guest!?!? What IS going on? I laughed at your comment, James. You and Jamie both in the end are practical - are you Scottish by chance? -- Kathy in PA, Mon, February 21 2022, 2:51:26


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