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حكاية مؤثرة عن فتاة غارقة في الحزن، والفتى الذي يحبها، وكيف يقود الجشع القلوب الطيبة إلى أفعال شريرة.
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00:10To be continued..
00:51Well, well.
00:54Who's that hiding there?
00:59Don't worry.
01:00I'm not calling the gendarme.
01:10Oh, that's interesting.
01:13Of all the treasures in this entire room, can you guess which is most precious?
01:19No?
01:21Actually, it's a very tiny object.
01:25Fits right in the palm of your hand.
01:30It would seem someone has discovered my secret.
01:35What secret, Grandpa?
01:38Oh, my dear.
01:40It's a very old story.
01:43Going way, way back in time.
01:48To when I was a boy.
01:50In Montreal, where I was born.
01:56By day, I prowled the docks, waiting for a box to drop.
02:01Then we'd steal what we could, till the boom of the foreman's rifle would scatter us like flies.
02:07In the summer, I slept in the streets.
02:11And when it got cold, I'd find an abandoned apartment next to where someone already lived.
02:17That way, if you slept on the other side of their kitchen, you might feel the heat from their stove.
02:34In the apartment across from me lived a family.
02:39The woman was always in a rage.
02:42Her husband was a sickly fellow with a daughter from his first wife who died in childbirth.
02:48You spied on them?
02:49Well, we didn't have television back then. Should I stop?
02:54No, no. What happened next?
02:57I'm afraid it's not a happy story.
03:01Every day she'd yell, you and your father are good for nothing.
03:05I should throw you into the streets.
03:20Her father did what he could to comfort her.
03:23We must endure, he'd say.
03:26Our reward is in the next life.
03:32That night.
03:34The night everything changed.
03:37I witnessed something extraordinary.
03:41Magical.
03:43Magical.
03:44Magical.
04:00Is it by them?
04:03The night because he had?
04:03Then Harry didn't get him deep for me.
04:06I understand it right so damn the night.
04:11We can cut everybody.
04:12Yes, filth apart.
04:15I watched over her the entire night.
04:18I wanted to take her away from that dreadful place.
04:26Then, before anyone was awake, she cleaned the floor as though nothing had happened.
04:33It was like she was ashamed.
04:40Maybe.
04:43Maybe I could reach them.
04:57They glowed.
04:59Perfect and round.
05:02They tasted.
05:04Like salt.
05:07Like tears.
05:09So you stole the girls' pearls?
05:12Don't judge, my love.
05:13Remember, I was just a child.
05:16What did you do with them?
05:18What I tried to do with anything I found.
05:24There was a man in the neighborhood who was known to give you a few cents if you brought him
05:29something of value.
05:35When I appeared with a pearl, he was skeptical.
05:41It was not the largest he'd seen, but the color, the luster, the luminescence.
05:49Where did you steal it, you little rat, he asked me.
05:51I didn't steal it, I said.
05:53I told him the whole story.
05:55He didn't believe a word of it.
05:57I pulled out the second pearl.
05:58I'm not lying, I said.
06:01I could see the wheels turning.
06:03A matching pair.
06:06Hmm.
06:07Very, very rare.
06:08Are you going to buy them or not?
06:10I asked.
06:11Easy now.
06:13Silence!
06:13Silence!
06:14I need to get these checked.
06:16What does that mean?
06:18It means, get out.
06:20Come back tomorrow.
06:22Or, maybe you'd prefer we went to the cops with your little fairy tale.
06:28Out!
06:35There was a specialist in the old port.
06:38A jeweler famed for his integrity.
06:40He examined the pearls thoroughly, amazed at their shimmer and iridescence.
06:47The luster.
06:48The shape.
06:50The color.
06:52Perfection.
06:54He speculated as to their origin.
06:58From the South Seas?
07:02Perhaps?
07:04No.
07:05I've never seen pearls like these.
07:07They smell like the sea.
07:11But they're not from any mollusk.
07:14Tell me, where did you get them?
07:16Oh, well, it's a very strange story, said the pawnbroker.
07:19You won't believe me.
07:20But the jeweler didn't smile or scoff when he heard the tale of the thieving boy and the girl who
07:27cried pearls.
07:28Instead, his face grew serious.
07:32Hold on.
07:33Hold on a moment, said the jeweler.
07:36Wait right there.
07:38The jeweler was a deeply learned and religious man, with a collection of ancient books that would be the envy
07:45of any museum.
07:48After Adam and Eve were banished from the garden, he said, Adam shed so many tears that birds and beasts
07:55alike came to drink from them, and the tears of Eve turned into pearls.
08:01But that's a Sunday school story, said the pawnbroker.
08:04You believe in this nonsense?
08:06With God?
08:07But who's to say what's possible, said the jeweler.
08:10I put my faith in money.
08:12Question is, what are they worth?
08:14Pearls of sorrow?
08:16They're priceless, said the jeweler.
08:18But I can offer you this.
08:22Share it with the young girl, or may God help you.
08:25I'm not running at charity, said the pawnbroker.
08:27I know your type.
08:29If you say it's worth one, then I know it's worth two.
08:35Good day to you, sir.
08:40We have a deal, said the pawnbroker.
08:43They're not worth much.
08:45I'll give you a dollar apiece.
08:50I'd never seen so much money.
08:52Can you bring more tomorrow, he asked.
08:54I promised I could.
08:57But instead, I bought an enormous box of chocolates.
09:30I'd never see you.
09:37It was the first time I'd seen her smile.
09:42Maybe the first time she ever had.
09:50That night, she did not cry.
09:54And there were no pearls.
09:58The next morning, the pawnbroker was prepared to be generous, but I refused the money.
10:04Because I love her, I said. I don't want her to be sad.
10:08What?
10:09You idiot! You fool! Life gives you one shot. Just one!
10:14You don't marry the first girl you see. She'll bleed you dry like a vampire. To the bones!
10:21You have a choice, he said. Either she cries, and you get rich, or she smiles, and you stay in
10:29your hole forever!
10:37The girl waited at the window all day, as if she thought some prince would come knocking at any moment.
10:44I was scared. The pawnbroker had planted a worm of doubt in me. It was just as he said. I
10:51was nothing.
10:56She did not cry that night. Or the next. Or the next. But on the seventh night.
11:13It felt like my soul had split from my body, and was floating farther and farther away.
11:25Bravo! Bravo! said the pawnbroker. This calls for something special.
11:34No. No, it's not enough. I broke her heart, I said.
11:38Yes, okay. But she's not dead.
11:42Here. It's ten times more than the last time.
11:45Enough to change my life.
11:48Well done, my boy. A man must look after himself alone.
11:52You won't regret it. You did what had to be done.
11:55We'll make some good deals, you and I. We're cut from the same cloth.
12:01I lived like a king that day.
12:04I bought fancy new clothes, and a third-class ticket to Paris on a steamliner.
12:10But as I approached her house for that last time...
12:14So, what's worse, is that the thing?
12:30I said, I try to dream after my wife and her son...
12:32And as I said, it was a nightmare.
12:34You know what Επie said to me now...
12:40If you like her mother, I know.
12:49The next day, everything was silent.
12:53They had packed up and disappeared.
12:59She was gone.
13:00What could I do now?
13:04I had one thought.
13:25I could hear his heart beating in his chest.
13:29Whoa, kid, what'd you do?
13:32I got down to business.
13:35In return for the pearls, I demanded he fill a shoebox with $100 bills.
13:39Then we would trade box for box.
13:42Cash, not trinkets.
13:45Yes, let me see what I can do.
13:48I can give you that, yes.
13:51But of course the store was nothing but junk.
13:54Even his gold was fake.
13:56He was getting desperate.
13:57We could be partners.
13:59You and me, 50-50.
14:01You can't pay after what I've put myself through?
14:04That box better be full when I come back, or I'll sell these somewhere else.
14:11Wait, wait, he said.
14:12Please, come back before I close.
14:14I'll give you everything you want.
14:18I need money quickly, you understand, said the pawnbroker.
14:26The building's in good condition.
14:28You won't regret it.
14:34The jeweler wondered at the endless greed of men,
14:38and the mysterious workings of the divine.
14:52The jeweler was astonished.
14:54It was identical to the pearl the pawnbroker had brought him.
14:59And there were thousands of them.
15:03He called to the foreman.
15:05Monsieur, over here.
15:07Do you know what this is?
15:10These?
15:11Oh, it's the newest thing.
15:13It's from Japan.
15:15It's called plastic.
15:21Plastic.
15:27In truth, as greedy as the pawnbroker was,
15:31he was just as lonely as I.
15:33And that was how I tricked him.
15:37I kept one as a souvenir.
15:40I prayed I'd never see him again.
15:44And I never did.
15:53Hang on, hang on, hang on.
15:55You made it all up?
15:57That's your big secret?
15:59It's always the story that gives something its value.
16:03Only the story.
16:04Never the object.
16:07And personally,
16:09I still find it beautiful.
16:14But the girl,
16:16did she even exist?
16:42She, than you are,
16:43Okay,
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