Just when there seemed hope that they might escape, all was lost. Suddenly Yann felt as if he had hit a wall. “With luck, I’ll be playing cards till dawn and then some.” “Not if I can help it.” said one of the men.

“My friend needs to sit down,” said Yann, and one of the men pulled out a chair for him. Yann helped Têtu through the kitchen to a small antechamber where a group of men were sitting at a table. “You’d better go and ask the coachmen in there.” “Well, what are you doing asking me? Do I look as if I have a magic carpet?” Then, seeing the state of Têtu, she softened. “No you don’t,” said one of the cooks, snatching it back and lifting her wooden spoon as if it were a weapon. He was going to fall over if he didn’t sit down. He had never been in such a large kitchen before, with servants running backward and forward, the chef swearing and stamping his foot, bells ringing, the noise, the smells, the heat. “We are the entertainers, hired for the count’s show.” “the viscount needs this tray taken up to him at once.”

“Hey, you there,” a valet shouted at Yann, The arrival of two more in the kitchen went almost unnoticed except as extra pairs of hands to help. Jean Rollet, the chef, and his staff would be working all night until the very last guest had left or retired. The gambling tables demanded a constant supply of drinks and petit four【注1】. It'll take all of Yann's newly discovered talent to unravel the mysteries of his past and Sido's and to fight the devilish count.Īs in the award-winning I, Coriander, Sally Gardner has masterfully combined the historical and the fantastical in this sumptuous, riveting adventure.抖森《The Red Necklace》-audiobook英文个人整理版 Chapter7 Only Yann will dare to rescue her, and he'll be up against a fearful villain who goes by the name Count Kalliovski, but who has often been called the devil. Though they have the shortest of conversations, an attachment is born that will influence both their paths.Īnd what paths those will be! Revolution is afoot in France, and Sido is being used as a pawn. That's the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with an ice-cold father, a young girl who has only known loneliness until now. On the night when Topolain's vanity brings his own death, Yann's life truly begins.

It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-yearold Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy.

The red necklace by sally gardner