"The first woman strained to her tiptoes. She wished she were as tall as her companion at times like these."He is!" she agreed. "That must be a traine...r." Too young," the second stated. "He is not from the noble side. I'm sure each and every one of those louts has been paraded in front of me. I would wager he is a new recruit. He appears to be quite competent."The first young woman glanced to her friend."Quite competent is a rare compliment from you," she joked. "I will have to ask Pernice about. She was wary of her father’s silence. She knew all too well that his temper was short and his hands were quick to make justice when he saw the need.“My lord, I was careless whilst I was fetching the water and I lost my shoe in the currents,” Mavina fearfully stated. She knew full well what this meant for her, but was glad to take the punishment, rather than see her mum take the brunt of it.“You are going to feel my strap for this!”Mavina obeyed her father and turned to fetch the strap from its. He and Barb had gone to several dealerships to see what they had, and had seen this one at the Toyota dealership. It was a half ton, crew cab, six cylinder, automatic. It was 4 wheel drive, and the prettiest shade of blue she had seen in a long time. It had gray interior, and was decked out with everything you could imagine, and had been lifted 6 inches. He said it would go anywhere except to sea. Mike had seen him drive up, and came out to look at it. Misti and he both loved it. He had taken. As it was, there was soon a tug on my shirt from a little hand called Michelle. Both Lindie and I separated our lips.I looked down at the interruption to see two things. The first was Michelle had not only tugged on my shirt but was tugging on her sister’s sun dress. The other thing I saw was that grin I so much loved beaming up at us.The next thing that happened had all three of us laughing. The little devil started to show her stripes, if devils have stripes, when she told us laughing, “Get A.