What's that you're doing, Sassenach?Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so far as I can, I added.Gizmo? he said doubtfully. That will be a saint's name?I shouldn't think so, though you never...
Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl? I went still redder...
Ian permaneceria na aldeia por alguns dias, para se certificar de que Hiram e o povo de Pássaro estavam de comum acordo. No entanto, Jamie não estava absolutamente certo de que o senso de responsabili...
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.
The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay fo...
Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit could eat a cabbage down to the roots, and from the looks of things, he'd brought friends. I sighed a...
Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . . and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.
Has he come armed, then? she asked anxiously. Has he brought a pistol or a sword?Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind.Oh, no, Mam! he said. It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!
He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones...
All right, I said, waving the cup away and dabbing moisture very carefully from my lips. I'm fine. I breathed shallowly, feeling my heart begin to slow down. Well. So. At least now I know why you've b...
I have...an understanding. In England. His understanding with James Fraser was that if he were ever to lay a hand on the man or speak his heart, Fraser would break his neck instantly. It was, however,...
Has he come armed, then? she asked anxiously. Has he brought a pistol or a sword? Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. Oh, no, Mam! he said. It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!
Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him.Are you doing that on purpose?He looked up at her, surprised. Doing what?Never mind. When you are fifteen, I'm locking you...
What if, this time, you fall?
You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls on a string. Cut the knot and they scatter across the floor, rolling into dark corners never to be fo...
I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and- A small gasp for breath, and her eyes locked on his. And I wouldn't do that to you. Her bosom fell and her eyes closed.It was a...
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And th...
Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, s...
I will find you, he whispered in my ear. I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For...
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