Handfasting is a traditional Scottish marriage custom where a couple can be promised to one another for a year and a day, particularly in the Highlands where people lived far from the nearest minister; at the end of this period, they could either formalize their marriage or part ways, representing a flexible approach to marriage that was practical for remote communities.
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Added:It's getting rather late. Perhaps we should go to bed.
>> To bed?
Or to sleep?
>> Well.
>> Either way, you're not likely sleeping in your corset, so I'll I'll help you with the the laces and such.
>> [snorts] >> Skirts first.
>> [sighs and panting] [snorts] >> It's my turn.
>> [sighs] [sighs and panting] [sighs and gasps] >> Who taught you how to kiss like that?
>> I was a virgin.
No monk.
For any guidance, I'll ask.
>> You said Brok >> Aye.
>> What's round at >> doesn't have a face.
>> Yeah.
The door faces north.
>> Phrases.
I'm beginning to feel like like I like I actually belong here.
>> I knew you belonged here with me almost since the first time I laid eyes on you.
That's one of the reasons I agreed to marry you.
Though, not the main one.
>> And what was the main one?
>> Because I wanted you more than I ever wanted anything in my life.
I knew that moment I fell off the horse and woke up in the dark looking up at your face.
And there was that long ride together.
That lovely round ass wedged tight to my thighs and that rock solid head thumping me in the chest.
>> That's why you agreed to marry me.
Because of my round ass and my rock solid head.
>> Yeah.
>> [clears throat] >> I wanted you from the first moment I saw you, but I loved you when you wept in my arms that first night at Leo.
But now I I wake up every day and I find that I love you more than I did the day before.
>> I love you.
>> [snorts] >> I think that just makes your daughter who cares about her mother.
>> What if something happens to her there?
What if she can't come back?
What What if she doesn't want to?
>> Well, if that makes you a terrible person, then so am I.
Part of me doesn't want to find them either because Well, once we do, you'll go back to Boston.
That was >> unexpected. [music] >> Unexpected, yes.
>> I hope Martha comes to see us again soon.
>> She'll not stay away.
>> All right. Now he's had a taste of your fine cooking.
>> So often enough burn for you.
It's water on your skin.
Caresses me.
Makes me jealous of the rain itself.
>> No kisses raining down on me.
Is it a drizzle or a torrent?
>> I'll bathe you in them. bathe you in them.
>> Then I should hurry up.
>> I've no need of cloth to make certain I >> Well, that's not fair. You're still fully clothed.
>> There are times when a husband can's best.
And I am your husband.
You never can.
>> I don't need a ring to know how much you love me.
>> No.
But it helps.
>> Jamie.
It's so beautiful.
What is it from?
>> I had Murtagh make it.
One of the silver candlesticks.
I kept my mother give her blessing to fashion part of it into a ring for you.
>> She would be proud to know that she raised such a thoughtful son.
Oh, there's an inscription.
Da mi basia mi ne.
>> Give me a thousand kisses.
I think we're supposed to kneel.
>> [music] >> I, Roger Jeremiah, do take thee, Rihanna Allen, to be my lawful wedded wife.
With my goods, I thee endow.
With my body, I thee worship.
In sickness and in health, in richness and in poverty, so long as we both shall live.
I pledge thee my troth.
>> I, Rihanna Allen, take thee, Roger Jeremiah, to be my lawful [music] wedded husband.
With my goods, I thee endow.
Not that there's much of that.
With my body, I thee worship.
In sickness and in health, in richness and in [music] poverty, so long as we both shall live.
>> I plight >> I plight I [music] plight thee my troth.
>> By the power vested in this unusual Scottish tradition, I >> I now pronounce us >> man and wife.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [laughter] [sighs] >> Christ lightning, huh?
>> What?
Who?
>> Me.
I suppose.
Oh, were you not thunderstruck there at the end?
>> What did I teach you that phrase?
>> I've heard you use it.
>> [sighs] >> Now, that particular figure of speech relates to extreme speed, not lubricated brilliance.
>> I can be fast, too.
Yeah, maybe not first thing in the morning.
There are worse ways to wake up, though.
>> Yes, there are.
Ah. Poor Major MacDonald.
Imagine being allergic to cats.
>> Hm.
Can you be allergic to house guests?
I'll stay in bed, Susannah.
>> [sighs] >> Hm.
>> Maybe for a minute.
>> Hm.
>> Surely Mrs. Bug has spared no effort on breakfast today.
>> Hm.
>> [gasps] [sighs] >> Did he just say how long he intends to stay?
>> At least for Newbern tomorrow.
I must take the guns to the Cherokee.
>> Governor Martin will be pleased.
>> I MacDonald brought a letter praising my enterprise and drawing the Cherokee into the sphere of British influence once more.
>> Hm.
We should go down or the major will have eaten all the honey cakes.
>> Hm.
Honey cakes.
For [ __ ] sake. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Excuse me.
>> Yes, lass.
>> Do you know where I might be able to buy passage to Cross Creek? I'd like to [music] leave tomorrow.
>> The Sally Ann's in port. It makes the journey every week or so. You can ask Captain Freeman.
>> [music] >> Thank you.
>> Brianna.
>> It's you.
>> Oh, thank god.
Thank god I found you.
>> [gasps] >> What are you doing here?
>> Looking for you.
It was no small risk to leave in glamour, I might add.
>> You weren't supposed to come here. That wasn't the plan.
>> Wouldn't you call getting off into bloody nowhere a plan?
>> I would have told you. I just I didn't know where we stood after the last time we talked.
>> What do you mean you didn't know where we stood?
You don't know how I feel about you.
I was going to say that.
>> Close the door.
>> [panting] [panting] >> Are you sure?
>> [gasps] >> Do you not know how badly I want you?
>> But >> [snorts] >> we're not engaged.
That seemed to be very important to you.
At the festival, you said >> I said >> [sighs] [gasps] >> I said I would have all of you or none at all.
>> [snorts] >> Have you changed your mind?
>> [snorts] >> No.
>> [sighs] >> Well then, you have all of me.
>> You'll marry me?
>> How could I say no to a man who pursued me for 200 years?
>> I don't have a ring.
>> There's still the bracelet you gave me.
>> It's the gemstone you used to come to the stones.
I have an idea.
Do you know what handfasting is?
I know.
It's um It's sort of a temporary marriage.
>> [snorts] >> In the Highlands, where uh where folk are a long way from the nearest minister, a man and a [music] woman in this time can be promised to one another for a year and a day.
At the end of that time, >> Let's do it.
>> Really?
>> Yes.
>> [sighs] [sighs and gasps] >> Clear?
Skin salty.
You've been crying, Alice?
>> No.
>> [sighs and gasps] >> No.
It's just so hot. I've been sweating.
It smell like the white sour.
>> Mhm.
Now, let me see.
Onions.
>> Mhm.
>> Garlic.
Mhm.
Something hot.
And peppercorns, I cloves. [snorts] Something woody. Mhm.
Toadstools.
>> It's not fair.
You know exactly what we had for dinner.
>> Vinegar, dill.
Pickling cucumbers again. It's good. I like those.
What have I found?
>> Mhm.
>> A petit fleur. Mhm.
>> Now, let me see.
>> Mhm.
Mhm.
Gunpowder.
>> Mhm.
>> [snorts] >> Hay.
And uh Ah, >> [sighs] >> faintest whiff of manure.
>> Mhm.
>> [laughter] >> It's very manly.
>> And there's special >> You wanted me to.
Fell asleep without touching you. I'm sorry, Sasanak.
>> It's all right.
You were tired.
>> [music] [music] >> Here.
>> Mia.
>> I didn't know if you'd come.
>> [sighs and gasps] >> I may be stubborn, but I'm not awful.
I love you.
I always will.
>> I love you, too.
>> [clears throat] >> There a boy.
Take me to see my son.
>> Mr. Isaac.
Clear.
>> [music] >> Welcome home, Mr. Freeze.
>> Clear.
>> Welcome back, Curly.
How was your visit with the Cherokee?
>> I missed you, Isaac.
I must have it.
>> [laughter] >> Of course. Now, >> I not that I will not tell you I've missed you.
>> You just did.
Just so we're clear, why don't you show me exactly what you mean?
>> [music] >> You're smiling.
Nice, was it?
>> Actually, I was trying to rank your words. I like you.
I love you.
I worship you.
I must have my [ __ ] inside you.
In terms of their relative sincerity.
>> I meant every word of it.
>> Especially the last one.
>> Especially the last one.
>> [clears throat] >> Hm.
The flesh requires a bite to eat and a wee rest before I can think of doing it again, but spirit is always willing.
You're lucky you're married to an old man, Sassenach.
Or I'd have you on your knees with your ass in the air this minute.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, I'm happy you missed me.
I missed you, too.
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