Date Posted:Mon, June 17 2024, 4:06:56 Author: Janet Subject: QOTD
Quote of the Day for Monday, June 17, 2024
Taken from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 1, A Hanging in Eden. Copywrite 1997, All rights reserved
"Ah the pity of it." Duncan Innes was quite drunk by now. He sat slumped against the wall, his armless shoulder rising higher than the other, giving him a strange, humpbacked appearance. "That a dear man like Gavin should come to such an end!" He shook his head lugubriously, swing it back and forth over his alecup like the clapper of a funeral bell.
"No family left to mourn him, cast alone in a savage land---hanged as a felon, and to be buried in an unconsecrated grave. Not even a proper lament to be sung for him!" He picked up the cup, and with some difficulty, found his mouth with it. He drank deep and set it down with a muffled clang.
"Well, he shall have a caithris!" He glared belligerently from Jaimie to Fergus to Ian. "Why not?"
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I always wondered about the timeline. Did he go with Phaedra because he knew he was just a figurehead and/or because he knew Jocasta was sleeping with Ulysses? -- Kathy in PA, Tue, June 18 2024, 12:21:49