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Date Posted: Sat, March 26 2022, 22:29:37
Author: Betsy BFS
Subject: Qutd for Sunday, 3/27/22

The following quote is from 'Seven Stones to Stand Or Fall,' by Diana Gabaldon, "The Space Between." Copyright © 2017, by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.



Paris, March 1778


He still didn't know why the frog hadn't killed him. Paul Rakoczy, Comte St. Germain, picked up the vial, pulled the cork, and sniffed cautiously, for the third time, but then recorked it, still dissatisfied. Maybe. Maybe not. The scent of the dark-gray powder in the vial held the ghost of something familiar-- but it had been thirty years.

He sat for a moment, frowning at the array of jars, bottles, flasks, and pelicans on his workbench. It was late afternoon, and the early spring sun was like honey, warm and sticky on his face, but glowing in the rounded globes of glass, throwing pools of red and brown and green on the wood from the liquids contained therein. The only discordant note in this peaceful symphony of light was the body of a large rat, lying on its back in the middle of the workbench, a pocket watch open beside it.

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[> Diana can set a mood for me so fast, with so little words, but they’re perfect words. Read the second sentence in the second paragraph and I can almost be lulled to sleep……………. then, body of a large rat 🙁 -- Kathy in PA, Sun, March 27 2022, 4:43:33


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[> A precursor to one of my posted quotes, :D -- LadyDuBois, Sun, March 27 2022, 5:42:28


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[> [> Ooh. Ooh. Can’t wait! -- Kathy in PA, Sun, March 27 2022, 8:51:17


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