Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page109 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n really happy there. Then it all went wrong. No petrol for cars. Trucks couldn\u2019t deliver goods to the shops. People couldn\u2019t buy food. The black market took over \u2026 and \u2026 and \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n KristalClear\u2019s eyes are beginning to well up with tears. Not because of what happened to M. Troyes, but because of what happened to the family\u2019s horses.<\/p>\n \u201cOh Maman<\/em>! Tea! Lovely!\u201d<\/p>\n Mme. Troyes had been rifling through the kitchen cupboards, \u201csorry about the noise my lovelies! I had to go to the back of the top shelf, to reach the nice tea cups.\u201d<\/p>\n She sets a tray down on the coffee table. The teapot is a bulbous, old fashioned, white one, decorated with intricate swirls and patterns in Royal blue. It\u2019s surrounded by four ornate tea cups with elaborate curved handles. The pattern on the cups matches the tea pot, and inside the rim the cups have a neoclassical meander.<\/p>\n If there was a broken cup or a broken saucer back in the kitchen, then it wasn\u2019t one of these fancy ones!<\/p>\n \u201cMilk and sugar?\u201d asks Mme. Troyes, looking directly at NutJob.<\/p>\n \u201cOoh! Milk! We hardly ever have milk in our house!<\/p>\n \u201cNo, nor do we!\u201d says Mme. Troyes, with a knowing smile. If the youngsters didn\u2019t realise that this was an extra special occasion, they do now!<\/p>\n \u201cBlack please, no milk, no sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a lovely Darjeeling from Mannin,\u201d says Mme. Troyes. She places a pretty, delicate metal tea strainer on NutJob\u2019s cup and begins to pour some tea from the pot, \u201cthey say that Manx tea is just as good, if not better than the tea that we used to get from India.\u201d<\/p>\n M. Troyes can be heard coming down the stairs, light footed, but clearly audible. He enters the front room, now dressed in lightweight khaki chinos and a short sleeved, buttoned, white cotton shirt. He\u2019s wearing nothing on his feet, and he cheerfully says, \u201chow far did we get?\u201d<\/p>\n With a light tremble in her voice KristalClear says, \u201chorses, Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page109 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page109 \u2013 Next really happy there. Then it all went wrong. No petrol for cars. Trucks couldn\u2019t deliver goods to the shops. People couldn\u2019t buy food. The black market took over \u2026 and \u2026 and \u2026\u201d KristalClear\u2019s eyes are beginning to well up with tears. Not because of what happened to M. … Continue reading “Chapter 14 The French Pirate109”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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