"Oh, of course. I'm a learned man," Jamie says, puffing up a bit in pride at that. He's always loved to read and his room at Lallybroch had been covered in every novel, poetry collection and scrap of paper he could find. It's something that's soothing to him, reading, and it suits him a hell of a lot better than trying to write anything with his stiff right hand.

"Shakespeare, Thomas More, Cervantes...all of the great ones. I ken them."